Encounter With an Angry God: Recollections of My Life With John Peabody Harrington
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (741 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0939046156 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 469 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent Memoir Susan J. Bybee This book should be the gold standard for how to write an engrossing story.. Sensitive, well paced autobiography Carobeth Laird was the wife of the legendary John P. Harrington, one of a group of "new" anthropologists rushing to record the fast disappearing culture of the aborigine Californians. Native studies was not considered respectable work by establishment academia.Field anthropology, with its hard physical work, was dominated by tough men. None were tougher and more determined than Harrington.. Encounter With A Wonderful Book Nancy Theising I picked up this book not really knowing what it was about, but as soon as I began reading, I was hooked. This true story was written when the author was in her 70s. She depicts the life of a student of anthropolgy early in the 20th century, and the indiginous people on the west coast whose history she and her famous husband were trying to preserve. More fascinating, however, is the love s
Linguist-ethnographer John Peabody Harrington was an eccentric genius of American anthropology. It was in a summer class in 1915 that Carobeth Laird first met him, handsome and sun-tanned from the field. Her story of their seven-year marriage, written when she was in her seventies and published when she was eighty years old, is a compelling tale that has sold over 250,000 copies. In one sense a chronicle of what it meant to an anthropologist in the early twentieth century, it is also a love story,
About the Author Carobeth Laird
Carobeth Laird