Regina Flannery Herzfeld
Regina Flannery Herzfeld | |
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Born | Regina Flannery December 1904 Washington, D.C. |
Died | November 26, 2004 (age 99) Washington, D.C. |
Occupation(s) | Anthropologist, college professor |
Spouse | Karl Herzfeld |
Relatives | Charles M. Herzfeld (nephew) |
Regina Flannery Herzfeld (December 1904 – November 26, 2004) was an American anthropologist. She was a professor of anthropology at the Catholic University of America (CUA) from 1935 to 1971, and editor of Anthropological Quarterly from 1949 to 1963.
Early life and education
[edit]Regina Flannery was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Martin Markham Flannery and Regina Fowler Flannery. She attended a Catholic high school, and graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. She earned a master's degree in anthropology from the Catholic University of America in 1931, and completed her doctoral studies there in 1938.[1]
Career
[edit]In 1935, Flannery was the first laywoman to join the faculty of CUA. She was an anthropology professor there, and a full professor from 1953[2] until her retirement in 1971; she was chair of the anthropology department from 1953 to 1969, the first woman to be a department head at CUA.[3][4][5]
Flannery's research involved studies of the Cree, Gros Ventre, Montagnais, and Mesaclero Apache cultures, especially marriage and social customs affecting women's and children's lives.[6][7] She was editor of Anthropological Quarterly from 1949 to 1963.[1] She was president of the Anthropology Society of Washington, and secretary of the American Anthropological Association.[8]
Publications
[edit]Flannery published dozens of scholarly articles in academic journals, including Anthropological Quarterly,[9][10][11] Journal of Educational Sociology,[12] Southwestern Journal of Anthropology,[13] Journal of American Folklore,[14] Anthropos,[15] Arctic Anthropology,[16][17] and Anthropologica.[18]
- "The Position of Woman among the Mescalero Apache" (1932)[9]
- "Gossip as a Clue to Attitudes" (1934)[10]
- "The Position of Woman among the Eastern Cree" (1935)[11]
- "Some Aspects of James Bay Recreative Culture" (1936)[19]
- "Child Behavior from the Standpoint of the Cultural Anthropologist" (1937)[12]
- "Cross-Cousin Marriage among the Cree and Montagnais of James Bay" (1938)[20]
- An Analysis of Coastal Algonquian Culture (1939)
- "The Shaking-Tent Rite among the Montagnais of James Bay" (1939)[21]
- "The Cultural Position of the Spanish River Indians" (1940)[22]
- "Social Mechanisms in Gros Ventre Gambling" (1946, with John M. Cooper)[13]
- "Algonquian Indian Folklore" (1947)[14]
- The Gros Ventres of Montana (1952)
- "Infancy and Childhood among the Indians of the East Coast of James Bay" (1962)[15]
- "Some magico-religious concepts of the Algonquians on the east coast of James Bay" (1971)[23]
- "Witiko Accounts from the James Bay Cree" (1981, with Mary Elizabeth Chambers and Patricia A. Jehle)[16]
- "Each Man Has His Own Friends: The Role of Dream Visitors in Traditional East Cree Belief and Practice" (1985, with Mary Elizabeth Chambers)[17]
- "John M. Cooper's Investigation of James Bay Family Hunting Grounds, 1927-1934" (1986, with Mary Elizabeth Chambers)[18]
- Ellen Smallboy: Glimpses of a Cree Woman's Life (1995)[24]
Personal life
[edit]Flannery married Vienna-born physicist Karl Herzfeld in 1938.[7] Her husband died in 1978, and she died in 2004, in Washington, shortly before her 100th birthday. CUA hosts an annual Regina Flannery Herzfeld symposium in her memory.[25] Some of her papers, including field notes, are in the archives at CUA.[26] Scientist and defense researcher Charles M. Herzfeld was her nephew.[27]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Regina Herzfeld, 99". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ^ "Catholic U. Names Women Professors". The Tidings. 1952-12-12. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Regina Flannery Herzfeld (1904-2004)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ^ "Dr. Flannery Heads Catholic U. Course". Evening Star. 1953-12-17. p. 36. Retrieved 2023-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "First Time Job for a Woman". The Tidings. 1953-12-25. p. 21. Retrieved 2023-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Flannery, Regina (1995). Ellen Smallboy: Glimpses of a Cree Woman's Life. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-1369-3.
