Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon Enamel Pin Martin Luther King Jr

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arguing for the central role of art and intellectual culture in an age of widening inequality and moral crisis

When flirtatious banter turns into a kiss under the mistletoe

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Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon Enamel Pin Martin Luther King JrIconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurstons literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what socio cultural and institutional values and processes shape the different ways we read her work? Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall considers the polar receptions to Hurstons two areas of achievement by examining the critical response