Barbara Babcock (Department of English) and Nancy Parezo (American Indian Studies and Anthropology) are members of the faculty at the University of Arizona. Their oral history of women anthropologists in the southwestern United States was published in 1988 as Daughters of the Desert : Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1980.
Barbara Babcock and Nancy Parezo's essay on women anthropologists includes brief biographical discussions of over 30 women who worked in the southwestern United States between 1880 and 1945. Their essay was published as "The leading edge: Women anthropologists in the Native American Southwest, 1880-1945," El Palacio 92 (1986) call no.: 572 Pam 56.
Gift of the author, 1994 (accn. 1994-291ms).
Cite as: Barbara A. Babcock and Nancy J. Parezo, "Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1945," American Philosophical Society.
Catalogued 2003.
Babcock, Barbara A. and Nancy J. Parezo, "The leading edge: Women anthropologists in the native American Southwest, 1880-1945," El Palacio 92 (1986) call no.: 572 Pam 56.
Babcock, Barbara A. and Nancy J. Parezo, Daughters of the Desert : Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1980 (Albuquerque, 1988). Call no.: 572.09 B11d.