Finding the themes
Subtitle: family, anthropology, language origins, peace and conflict
By: Mary LeCron Foster ; with introductions by Robert A. Rubinstein and Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. Interviews conducted by Suzanne Riess in 2000. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Riess, Suzanne B.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2001
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Anthropology -- Faculty.; Anthropologists -- California -- Interviews.; Linguists -- California -- Interviews.; Language and languages -- Research.; Language and languages -- Origin.; Peace -- Research.; Linguistics -- Research.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University of California Source of community leaders oral history series.
Description: LeCron and Cowles family history in Iowa, friends, schools, Des Moines neighborhoods; life themes, rituals, illness; studying anthropology at Northwestern University, Melville Herskovits; marriage to George Foster and study in Vienna, 1938; fieldwork in Mexico: Sierra Popoluca, 1941, long-term work in Tzintzuntzan; mounting anthropology museum exhibitions; Ph.D. in linguistics, UC Berkeley; teaching linguistics at Cal State Hayward; organizing 1977 Wenner-Gren symposium, "Fundamentals of Symbolism"; children Melissa and Jeremy, and family life in Mexico, Washington, and Berkeley, vacations, social groups; integrating anthropology and peace, PACT, International Peace Academy, Ploughshares; Language Origins Society and current work on global language reconstruction. Appendices include "Cognitive Requisites for Language" and "Countering Offense: Institutionalized Alternatives to Military Action" by Foster; and an interview by Jan Thomas with Foster on the methodology and findings of language origins research.