Carobeth Laird

Carobeth Laird

Infobox Person
name = Carobeth (Tucker) Laird


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birth_date = July 20, 1895
birth_place = Coleman, Texas
death_date = August 5, 1983
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occupation = Writer, Ethnologist
spouse = (1) John P. Harrington (2) George Laird
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Carobeth (Tucker) Laird (July 20, 1895 - August 5, 1983) is known for her ethnographic studies of the Chemehuevi people of southeastern California and western Arizona. Her book, "The Chemehuevi", was characterized by ethnographer Lowell John Bean (1985:5) as "one of the finest, most detailed ethnographies ever written".

Carobeth Tucker was born in Coleman, Texas. In 1915, she took a course in linguistics at San Diego Normal School that was taught by John P. Harrington, an extremely productive but also eccentric linguist and ethnographer. Harrington was impressed by her natural linguistic abilities, and they were married the following year. She assisted him in his field work and learned ethnographic skills from him, but their marriage was troubled. They were divorced in 1922, and Carobeth married George Laird, her principal Chemehuevi informant.

During the period prior to George Laird's death in 1940, Carobeth Laird collected extensive information on the Chemehuevi, particularly concerning language and mythology. She came to the attention of the scholarly world in the early 1970s, when she was "discovered" by students of Bean. Her ethnographic studies were published in two books, "The Chemehuevi" (1976) and "Mirror and Pattern" (1984), as well as several articles in the "Journal of California Anthropology."

Carobeth Laird also published an account of her marriage with Harrington, "Encounter with an Angry God" (1975), which received some critical acclaim, and "Limbo" (1979), a description of her experiences in a nursing home.

Laird's letters and manuscripts are on file at the University of California, Riverside.

References

* Bean, Lowell John. 1985. "Memorial to Carobeth Laird (1895-1983)". "Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology" 7:3-6.
* Laird, Carobeth. 1975. "Encounter with an Angry God: Recollections of My Life with John Peabody Harrington". Malki Museum Press, Banning, California. ISBN 978-0-8263-1414-7
* Laird, Carobeth. 1976. "The Chemehuevis". Malki Museum Press, Banning, California.
* Laird, Carobeth. 1979. "Limbo". Chandler & Sharp, Novato, California. ISBN 978-0-88316-536-2
* Laird, Carobeth. 1984. "Mirror and Pattern: George Laird's World of Chemehuevi Mythology". Malki Museum Press, Banning, California.
* Lawton, Harry W. 1976. "Forward". In "The Chemehuevis", by Carobeth Laird, pp. vii-xii. Malki Museum Press, Banning, California.


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