Books by William N. Fenton

Presents the warm and illuminating memoir of William N. Fenton, a leading scholar who shaped Iroquois studies and modern anthropology in America. It reveals the ambitions and struggles of the man and the accomplishments of the anthropologist, the complex and volatile milieu of Native-white relations in upstate New York, and key theoretical and methodological developments in American anthropology.

William N. Fenton's contributions to the understanding of the cultures and histories of the Iroquois are formidable. William Fenton: Selected Writings brings together for the first time Fenton's most influential writings on the Iroquois and anthropology, written across nearly six decades.