{"product_id":"a-radical-anthropologist-sandra-lindemann-9781685901301","title":"A Radical Anthropologist","description":"“Anthropology  is a child of Western imperialism,” asserted the Marxist anthropologist  Kathleen Gough in 1968, during an intense period of anti-colonial struggle in  Asia and Africa. Since then, this assertion, now largely taken for granted  within the discipline, has become more well-known than the intellectual who  articulated it. A Radical Anthropologist: The Trials and Triumphs of Kathleen  Gough tells the story of a scholar who, like many of her female peers, has  been largely overlooked by history in spite of her striking contributions to  her field. In her day, in the face of rampant sexism, she was an  internationally renowned intellectual and political activist, publishing some  seventy articles and ten books.            With clear and empathetic prose, author Sandra Lindemann, herself an  anthropologist, invites us to trace the arc of a life lived according to the  values of a radical anthropologist. Born in England in 1925 as the youngest  daughter of the village blacksmith, Gough entered the world of higher  education on scholarship and continued into academia with a pronounced sense  of fairness and justice. Her outspokenness in favor of civil rights and  against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War led to her placement on an FBI  watch list, and institutional reactions to her progressive views disrupted  her career trajectory on several occasions. She fielded the array of  obstacles presented by workplace misogyny, only to find herself fired from  some jobs and compelled, on principle, to resign from others. Eventually she  withdrew from academia altogether to become an independent radical scholar,  but not before her painstaking fieldwork in South India on marriage, class,  and caste reshaped the anthropological understanding of these critical social  relationships, and helped to transform the world of academia she had left  behind. Through it all, she maintained her fierce dedication to the  liberation of workers and peasants—whether in India, Vietnam, or anywhere in  the world people were oppressed. With the rise of fascism in the United  States, and the unleashing of malign forces around the world, more than ever  before those who struggle for justice are searching for examples of how to  live a politically relevant life: Kathleen Gough’s is such a life. Fervently  anti-colonial, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist, Gough lived her life  keeping a Marxist vision of a better, more peaceful, more equitable world in  clear view at all times, never losing faith that such a world was within  reach.","brand":"Monthly Review Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51351598891296,"sku":"9781685901301","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/a-radical-anthropologist-sandra-lindemann-9781685901301","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}