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An Anthropologist’s Arrival An Anthropologist’s Arrival A Memoir Ruth M. Underhill Edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stephen E. Nash tucson The University of Arizona Press © 2014 The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved www.uapress.arizona.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Underhill, Ruth, 1883–1984. An anthropologist’s arrival : a memoir / Ruth M. Underhill ; edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stephen E. Nash. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8165-3060-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Underhill, Ruth, 1883–1984. 2. Women anthropologists—United States— Biography. 3. Tohono O’odham Indians—Social life and customs. 4. Pueblo Indians—Social life and customs. I. Title. GN21.U48A3 2014 301.092—dc23 [B] 2013039476 Manufactured in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper containing a minimum of 30% post-consumer waste and processed chlorine free. 19 18 17 16 15 14 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Timeline vii Genealogy ix Monographs xi Introduction 5 Part One: Becoming Ruth Underhill A Zigzag Life 27 Do Good to Others 29 Mother Was an Angel, Part 1 34 They Were Murrays 46 Abram S. Underhill 52 Mother Was an Angel, Part 2 61 Youth Passing 69 Quakers and Darwin 74 Picnics and Dances 78 Vassar and Europe 86 The Society 93 The Big Love 99 World War I 108 A Marriage Begins and Ends 117 vi Contents Part Two: Becoming An Anthropologist Columbia, Part 1 131 Papa Franz 144 Coming of Age in Arizona 148 Henrietta 151 Chona and the O’odham 159 Columbia, Part 2 173 The Fruit of the Saguaro 180 Indian Affairs 192 Around the World 204 We’re Going to Live This Year 211 Acknowledgments 217 Figure Credits 219 Index 221 Timeline 1883 Born in Ossining, New York 1890–1901 Ossining School for Girls, with several trips to Europe 1901–1905 Vassar College, AB (1905), Phi Beta Kappa 1906–1908 Travel in Europe, with one term each at the London School of Economics and University of Munich 1909–1913 Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Boston, agent in charge of Italian cases 1912–1918 Begins writing articles and book reviews 1914–1915 Charity Organization Society, New York City, agent for Italian cases 1916 National Committee for Mental Hygiene, survey field worker 1917–1919 American Red Cross, in charge of Italian orphanages during World War I; after war employed by the Rockefeller Foundation 1919–1929 Continues writing, occasionally travels, and marries 1930–1937 Columbia University, PhD; assistant in anthropology, Barnard College 1931–1935 Research fellowships from Columbia University Social Science Council and Humanities Council 1935–1937 US Department of Agriculture, consulting anthropologist 1937–1948 US Office of Indian Affairs (later Bureau of Indian Affairs), associate supervisor of Indian education, then supervisor of Indian education 1948 University of Denver, visiting lecturer in anthropology 1949–1952 University of Denver, professor of anthropology 1953 Formally retires, but continues to travel, teach, and write 1957–1958 Television program Red Man’s America 1984 Dies in Denver, Colorado vii Genealogy Maternal Grandfather: Robert Lindley Murray (1824–1874), born in Flushing, New York, a wool merchant, insurance agent, and Society of Friends minister. Maternal Grandmother: Ruth Sherman Taber Murray (1827–1907), born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and gave birth to eight children. Paternal Grandfather: Jesse Haight Underhill (1812–1896), a Quaker farmer descended from Captain John Underhill, who settled in New England in 1630. Paternal Grandmother: Eliza Sutton Underhill (1821–1906), lived in Ossining, New York, and had two children. Mother: Anna Taber Murray Underhill (1854–1919), from a prominent Quaker family after which New York City’s Murray Hill was named. Father: Abram Sutton Underhill (1852–1942), grew up on a farm near Chappaqua, New York, and became a successful lawyer. Sister: Margaret Underhill (1886–1970), Ruth’s beautiful sister, married Edward F. Barron and had a child. Brother: Robert Lindley Murray Underhill (1889–1983), earned a PhD from Harvard in 1916 and became a professor there with a specialty in logic; celebrated as a pioneering alpine mountaineer; married Miriam O’Brien in 1932 and had two sons, Robert and Brian. Sister: Elizabeth Sutton Underhill (1892–1982), a suffrage activist, graduated New York University Law School in 1921 and became first female bank director in Westchester County; unmarried. ix
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