"Anthropologyis a child of Western imperialism," asserted the Marxist anthropologistKathleen Gough in 1968, during an intense period of anti-colonial struggle inAsia and Africa. Since then, this assertion, now largely taken for grantedwithin the discipline, has become more well-known than the intellectual whoarticulated it. A Radical Anthropologist: The Trials and Triumphs of KathleenGough tells the story of a scholar who, like many of her female peers, hasbeen largely overlooked by history in spite of her striking contributions toher field. In her day, in the face of rampant sexism, she was aninternationally renowned intellectual and political activist, publishing someseventy articles and ten books. With clear and empathetic prose, author Sandra Lindemann, herself ananthropologist, invites us to trace the arc of a life lived according to thevalues of a radical anthropologist. Born in England in 1925 as the youngestdaughter of the village blacksmith, Gough entered the world of highereducation on scholarship and continued into academia with a pronounced senseof fairness and justice. Her outspokenness in favor of civil rights andagainst nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War led to her placement on an FBIwatch list, and institutional reactions to her progressive views disruptedher career trajectory on several occasions. She fielded the array ofobstacles presented by workplace misogyny, only to find herself fired fromsome jobs and compelled, on principle, to resign from others. Eventually shewithdrew from academia altogether to become an independent radical scholar,but not before her painstaking fieldwork in South India on marriage, class,and caste reshaped the anthropological understanding of these critical socialrelationships, and helped to transform the world of academia she had leftbehind. Through it all, she maintained her fierce dedication to theliberation of workers and peasants-whether in India, Vietnam, or anywhere inthe world people were oppressed. With the rise of fascism in the UnitedStates, and the unleashing of malign forces around the world, more than everbefore those who struggle for justice are searching for examples of how tolive a politically relevant life: Kathleen Gough's is such a life. Ferventlyanti-colonial, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist, Gough lived her lifekeeping a Marxist vision of a better, more peaceful, more equitable world inclear view at all times, never losing faith that such a world was withinreach.