Table of Contents

Introduction (Jack Campisi and William A. Starna)

Upstaters in Suburbia and at Home
At Yale and among the Senecas
From Teaching to the BAE
The War and Postwar Years
The National Research Council
The New York State Museum Research Professorship at Albany
Life after University
Notes

Bibliography of the Publications of William N. Fenton

Promotional Information

The memoir of William Fenton, a well-known and influential anthropologist who worked among the Iroquois

About the Author

Jack Campisi is a former associate professor of anthropology at Wellesley College and is now an independent consultant. He is coeditor of Extending the Rafters: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Iroquoian Studies and The Oneida Indian Experience: Two Perspectives. William A. Starna is a professor emeritus of anthropology at State University of New York College at Oneonta. He is coeditor of In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives about a Native People and Iroquois Land Claims.

Reviews

"Fenton's memoir is so readable that I nearly finished it in a single sitting. Those who knew Fenton appreciated his talent for telling a story, whether as a comment to a large audience in response to a scholarly paper or in a small gathering over drinks or dinner. Fenton has always written in the same style as these oral presentations and he holds the same rapt attention from the reader that he invariably received from those fortunate enough to have heard him reminisce." Thomas Abler, author of Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake