Rosalie Wax (born
Des Plaines, Illinois 1911- died 1998) was a noted American Anthropologist who during the second world war researched
interned Japanese-Americans and later Native Americans. She taught at the
University of Chicago
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,
University of Kansas
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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
The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library. It was acquired from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1905, with the proviso that it retai ...
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
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