Jane C. Goodale

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Jane Carter Goodale (* 1926 in Boston , † 2008 in Bedford ) was an American anthropologist and professor at Bryn Mawr College . Goodale did research on the role of women in Oceania and Australia .

Life

Jane Carter Goodale was born in Boston in 1926 as the daughter of the physicist Robert Lincoln Goodale and his wife Susan Bainbridge Sturgis. Goodale grew up in an intellectual environment that nurtured her interests. She became interested in genealogy at an early age and went in search of traces of the roots of her own family, which she could trace back to the early 1630s in New England . Again and again in her life she emphasized the role of her ancestors in her own history. Such as that of her uncle Eddie Goodale, who was traveling to the South Pole with Admiral Byrd , the American naval officer, explorer and pilot, or that of her relatives, Lucy Goodale Thurston , a missionary who traveled to Hawaii in the 1880s .

Goodale graduated from Oldfields School for girls in 1944 despite dyslexia . She started studying at Radcliffe College at Harvard University and actually wanted to study medicine or geography. Encouraged by the later Harvard anthropologist Carleton S. Coon , she enrolled in anthropology in her second year. She founded the Harvard-Radcliffe Anthropology Club with Robert Dyson and was its first president. Goodale received a BA in 1948 and a Masters degree in 1951.

She then did her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. While still a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, she was editor of the newsletter of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society and later co-founded and first president of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO). During her PhD she worked as an assistant to anthropology professor Carleton S. Coon . When Coon had to cancel an invitation from Charles Mountford to go on an expedition to Melville Island, Goodale stepped in. In 1954 she did research in Australia for ten months. On her return, she worked at the university museum and finally received her doctorate in 1959.

From 1959 she worked part-time at Bryn Mawr College, became a full professor of anthropology in 1975 and remained until her retirement in 1995. She also worked from 1961 to 1982 in the Oceania department of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. She has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College at Columbia University in New York City .

In the years that followed, Goodale primarily examined the role of women among the indigenous peoples of Oceania and Australia. Her most important book was "Tiwi Wives" about the women of the Aboriginal Tiwi tribe on Bathurst Island and Melville Island. Goodale especially studied the rituals in women's lives. In particular, she described the wedding rituals and the traditions after death. Also To Sing with Pigs is Human: The Concept of Person in Papua New Guinea became an important work. In it, Goodale examined tribes of the Baining and drew general conclusions for the development of a person's identity. Every event, relationship and action is important to the development of a person in the eyes of the Baining; Goodale wanted to research what constitutes an individual. The Baining are convinced that man develops a continuous development from the non-human to a stage of the human. To get there, an individual must gather knowledge. Goodale examined this system through rituals such as chants and dances. In The Two Party Line, Conversations in the Field , Goodale uses Ann Chowning to describe methods of ethnography.

Goodale died on November 5, 2008 of complications from pulmonary hypertension in a nursing home in Bedford, Massachusetts , where one of her two sisters lived. While still in the hospice, she was working on a book about the Tiwi genealogy with the help of her assistant.

Fonts (selection)

  • The story of man . University of Pennsylvania. University Museum, Philadelphia, 1953
  • with Edwin M Shook: Melville Island. Guatemala . University of Pennsylvania, University Museum, Philadelphia 1957
  • "Alonga bush", a Tiwi hunt . In: University Museum bulletin . University of Pennsylvania, 1957, Vol. 21, No. 3
  • The Tiwi women of Melville Island, Australia . Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1959
  • Sketches of Tiwi children . In: Expedition . Volume 2, No. 4 (Summer 1960), pp. 4-13
  • Tiwi of north Australia . In: Funeral Customs the World Over , 1963, pp. 357-368
  • with Ann Chowning: Blowgun hunters of the South Pacific . National Geographic Society, Washington DC 1966
  • with JD Koss: The cultural context of creativity among Tiwi . 1966
  • Tiwi Wives. A study of the women of Melville Island, North Australia . University of Washington, Seattle 1971
  • To sing with pigs is human: the concept of person in Papua New Guinea . University of Washington Press, Seattle 1995
  • with Ann Chowning: Two-party line: conversations in the field . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham / London 1996
  • with Geoffrey Gray: Before it's too late: anthropological reflections, 1950-1970 . (= Volume 51, Oceania Monographs ), University of Sydney, Sydney 2001

literature

  • Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (Ed.): Pulling the Right Threads. The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale . University of Illinois, 2008 ( digitized from Google Books )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi: Jane Carter Goodale (1926–2008) . In: American Anthropologist , Vol 112, No. 2 (June 2010), pp. 344-347
  2. ↑ http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/74kpd2km9780252032677.html
  3. ^ Jane Goodale 1926-2008 , Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, accessed February 17, 2017
  4. ↑ Biography in the Goodale estate at the University of Pennsylvania
  5. ^ Jane C. Goodale , Concord Funeral Home, accessed February 17, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Goodale, Jane C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goodale, Jane Carter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH 2008
Place of death Bedford, Massachusetts