The Road from Frijoles Canyon: Anthropological Adventures on Four Continents
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826347878 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 371 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amidst the red rock canyons and mesas his lifelong passion for the Southwest was born. When his family moved to Window Rock, Arizona, his fascination with the Southwest fused with a desire to make a career of studying American Indians and led him down the path to becoming a well-known and respected anthropologist. In 1936, eight-year-old William Adams made his first visit to the Southwest and the Puebloan ruins of Frijoles Canyon--better known as Bandelier National Monument. I cared nothing in those early years about the peoples of Africa and Oceania, or even for that matter about t
What a great read What a great read.I always wondered what Anthropoligists do, now I know, they study humankind.Nobody escapes Bill's enquiring mind, his family, the Navajo indian settlement he grew up on, the japanese internment camps his mother helped run in california, the politics of North America.The life long study of the Nubians of the upper Nile and the insights into Chi
I cared nothing in those early years about the peoples of Africa and Oceania, or even for that matter about the American Indians of the eastern U.S. But anthropology a generation earlier had co-opted the study of Indians so completely that there was simply no other way to become an 'Indianologist.' So my resolve to be an anthropologist was formed, even before I reached high school, and I have never wavered from it since. So also I feel that the long and winding road I've followed in my subsequent career is, figuratively speaking, the road from Frijoles Canyon." - from The Road from Frijoles Canyon" . "Like many colleagues of my generation, I would simply have become an 'Indianologist' had there been any such discipline (comparable for example to Egyptology)
He resides in Lexington, Kentucky.. He has published numerous articles and books including Religion and Adaptation, The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology, Nubia: Corridor to Africa, and Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality: A Dialectical Approach to Artifact Classification and Sorting. Adams retired from the University of Kentucky in 1992. William Y