Frederica de Laguna
Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna | |
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Born | Ann Arbor, Michigan | October 3, 1906
Died | October 6, 2004 Haverford, Pennsylvania | (aged 98)
Other names | Freddy |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | Phoebe Anne Thorne School, Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University |
Known for | Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit |
Scientific career | |
Fields | anthropology, archaeology, ethnology |
Institutions | Bryn Mawr College |
Thesis | "A Comparison of Eskimo and Palaeolithic Art" (1933) |
Frederica ("Freddy") Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (October 3, 1906 – October 6, 2004) was an American
She founded and chaired the anthropology department at
Early life and education
De Laguna was born to Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna and Grace Mead (Andrus) de Laguna, philosophy professors at Bryn Mawr College, on October 3, 1906, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was home-schooled by her parents until age nine due to frequent illness.[6] She joined her parents and younger brother Wallace on two sabbaticals during her childhood: Cambridge and Oxford, England in 1914–1915 and France in 1921–1922.[2]
De Laguna attended Bryn Mawr College on a scholarship from 1923 to 1927, graduating
De Laguna received her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1933.
Career
De Laguna's first funded expedition was to
Bryn Mawr College hired de Laguna as a sociology lecturer in 1938 "to teach the first ever anthropology course." She kept this position until 1942 when she took a leave of absence to serve in the naval reserve as a lieutenant commander of
De Laguna also worked as an Associate Soil Conservationist in 1935 and 1936 on the
Selected works
- 1930, The thousand march: Adventures of an American boy with the Garibaldi. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 3940490
- 1937, The arrow points to murder. Garden City, NJ: Crime Club, Inc. OCLC 1720968
- 1938, Fog on the mountain. Homer, AK: Kachemak Country Publications. OCLC 32748448
- 1972, Under Mount Saint Elias: The history and culture of the Yakutat Tlingit: Part one, pdf. Smithsonian contributions to anthropology, v. 7. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. OCLC 603795
- 1977, Voyage to Greenland: A personal initiation in anthropology. New York: Norton. OCLC 2646088
- 1991, with George Thornton Emmons, The Tlingit Indians. New York: American Museum of Natural History. OCLC 23463915
- 1994, with Norman Reynolds and Dale DeArmond, Tales from the Dena: Indian stories from the Tanana, Koyukuk, and Yukon rivers. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. OCLC 31518221
- 1997, Travels among the Dena: Exploring Alaska's Yukon valley. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. OCLC 42772476
References
- ^ Roth, Bill. "Frederica de Laguna in 1993". 1993. JPEG file.
- ^ a b Woolf, Linda M. "Frederica de Laguna". Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Body. Webster University. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ^ Hirst, K. Kris. "Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna [1906–2004]". About.com Archaeology. About.com. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ^ a b Ginanni, Glaudia. "Founder of BMC Anthropology Department Dies at 98". Bryn Mawr Now. Bryn Mawr College. Archived from the original on 5 August 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ^ "Frederica de Laguna".
- ^ a b c d e f Wang, Lorain. "Biographical Note" (PDF). Register to the Papers of Frederica de Laguna. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ^ Davis, Fremont (1937-03-18). "Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1906–2004), standing and talking at meeting with Kaj Birket-Smith (1893–1977)". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ^ Laguna, Wallace De (1963). Geology of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Vicinity, Suffolk County New York. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ "Search Digital Collections "1" - Penn Museum". www.penn.museum. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
External links
- "Frederica de Laguna Collection" from Alaska State Library
- "Frederica de Laguna collection" from Bryn Mawr College
- Frederica de Laguna Northern Books Archived 2006-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
- "Papers of Frederica de Laguna" from National Anthropological Archives: part 1 and part 2
- Video interview Archived 2015-05-27 at the Wayback Machine with de Laguna from George A. Smathers Libraries
- William W. Fitzhugh, "Frederica de Laguna", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)