Dorothy Way Eggan
American anthropologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American anthropologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothy Way Eggan (1901–1965) was an American anthropologist noted for her research among the Hopi tribe.
Eggan was born October 31, 1901, in Dover Hill, Indiana. During her first marriage, to Jean C. Harrington, she lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico and became acquainted with the Pueblo peoples. Her interest in anthropology was confirmed when Harrington entered the University of Chicago as a graduate student in archaeology. She became a secretary in the Department of Anthropology there and befriended the anthropologists Robert Redfield and A. R. Radcliffe-Brown.
She divorced Harrington and married Fred Eggan, an anthropologist at Chicago, in 1939 and spent the following summer doing fieldwork with the Hopi in Arizona. Her interests included dreams and psychoanalysis with respect to Hopi culture. She also became associated with the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago.
She had been suffering from rheumatic fever, however, she continued to write a series of papers regarding the importance of dreams on anthropology and social science.[1] She died in July 1965.
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