Sylvia M. Broadbent
American anthropologist
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- PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
- Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
- Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sylvia Marguerite Broadbent was an American anthropologist and professor, specializing in Amerindian peoples. Early life Broadbent was born in London. She emigrated with her family in the wake of World War II to Carmel, California, in 1947. Broadbent graduated from Carmel High School in 1948 at the age of 16. Broadbent enrolled at University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded the Horatio Stebbins scholarship as a junior and earned her Associate of Arts degree in anthropology in 1951. She went on to win a Genevieve McEnerny fellowship and receive her bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1952. From 1955 to 1960 she performed research among native peoples in Southern California and recorded Chukchansi, Ohlone, and Miwok. Her 1960 doctoral dissertation was A grammar of Southern Sierra Miwok, written under the advisement of Mary Haas.
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