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Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge, 1865-1946
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2013
Summary
Eckstorm was the daughter of a fur trader living in Maine who published six books and many articles on natural history, woods culture, and Indian language and lore. A writer from Maine with a national readership, Eckstorm drew on her unique relationship with both Maine woodsmen and Maine's Native Americans that grew out of the time she spent in the woods with her father. She developed a complex system of work largely based on oral tradition, recording and interpreting local knowledge about animal behavior and hunting practices, boat handling, ballad singing, Native American languages, crafts, and storytelling. Her work has formed the foundation for much scholarship in New England folklore and history and clearly illustrates the importance of indigenous and folk knowledge to scholarship.
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge, 1865–1946 reveals an important story which speaks directly to contemporary issues as historians of science, social science and humanities begin to re-evaluate the nature, content, and role of indigenous and folk knowledge systems. Eckstorm's life and work illustrate the constant tension between local lay knowledge and the more privileged scientific production of academics that increasingly dominated the field from the early twentieth century. At the time Eckstorm was writing, the growth in professionalism and eclipse of the amateur led to a reorganization of knowledge. As increasing specialization defined the academy, indigenous knowledge systems were dismissed as unscientific and born of ignorance. Eckstorm recognized and lauded the innate value of traditional knowledge that could, for example, fell trees in the interior of Maine and ship them internationally as finished lumber.
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7910-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7911-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
153
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 Rooted in Place No access Pages 1 - 22
2 Eckstorm as Naturalist No access Pages 23 - 44
3 Eckstorm as Ethnographer of Local Woodsmen No access Pages 45 - 60
4 Eckstorm as Ballad Scholar No access Pages 61 - 84
5 Coping with the Normal by Investigating the Paranormal No access Pages 85 - 98
6 Eckstorm as Ethnographer of Maine’s Native People No access Pages 99 - 120
7 Eckstorm and Clara Neptune No access Pages 121 - 138
