Alice Beck Kehoe

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Alice Beck Kehoe (* 1934 in New York City ) is an American anthropologist . She is particularly interested in the indigenous peoples of America.

Life

Kehoe studied anthropology at Barnard College and worked at the American Museum of Natural History during the semester break . After graduation, worked at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. It was there that the museum director Thomas Kehoe met, whom she later married. Both then received their PhD from Harvard University . When her husband got the job as archaeologist for the Saskatchewan Province , the Kehoes went to Canada. When Kehoe lost his job in 1964, the couple decided to go to Nebraska and teach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . When Thomas Kehoe found a job at the Milwaukee Public Museum in 1968 , the couple moved to Milwaukee. Alice Beck Kehoe began teaching at Marquette University , where she worked until her retirement in 2000.

Kehoe deals intensively with the indigenous peoples of America and has long looked for a link between the ceremonies of the Indians in the southeastern United States and those of Mesoamerica . Her general interest is in archeology and cultures in the northwestern United States. In search of an ethnographic topic for her dissertation, she happened upon the Saskatchewan Dakota New Tidings ghost dance and dedicated her work to this ritual.

Kehoe worked for many years with the Blackfoot , an Algonquian tribe from Browning, Montana . For a long time, she visited the tribe every year, studying the history and culture of the people. She observed the medicine men and worked together with Piakwutch, "an elderly respected Cree who campaigned for the Saskatchewan Cree Community [...]." She also worked with the indigenous peoples of Bolivia on Lake Titicaca . Her interest in pre-Columbian transatlantic contacts led to a meeting with Richard Nielsen , who invited her to help him with the archaeological aspects of the investigation of the Kensington runestone , which Kehoe believed was not a 19th century fake, but a runic inscription by Scandinavian sailors from the 14th century.

Kehoe held an office with the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and was President of the Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS).

In 2016, Kehoe was honored with the Plains Anthropological Association's Distinguished Service Award for "continued work in anthropology and archeology of the Great Plains".

Fonts

  • The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization . Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York 1998, ISBN 978-1577664536
  • North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account . Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1992, ISBN 978-0131928763
  • Humans: An Introduction to Four-Field Anthropology . Routledge, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0415919845
  • The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American Archeology . Routledge, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0415920544
  • with Mary Beth Emmerichs: Assembling the Past: Studies in the Professionalization of Archeology . University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 1999, ISBN 978-0826319395
  • Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking . Waveland Press, Prospect Heights 2000, ISBN 978-1577661627
  • with Helen M. Sterk, Carla H. Hay, Krista Ratcliffe, Leona G. Vende-Vusse: Who's Having this Baby? Perspectives on birthing . Michigan State University Press, East Lansing 2002, ISBN 978-0870136153
  • America Before the European Invasions . Longman, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0582414860
  • The Kensington Runestone: Approaching a Research Question Holistically . Waveland Press, Long Grove 2005, ISBN 978-1577663713
  • with Thomas C. Pleger: Archeology: A Concise Introduction . Waveland Press, Long Grove 2007, ISBN 978-1577664505
  • Controversies in Archeology . Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek 2008, ISBN 978-1598740615
  • Militant Christianity: An Anthropological History . Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1137282149
  • with Clark Wissler, Steward E. Miller: Amskapi Pikuni: The Blackfeet People . State University of New York Press, Albany 2012, ISBN 978-1438443355
  • A Passion for the True and Just: Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal . University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2014, ISBN 978-0816530939
  • Traveling Prehistoric Seas: Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages . Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek 2016, ISBN 978-1-62958-067-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alice Beck Kehoe: Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking . Waveland Press, September 1, 2000, ISBN 978-1577661627 .
personal data
SURNAME Kehoe, Alice Beck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City