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Two Against the Tide: The Shared Career and Lost Legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman

Two Against the Tide: The Shared Career and Lost Legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman

Hardcover

Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology, Book 48

Biographies GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1805395769
ISBN13: 9781805395768
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jul 1 2024
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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