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Colson, Elizabeth Florence was born on June 15, 1917 in Hewitt, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of Louis H. and Metta (Damon) Colson.
("Since their inauguration in 1963, the Lewis Henry Morgan...)
"Since their inauguration in 1963, the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures have annually provided stimulation for those who have attended them, and each of the published series has found an interested and receptive audience. The Lectures not only commemorate Morgan and his work; they have as additional aims the encouragement of exploration and the presentation of recently developed views in anthropology. Professor Colson’s Lectures, which opened the series’ second decade, pay full attention to these aims. Her intention, expressed in her title and in her text, is to consider "the problem of order," a matter of concern to Lewis Henry Morgan, a host of later anthropologists, and innumerable others in diverse fields. Readers of these Lectures will find carefully forged links with the work of Morgan and that of others. They will also discover that Professor Colson’s skillful use of material from her work during the past thirty years with the Plateau and Gwembe Tonga of Zambia contributes, in a unique way, to the structure of her argument and to illumination of her major theoretical points."
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This book brings together seven essays which have appeared in different journals over a number of years. The author is a well-known authority on the Plateau Tonga, and is Professor of Social Anthropology at Brandeis University.
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A picture of a modern American Indian group faced with the problem of understanding its position within American society.
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Colson, Elizabeth Florence was born on June 15, 1917 in Hewitt, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of Louis H. and Metta (Damon) Colson.
Bachelor, University of Minnesota, 1938; Master of Arts, University of Minnesota, 1940; Master of Arts, Radcliffe College, 1941; Doctor of Philosophy, Radcliffe College, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Brown U., 1978; D of Sociology, Brown U., 1979; Doctor of Science, University Rochester, 1985; Doctor of Science, University Zambia, 1992.
Assistant social science analyst, War Relocation Authority, 1942-1943; research assistant, Harvard, 1944-1945; research officer, Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1946-1947; director, Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1948-1951; senior lecturer, Manchester U., 1951-1953; associate professor, Goucher College, 1954-1955; research associate, associate professor, African Research Program, Boston University, 1955-1959; part-time, African Research Program, Boston University, 1959-1963; professor anthropology, Brandeis U., 1959-1963; professor anthropology, University of California-Berkeley, 1964-1984; professor emeritus, University of California-Berkeley, since 1984; visiting professor, U. Zambia, 1987. Lewis Henry Morgan lecturer U. Rochester, 1973. Visiting research associate Refugee Studies Program Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, 1988-1989.
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( A picture of a modern American Indian group faced with ...)
(This book brings together seven essays which have appeare...)
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Fellow American Anthropological Association, Association Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, Royal Anthropological Institute (honorary). Member National Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association African Studies (Distinguished Africanist award 1988), Society Applied Anthropology, Society Woman Geographers, Phi Beta Kappa.