biography
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Powdermaker, Hortense
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| female
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| (1896–1970)
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The daughter of a businessman, she graduated from Goucher College (1919), worked as a union organizer, and studied at the London School of Economics. A pioneer among women archaeologists for working alone in exotic places, her Life in Lesu, based on research in a Pacific island village, appeared in 1933. She taught at Queens College, New York City (1938–68) and undertook anthropological studies of life in a Mississippi town and in Hollywood, CA, the latter resulting in Hollywood, The Dream Factory (1950). In 1966 she published her memoirs, Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist. |
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