Cora Du Bois

Author : Susan C. Seymour
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803274280

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Cora Du Bois by Susan C. Seymour Pdf

Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change. Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American anthropology, and with some of his most eminent students: Ruth Benedict, Alfred Kroeber, and Robert Lowie. During World War II, she served as a high-ranking officer for the Office of Strategic Services as the only woman to head one of the OSS branches of intelligence, Research and Analysis in Southeast Asia. After the war she joined the State Department as chief of the Southeast Asia Branch of the Division of Research for the Far East. She was also the first female full professor, with tenure, appointed at Harvard University and became president of the American Anthropological Association. Du Bois worked to keep her public and private lives separate, especially while facing the FBI’s harassment as an opponent of U.S. engagements in Vietnam and as a “liberal” lesbian during the McCarthy era. Susan C. Seymour’s biography weaves together Du Bois’s personal and professional lives to illustrate this exceptional “first woman” and the complexities of the twentieth century that she both experienced and influenced.

Author : Cora Du Bois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : OCLC:220790874

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The People of Alor by Cora Du Bois Pdf

Author : Cora Alice Du Bois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Indian dance
ISBN : OCLC:2350208

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The 1870 Ghost Dance by Cora Alice Du Bois Pdf

Author : Susan C. Seymour
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803274303

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Cora Du Bois by Susan C. Seymour Pdf

Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change. Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American anthropology, and with some of his most eminent students: Ruth Benedict, Alfred Kroeber, and Robert Lowie. During World War II, she served as a high-ranking officer for the Office of Strategic Services as the only woman to head one of the OSS branches of intelligence, Research and Analysis in Southeast Asia. After the war she joined the State Department as chief of the Southeast Asia Branch of the Division of Research for the Far East. She was also the first female full professor, with tenure, appointed at Harvard University and became president of the American Anthropological Association. Du Bois worked to keep her public and private lives separate, especially while facing the FBI’s harassment as an opponent of U.S. engagements in Vietnam and as a “liberal” lesbian during the McCarthy era. Susan C. Seymour’s biography weaves together Du Bois’s personal and professional lives to illustrate this exceptional “first woman” and the complexities of the twentieth century that she both experienced and influenced.

Author : M. N. Srinivas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520341630

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The Remembered Village by M. N. Srinivas Pdf

"The real virtue of this most recent contribution by Dr. Srinivas is the consistently human, humane, and humanistic tone oft he observations and of the narration; the simple, straightforward style in which it is written; and the richness of anecdotal materials. . . . He writes modestly as a wise and knowledgeable man. He restores faith in the best tradition of ethnography. Without being popular, in the pejorative sense, it is a book any uninitiated reader can read with pleasure and enlightenment."--Cora Du Bois, Asian Student "Few accounts of village life give one the sense of coming to know, of vicariously sharing in, the lives of real villagers that this book conveys. . . . The work is holistic in the best anthropological manner; the principal aspects of Rampura life are lucidly sketched and the interrelations among them are cogently considered. . . . our collective knowledge and its practical relevance become enhanced."--David G. Mandelbaum, Economic and Political Weekly "[Srinivas] has described and analyzed life in Rampura in the late 1940s with charm and insight. His book is enjoyable as well as illuminating. . . . In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, Srinivas gives us valuable insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He tells us how he got established in the village, and describes vividly his living quarters. . . . He describes, at various places throughout the book, his reactions to the villagers and his perceptions of their reactions to him. He freely admits his own negative reactions to certain things and certain behavior. He discusses the factors that could and did bias his research. . . . illuminate[s] both the problems and the rewards of the ethnographer. . . . must reading."--Robert H. Lauer, Sociology: Reviews of New Books

Author : Abram Kardiner,Cora Du Bois,Ralph Linton,Carl Withers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Ethnopsychology
ISBN : OCLC:1014876830

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The Psychological Frontiers of Society by Abram Kardiner,Cora Du Bois,Ralph Linton,Carl Withers Pdf

Author : Cora DuBois
Publisher : Minnesota Archive Editions
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1949-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816659729

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Social Forces in Southeast Asia by Cora DuBois Pdf

Social Forces in Southeast Asia was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "Forces are at work in Southeast Asia which deserve the most judicious attention of diplomats, the best analysis by social scientists, and a highly serious interest on the part of all responsible people in the Western World." The application of cultural anthropology to problems of world politics and economics presented here has been made by a ranking authority in the field. Dr. Du Bois is the author of The People of Alor and before World War Two she was anthropologist at Sarah Lawrence College. During the war she was associated with the Office of Strategic Services in charge of Indonesian and South Asian research, with headquarters at Kandy, Ceylon. Since October 1945 she has been chief of the Southern Areas Branch, Office of Intelligence Research, Department of State. Siam, Burma, French Indochina, Malaya, and Indonesian Archipelago, and the Philippines offer a geographic unit rich in material for the social scientist, including, as it does, more diverse cultural strains than any other area of the world. The author considers the impact of European colonization on the region, analyzes the tensions created by value difference between East and West, and offers predictions on the course Southeast Asia will take in the future. Dr. Du Bois has risen above statistical science and narrow specialization to wide interpretation and application. The book is full of exciting theses and suggestive ideas which should open new areas for both factual investigation and creative speculation. Dr. Du Bois sees a growing consciousness of nationality in these states of Southeast Asia--and eagerness to work out their common problems and a desire to participate in the United Nations, but she does not minimize the grave economic difficulties of the area or the chance that it will become another powder keg if the states become pawns of the big powers.

