biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1898– )
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in New York City, New York, USA. She studied at Barnard College (1918) and then worked as Franz Boas' secretary before undertaking a study of Zuñi Indian pottery with the encouragement of Boas and Ruth Benedict (1924). In 1929 she received a PhD from Columbia University and also published The Pueblo Potter. She contributed important studies of Zuñi ceremonialism, and field trips to Guatemala in the 1930s yielded Chichicastenango, A Guatemalan Village (1952). She later taught anthropology at Columbia. |
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