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- Author: Frances Larson
- Publisher: Granta Books
- ISBN-10: 1783783346
- ISBN-13: 9781783783342
- Format: 13 x 19.6 x 2.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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In the first decades of the 20th century, five women - Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco - arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters in Anthropology. Though their circumstances differed radically, all were intent on visiting and studying remote communities a world away from their own. Through their work, they resisted the prejudices of the male establishment, proving that women could be explorers and scientists, too. In the wastes of Siberia; in the villages and pueblos of the Nile and New Mexico; on Easter Island; and in the uncharted interior of New Guinea, they found new freedoms - yet when they returned to England, loss, madness and self-doubt awaited them.
Frances Larson's masterful group biography is a revelatory portrait of five hidden heroines of British scholarship.EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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- Author: Frances Larson
- Publisher: Granta Books
- ISBN-10: 1783783346
- ISBN-13: 9781783783342
- Format: 13 x 19.6 x 2.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
In the first decades of the 20th century, five women - Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco - arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters in Anthropology. Though their circumstances differed radically, all were intent on visiting and studying remote communities a world away from their own. Through their work, they resisted the prejudices of the male establishment, proving that women could be explorers and scientists, too. In the wastes of Siberia; in the villages and pueblos of the Nile and New Mexico; on Easter Island; and in the uncharted interior of New Guinea, they found new freedoms - yet when they returned to England, loss, madness and self-doubt awaited them.
Frances Larson's masterful group biography is a revelatory portrait of five hidden heroines of British scholarship.
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