page_title: List of female scientists in the 20th century
section_title: Anthropology
hierarchical_section_title: List of female scientists in the 20th century / Anthropology
caption_attribution_description: English: Subject: Mead, Margaret &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;International Symposium on Feelings and Emotions Type: Black-and-white photographs Date: 1948 &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;10/18/1948 Topic: Anthropology &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Women scientists Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5981] Summary: Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) in 1948. This photograph was distributed in conjunction with Mead's appearance at the Second International Symposium on Feelings and Emotions, sponsored by the Loyal Order of Moose, where her talk was titled "Some Anthropological Considerations Concerning Guilt Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archivess Persistent URL:Link to data base record Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution.
context_page_description: This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific institutions; in the Western world, the first-wave feminist movement began to break down many of these barriers.
context_section_description: Katharine Bartlett (1907–2001), American physical anthropologist, museum curator
  Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), American anthropologist
  Anna Bērzkalne (1891-1956), Latvian folklorist and ethnographer
  Alicia Dussán de Reichel (born 1920), Colombian anthropologist
  Dina Dahbany-Miraglia (born 1938), American Yemini linguistic anthropologist, educator
  Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), American folklorist and anthropologist
  Marjorie F. Lambert (1908-2006), American archeologist and anthropologist who studied Southwestern Puebloan peoples
  Dorothea Leighton (1908–1989), American social psychiatrist, founded the field of medical anthropology
  Katharine Luomala (1907–1992), American anthropologist
  Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American anthropologist
  Grete Mostny (1914–1991), Austrian-born Chilean anthropologist and archaeologist
  Miriam Tildesley (1883–1979), British anthropologist
  Mildred Trotter (1899–1991), American forensic anthropologist
  Camilla Wedgwood (1901–1955), British/Australian anthropologist
  Alba Zaluar (1942–2019), Brazilian anthropologist specializing in urban anthropology
caption: Margaret Mead
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