Oral history interview with Rhoda Métraux, 1994

Biographical Note

Cultural anthropologist

Scope and Contents

(1914-2003) Born of German heritage; privileged childhood as daughter of successful German banker during immediate post war, World War I, bilingual education in German and English in the home, strong emphasis on education; Trips to early Hitler Germany; Undergraduate education: Vassar College; Early marriage into army culture; First husband Arthur's suicide, and subsequent mourning; Work for Oxford University Press in 1930s New York City; Political activism against nazism in 1930s New York City; Enrollment in Yale anthropology graduate program after conversation with Bronislaw Malinowski

Subjects

• Anthropologists--United States--Interviews.
• German Americans--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Métraux, Rhoda, 1914-2003--Interviews.
• Olinger, Chauncey G., interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)

Access Conditions

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