Rosalie Wax (1911 – 1998) was a noted American Anthropologist who during the second world war researched interned Japanese-Americans and later Native Americans. She taught at the

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and at Washington University.

Selected publications

* Wax, R. (1971). ''Doing fieldwork: Warnings and advice''. University of Chicago Press. * Wax, Murray, and Rosalie Wax. (1963) "The notion of magic." ''Current Anthropology'' 4, no. 5 495–518. * Wax, R. H., & Thomas, R. K. (1961). American Indians and white people. ''Phylon''. 22(4), 305–317. * Wax, R. (1952). Field methods and techniques: Reciprocity as a field technique. ''Human Organization'', 11(3), 34–37. * Wax, R. H. (1979). Gender and age in fieldwork and fieldwork education: No good thing is done by any man alone. ''Social Problems'', 26(5), 509–522.

External links

Rosalie H. Wax Papers
The Bancroft Library

References

1911 births 1998 deaths University of Chicago faculty American anthropology writers American women anthropologists 20th-century American anthropologists American women academics University of Kansas faculty Washington University in St. Louis faculty {{US-anthropologist-stub