Encounter With an Angry God: Recollections of My Life With John Peabody Harrington
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0939046156 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 339 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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It was in a summer class in 1915 that Carobeth Laird first met him, handsome and sun-tanned from the field. In one sense a chronicle of what it meant to an anthropologist in the early twentieth century, it is also a love story, portraying the curious triangle that developed when a Chemehuevi informant entered the lives of Harrington and the young wife he drove as ruthlessly as he did himself.. Linguist-ethnographer John Peabody Harrington was an eccentric genius of American anthropology. 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
Excellent Memoir This book should be the gold standard for how to write an engrossing story.. Sensitive, well paced autobiography A Customer 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.. Nancy Theising said Encounter With A Wonderful Book. 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 "Encounter With A Wonderful Book" according to 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. 0th 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
Carobeth Laird
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