Rhetoric in American anthropology

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"In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the "welcoming science," uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the "rhetorical archeology" of this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists"--

subjects: Ethnology,  History,  Anthropology,  Philosophy,  Anthropologists' writings,  Women anthropologists,  Feminist anthropology,  LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General,  Ethnology, history,  Anthropology, philosophy,  Anthropologists' writings, American,  History and criticism