Dorothy Way Eggan (1901–1965) was an American anthropologist noted for her research among the

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tribe. Eggan was born October 31, 1901, in Dover Hill, Indiana. During her first marriage, to Jean C. Harrington, she lived in

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and became acquainted with the

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peoples. Her interest in anthropology was confirmed when Harrington entered the

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as a graduate student in archaeology. She became a secretary in the Department of Anthropology there and befriended the anthropologists

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and A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. She divorced Harrington and married

Fred Eggan Frederick Russell Eggan (September 12, 1906, in Seattle, Washington – May 7, 1991) was an American anthropologist best known for his innovative application of the principles of British social anthropology to the study of Native American tribes. ...

, an anthropologist at Chicago, in 1939 and spent the following summer doing fieldwork with the Hopi in

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. Her interests included dreams and

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with respect to Hopi culture. She also became associated with the

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. While suffering from

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she wrote a series of papers on the importance of dreams in anthropology and social science. She died in July 1965.

Works

*(1943) "The General Problem of Hopi Adjustment." ''American Anthropologist,'' pp. 731. *(1949) "The Significance of Dreams for Anthropological Research." ''American Anthropologist,'' vol. 51, pp. 177–198. *(1952) "The Manifest Content of Dreams: A Challenge to Social Science." ''American Anthropologist,'' vol. 54, pp. 469–485. *(1961) "Dream Analysis." In ''Studying Personality Cross-Culturally,'' ed. by Bert Kaplan. Evanston: Illinois: Row, Peterson & Co. *(1966) "Hopi Dreams in Cultural Perspective." In ''The Dream and Human Societies,'' ed. by G. von Grunebaum. Berkeley: University of California Press.

References

External links

Guide to the Dorothy Eggan Papers 1925-1989
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University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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