Malcolm Carr Collier

{{Short description|American anthropologist}}

Malcolm Carr Collier (née, Malcolm Carr; 1908–1983) was an American anthropologist remembered for her work with the Navajo.{{cite news|last1=Sullivan|first1=Ronald|title=Donald Collier, Museum Curator And Chicago Anthropologist, 83|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/11/obituaries/donald-collier-museum-curator-and-chicago-anthropologist-83.html|access-date=21 April 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=11 February 1995}} She did field work at Grand Coulee Dam in the U.S. state of Washington in 1936, studied the Navaho in the Pueblo Alto site with Katherine Spencer and Doriane Wooley in 1937,{{sfn|Browman|2013|p=229}} and in 1938, conducted research in the Navajo Mountain area.{{sfn|Weisiger|Cronon|2011|p=276}} Her work with Spencer and Wooley, Navaho clans and marriage at Pueblo Alto, was published in 1939. Collier studied at the University of Chicago, and she married the archaeologist, Donald Collier.{{sfn|Browman|2013|p=229}}

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  • {{cite book|last=Browman|first=David L.|title=Cultural Negotiations: The Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archaeology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYvtYW4jL4gC&pg=PA229|date=1 June 2013|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-4547-1}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Weisiger|first1=Marsha|last2=Cronon|first2=William|title=Dreaming of sheep in Navajo country|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RGxvfdxkrTMC&pg=PA276|date=1 November 2011|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-80319-7}}

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Category:1908 births

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Category:American women anthropologists

Category:University of Chicago alumni

Category:American anthropology writers

Category:American women non-fiction writers

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