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Gitel (Gertrude) Poznanski Steed | |
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 Raphael Soyer (1932) Girl in White Blouse, oil on canvas, a portrait of Gitel Steed at eighteen held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum, New York. | |
| Born | May 3, 1914 Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| Died | September 6, 1977 (aged 63) New York City |
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| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Spouse | Robert Steed (m.1947) |
| Children | Andrew Hart (b. 1953) |
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Gitel (Gertrude) Poznanski Steed (May 3, 1914 – September 6, 1977) was an American cultural anthropologist known for her research in India 1950–52 (and returning in 1970) involving ethnological work in three villages to study the complex detail of their social structure. She supplemented her research with thousands of ethnological photographs of the individuals and groups studied, the quality of which was recognised by Edward Steichen. She experienced chronic illnesses after her return from the field, but nevertheless completed publications and many lectures but did not survive to finish a book The Human Career in Village India which was to integrate and unify her many-sided studies of human character formation in the cultural/historical context of India.[1][2]
- ^ Lesser, Alexander 1979 Obituary of Gitel Steed. American Anthropologist 81:88‐91
- ^ Berleant-Schiller, Riva 1988 Gitel (Gertrude) Poznanski Steed. IN Women Anthropologists: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Ute Gacs, Aisha Khan, Jerrie McIntyre, Ruth Weinberg. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Pp. 331–336. Gitel (Gertrude) Poznanski Steed