Author : Raymond Geuss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674545724

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Changing the Subject by Raymond Geuss Pdf

“A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers...The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented...in a spirit of fun...This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in philosophy yet.” —Times Literary Supplement “Exceptionally engaging...Geuss has a remarkable knack for putting even familiar thinkers in a new light.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Geuss is something like the consummate teacher, his analyses navigable and crystal, his guidance on point.” —Doug Phillips, Key Reporter Raymond Geuss explores the ideas of twelve philosophers who broke dramatically with prevailing wisdom, from Socrates and Plato in the ancient world to Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Adorno. The result is a striking account of some of the most innovative thinkers in Western history and an indirect manifesto for how to pursue philosophy today. Geuss cautions that philosophers’ attempts to break from convention do not necessarily make the world a better place. Montaigne’s ideas may have been benign, but the fate of those of Hobbes, Hegel, and Nietzsche has been more varied. Yet in the act of provoking people to think differently, philosophers remind us that we are not fated to live within the systems of thought we inherit.

Author : Cora Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674989849

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Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics by Cora Diamond Pdf

Cora Diamond follows two major philosophers as they think about thinking, and about our ability to respond to thinking that has gone astray. Acting as both witness to and participant in the encounter, she provides fresh perspective on the value of Wittgenstein’s and Anscombe’s work, and demonstrates what genuinely independent thought can achieve.

Author : Ute Gacs
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Women anthroplogists
ISBN : 0252060849

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Women Anthropologists by Ute Gacs Pdf

A wealth of information on the lives and work of 58 women whose professional activities include social, cultural, and physical anthropology, archaeology, folklore, linguistics, art, writing, and political activism.

Author : Iris Bohnet
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674089037

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What Works by Iris Bohnet Pdf

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back and de-biasing minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Behavioral design offers a new solution. Iris Bohnet shows that by de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts—often at low cost and high speed.

Author : Jean L. Briggs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674608283

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Never in Anger by Jean L. Briggs Pdf

Describes emotional patterning of the Utkuhikhalingmiut, a small group of Eskimos who live at the mouth of the Back River, in the context of their life as seen as lived by the author. Based on field work conducted between June 1963 and March 1965.

Author : Lionel Youst,William R. Seaburg
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806134488

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Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness by Lionel Youst,William R. Seaburg Pdf

"While captain of the tribal police, Thompson was assigned to investigate the Warm House Dance, the Siletz Indian Reservation version of the famous Ghost Dance, which had spread among the Indians of many tribes during the latter 1880s. He witnessed the sense of empowerment it brought to some on the reservation. Thompson became a proselytizer for the Warm House Dance, helping to carry its message and performance from Siletz along the Oregon coast as far south as Coos Bay."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sofia Miguens
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674242838

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The Logical Alien by Sofia Miguens Pdf

“A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be.” —Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of Virginia Could there be a logical alien—a being whose ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely different logical shape than ours, yet who nonetheless is thinking? Could someone, contrary to the most basic rules of logic, think that two contradictory statements are both true at the same time? Such questions may seem outlandish, but they serve to highlight a fundamental philosophical question: is our logical form of thought merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such? From Descartes and Kant to Frege and Wittgenstein, philosophers have wrestled with variants of this question, and with a range of competing answers. A seminal 1991 paper, James Conant’s “The Search for Logically Alien Thought,” placed that question at the forefront of contemporary philosophical inquiry. The Logical Alien, edited by Sofia Miguens, gathers Conant’s original article with reflections on it by eight distinguished philosophers—Jocelyn Benoist, Matthew Boyle, Martin Gustafsson, Arata Hamawaki, Adrian Moore, Barry Stroud, Peter Sullivan, and Charles Travis. Conant follows with a wide-ranging response that places the philosophical discussion in historical context, critiques his original paper, addresses the exegetical and systematic issues raised by others, and presents an alternative account. The Logical Alien challenges contemporary conceptions of how logical and philosophical form must each relate to their content. This monumental volume offers the possibility of a new direction in philosophy.

Author : Peter Mandler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300187854

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Return from the Natives by Peter Mandler Pdf

Part intellectual biography, part cultural history and part history of human sciences, this fascinating volume follows renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead and her colleagues as they showed that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War.