Dorothy D. Lee

Dorothy Demetracopolou Lee (1905-1975) was an American Anthropologist, author and philosopher of cultural anthropology.

Lee was a social anthropologist at Vassar College whose work is most often associated with Benjamin Whorf^[1] and has written about the languages of the Wintu, Hopi, Tikopia, Trobriand, and many other cultures.

She was the "Leader of the Cultural Anthropology Program" at the Merrill-Palmer School and a former member of the Institute for Intercultural Studies.^[2]

Bibliography

• Conceptual Implications of an Indian Language, Philosophy of Science 5, 1938, pp. 89-102
• A Primitive System of Values, Philosophy of Science 7, 1940, pp. 355-378
• Greek Tales of Priest and Priestwife, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 60, No. 236 (April-June, 1947), pp. 163-167
• What Shall We Teach Women?, Mademoiselle, August 1947, p. 213
• Are Basic Needs Ultimate?", Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 43, 1948, pp. 91-95
• Lineal and nonlineal codifications of reality, Bobbs-Merrill, 1950 (published in Psychosomatic Medicine 12, 1950, pp. 89—97)
• Greek Personal Anecdotes of the Supernatural, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 64, No. 253 (July-September, 1951), pp. 307-312
• Religious perspectives of college teaching in anthropology, Edward W. Hazen Foundation, 1951
• Valuing the Self: What We Can Learn from Other Cultures, Waveland Press, 1976, ISBN 0881332291
• Freedom and Culture (epilogue by Jeffrey Ehrenreich), Waveland Press, 1987, ISBN 0881333034

References

1. ^ Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis, John Arthur Lucy, Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 70, ISBN 0521387973
2. ^ About the IIS, The Institute for Intercultural Studies website

Persondata
Name	Lee, Dorothy D.
Alternative names
Short description	American anthropologist
Date of birth	1905
Place of birth	United States of America
Date of death	1975
Place of death	United States of America