[Answerland] Search for forgotten titles

[Ruth Allen]

Hi Emily. I wonder if the patron is conflating these two people:

Delfina Cuero <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfina_Cuero>

Florence Connolly Shipek
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Connolly_Shipek>

The book they wrote together is The Autobiography of Delfina Cuero
<https://www.amazon.com/Delfina-Cuero-Autobiography-Contributions-Anthropological/dp/0879191228>
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Ruth Allen
Youth Librarian
Multnomah County Library
503.988.0151
Central Library
Tuesday-Saturday 9:30-6:00



On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:45 AM Emily Papagni <emilyp at multco.us> wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> We're hoping to get help with a question from a patron. The patron is
> looking for the titles of books read long ago.
>
> The original question is:
>
> Patron needs title of a book written by a woman in Southern California.
> Doesn't know the title or author.
>
> Book is a memoir/autobiography about the author's life as an
> anthropologist working with Native populations in Southern California.
> Book was written/published in the 60's or 70's. The author had a child out
> of wedlock. Married a native man.
>
> This may be a series of memoirs that our patron remembers. We thought they
> might be written by one of these authors, but they are not (we know that
> none of the authors is a perfect match, but thought they were worth a try):
>
> Ruth Underhill
> Theodora Kroeber
>
> Less likely, we also asked the patron about:
> Gladys_Reichard
> Elsie Clews Parsons
> Ruth Benedict
> Beatrice Medicine
> Margaret Mead
>
> The patron replied with this additional information:
>
> The author had a child as a young unmarried woman; probably during the 20s
> or 30s. Our patron probably read the author's books in the 1970s
>
> We're guessing that the author may not have been an
> 'official'/credentialed anthropologist and so might not be included on
> lists of anthropologists that we have searched.
>
> Thank you for any help you can give us with this stumper!
>
> Emily
>
> Emily Papagni
> Reference Librarian
> Multnomah County Central Library
> Sunday-Thursday
> 503.988.5123, x24894
>
>
>
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