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Bunzel, Ruth Leah

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Bunzel, Ruth Leah (1898–1990)

US cultural anthropologist. She made a study of Zuñi Indian pottery in 1924. In 1929 she published The Pueblo Potter. She also contributed important studies of Zuñi ceremonialism.

She was born in New York City. She graduated from Barnard College in 1918 and worked as Franz Boas' secretary. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1929. She later taught anthropology at Columbia. Field trips to Guatemala in the 1930s yielded Chichicastenango, A Guatemalan Village (1952).



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