Dorothy D. Lee
Dorothy Demetracopolou Lee (1905-1975) was an American Anthropologist, author and philosopher of cultural anthropology. She was Greek by birth and was educated, married, and raised her children in America.[1]
Lee was a social anthropologist at Vassar College whose work is most often associated with Benjamin Whorf[2] and has written about the languages of the Wintu, Hopi, Tikopia, Trobriand, and many other cultures.
She was Lecturer in Anthropology and Research Anthropologist at Harvard University.[3]
She was the "Leader of the Cultural Anthropology Program" at the Merrill-Palmer School and a former member of the Institute for Intercultural Studies.[4]
Her essays employ anthropological data to explore questions of individual autonomy, the joy of participation, equality of opportunity, freedom and responsibility.[5]
[edit] Bibliography
- Conceptual Implications of an Indian Language, Philosophy of Science 5, 1938, pp. 89-102
- A Primitive System of Values, Philosophy of Science 7, 1940, pp. 355-378
- Greek Tales of Priest and Priestwife, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 60, No. 236 (April-June, 1947), pp. 163-167
- What Shall We Teach Women?, Mademoiselle, August 1947, p. 213
- Are Basic Needs Ultimate?", Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 43, 1948, pp. 91-95
- Lineal and nonlineal codifications of reality, Bobbs-Merrill, 1950 (published in Psychosomatic Medicine 12, 1950, pp. 89—97)
- Greek Personal Anecdotes of the Supernatural, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 64, No. 253 (July-September, 1951), pp. 307-312
- Religious perspectives of college teaching in anthropology, Edward W. Hazen Foundation, 1951
- Valuing the Self: What We Can Learn from Other Cultures, Waveland Press, 1976, ISBN 0881332291
- Freedom and Culture (epilogue by Jeffrey Ehrenreich), Waveland Press, 1987, ISBN 0881333034
[edit] References
- ^ Freedom and Culture, Dorothy Lee, A Spectrum Book, 1961, p. 0, L. C. Cat. Card No.: 59-15584, (c) 1959, by Dorothy Lee
- ^ Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis, John Arthur Lucy, Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 70, ISBN 0521387973
- ^ Freedom and Culture, Dorothy Lee, A Spectrum Book, 1961, p. 0, L. C. Cat. Card No.: 59-15584, (c) 1959, by Dorothy Lee
- ^ About the IIS, The Institute for Intercultural Studies website
- ^ Wiley Online Library, American Anthropologist Vol 62, Issue6
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