Anthropological Theory: A podcast created by anthropology students · Laurette McGuire

Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston provided a template for transdisciplinary research by pioneering participant observation in the study of African religious traditions.

Two anthropology students provide a biographical and academic overview of Zora Neale Hurston, exploring her early life, her groundbreaking ethnographic work using participant observation in the Black South, her challenges with academic mentors like Franz Boas, and her posthumous rediscovery by Alice Walker. The episode frames Hurston as a pioneering methodologist who documented African American folklore and religious traditions.

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