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PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Hortense Powdermaker was an American anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood. Early life and education Born to a Jewish family, Powdermaker spent her childhood in Reading, Pennsylvania, and in Baltimore, Maryland. She studied history and the humanities at Goucher College, graduating in 1921. She worked as a labor organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers but became dissatisfied with the prospects of the U.S. labor movement amid the repression of the Palmer Raids. She left the United States to study at the London School of Economics, where she met the eminent anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, who convinced her to embark on a course of doctoral studies. While at the LSE, Powdermaker also worked under and was influenced by other well-known anthropologists such as A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Raymond Firth.

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Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist (1966) (387)
Hollywood, the dream factory (1979) (80)
Copper town: changing Africa;: The human situation on the Rhodesian Copperbelt (1964) (63)
An anthropological approach to the problem of obesity. (1960) (49)
Life, in Lesu: the Study of a Melanesian Society in New Ireland (1933) (48)
Copper Town: Changing Africa (1964) (43)
The Channeling of Negro Aggression by the Cultural Process (1943) (40)
Mass Culture : The Popular Arts in America (1957) (40)
Social Change through Imagery and Values of Teen‐Age Africans in Northern Rhodesia (1956) (18)
FEASTS IN NEW IRELAND; THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF EATING (1932) (15)
A Tribe in Transition. (1940) (12)
An Anthropologist Looks at the Movies (1947) (10)
Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia. Audrey I. Richards (1958) (10)
Vital Statistics Of New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago) As Revealed In Genealogies (1931) (10)
Probing our prejudices : a unit for high school students (1944) (10)
MORTUARY RITES IN NEW IRELAND (BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO)1 (1931) (8)
The Anthropological Approach to the Problem of Modifying Race Attitudes (1944) (8)
Probing Our Prejudices (1944) (8)
FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON LESU AND MALINOWSKI'S DIARY (1970) (7)
COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE, BASED ON A FIELD STUDY IN NORTHERN RHODESIA* (1955) (5)
Comments on Friedrich's Review of “The Phenomenon of Man” (1963) (4)
Mass Communications Seminar : proceedings of an interdisciplinary seminar held under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated, May 11-13, 1951 (1953) (4)
Education and Occupation among New Haven Negroes (1938) (3)
ETHNOLOGY: Townsmen or Tribesmen: Conservatism and the Process of Urbanization in a South African City. Philip Mayer (1963) (3)
OCEANIA: Sorcerers of Dobu. R. F. Fortune (1932) (3)
NORTH AMERICA: The American People, Geoffrey Gorer (1948) (2)
GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: The Image. Kenneth Boulding. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan (1957) (2)
REPORT ON RESEARCH IN NEW IRELAND (1930) (2)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Marriage and the Family Among the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia. ELIZABETH COLSON (1959) (2)
The Zande Scheme: An Anthropological Case Study of Economic Development in Africa. Conad C. Reining (1967) (2)
AFRICA AND OCEANIA: Documents Néo-Calédoniens. Maurice Leenhardt (1934) (1)
Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist. (1967) (1)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Langa: A Study of Social Groups in an African Township. Monica Wilson and Archie Mafeje (1964) (1)
OTHER: Understanding Minority Groups. Joseph B. Gittler (1957) (1)
Comment on Frantz' Review of “Copper Town: Changing Africa” (1965) (1)
Lay My Burden Down; A Folk History of Slavery. B. A. Botkin (Editor) (1946) (1)
OCEANIA: Naven. A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View. Gregory Bateson (1940) (1)
WEATHERFORD, WILLIS D., and CHARLES S. JOHNSON. Race Relations. Adjust ment of Whites and Negroes in the United States. Pp. 555. New York: D. C. Heath and Company, 1934. $3.20 (1935) (0)
Book Reviews : Fox, L. K., (ed.), East African Childhood: Three Versions. Nairobi, Oxford Uni versity Press, 1967, pp. 139. 9/s (1968) (0)
Leadership in Central and Southern Australia (1928) (0)
Fox, L. K., (ed.), East African Childhood: Three Versions. Nairobi, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 139. 9/s (1968) (0)
MEAD, MARGARET. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. Pp. 335. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1935. $3.00 (1935) (0)
HERSKOVITS, MELVILLE and FRANCES. Rebel Destiny. Pp. xvii, 366. New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1934. $3.00 (1935) (0)
MISCELLANEOUS: Race: Science and Politics. Ruth Benedict (1941) (0)
ASIA: The People of Alor, A Social Psychological Study of an East Indian Island, Cora Du Bois, with analyses by Abram Kardiner and Emil Oberholzer (1945) (0)
Knowledge, magic, and religion. (0)
OTHER: Colonial Students: A Study of the Social Adaptation of Colonial Students in London. A. T. Carey (1957) (0)
The individual and society. (1933) (0)
WARNER, ROBERT AUSTIN. New Haven Negroes. Pp. xiv, 309. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. $3.50 (1941) (0)

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