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LeCron and Cowles family history in Iowa, friends, schools, Des Moines neighborhoods; life themes, rituals, illness; studying anthropology at Northwestern University, Melville Herskovits; marriage to George Foster and study in Vienna, 1938; fieldwork in Mexico: Sierra Popoluca, 1941, long-term work in Tzintzuntzan; mounting anthropology museum exhibitions; Ph. D. in linguistics, UC Berkeley; teaching linguistics at Cal State Hayward; organizing 1977 Wenner-Gren symposium, "Fundamentals of Symbolism"; children Melissa and Jeremy, and family life in Mexico, Washington, and Berkeley, vacations, social groups; integrating anthropology and peace, PACT, International Peace Academy, Ploughshares; Language Origins Society and current work on global language reconstruction. Appendices include "Cognitive Requisites for Language" and "Countering Offense: Institutionalized Alternatives to Military Action" by Foster; and an interview by Jan Thomas with Foster on the methodology and findings of language origins research.

Title
Mary LeCron Foster: Finding the Themes: Family, Anthropology, Language Origins, Peace
Creator
Foster, Mary LeCron, interviewee
Riess, Suzanne, interviewer
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Berkeley, CA, Regional Oral History Office, 2001
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Education and University of California Oral Histories Individual Interviews
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Education, University of California
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The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
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Foster, Mary LeCron. "Mary LeCron Foster: Finding the Themes: Family, Anthropology, Language Origins, Peace." Interview by Suzanne Riess in 2000. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2001.
Interview date(s) 2000
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