Mary Lindsay Elmendorf

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Mary Lindsay Elmendorf
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Elmendorf c. 2011
Born(1917-04-13)April 13, 1917
Ruby, South Carolina, United States
DiedSeptember 15, 2017(2017-09-15) (aged 100)
Spouse(s)John van Gaasbeek Elmendorf (1937 -1980)
John L. Landgraf (1981 - 2010)
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Mary Lindsay Elmendorf (1917-2017) was an American applied anthropologist, recognized mainly for her work with the Mayan women of Mexico and her application of anthropology in consultation with technology. [1] Her early work involved rural south and the slums of Boston and New Haven as well as in the Putney School in Vermont and Mexico. [1] Her application of anthropology focused mainly on involving women with planning and implementation of suitable technologies for those women and others to choose and manage their development strategies. [1]

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Life and education

Elmendorf met her first husband, John Elmendorf, as a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; they married in December 1937. [1] John Elmendorf died in 1980 and she eventually remarried Dr. John Landgraf (1914 - 2010). [1] [2] [3]

She attended St. Pauls High School in 1933 and was a valedictorian. [4] [5] and earned her B.A. Psychology (1937) and her M.A. equivalent in Public Administration and Social Work (1941) at UNC-Chapel Hill. [4] She graduated from school in Anthropology (1946 - 1948) and then attended Union Graduate School in 1972 earning a Ph.D. in Anthropology. [5]

Elmendorf became affiliated with the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Association for the Advancement of Science, the AAUW, the United Nations Association of the US, the UNIFEM/Gulf Coast Chapter, and the Democratic Club. [4] She volunteered with the American Friends Service Committee in 1944 - 1946. [1] She was the head of the CARE office in Mexico (1952 - 1960) and became the first anthropologist hired by the World Bank (1975). [1] Elmendorf was involved in various educator projects like Brown University (1962–65), Goddard College (1973), etc. [1] Based on her work and application of anthropology, she aided at the United Nations Conferences on Women held in Mexico, Copenhagen, Nairobi, and Beijing. [1]

Elmendorf died on September 15, 2017, at 100 years old [6]

Books and other publications

Nine Mayan Women

Elmendorf's best-known work, Nine Mayan Women, illustrates her case studies in the village of Chan Kom of Mayan women in the Yucatán Peninsula. [14] The book studies nine women who are spoken about in chapter two. [15] She covered background information on Chan Kom as well as the study itself. [15] The rest of the book is a broader reflection of the preceding vignettes interwoven with mentions and attribution of other sources that relate to Mayan communities and culture. [15] The main focus of her study was on the quality of life issues and the life satisfaction of Mayan women. [14] In studying these aspects, she was able to see the Mayan women are happy and content with their lives and appear to value work as they also share a mutual respect with their husbands. [14]

Her work has been reviewed by other scholars like Steffen W. Schmidt in Latin American Research Review. [16] And influences other scholar's work like John G. Frazier (and others) in their book, Rights, resources, culture, and conservation in the land of the Maya. [17]

Awards

List of some awards received (all from the same source): [4]

Leadership roles and honors

Source: [18]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Elmendorf, Mary L. (Mary Lindsay); Elmendorf, Mary L. (Mary Lindsay). "A Guide to the Mary L. Elmendorf Papers MS Group 093". www.library.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
  2. ↑ "John Landgraf - Obituary". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  3. ↑ "NCFDC Home - John van G. Elmendorf, 1965-1972". ncf.sobek.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mary Lindsay Elmendorf". National Women's History Museum. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  5. 1 2 "Webpage Temp". www.library.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
  6. ↑ "Mary Elmendorf (1917 - 2017) - Obituary". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  7. ↑ Elmendorf, Mary L. (Mary Lindsay) (1976). Nine Mayan women: a village faces change. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Pub. Co. ISBN   0-470-23862-3. OCLC   979286.
  8. ↑ Elmendorf, Mary L. (Mary Lindsay) (1980). Sociocultural aspects of water supply and excreta disposal. Transportation, Water and Telecommunications Dept., the World Bank. OCLC   7297099.
  9. ↑ Elmendorf, Mary (1982). Water and sanitation-related health constraints on women's contributions to the economic development of communities. WASH. OCLC   9876815.
  10. ↑ Elmendorf, Mary; Isely, Raymond (1981). "Public and Private Roles of Women in Water Supply and Sanitation Programs" . Human Organization. 42 (3): 195–204. doi:10.17730/humo.42.3.d866372826q05745. ISSN   0018-7259.
  11. ↑ "Epilogue" , International Students Challenges, Strategies and Future Vision, Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, pp. 197–200, 2018-12-31, doi:10.21832/9781788922241-013, ISBN   978-1-78892-224-1, S2CID   239340184 , retrieved 2020-10-04
  12. ↑ International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th, 1973, Chicago, Ill.) (2011). Women cross-culturally : change and challenge. Mouton. ISBN   978-3-11-081856-7. OCLC   1030396000.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ Elmendorf, Mary L. (Mary Lindsay) (2012). From Southern belle to global rebel : memoirs of anthropologist and activist Mary Lindsay Elmendorf. Sharon Fitzpatrick Publications. p. 342. ISBN   978-0-9841385-3-1. OCLC   793519816.
  14. 1 2 3 "Elmendorf, Mary L. (Mary Lindsay). Nine Mayan women: a village faces change".
  15. 1 2 3 Schmidt, Steffen W. (1983). Lavrin, Asuncion; Henderson, James D.; Henderson, Linda Roddy; Kelley, Jane Holden; Elmendorf, Mary Lindsay; Roberts, George W.; Sinclair, Sonja A.; León de Leal, Magdalena; Committee, Wellesley Editorial (eds.). "Women, Politics and Development". Latin American Research Review. 18 (1): 210–227. doi: 10.1017/S0023879100034154 . ISSN   0023-8791. JSTOR   2502868. S2CID   253139751.
  16. ↑ Schoultz, Lars (1981-12-31). Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9781400854295. ISBN   978-1-4008-5429-5.
  17. ↑ Gorenflo, Larry J. (2004). "Rights, Resources, Culture, and Conservation in the Land of the Maya edited by Betty B. Faust, E.N. Anderson and John G. Frazier (2004), xxi + 296 pp., Praeger Publishers, Westport, USA. ISBN 0 89789 731 5 (hbk), £46.99/$82.00". Oryx. 39 (2): 228. doi: 10.1017/s0030605305220483 . ISSN   0030-6053.
  18. ↑ "Webpage Temp". www.library.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
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