Frances Carpenter
Frances Carpenter co-authored a number of anthropology books including The Clothes We Wear (1926) and The Foods We Eat (1926).
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Sallie R Wagner
Sallie R. Wagner was a photographer, author, weaver, and a benefactor and patron of dancer-choreographer Erick Hawkins and his dance company.
Rachel Reese Sady
Anthropologist
Katharine Luomala
Anthropologist and Community Analysis Section staff member; co-author of Impounded People: Japanese Americans in the Relocation Centers.
Dr Tamie Tsuchiyama
The only Japanese American woman to work full-time for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS).
Frances Densmore
From the 1890s through the 1950s, Frances Densmore researched and recorded the music of Native Americans. Through more than twenty books, 200 articles, and some 2,500 Graphophone recordings, she preserved important cultural traditions that might otherwise have been lost.
Dr Paulina Alcocer
Mexican researcher and professor
Franziska Boas
Pioneering dancer, percussionist, teacher, ethnologist, and therapist
Ruth Behar
Known as a writer, anthropologist, and professor, Behar is the author of ten books, including Santa Maria del Monte: The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village (1986), Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story (1993), and recently Lucky Broken Girl (2018).
Irma Xóchitl
Irma Xóchitl is an anthropologist and linguist, author of the books Nahuatocaitl. Apellidos nahuas de Puebla, senderos hacia nuestra cultura originaria (2018) and Mah timomachtiah nahuatlahtolli ican totoca. Aprendamos náhuatl con nuestros apellidos (2021).