- ^ a b Love, Philip H. (1938-07-10). "Old Indian Customs to be Studied in Northern Wilds". Evening Star. p. 29. Retrieved 2023-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dr. Herzfeld is Re-elected". Evening Star. 1947-02-03. p. 23. Retrieved 2023-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Flannery, Regina (1932). "The Position of Woman among the Mescalero Apache". Primitive Man. 5 (2/3): 26–32. doi:10.2307/3316371. ISSN 0887-3925. JSTOR 3316371.
- ^ a b Flannery, Regina (1934). "Gossip as a Clue to Attitudes". Primitive Man. 7 (1): 8–12. doi:10.2307/3316227. ISSN 0887-3925. JSTOR 3316227.
- ^ a b Flannery, Regina (1935). "The Position of Woman among the Eastern Cree". Primitive Man. 8 (4): 81–86. doi:10.2307/3316438. ISSN 0887-3925. JSTOR 3316438.
- ^ a b Flannery, Regina (1937). "Child Behavior from the Standpoint of the Cultural Anthropologist". The Journal of Educational Sociology. 10 (8): 470–478. doi:10.2307/2262413. ISSN 0885-3525. JSTOR 2262413.
- ^ a b Flannery, Regina; Cooper, John M. (December 1946). "Social Mechanisms in Gros Ventre Gambling". Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 2 (4): 391–419. doi:10.1086/soutjanth.2.4.3628543. ISSN 0038-4801. S2CID 147256393.
- ^ a b Flannery, Regina (1947). "Algonquian Indian Folklore". The Journal of American Folklore. 60 (238): 397–401. ISSN 0021-8715. JSTOR 536439.
- ^ a b Flannery, Regina (1962). "Infancy and Childhood among the Indians of the East Coast of James Bay". Anthropos. 57 (3/6): 475–482. ISSN 0257-9774. JSTOR 40455816.
- ^ a b Flannery, Regina; Chambers, Mary Elizabeth; Jehle, Patricia A. (1981). "Witiko Accounts from the James Bay Cree". Arctic Anthropology. 18 (1): 57–77. ISSN 0066-6939. JSTOR 40315990.
- ^ a b Flannery, Regina; Chambers, Mary Elizabeth (1985). "Each Man Has His Own Friends: The Role of Dream Visitors in Traditional East Cree Belief and Practice". Arctic Anthropology. 22 (1): 1–22. ISSN 0066-6939. JSTOR 40316077.
- ^ a b Flannery, Regina; Chambers, M. Elizabeth (1986). "John M. Cooper's Investigation of James Bay Family Hunting Grounds, 1927-1934". Anthropologica. 28 (1/2): 108–144. doi:10.2307/25605195. ISSN 0003-5459. JSTOR 25605195.
- ^ Flannery, Regina (1936). "Some Aspects of James Bay Recreative Culture". Primitive Man. 9 (4): 49–56. doi:10.2307/3316249. ISSN 0887-3925. JSTOR 3316249.
- ^ Flannery, Regina (1938). "Cross-Cousin Marriage among the Cree and Montagnais of James Bay". Primitive Man. 11 (1/2): 29–33. doi:10.2307/3316201. ISSN 0887-3925. JSTOR 3316201.
- ^ Flannery, Regina (1939). "The Shaking-Tent Rite among the Montagnais of James Bay". Primitive Man. 12 (1): 11–16. doi:10.2307/3316273. ISSN 0887-3925. JSTOR 3316273.
- ^ Flannery, Regina (1940). "The Cultural Position of the Spanish River Indians". Primitive Man. 13 (1): 1–25. doi:10.2307/3316350. ISSN 0887-3925. JSTOR 3316350.
- ^ Flannery, Regina (1971). "Some magico-religious concepts of the Algonquians on the east coast of James Bay". Themes in Culture: 31–39.
- ^ Flannery, Regina (1995). Ellen Smallboy: Glimpses of a Cree Woman's Life. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-1369-3.
- ^ "Annual Regina Flannery Herzfeld Symposium". The Catholic University of America. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ^ John M. Cooper and Regina F. Herzfeld Ethnographic Field Notes, Catholic University of America Archives & Special Collections.
- ^ "Charles Herzfeld Obituary - Washington, DC". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved 2023-03-01.