Dorothy Eggan

American anthropologist

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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Way_Eggan

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