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Iroquois Journey is the warm and illuminating memoir of William N. Fenton (1908–2005), a leading scholar who shaped Iroquois studies and modern anthropology in America. The memoir reveals the ambitions and struggles of the man and the many accomplishments of the anthropologist, the complex and sometimes volatile milieu of Native-white relations in upstate New York in the twentieth century, and key theoretical and methodological developments in American anthropology.

Fenton’s memoir, completed shortly before his death, takes us from his ancestors’ lives in the Conewango Valley in western New York to his education at Yale. It affords valuable insights into the decades of his celebrated fieldwork among the Senecas, his distinguished scholarship at the Bureau of American Ethnology in Washington, DC, and his research at the New York State Museum in Albany. Offering portraits of legendary scholars he encountered and enriched through wonderful personal anecdotes, Fenton’s memoir is a testament to the importance of anthropology and a reminder of how much the field has changed over the years.

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Publié par	Nebraska
Date de parution	01 novembre 2007
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780803213968
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	20 Mo

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i r o q u o i s j o u r n e y

The Iroquoians and Their World

editors

José António Brandão Mary Druke Becker William A. Starna

IROQUOIS JOURNEY a n a n t h r o p o l o g i s t r e m e m b e r s

William N. Fenton

Edited and introduced by Jack Campisi and William A. Starna

University of Nebraska Press

Lincoln & London

All photographs from the author’s collection, courtesy Iroquois Indian Museum, Howes Cave, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fenton, William Nelson,1908–2005 Iroquois journey: an anthropologist remembers / William N. Fenton; edited and introduced by Jack Campisi and William A. Starna. p. cm. — (The Iroquoians and their world) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-8032-2021-8(cloth: alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-8032-2021-9(cloth: alk. paper) 1. Fenton, William Nelson,1908–2005 2.Indianists—New York (State)—Biography.3. Anthropologists—New York (State)—Biography.4. Iroquoian Indians—New York (State)—Antiquities.5. New York (State)—Antiquities. I. Campisi, Jack. II. Starna, William A. III. Title. e76.45.f46f46 2007 301.092—dc22 [b] 2007009527

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List of Photos Introduction

vii ix

1. Upstaters in Suburbia and at Home1 2. At Yale and among the Senecas21 3. From Teaching to the Bureau of American Ethnology42 4. The War and Postwar Years58 5. The National Research Council91 6. The New York State Museum110 7. Research Professorship at Albany151 8. Life after University169

Notes The Publications of William N. Fenton Index

175 179 195

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New Rochelle and the Farm 1. 11Cove Road, New Rochelle, New York19 2. Frances and William Fenton,1910 19 3. Victorian farmhouse at Conewango, New York20 4. Helene Mason, Frances, and William Fenton at the farm20 5. John W. Fenton with brown trout20

Westport, Dartmouth, and Yale,1926–1937 6. 244State Street East, Westport, Connecticut40 7. Bill at Yale commencement,1937 40 8. John and Anna Fenton, proud parents,1937 41

Iroquois Field Work 9. Bill Fenton and his Voightlander camera85 10. Wolf Run on the Allegheny River,1933 85 11. Bill Fenton and some of his Seneca “family,”1933 86 12. Chauncey Johnny John preparing hoop for a game,1933 86 13. Sherman Redeye and Bill,1934 87 14. Bill’s Packard,1936 88

15. Jemima Gibson ﬁnding pneumonia medicine,1939 16. The Hilton Hills and Olive Fenton,1939 17. Beaver Clan women, nephew lineage,1947 18. Beaver Clan spouses and Fenton adoptees,1947

88 89 90 90

Family and University 19. Bill and Olive, engaged,1935 145 20. Bill Fenton and Alfred,1936 146 21. Christmas at Turkey Run,1946 147 22. Jim Skye and Bill with award,1978 147 23. Bill in his Slingerlands study,1989 148 24. Harold Conklin and Bill,1999 148 25. Presentation of the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, at Yale,1999 149 26. Maxine Crouse Dowler and Bill in Cooperstown, October2003 150

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Jack Campisi and William A. Starna

scholar’s lifework is measured not only by what of lasting A value was accomplished but also by how things were done, and to what end. A case in point is the extraordinary career of anthropologist William Nelson Fenton, who for more than seven decades dedicated himself to understand-ing, objectifying, and making plain the culture history of an American Indian people: the Iroquois. That he succeeded in this enterprise is beyond question. In the process, Bill left us with a body of literature unmatched in Iroquoian studies, all bearing his distinctive intellectual mark. At the same time, he welcomed and encouraged the diversity of approaches that have come to characterize the field. His overriding concern was with the way Indian history was written—that what was presented reflected something of the “why” behind the actions of native people in their encounter with Euro-Americans. How Bill came to study the Iroquois, and the path he took in pursuit of their history, is a story worth knowing. Introduced to anthropology in his last year at Dartmouth College, Bill in1931went on to graduate school at Yale University. There he was tutored by several of the ﬁeld’s most eminent practitioners: Edward Sapir, George Peter Murdock, Clark Wissler, and Leslie

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