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Contents Timeline vii Genealogy ix Monographs xi Introduction 5 Part One: Becoming Ruth Underhill A Zigzag Life 27 Do Good to Others 29 Mother Was an Angel, Part 1 34 They Were Murrays 46 Abram S. Underhill 52 Mother Was an Angel, Part 2 61 Youth Passing 69 Quakers and Darwin 74 Picnics and Dances 78 Vassar and Europe 86 The Society 93 The Big Love 99 World War I 108 A Marriage Begins and Ends 117 vi Contents Part Two: Becoming An Anthropologist Columbia, Part 1 131 Papa Franz 144 Coming of Age in Arizona 148 Henrietta 151 Chona and the O’odham 159 Columbia, Part 2 173 The Fruit of the Saguaro 180 Indian Affairs 192 Around the World 204 We’re Going to Live This Year 211 Acknowledgments 217 Figure Credits 219 Index 221 ...

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