Background
She was born October 31, 1901, in Dover Hill, Indiana.
She was born October 31, 1901, in Dover Hill, Indiana.
University of Chicago.
Her interest in anthropology was confirmed when Harrington entered the University of Chicago as a graduate student in archaeology. She became a secretary in the Department of Anthropology there and befriended the anthropologists Robert Redfield and A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. Her interests included dreams and psychoanalysis with respect to Hopi culture.
She also became associated with the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago.
She died in July 1965.