 | The Meskwaki and Anthropologists: Action Anthropology Reconsidered Subjects: Fox Indians -- Iowa -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Iowa -- History -- 20th century; Action Anthropology (Program) -- Influence; The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of ChicagoOCOs innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. From 1948 to 1958, the Meskwaki community near Tama, Iowa, became effectively a testing ground for a new method of practicing anthropology proposed by anthropologists and graduate students at the University of Chicago in response to pressure from the Meskwaki. Action Anthropology, as the program was called, attempted to more evenly distribute the benefits of anthropology by way of anthropologists helping the Native communities they studied. Judith M. Daubenmier is a lecturer in the American Culture Program at the University of Michigan. |
