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To See Ourselves as Others See Us
Author(s) -
Powell J. V. Jay
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1995.97.4.02a00070
Subject(s) - tribe , indictment , history , anthropology , sociology , genealogy , law , political science
While doing fieldwork among the Nuu‐chah‐nulth (Nootka) of British Columbia, the author encountered a copy of a 50‐year‐old letter written by members of that tribe to protest the firing of Morris Swadesh by City College of New York, which followed Swadesh's indictment by the McCarthy Committee. The incident provides an outsider's view of the American Anthropological Association's handling of the matter and possibly suggests an evaluative metric for future institutional decisions.