Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropolgy - Couverture souple

Larson, Dr Frances

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783783346 ISBN 13 : 9781783783342

Editeur : Granta Books, 2022

Synopsis

The inspiring story of five women who set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe and redefine scholarship

In the first decades of the 20th century, five women - Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco - arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters in Anthropology.

Though their circumstances differed radically, all were intent on visiting and studying remote communities a world away from their own. Through their work, they resisted the prejudices of the male establishment, proving that women could be explorers and scientists, too. In the wastes of Siberia; in the villages and pueblos of the Nile and New Mexico; on Easter Island; and in the uncharted interior of New Guinea, they found new freedoms - yet when they returned to England, loss, madness and self-doubt awaited them.
Frances Larson's masterful group biography is a revelatory portrait of five hidden heroines of British scholarship.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Frances Larson is an honorary research fellow in anthropology at Durham University. She is the author of a biography of Henry Wellcome, An Infinity of Things (OUP, 2009), which was part-funded by a Wingate Scholarship. The book was published to considerable critical acclaim and was subsequently shortlisted for the MJA Awards and chosen as a Sunday Times Book of The Year, as well as a New Scientist Best Book of 2009. She is also the co-author of Knowing Things (OUP, 2007), a book on the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, where she worked as a researcher after receiving her D.Phil.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783783346
• ISBN 13: 9781783783342
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible