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Community life

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Oral History Interview with Mary Coen, 1986

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Identifier: M054.01.0001.00006
Abstract Mary Coen discusses the life and work of author, anthropologist, and University of Denver professor Dr. Ruth Murray Underhill, including details about her Quaker parents, her education at Vassar College as well as the London School of Economics, her studies with Franz Boas, and her field work with the Papago Indians in Colorado and Arizona. Coen notes that Underhill moved to the University Park neighborhood after World War II, at about the same time that she became an anthropology professor...
Dates: 1986