Ernestine friedl biography definition
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Ernestine Friedl
American anthropologist
Ernestine Friedl (August 13, 1920 – October 12, 2015) was an American anthropologist, author, and professor.[1][2] She served as the president of both the American Ethnological Society (1967) and the American Anthropological Association (1974–1975).
Ernestine friedl biography definition
Friedl was also the first Dean of Arts and Sciences and Trinity College at Duke University, and was a James B. Duke Professor Emerita. A building on Duke's campus, housing the departments of African and African American Studies, Cultural Anthropology, the Latino/Latina Studies program, and Literature was named in her honor in 2008.[3] Her major interests included gender roles, rural life in modern Greece, and the St.
Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.
Early life
Born in Hungary in 1920, Ernestine Friedl emigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of two years. They settled in the West Bronx neighborhood of New York City.[4] Her fa