After Freedom: Cultural Study in the Deep South (New Directions in Anthropological Writing) - Softcover

Powdermaker, Hortense; Williams, Brackette F.; Woodson, Drexel G.

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ISBN 10: 0299137848 ISBN 13: 9780299137847

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993

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Book by Powdermaker Hortense

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"After Freedom is not only a classic of African American history. It is also a model case study in how to do ethnographic field work, how to listen deeply to one's informants, how to write with rich detail and a keen analytical eye."--Paul R. Spickard, Brigham Young University "Powdermaker's work provides us with what is still a unique look at how African American men and women struggled to build families, develop capital, and create a community under conditions which made it necessary for both subjects and the observer to refer to their moment in time as 'after freedom, ' though it was almost three-quarters of a century after emancipation. Her work offers us perspectives that foreshadowed contemporary ethnography's efforts to 'bring anthropology back home, ' Afrocentric research's focus on Africa in America, and feminist theory's attempt to incorporate race and class into constructions of white-woman gender studies."--Brackette F. Williams and Drexel G. Woodson, University of Arizona After Freedom is not only a classic of African American history. It is also a model case study in how to do ethnographic field work, how to listen deeply to one s informants, how to write with rich detail and a keen analytical eye. Paul R. Spickard, Brigham Young University " Powdermaker s work provides us with what is still a unique look at how African American men and women struggled to build families, develop capital, and create a community under conditions which made it necessary for both subjects and the observer to refer to their moment in time as after freedom, though it was almost three-quarters of a century after emancipation. Her work offers us perspectives that foreshadowed contemporary ethnography s efforts to bring anthropology back home, Afrocentric research s focus on Africa in America, and feminist theory s attempt to incorporate race and class into constructions of white-woman gender studies. Brackette F. Williams and Drexel G. Woodson, University of Arizona " "After Freedom" is not only a classic of African American history. It is also a model case study in how to do ethnographic field work, how to listen deeply to one s informants, how to write with rich detail and a keen analytical eye. Paul R. Spickard, Brigham Young University " ""After Freedom" is not only a classic of African American history. It is also a model case study in how to do ethnographic field work, how to listen deeply to one's informants, how to write with rich detail and a keen analytical eye."--Paul R. Spickard, Brigham Young University

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A complete ethnography of an Afro-American community in the USA. Set in a town in the Deep South, it describes how the people struggled to build families, develop capital, and create a community ""after freedom"", almost three-quarters of a century after emancipation.

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• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0299137848
• ISBN 13: 9780299137847
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432