Dorothy D. Lee

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Dorothy Demetracopolou Lee (1905-1975) is an author and philosopher of cultural anthropology.

Lee was a social anthropologist at Vassar College whose work is most often associated with Benjamin Whorf[1] and has written about the languages of the Wintu, Hopi, Tikopia, Trobriand, and many other cultures.

She was the "Leader of the Cultural Anthropology Program" at the Merrill-Palmer School and a former member of the Institute for Intercultural Studies.[2]

[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

  1. ^ Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis, John Arthur Lucy, Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 70, ISBN 0521387973
  2. ^ About the IIS, The Institute for Intercultural Studies website
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