Anthropologist. Helen F. Codere was a groundbreaking cultural anthropologist and protege of Dr. Franz Boas, whose work she edited. It was Codere who finished Boas' book, Kwakiutl Ethnography, after his death. Getting her PhD from Columbia University, her contributions to the field of cultural anthropology ranged from study of the Kwakiutl tribes of the American Pacific Northwest to publications on the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twi societies of Rwanda. Her career spanned half a century, and she was the recipient of many awards including those from the Social Science Research Council and the Guggenheim Foundation. At various times she was a fellow of, an executive board member of, or president of most of the associations in her field. She was a retired Dean of the Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her cenotaph is in East Hill Cemetery in Andover, Vermont next to her longtime companion Marion Tait: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152302761/helen-codere.
Anthropologist. Helen F. Codere was a groundbreaking cultural anthropologist and protege of Dr. Franz Boas, whose work she edited. It was Codere who finished Boas' book, Kwakiutl Ethnography, after his death. Getting her PhD from Columbia University, her contributions to the field of cultural anthropology ranged from study of the Kwakiutl tribes of the American Pacific Northwest to publications on the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twi societies of Rwanda. Her career spanned half a century, and she was the recipient of many awards including those from the Social Science Research Council and the Guggenheim Foundation. At various times she was a fellow of, an executive board member of, or president of most of the associations in her field. She was a retired Dean of the Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her cenotaph is in East Hill Cemetery in Andover, Vermont next to her longtime companion Marion Tait: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152302761/helen-codere.
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