Passing the Torch

Mentoring the Next Generation

Edited By: Marjorie M. Snipes, Frank A. Salamone

£41.99

Passing the Torch explores the mentor-student relationship and how anthropology is passed from one generation to the next. Through personal stories and classical examples, such as Boas’s mentoring of Margaret Mead, this book illuminates how the discipline is passed on.

Passing the Torch explores the mentor-student relationship and the way in which anthropology has been passed from one generation to the next. There are many…

Passing the Torch explores the mentor-student relationship and the way in which anthropology has been passed from one generation to the next. There are many ways in which this process has been followed. A number of them are discussed here, including some non-anthropological examples. Some of the contributors to the volume provide very personal stories of mentoring or being mentored, while others provide classical examples, such as Boas’s mentoring of Margaret Mead. This book is useful in teaching about the manner in which anthropology is passed on, and has relevance to the theory of learning.

Dr Marjorie M. Snipes is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton. She has conducted fieldwork in the northwestern highlands of Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia, and specializes in the study of religion and pastoral societies. Her recent focus has been on methodology and the use of autoethnography within the classroom and field settings. She is also interested in new ways of studying affective aspects of culture. She received her PhD in 1996 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Frank A. Salamone is Professor Emeritus at Iona College, New York, and Certified Advanced Facilitator at the University of Phoenix, Arizona. He has published over 15 books and 100 articles, and has conducted fieldwork in Nigeria, the United States, Veneuela, Kenya, and Tanzania. Among his publications are Becoming Hausa, Religion and Ethnicity in Nigeria, Love and the Times, Jazz as Culture, and The Yoruba Trickster. He is married and has seven children, 14 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Marcus Aldredge, Myrdene Anderson, Ernesto Chávez, Miroslava Chávez-García, Sara L. Dodd, Gloria Gonzales, Tom Greaves, Dannielle Joy Davis, Erin Kostina-Ritchey, Kayla Sherman, Moshe Shokeid, Joy Williams-Black