Two Against the Tide

The shared career and lost legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman

Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-576-8 (ISBN)

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When Charles Seligman invited his wife, Brenda, to share his tent in 1907, he sanctioned a professional place for female fieldworkers in anthropology. Seligman was a groundbreaking pioneer of ethnographic work in Oceania and Africa. He treated shellshocked soldiers, he amassed museum collections and he fathered a generation of exceptional students. Brenda, his first student, became a scholar in her own right. Eighty years after his death, the Seligman legacy was deleted from the institution he began. Two Against the Tide explores how as wealthy Anglo-Jews, Charles and Brenda Seligman built a shared career through secret benevolence and silent endurance of hardship.

Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen was a Senior Lecturer in social sciences at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst, NSW for fourteen years. She is now Adjunct Senior Research Fellow of CSU School of Theology, Canberra. This book emerged from her time at the London School of Economics' anthropology department as a visiting scholar.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Lesser Mortal among the Men from Cambridge

Chapter 2. The Most Remarkable Major William Cooke Daniels

Chapter 3. The Ascent of a Bride with a Blue Pencil

Chapter 4. The Brotherhood of Brides

Chapter 5. Brenda’s Search for Her Place in the Sun

Chapter 6. The Watershed Year of 1911, Race Science, and World Peace

Chapter 7. Out of Egypt

Chapter 8. The Making of Malinowski

Chapter 9. Losing Her Mind

Chapter 10. Shellshock and the Joyful Reunion

Chapter 11. Seligman’s Error

Chapter 12. Finding Life after Olivia

Chapter 13. Mandarins

Chapter 14. The Constant Collectors

Chapter 15. The Unthinkable: Race, Science and Genocide

Chapter 16. Conclusion

References

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-576-9 / 1805395769
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-576-8 / 9781805395768
Zustand	Neuware