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Data de naixement
1935-02-16
Data de defunció
1985-01-07
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Lloc de defunció
Los Angeles, California, USA
Educació
University of California, Los Angeles (PhD|Anthropology|1968)
University of Chicago (MA|Human Development|1963)
University of California, Los Angeles (BA|Sociology|1958)
Professions
anthropologist
ethnographer
university professor
documentary filmmaker
Organitzacions
University of Southern California
Biografia breu
Barbara Myerhoff was born in Cleveland and was partially raised by her maternal grandmother, a storyteller. Later she attributed her interest in studying men and women from diverse cultures and their stories and sacred rituals to this early influence. As a teenager, Barbara moved with her mother and stepfather to Los Angeles. In 1958, she received a BA in sociology from the University of California. In 1963, she earned an MA in human development from the University of Chicago. She then returned to UCLA and entered its PhD program in anthropology. In 1968, Barbara Myerhoff received her PhD with a dissertation on Huichol Indian ritual form, which she had studied in northern Mexico. Her first book Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians, published in 1974, was nominated for a National Book Award. She continued to work on ritual and religious life in her studies on the aged. Declaring that the study of one's own culture was equally important as research on the exotic other, Barbara Myerhoff began fieldwork with elderly Jews in a senior center in Venice, California in 1972. Her critically-acclaimed book, Number Our Days, also became a 1977 Academy Award-winning short documentary film, an art exhibit, and a play, making Barbara Myerhoff into a national celebrity. In 1976, she became a full professor at the University of Southern California and chair of the Anthropology Department, which she headed until 1980. A few years later, Barbara Myerhoff's research took a more personal turn with the making of the documentary film In Her Own Time, detailing her own battle with lung cancer. She died at age 49, shortly after completing her last on-screen interview. Her work throughout the 1970s and 1980s helped to shape the anthropological study of ritual and of life histories, and made her a pioneer in her scholarship on women and religion.

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Anthropologist Barabara Myerhoff studies a group of elder Jews in West Coast USA. While doing this survey, she besomes involved in their lives and gives us a moving testimony of their condition : aloneness, loss of trraditions, aging.
 
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phcallefr | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Aug 15, 2020 |
Fascinating anthropological study of a group of aged Jewish people. I especially loved the humorous and poignant stories they told about their lives in the shtetl and about their traditions. There were so many lessons to learn about how to age vibrantly; this would be a great book to read with a book group, resharing the lines, stories, lessons, that most moved or struck you. (I didn't add a fifth star just because at times it's a little too anthropological, at times there's too much analyzing and summarizing.)… (més)
 
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Connie-D | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Jan 17, 2016 |
Sociological study of a center for the Jewish elderly in Venice Beach, California relates the mortality of individuals to the mortality of their community. Loved it, on both scholarly and personal levels. Wish I had read it when my grandmother was alive (i.e., before age 20).
 
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athenasowl | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Jun 26, 2011 |
Author studied elderly Jews from Venice CA and role of culture allows them to face hardship
 
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Folkshul | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Jan 15, 2011 |

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Obres
6
També de
2
Membres
460
Popularitat
#53,419
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
5
ISBN
11

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