Lucie Wood Saunders papers
name: label: Creator
content: Saunders, Lucie W.
place: label: Place
content: Africa, North
label: Place
content: Egypt
label: Place
content: Daqahlīyah (Egypt)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated to the National Anthropological Archives in 2010 by Georgann Chapin, executor of Lucie Wood Saunders' estate.
creator: label: Creator
content: Saunders, Lucie W.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Lucie Wood Saunders (1928-2008) was a cultural anthropologist who conducted research in the rural village Tafahna al Ashraf (Tafehnet al Ashraf) in Daqahliya province in the Egyptian delta. She was educated at Columbia University, where she earned her M.A. in English (1950) and Ph.D. in Anthropology (1959). She first carried out fieldwork in Tafahna al Ashraf in 1961-1962, focusing on family life and gender relations. She returned in 1978-1979 to study the long-term consequences of national economic and social policies on the village. Saunders was also a professor at Lehmen College (1965-1996), serving as chair of the Department of Anthropology for most of her tenure.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1959 - circa 1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2010-15
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
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scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection contains Lucie Wood Saunders' files from her field work in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s; grant proposals; drafts and reprints of her articles; her dissertation; papers presented at conferences; reading notes; university files; and photographs. 

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