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Born in Philadelphia to a Jewish family, Powdermaker spent her childhood in Reading, Pennsylvania and in Baltimore . She studied history and the humanities at Goucher College and later enrolled in courses at the London School Of Economics . Powdermaker became a graduate student under anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski , who convinced her to embark on a course of doctoral studies. While at the LSE, Powdermaker also worked under and was influenced by other well known anthropologists such as A. R. Radcliffe-Brown , E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Raymond Firth . Powdermaker completed her PhD on leadership in "primitive" society in ''. In 1950 , Powdermaker published '' Hollywood, The Dream Factory '', the first, and to date, the only substantial anthropological study of the American film industry. Her final book, titled '' Stranger And Friend, The Way Of An Anthropologist '' was finally published in 1966 . It was a personal account of her anthropological career, from the beginning as a labor movement leader to her last field work in an African copper mining community. In 1968 , Hortense Powdermaker retired from Queens College , where she had founded the department of Anthropology and Sociology , and moved to Berkeley , where she remained engaged in ethnographic fieldwork. She died two years later of a heart attack. EXTERNAL LINK |