Wednesday, August 3, 2022

"One man, one night, one dollar" (Expense account claim)

Erika Brady, A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999), 98. 


 

Nancy Oestreich Lurie, “Women in Early American Anthropology.” In June Helm, ed., Pioneers of American Anthropology: The Uses of Biography (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966), 234n53.

“Stirling substantiated another incident first mentioned to me by Fenton: once when Stevenson was asked to itemize an expense account, she filed under informants’ fees, ‘One man, one night, one dollar.’”

[Matthew W. Stirling, former director of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE); William M. Fenton of the New York State Museum.]