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[Emily Papagni]

Thank you Ruth! I'll pass this on to the patron.

Emily

Emily Papagni
Reference Librarian
Multnomah County Central Library
Sunday-Thursday
503.988.5123, x24894





On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 9:59 AM Ruth Allen <rutha at multcolib.org> wrote:

> 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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