Mary LeCron Foster (February 1, 1914 – December 9, 2001) was an American anthropological linguist, who spent most of her working life at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] Foster carried out graduate work in anthropology under the direction of Ruth Benedict. The influence of Franz Boas, whom she also knew at Columbia, may be seen in Foster's interests in symbolism and language origins. In addition to writing grammars of Sierra Popoluca[2] and Purépecha,[3] she published several articles purporting to reconstruct spoken Primordial Language (PL). PL, she maintained, was constructed out of speech sounds she dubbed ‘phememes’ that were at the same time roots, whose meaning was motivated by the shaping and movement of the vocal tract.[4][5][6]
In the 1980s Foster was instrumental in developing anthropological peace and security studies. She co-organized with Robert A. Rubinstein the four days of coordinated symposia on the anthropology of peace held at the 1983 World Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Vancouver, Canada. Those symposia led to the creation of the Commission on Peace and Human Rights of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. She co-edited the book resulting from those symposia,[7] and a second book deriving from the work of the Commission.[8] From the mid-1980s to the year before her death Foster was a member of the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund, within which she established the Cowles Fund dedicated to advancing work on the understanding and resolution of violence.
She was married to fellow Berkeley anthropologist George Foster. In 1997 the U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Library was renamed the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library in their honor.
^Brandes, Stanley (2003). "Mary LeCron Foster (1914-2001)". American Anthropologist. 105 (1): 218–221. doi:10.1525/aa.2003.105.1.218.
^Foster, Mary LeCron. 1948. Sierra Popoluca Speech. Washington, DC: The Smithsonian Institution.
^Foster, Mary LeCron. 1969. The Tarascan Language. [ = Publications in Linguistics 56.] Berkeley: University of California Press.
^Foster, Mary LeCron. 1978. The symbolic structure of primordial language. In Sherwood L. Washburn and Elizabeth R. McCown (eds.) Human Evolution: Biosocial Perspectives, 77–121. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings.
^Foster, Mary LeCron. 1990. The Birth and Life of Signs. In Mary LeCron Foster and Lucy Botscharow (eds.) The Life of Symbols, 285–306. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
^Foster, Mary LeCron. 1996. The reconstruction of the evolution of human spoken language. In Andre Lock and Charles R. Peters (eds.) Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, 747–775. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
^Foster, Mary LeCron and Robert A. Rubinstein. 1986. Peace and War: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
^Rubinstein, Robert A. and Mary LeCron Foster. 1988. The Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict: Culture in International Security. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
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