| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2 | The History Cooperative

*Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest*. By Catherine J. Lavender. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. viii + 248 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
Scientists and Storytellers explores the lives of four women anthropologists whose work dominated scholarship about the Native American Southwest during the first half of the twentieth century. The four—Elsie Clews Parsons, Ruth Benedict, Gladys Reichard, and Ruth Underhill—represent four generations of Columbia University trained ethnographers whose analysis of Indian gender, sexuality, and supposed "primitiveness" became the basis of what Catherine Lavender terms a feminist critique of patriarchy and a distinctly feminist ethnography of the region.	1
Lavender's account is both contextual and textual. The contexts include the political, intellectual, economic, and cultural sources of First Wave feminism and its emphasis on women's emancipation; the cultural relativism and salvage ethnography of their mentor Franz Boas and its place in the emerging discipline of anthropology; the individual biographies of the four women and their informants; and the Southwest as a region.	. . .

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