UNP Native American & Indigenous Studies 2022 catalog

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FRANZ BOAS

GIRL ARCHAEOLOGIST

Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice

ALICE BECK KEHOE

Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession

ROSEMARY LÉVY ZUMWALT

Girl Archaeologist illuminates the life and trailblazing career of Alice Kehoe, a woman with a This is the magisterial biography of Franz Boas family who was always, also, an archaeologist. and his influence in shaping not only anthropology but also the sciences, humanities, and “Girl Archaeologist is everything Alice Beck social science, the visual and performing arts, Kehoe is—witty and irreverent while at the and America’s public sphere during a period of same time touching, honest, and open. . . . global upheaval and social struggle. This book is necessary for anyone interested in archaeology’s less-than-welcoming “Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt knows Franz Boas, history, especially in light of today’s calls his world, and his students as no one else. In for social justice, inclusion, and equity.” this powerful work she presents the struggles —Joe Watkins, president of the Society for for both scientific truth and social justice of the American Archaeology, 2019–21 person who made American anthropology the powerful intellectual, scholarly, and moral “Piercing, funny, and heartbreaking all at once, endeavor it was for most of the twentieth centhe story of Kehoe’s grit and perseverance tury.”—Herbert S. Lewis, author of In Defense in the face of rampant sexism will keep you of Anthropology glued.”—Becky Cooper, author of We Keep the Dead Close “This even-handed, intimate portrait of Franz Boas is timely. Zumwalt hangs Boas’s “Alice Kehoe is a living legend in archaeology. North Star—that the more you learn of our . . . She digs deep with self-reflection and world and individuals in it, the less you will searing honesty to survey her struggles and feel yourself and your native language and breakthrough achievements.”—Chip Colwell, belief system superior to others—in today’s author of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits dark skies.”—Nancy Mattina, author of March 2022•230 pp.•6 x 9•23 photographs, Uncommon Anthropologist December 2022•656 pp.•6 x 9•16 photographs, 3 tables, appendix, index $39.95•hardcover•978-1-4962-1691-5 Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology

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