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Hortense Powdermaker
Hortense Powdermaker | |
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 Powdermaker in 1950 | |
| Born | December 24, 1896[1] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | June 16, 1970 (aged 73) Berkeley, California |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology, ethnography |
| Academic advisors | Bronisław Malinowski |
| Part of a series on the |
| Anthropology of art, media, music, dance and film |
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| Social and cultural anthropology |
Hortense Powdermaker (December 24, 1896 – June 16, 1970) was an American anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood.
- ^ Eric R. Wolf, "Hortense Powdermaker 1900-1970," American Anthropologist 73, no. 3 (1971): 783-86.
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