Contributions

  • Riess, Suzanne B. - Contributor
  • Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. - Contributor

Publication

2001 - , California

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Alternate Titles

  • University of California Source of community leaders oral history series.

Description

LeCron and Cowles family history in Iowa, friends, schools, Des Moines neighborhoods; life themes, rituals, illness; studying anthropology at Northwestern University, Melville Herskovits; marriage to George Foster and study in Vienna, 1938; fieldwork in Mexico: Sierra Popoluca, 1941, long-term work in Tzintzuntzan; mounting anthropology museum exhibitions; Ph.D. in linguistics, UC Berkeley; teaching linguistics at Cal State Hayward; organizing 1977 Wenner-Gren symposium, "Fundamentals of Symbolism"; children Melissa and Jeremy, and family life in Mexico, Washington, and Berkeley, vacations, social groups; integrating anthropology and peace, PACT, International Peace Academy, Ploughshares; Language Origins Society and current work on global language reconstruction. Appendices include "Cognitive Requisites for Language" and "Countering Offense: Institutionalized Alternatives to Military Action" by Foster; and an interview by Jan Thomas with Foster on the methodology and findings of language origins research.

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Topics

Peace -- ResearchLinguistics -- ResearchLanguage and languages -- OriginLanguage and languages -- ResearchLinguists -- California -- InterviewsAnthropologists -- California -- InterviewsUniversity of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Anthropology -- Faculty

Genres

  • Interviews

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