{"product_id":"an-anthropologists-arrival-ruth-m-underhill-9780816530601","title":"An Anthropologist's Arrival","description":"Ruth M. Underhill (1883-1984) was one of the twentieth century's legendary anthropologists, forged in the same crucible as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. After decades of trying to escape her Victorian roots, Underhill took on a new adventure at the age of forty-six, when she entered Columbia University as a doctoral student of anthropology. Celebrated now as one of America's pioneering anthropologists, Underhill reveals her life's journey in frank, tender, unvarnished revelations that form the basis of \u003ci\u003eAn Anthropologist's Arrival\u003c\/i\u003e. This memoir, edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stephen E. Nash, is based on unpublished archives, including an unfinished autobiography and interviews conducted prior to her death, held by the Denver Museum of Nature \u0026amp; Science. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In brutally honest words, Underhill describes her uneven passage through life, beginning with a searing portrait of the Victorian restraints on women and her struggle to break free from her Quaker family's privileged but tightly laced control. Tenderly and with humor she describes her transformation from a struggling \"sweet girl\" to wife and then divorc e. Professionally she became a welfare worker, a novelist, a frustrated bureaucrat at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a professor at the University of Denver, and finally an anthropologist of distinction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her witty memoir reveals the creativity and tenacity that pushed the bounds of ethnography, particularly through her focus on the lives of women, for whom she served as a role model, entering a working retirement that lasted until she was nearly 101 years old. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e No quotation serves to express Ruth Underhill's adventurous view better than a line from her own poetry: \"Life is not paid for. Life is lived. Now come.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth M. Underhill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816530602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816530601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Colorado Book Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2014","brand":"Ruth M. Underhill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079119237375,"sku":"9780816530601","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95505a7d-c551-4b02-8146-5d9ec03a2c1b.jpg?v=1685479402","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-anthropologists-arrival-ruth-m-underhill-9780816530601","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}