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From the Prologue to my publication “Cheyenne Action Archeology”:</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What Linda
Davis-Stephens gives me credit for I essentially learned from Sol Tax at the
University of Chicago, one of the great men of American anthropology, who was
my adviser and major professor there. One of the things that made him great was
his willingness all his life to learn from people of cultures different from
ours, and that he worked for using this knowledge for them and for all of us. I
passed this conviction and attitude he had named action anthropology on to
those students who listened with open minds and were not afraid to step away a
little from the trodden paths of what was applauded as the anthropology of the
day. Linda was one of these students.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> This short text of hers is full of
insight, experience, and ideas, reflecting the very best of the original
anthropological tradition, now oftentimes lost in the computer clatter of
quantification and statistics. It is a straightforward and precise text that
tells whence she came, how she became, what she learned, what she is learning,
and what can be done with what is learned. The text is a journey to which
readers are invited to participate in. At the conclusion the reader will find
where he/she stands, and where he/she could be going.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The text
is correct in its descriptions of events, historical and recent, and clean in
its scientific underpinnings. It is also sensitive and poetic, always truthful.
It shows an anthropology that is thoroughly alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Karl H. Schlesier, Professor Emeritus</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Corrales, New Mexico</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1998</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Find link to full content of </span>“Cheyenne Action Archeology” <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">as .doc <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ks2/hipp/">http://www.angelfire.com/ks2/hipp/</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;">El Cuartelejo Webliography and Sources</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687982433186801803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246597360893738500.post-30609073357334611872012-08-07T17:06:00.003-07:002012-08-07T17:34:23.518-07:00a creative spark<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Action anthropology—a creative
spark of social science</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My university studies of
action anthropology began as a student of Dr. Karl Schlesier. He hired me as
work/study research assistant, also for Dr. Dorothy Billings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In fieldwork, I recorded an
interview with Edward Red Hat, Keeper of the Cheyenne Sacred Arrows. I asked
what message he would give students. The transcript of his response “</span><span style="font-size: small;">Message from
the Tsistsistas-Cheyenne Arrow Keeper, Edward Red Hat, I, To All students” is
on the wikidot link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://thecollaboratory.wikidot.com/great-plains-experience">http://thecollaboratory.wikidot.com/great-plains-experience</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My first thesis <i>Notes from the Tipi</i> compiled literary
and theoretical background of action anthropology. My graduate thesis showed
the application and results of action anthropology with the Southern Cheyenne up
to 1980. This I learned by doing—theory and practice, what has become
essentially Service Learning the history of a bioregion. <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ks2/hipp/">http://www.angelfire.com/ks2/hipp/</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1976 </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Linda E</span></i></span><span class="st" style="font-size: small;"><i>.
</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Davis</span></i></span>, <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Notes from the Tipi</i>.
Honors Thesis. </span><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">Wichita State University</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">1980 Linda E</span></i></span><span class="st" style="font-size: small;"><i>.
</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Davis</span></i></span><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">, <i>The Southern Cheyenne Research and Human
Development Association, Incorporated, 1972-1980</i>, MA </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Thesis</span></i></span><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">, Wichita State University</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Action Anthropology—the Art
of Social Science”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Cultural anthropologists are
generally tremendous observers of how people learn and behave, especially of
how people transfer their traditions, ethnic identities, and lessons in life
from one generation to another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Action anthropologists engage
in the cultural world of the host population. This role expands the fieldwork
notion of participant observation with the goal to help the people of the host
population help themselves with needs of their own communities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The action anthropologist is
a social scientist, and as such, must apply the discipline and what it has to
offer with utmost professional discretion among the decision makers of the
host.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Karl Schlesier said his hosts
saw him as a person first, then as an anthropologist who taught them a new
meaning of the discipline he represented. He was a teacher and in the “Cheyenne
culture teaching is the most honorable profession of all…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What began as the science of
man has become the search for the knowledge of being and becoming human once
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">In these observations of
the human condition, action anthropology represents a degree of artistry.</span><br />
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