Erna Gunther (1897–1982)
Autore di Ethnobotany of Western Washington
Sull'Autore
Opere di Erna Gunther
Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America as Seen by the Early Explorers & Fur Traders During the Last… (1972) 39 copie
Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Exhibit at the Seattle World's Fair Fine Arts Pavilion, April 21 - October 21, 1962 (1962) 25 copie
Klallam ethnography 4 copie
Klallam folk tales 2 copie
The Permanent Collection, Vol. I 2 copie
Design units on Tlingit baskets 1 copia
Middeleeuwen, renaissance 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gunther, Erna
- Data di nascita
- 1897-11-09
- Data di morte
- 1982-08-25
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Istruzione
- Columbia University (MA ∙ Anthropology ∙ 1920)
Barnard College - Attività lavorative
- anthropologist
teacher
museum director - Relazioni
- Boas, Franz (thesis advisor)
Garfield, Viola Edmundson (student)
Spier, Leslie (husband) - Organizzazioni
- University of Washington
- Breve biografia
- Erna Gunther was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1919, she graduated from Barnard College and immediately began studying anthropology at Columbia University as a student of Franz Boas. In 1920, she earned her MA degree and married fellow anthropologist Leslie Spier, with whom she had two children. The couple moved to Seattle, where they formed the initial core of the newly-created Anthropology Department at the University of Washington. Her husband left in 1930, but Erna stayed at the University; at that time their marriage ended. That same year, she was named director of the Washington State Museum. In 1966, she moved to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, becoming chair of the Anthropology Department in 1967. Dr. Gunther was recognized as a leading authority on Pacific Northwest Indian culture whose work is still consulted today. Her research focused on the Salish and Makah peoples of western Washington State. She published scholarly articles and books on ethnobotany, ethnohistory, and general ethnology, including Ethnobotany of Western Washington (1945).
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 16
- Utenti
- 208
- Popolarità
- #106,482
- Voto
- 3.4
- ISBN
- 5