Dr. Rhoda Bubendey Metraux ; 1914-2003 is an outstanding anthropologist , a specialist in Haitian wood and a group of New Guinean Papuans en: Iatmul people . In her research, voodoo collaborated with Alfred Metro (see en: Alfred Metraux ), whose second wife was for some time. During World War II, Dr. Metro led the section of German morality at the US Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).
Personal life
Cohabited with Margaret Mead in the last years of her life. Together they wrote several books and many articles.
Works
- The Study of Culture at a Distance (1953)
- Themes of French Culture (1954)
- Culture and Psychotherapy (1974)
- A Way of Seeing (1975)
- An Interview with Santa Claus (1978)
Subway works on the group en: Iatmul people :
- “Eidos and Change: Continuity in Process, Discontinuity in Product.” In Socialization in Cultural Communication, 1976, T. Schwartz, ed. pp. 201 16. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- “Aristocracy and Meritocracy: Leadership among the Eastern Iatmul.” Anthropological Quarterly 51 (1978) 47 58.
- “Music in Tambunum.” In Sepik Heritage: Tradition and Change in Papua New Guinea, 1990, N. Lutkehaus et al., Eds. pp. 523 34. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.