biography
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| (1903– )
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in New York City, New York, USA. She studied at Barnard College and at the University of California, Berkeley (1932 PhD). She researched the Indian tribes of N California and Oregon while teaching at Berkeley, and fieldwork in Indonesia in the late 1930s led to her landmark culture and personality study, The People of Alor (1944). She was director of research for the Institute of International Education (1951–4) and taught at Radcliffe (1954–69). |
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