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[Ruth Allen]

I should have noted that her autobiography was apparently first published
in the late 1960s.

Ruth Allen
Youth Librarian
Multnomah County Library
503.988.0151
Central Library
Tuesday-Saturday 9:30-6:00



On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 9:56 AM Ruth Allen <rutha at multcolib.org> wrote:

> 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>
> .
>
> 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:
>
>> External -
>> [image: External Sender]
>>
>> 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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