Norman Stillman has produced a comprehensive and articulate history of the turbulent and complex relationships in the Middle East that brilliantly captures the people and the history.
#3383218 in Books 2008-03-16Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .63 x 6.09 x 8.97l; .74 #File Name: 0826339468213 pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Seeing Others Through Shaded LensesBy LouHiebIn "Explorers in Eden;" Jerold S. Auerbach; professor of history at Wellesley College; provides an insightful and critical account of the complex relationships between "explorers"--anthropologists; artists; photographers; and entrepreneurs--and the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona from John Wesley Powell and Frank Hamilton Cushing at the end of the 19th century to the students of Franz Boas--Ruth Benedict; Ruth Bunzel; and Esther Schiff Goldfrank in the 1920s and 1930s. This followed by a chapter on the more recent feminist scholars who have found "inspirational models among their female predecessors; and grist for their gendered critique of American society" (p. 145). In an Epilogue Auerback places himself among the "explorers." This is an important and provocative book. While there are other explorers Auerbach might have considered; what he has chosen to do he does with wit and grace and; above all; a clearer sense of these encounters in a larger historical framework than any student of the Pueblos has attempted before.
