Talk:Laura Bohannan

Name

Laura Bohannan was named Laura Marie Smith by her parents. In 1943 she married Paul J. Bohannan. They went on to collaborate on anthropological studies. Their most notable work together was the 1968 book Tiv Economy OCLC 7394758 which followed their earlier 1953 book The Tiv of central Nigeria OCLC 414064. Paul and Laura were divorced in 1975. There is no variation in the actual spelling of her last name, just student's misspellings, since many student essays are written about "Shakespeare in the Bush". --Bejnar (talk) 08:57, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Corrected some typos in the article. --Kjoonlee 16:46, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Death

According to the obituary of her former husband (Paul Bohannan) in the Univ. of So. Cal. College News, July 2007, here, Laura Bohannan predeceased him. However, I have not yet been able to find a obituary for her, or otherwise to confirm this. --Bejnar (talk) 16:49, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Guggenheim grant

According to a newspaper story in the Tucson Daily Citizen of 6 September 1974, she had received a "Guggenheim fellowship for the completion of her book on Tiv witchcraft, magic, and religion." However, a search of WorldCat did not turn up any publications after her indexing work at the American Anthropologist which she completed in early 1974. --Bejnar (talk) 16:49, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

"Shakespeare in the Bush"

This essay is said to be from 1961, but nobody gives a reference. I added a reference (below) to an edition of the text from 1966, relying for the page numbers on http://web.mit.edu/paxson/www/syllabi/intro_anthro_mit05.pdf. Should that perhaps be the original version? Hugo Hose (talk) 16:13, 21 October 2010 (UTC)