Elizabeth Jacobs (anthropologist)

Elizabeth Derr Jacobs (1903 – May 21, 1983) was an anthropologist specializing in the native cultures of the Pacific Northwest. She is known particularly for her work on the Nehalem Tillamook, the northernmost subgroup of the Tillamook, whom she studied in the 1930s. She then turned away from anthropology to pursue a career as a psychotherapist, returning to anthropology after her retirement in 1975.

Jacobs had no formal training in anthropology but came to it via her marriage to anthropologist Melville Jacobs. As a result, she sometimes neglected topics of traditional interest to anthropologists, such as place names, ethnobiology, and material culture and focussed on topics traditionally given less attention, particularly the lives of women.

Publications

Nehalem Tillamook Tales. University of Oregon Monographs, Studies in Anthropology No. 5. Eugene: University of Oregon Press, 1959
The Nehalem Tillamook: An Ethnography. Edited by William R. Seaburg. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2004.

gollark: ++exec ```print("You are a potato.")```

gollark: ++exec ```pythonprint("hi")```

gollark: Okay, Delete™ 2.0 is operational.

gollark: ++list_deleted

gollark: ++delete the deletion of deleted items

References

Review of Nehalem Tillamook ethnography

External links

Works by or about Elizabeth Jacobs in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.