Friedl, Ernestine, 1920-

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Summary: Ernestine Friedl was an American anthropologist, author, and professor. She served as the president of both the American Ethnological Society (1967) and the American Anthropological Association (1974–1975). 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. Her major interests included gender roles, rural life in modern Greece, and the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Female [1][2][3][4]
Born: 1920 [2][4]
Died: 2015 [2]; 2015-10-12 [4]
Country: United States [2]; Hungary [2]
Occupation: anthropologist [4]; university teacher [4]
Profession: Anthropologin [2]
Employer: Brooklyn College [4]; Duke University [4]
Educated at: Columbia University [4]; Hunter College [4]
Country of Education: United States [4]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Library of Congress; 4. Wikidata

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