Prophets with Honor: The Early Rorschach Research of George and Louise Spindler

Abstract

George and Louise made their first field trip to the Menominee in the summer of 1948; they returned every summer for a number of years. They have often expressed their love for fieldwork, and for the Menominee, and have even written they they never had a “truly bad time” with the Menominee, but as they admitted, fieldwork with these people was not always easy. As the Spindlers have often said, and even written, various anthropological colleagues have sometimes accused them of being “hooked on the Rorschach,” intimating that continued reliance on this projective test could adversely influence their careers. While sensitive to such criticism of the Rorschach, they have continued to insist that the technique has been invaluable to their research. The Spindlers have long argued that the Rorschach test can be a useful method for anthropologists, and that it has been invaluable in their own research not only with the Menominee but subsequently with the Blood Indians.

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