American anthropologist, ethnographer and professor
Hortense Powdermaker
Powdermaker in 1950
Born
December 24, 1896[1]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died
June 16, 1970(1970-06-16) (aged 69)
Berkeley, California
Scientific career
Fields
Anthropology, ethnography
Academic advisors
Bronisław Malinowski
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Anthropology of art, media,
music, dance and film
Basic concepts
Color symbolism
Visual culture
Body culture
Material culture
New media
Case studies
Art
Art of the Americas
Indigenous Australian art
Oceanic art
Film
Nanook of the North
The Ax Fight
Nǃai, the Story of a ǃKung Woman
Incidents of Travel in Chichen Itza
The Doon School Quintet
Museums
National Anthropological Archives
Centro Cultural Mexiquense
Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Museum of Anthropology, Cambridge
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Robert Hull Fleming Museum
List of museums
Related articles
Ethnographic film
Video ethnography
Ethnocinema
List of ethnographic films
Margaret Mead Film Festival
Cantometrics
Museum anthropology
Salvage ethnography
Tribal art/Folk art
Major theorists
Tim Asch
Gregory Bateson
Franz Boas
Pierre Bourdieu
John Collier
Frances Densmore
Robert J. Flaherty
Robert Gardner
Alfred Gell
Robert Hugh Layton
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Alan Lomax
John Marshall
Margaret Mead
Alan Merriam
Bruno Nettl
Hortense Powdermaker
Jean Rouch
David MacDougall
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Hortense Powdermaker (December 24, 1896 – June 16, 1970) was an American anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood.
^Eric R. Wolf, "Hortense Powdermaker 1900-1970," American Anthropologist 73, no. 3 (1971): 783-86.
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