DU BOIS, Cora [Julia and Paul Child].
Social Forces in Southeast Asia.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1949.
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First Edition of Cora Du Bois's Social Forces in Southeast Asia; Inscribed by Her to Julia and Paul Child
First edition of the pioneering anthropologist Cora Du Bois’s Social Forces in Southeast Asia, a remarkable association copy inscribed by her to her wartime colleagues and lifelong friends Julia and Paul Child. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed in pencil by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Julie and Paul - from Cora Du Bois.” During the Second World War Du Bois, the first woman to hold a tenured professorship in Harvard’s anthropology department, directed Southeast Asia research for the Office of Strategic Services alongside Paul and Julia Child, with whom she formed a close and enduring friendship, often visiting them in Paris. Julia Child would go on to become the most celebrated cook in America. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional association copy.
Cora Du Bois was one of the most influential American anthropologists of the twentieth century and a pioneer for women in the field, becoming in 1954 the first woman appointed to a tenured professorship in anthropology at Harvard University. She is best known for her landmark study The People of Alor (1944), a psychological ethnography of an Indonesian island community that helped to shape the culture-and-personality school of anthropology. During the Second World War she directed research on Southeast Asia for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, work that brought her into the circle of colleagues that included Julia and Paul Child. Social Forces in Southeast Asia distilled her understanding of the region and its peoples at the dawn of the postwar era.
Social Forces in Southeast Asia.
$650.00
In Stock