Dr.
Ernestine Friedl
(
–
)
1920
2015
Duke University
;
Durham, NC
Anthropologist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Anthropology and Archaeology
Elected
1976
James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Duke University. An American cultural anthropologist known for her work around gender roles from an evolutionary perspective, rural life, peasant society, and urban migration studies. Her fieldwork has included village life in modern Greece, and the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin. Author of Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece and Women and Men. Friedl has long served in administrative positions in a number of professional organizations.
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