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Viola Garfield's Degrees

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

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According to Wikipedia, Viola E. Garfield was an American anthropologist best known for her work on the social organization and plastic arts of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia and Alaska. Early life Viola Edmundson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Her family moved a few years later to Coupeville, Washington, on Whidbey Island, where she attended local schools.

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Tsimshian clan and society (1939) (51)
Point Hope, an Eskimo Village in Transition (1963) (42)
The Tsimshian Indians and Their Arts (1977) (32)
The Tsimshian and their neighbors of the North Pacific coast (1986) (16)
The Wolf and the Raven: Totem Poles of Southeastern Alaska (1961) (10)
HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF TLINGIT CLANS IN ANGOON, ALASKA (1947) (7)
The wolf and the raven (1948) (7)
ETHNOLOGY: The Story of a Tlingit Community: A Problem in the Relationship between Archeological, Ethnological, and Historical Methods. Frederica de Laguna (1960) (7)
A RESEARCH PROBLEM IN NORTHWEST INDIAN ECONOMICS (1945) (6)
Possibilities of Genetic Relationship in Northern Pacific Moiety Structures (1953) (4)
Symposium : patterns of land utilization and other papers : Proceedings of the 1961 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society (1961) (2)
Symposium on language and culture (1963) (1)
Monuments in Cedar: the Authentic Story of the Totem Pole. Edward L. Keithahn (1964) (1)
Symposium on community studies in anthropology (1964) (1)
GENERAL: The Native Brotherhoods: Modern Intertribal Organizations on the Northwest Coast. Philip Drucker (1960) (0)
PRIMITIVE ART: Medicine-Men on the North Pacific Coast. MARIUS BARBEAU (1959) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Pathfinders in the North Pacific. Marius Barbeau (1959) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest. Ella E. Clark. Illus. by Robert Bruce Inverarity (1954) (0)
Pueblo Indian Religion.@@@The Menomini Indians of Wisconsin.@@@Tsimshian Clan and Society.@@@Shamanism in Western North America.@@@Bantu Heritage.@@@Prophecy and Divination Among the Hebrews and Other Semites.@@@Studies in Popular Islam. (1939) (0)
The Upper Tanana Indians@@@Ingalik Mental Culture (1961) (0)
ORAL LITERATURE: Studies on Mythology. Robert A. Georges, ed. Dorsey Series in Anthropology and Sociology (1970) (0)
Ethnology and Ethnography: The Northern and Central Nootkan Tribes. Philip Drucker (1952) (0)
Erna Gunther (1896–1982) (1984) (0)

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