Marilyn Strathern
British anthropologist, born 1941 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA (née Evans; born 6 March 1941)[1] is a British anthropologist, who has worked largely with the Mount Hagen people of Papua New Guinea and dealt with issues in the UK of reproductive technologies.[2] She was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 2008, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2009.
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Born | Ann Marilyn Evans (1941-03-06) 6 March 1941 (age 83) Wales, United Kingdom |
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | Girton College |
Parent(s) | Eric Charles Evans Joyce Evans |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Social anthropology |
Institutions | Girton College Trinity College University of California, Berkeley Manchester University |
Thesis | Women's status in the Mount Hagen area: a study of marital relations and court disputes among the Melpa-speaking people, New Guinea (1969) |
Doctoral advisor | Paula Brown Glick Esther N. Goody |
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