Susan C. Seymour

Cora Du Bois (eBook, ePUB)

Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;liberal"e; lesbian during the McCarthy era. Susan C. Seymour's biography weaves together Du Bois's personal and professional lives to illustrate this exceptional "e;first woman"e; and the complexities of the twentieth century that she both experienced and influenced.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803274280
• Artikelnr.: 55281816

Autorenporträt

Susan C. Seymour is the Jean M. Pitzer Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. She is the author of several books, including Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Series Editors’ Introduction    
Preface    
Resources and Acknowledgments    
Prologue: Cora and Me    
Chapter 1. Tomgirl    
Chapter 2. Escape and Resolve    
Chapter 3. Becoming an Anthropologist    
Chapter 4. Culture and Personality    
Chapter 5. A Pioneer in Culture and Personality Research    
Chapter 6. World War II and the OSS    
Chapter 7. Disillusionment in the Cold War Era    
Chapter 8. Harvard, Crown of Roses or Thorns?    
Chapter 9. Sociocultural Change in India    
Chapter 10. Looking Inward    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index