Rhoda Bubendey Métraux

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Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (born October 18, 1914 in New York City , † November 26, 2003 in Barton , Vermont ) was an American anthropologist and writer.

Career

Rhoda Bubendey was born in 1914 to Frederick Bubendey and his wife Anna Marie, née Kappleman, in the Brooklyn borough . The first years of her life were overshadowed by the First World War . Nothing more is known about their youth. From 1927 to 1932 she studied at the Packer Collegiate Institute in New York City. She graduated in 1934 with a Bachelor of Arts degree at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie (New York). The global economic crisis overshadowed her student days.

In 1934 she married Arthur B. Proctor († 1935).

From 1935 to 1939 she worked for Oxford University Press . She then made from 1940 to 1941 additional studies at Yale University in New Haven ( Connecticut ).

In 1941 she married the anthropologist Alfred Métraux . They divorced in 1959. Their son Daniel Métraux emerged from the marriage.

She conducted field research in Haiti in 1941, 1946 and from 1948 to 1949 . From 1942 to 1943 she was a research assistant on the Committee on Food Habits of the National Research Council . She was in Mexico in 1943 for field research . From 1943 to 1945 she worked in the workforce planning of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Washington, DC Afterwards she did field research in Mendoza ( Argentina ) in 1946 .

From 1946 to 1947 she made additional studies at Columbia University in New York City.

From 1947 to 1952 she worked at Columbia University in the field of Research in Contemporary Cultures . During this time she acted there from 1947 to 1948 as the convener of a French group. In 1951 she did her Ph.D. at Columbia University.

From 1952 to 1953 she held the post of deputy director of Studies in Contemporary Cultures at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City and from 1953 to 1954 as director of the Montserrat Anthropological Expedition .

From 1954 to 1957 she worked as a research fellow at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. She then acted as a consultant at the Institute for Intercultural Studies from 1957 to 1980 . During this time she held a number of positions at the American Museum of Natural History: from 1960 to 1965 Deputy Director for Studies in Allopsychic Orientation , from 1965 to 1969 as Project Director for Cultural Structure Perceptual Communication and from 1970 to 1980 as Research Associate ( Research Associate ). In addition, she conducted field research in Papua New Guinea from 1967 to 1968, 1971 and 1972 to 1973 .

In the course of her life she wrote numerous articles and several specialist books, most of which was done in collaboration with the ethnologist Margaret Mead . Mead was a long-time colleague of hers.

As part of her work, she has also worked with Theodora Mead Abel , Jane Belo , Edith Cobb , Kenneth Pike Emory , Max Gluckman , Geoffrey Gorer , M. Inez Hilger , Margaret Lowenfeld and William E. Mitchell .

Rhoda Bubendey Métraux died in Barton in 2003 at the age of 89 and was then buried in the Mitchell-McLaren Cemetery in Greensboro, Vermont.

Works (selection)

Rhoda Bubendey Métraux co-authored the following works:

  • 1953: The Study of Culture at a Distance
  • 1954: Themes in French Culture
  • 1970: A Way of Seeing
  • 1974: Culture and Psychotherapy
  • 1979: Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rhoda Bubendey Mètraux in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux: The Study of Culture at a Distance , Berghahn Books, 2000, ISBN 978-1-5718-12155
  3. ↑ Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux: Themes in French Culture , Berghahn Books, 1954, ISBN 978-1-5718-18133
  4. ↑ Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux: A Way of Seeing , McCall Publishing Co., 1970
  5. ^ Rhoda Métraux and Theodora Mead Abel: Culture and Psychotherapy , College & University Press, 1974
  6. ↑ Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux: Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views , Angus and Robertson, 1979, ISBN 978-0-2079-58939
personal data
SURNAME Métraux, Rhoda Bubendey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bubendey, Rhoda (maiden name); Procter, Rhoda (name during first marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2003
Place of death Barton , Vermont