Michelle Rosaldo facts for kids
Michelle "Shelly" Zimbalist Rosaldo (1944–1981) was an important anthropologist. She was known for her studies of the Ilongot people in the Philippines. Michelle Rosaldo also played a big part in starting studies about women and gender in anthropology.
About Michelle Rosaldo
Michelle Zimbalist was born in New York City in 1944. She went to Radcliffe College, which was connected to Harvard University. There, she studied English literature. One summer, she traveled to southern Mexico to study the Maya peoples. After college, she began studying social anthropology at Harvard.
Michelle Rosaldo and her husband, Renato Rosaldo, were both anthropologists. They did their main research with the Ilongot people in the northern Luzon island of the Philippines from 1967 to 1969. Michelle studied how the Ilongot people understood emotions. This is called ethnopsychology, which looks at local ideas about the mind. Her husband studied the history of Ilongot headhunting practices, which were ending at that time.
Michelle Rosaldo earned her PhD in social anthropology from Harvard in 1972. After finishing their studies, both Michelle and Renato Rosaldo began working at Stanford University. They went back to the Ilongot people in 1974 for more research. They later published a book called Knowledge and Passion in 1980.
Michelle Rosaldo wrote and edited several important books about women and gender relations in anthropology. She also helped start the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford University. In 1979, she received an award from Stanford for her excellent work teaching undergraduate students.
Sadly, Michelle Rosaldo died in 1981 from an accidental fall while doing fieldwork in the Philippines. She was survived by her husband and their two sons.
To remember her, Stanford University's Anthropology Department created the Michelle Z. Rosaldo Summer Field Research Grant. This grant helps college students get money to do their own fieldwork.
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In Spanish: Michelle Rosaldo para niños
