biography
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Reichard, Gladys Amanda
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| female
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| lived:
| (1893–1955)
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in Bangor, Pennsylvania, USA. The daughter of a physician of Quaker background, she taught in public schools for six years before enrolling at Swarthmore, from which she graduated in classics (1919). She went on to Columbia University, where Franz Boas became her mentor, and she gained a PhD in 1925. She made a lifelong study of the language and culture of the Navaho, presenting the results of her fieldwork in a series of studies, including Social Life of the Navaho Indians (1928), Spider Woman (1934), and Navaho Religion: A Study of Symbolism (1950). From 1923 until her death she taught at Barnard College. |
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