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Applegarth's provocative account of genre formation challenges our understanding of genre, professionalization and scientific discipline formation. Scholars of anthropology, scientific rhetoric, and gender and race studies will value Applegarth's recovery of three powerful early genres and the writers who produced them. --Brent Henze, East Carolina University

Meticulously researched, theoretically savvy, and elegantly written in crisp prose, Applegarth's Rhetoric in American Anthropology is an invaluable resource for scholars in rhetoric of science, rhetorical genre studies, women's rhetoric, Native studies, historiography and methodology, and American studies. --Rhetoric and Public Affairs Applegarth's provocative account of genre formation challenges our understanding of genre, professionalization and scientific discipline formation. Scholars of anthropology, scientific rhetoric, and gender and race studies will value Applegarth's recovery of three powerful early genres and the writers who produced them. --Brent Henze, East Carolina University Risa Applegarth's Rhetoric in American Anthropology draws our attention to the work--both past and present--of defining what counts as anthropological fieldwork, as well as who is allowed to do this work. Using a novel approach to rhetorical archeology, she explains how different concepts of 'the field' and forms of writing arose historically, and most importantly, how women and scholars of color have been both marginalized and influential in these developments. --Rogers P. Hall, Vanderbilt University Applegarth s provocative account of genre formation challenges our understanding of genre, professionalization and scientific discipline formation. Scholars of anthropology, scientific rhetoric, and gender and race studies will value Applegarth s recovery of three powerful early genres and the writers who produced them. Brent Henze, East Carolina University Risa Applegarth s Rhetoric in American Anthropology draws our attention to the workboth past and presentof defining what counts as anthropological fieldwork, as well as who is allowed to do this work. Using a novel approach to rhetorical archeology, she explains how different concepts of the field and forms of writing arose historically, and most importantly, how women and scholars of color have been both marginalized and influential in these developments. Rogers P. Hall, Vanderbilt University Risa Applegarth's Rhetoric in American Anthropology draws our attention to the work--both past and present--of defining what counts as anthropological fieldwork, as well as who is allowed to do this work. Using a novel approach to rhetorical archeology, she explains how different concepts of 'the field' and forms of writing arose historically, and most importantly, how women and scholars of color have been both marginalized and influential in these developments. --Rogers P. Hall, Vanderbilt University

Applegarth s provocative account of genre formation challenges our understanding of genre, professionalization and scientific discipline formation. Scholars of anthropology, scientific rhetoric, and gender and race studies will value Applegarth s recovery of three powerful early genres and the writers who produced them. Brent Henze, East Carolina University

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Risa Applegarth is assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Conference on College Comp

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