Weiner, Annette B., 1933-....

Annette B. Weiner (1933-1997) was a prominent anthropologist and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University from 1983-1991. She was best known for her work on the role of women in the Trobriand Islands of Papua, New Guinea, which challenged the conclusions of Bronislaw Malinowski. Between 1969 and 1991 she conducted fieldwork in a variety of places, including Western Samoa, Bastrop County, Texas, Sind, Pakistan, Antigua, and Guatemala. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College, she came to New York University as Professor of Anthropology in 1981. Beginning in 1982 she also served as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology. Her responsibilities included recruitment of full-time faculty, fundraising, and the revision of existing undergraduate and graduate programs, and the development of new programs in physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. She was also responsible for organizing major conferences and symposia in the U.S., France, Italy, Austria, Australia and the USSR, and held offices in the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and other professional organizations. She was married to the anthropologist William E. Mitchell.

From the description of Annette B. Weiner papers, 1933-1997 (bulk 1970-1997). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476212488

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