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4 unusual facts about Louise Lamphere


Feminist anthropology

The anthropology of women, introduced through Peggy Golde's "Women in the Field" and Michelle Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere's "Women, culture, and society," attempted to recuperate women as distinct cultural actors otherwise erased by male anthropologists' focus on men's lives as the universal character of a society.

Louise Lamphere

She has published extensively throughout her career on subjects as diverse as the Navajo and their medicinal practices and de-industrialisation and urban anthropology; nonetheless she is possibly best known for her work on feminist anthropology and gender issues.

Sande society

In Woman, Culture and Society, edited by Michele Z. Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere, pp.

Women, Culture, and Society

Women, Culture, and Society, first published in 1974 (Stanford University Press), is a book consisiting of 16 papers contributed by female authors and an introduction by the editors Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere.



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