Alice C. Fletcher Joanna C. Scherer Raymond J. Demallie
Alice C. Fletcher (1838 1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. Life among the Indians, Fletcher s popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886 87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881 82, remained unpublished in Fletcher s archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it Fletcher...
Alice C. Fletcher (1838 1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in th...
