Suzanna W. Miles

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Suzanna Miles (1942)

Suzanna ('Sue') Whitelaw Miles (born June 7, 1922 in Mount Carroll , † April 10, 1966 in Boston ) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist . She was the first female professor in Guatemala .

Life

Miles studied at Shimer College , Mount Carroll from 1940 to 1942, and graduated from Beloit College in 1943 . She then moved to the University of Chicago , where she completed her studies in 1948 with a Master of Arts. From 1945 to 1947 she worked as a curator for archeology and ethnology at the Wisconsin Historical Museum . After teaching at the University of Wisconsin , she received her PhD in anthropology from Radcliffe College in 1955 . Her dissertation, The Sixteenth-Century Pokom-Maya: A Documentary Analysis of Social Structure and Archaeological Setting , was published by the American Philosophical Society in 1957. In 1955 and 1956/57 she did field research in Guatemala. During this time in the United States, she worked as a research associate in the anthropology department at Brandeis University . In 1961 she lived in Spain on a scholarship and began a translation of Bartolomé de Las Casas ' Historia de las Indias , which, however, was never finished.

Miles worked most of the time in Guatemala from 1963 , where she became the first woman professor of anthropology in 1965 and taught at the Universidad de San Carlos . She dealt intensively with the Maya in the northwest of the highlands of Guatemala, with the early colonial sources of the pre-Hispanic Maya culture and society, as well as with the pre-Columbian settlement forms of the Maya.

Due to illness, she was forced to return to the United States in 1965, where she died at the age of only 43.

Fonts

  • An analysis of modern Middle American calendars: a study in conservation . In: Proceedings and selected papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists Volume 2, 1952, pp. 273-284
  • The sixteenth-century Pokom Maya: a documentary analysis of social structure and archaeological setting . In:> Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (ns.) Volume 47, 1957, pp. 733-781
  • Mam residence and the maize myth . In: Culture in history: essays in honor of Paul Radin . Stanley Diamond, ed., Columbia University Press, New York 1960, pp. 430-436
  • Informe sobre Kaminal Juyu . In: Antropologia e Historia de Guatemala No. 15, 1963, pp. 37-38
  • Sculpture of the Guatemala-Chiapas highlands and Pacific slopes, and associated hieroglyphs . In: Robert Wauchope, Gordon R. Willey (Eds.): Handbook of Middle American Indians . Volume 2, 1965, pp. 237-275
  • Summary of preconquest ethnology of the Guatemala-Chiapas highlands and Pacific slopes . In: Robert Wauchope, Gordon R. Willey (Eds.): Handbook of Middle American Indians . Volume 2, 1965, pp. 276-287

literature

  • Vivian Broman Morales: Suzanna Miles, 1922–1966 . In: American Antiquity Volume 33, No. 4 ( JSTOR 278599 )
  • William McGuire: Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past . Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1998, p. 170.
  • Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Suzanna Whitelaw Miles, 1922-1966 . In: American Anthropologist Volume 70, 1968, pp. 753–754 ( digitized version )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Proskouriakoff (1968), p. 753.
  2. ↑ a b Proskouriakoff (1968), p. 754.
  3. ^ McGuire (1989), p. 170.
personal data
SURNAME Miles, Suzanna W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miles, Suzanna Whitelaw (full name); Miles, Sue (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Carroll
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1966
Place of death Boston