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Sylvia Marguerite Broadbent | |
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| Born | (1932-02-26)February 26, 1932 |
| Died | July 30, 2015(2015-07-30) (aged 83) |
| Education | A.AUniversity of California, Berkeley, 1950[1]: 190
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| Title | Professor Emerita of Anthropology[3] |
Sylvia Marguerite Broadbent (London,United Kingdom, 26 February 1932 -Arlington, California,United States, 30 July 2015)[4] was an Americananthropologist and professor, specializing inAmerindian peoples.
Broadbent was born inLondon. She emigrated with her family in the wake ofWorld War II toCarmel, California, in 1947. Broadbent graduated fromCarmel High School in 1948 at the age of 16.[5][6] Broadbent enrolled atUniversity of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded the Horatio Stebbins scholarship as a junior and earned her Associate of Arts degree in anthropology (with honors) in 1951.[1]: 190, 247 She went on to win a Genevieve McEnerny fellowship and receive her bachelor's degree in anthropology (with highest honors) in 1952.[2]: 190 From 1955 to 1960 she performed research among native peoples in Southern California and recordedChukchansi,Ohlone, andMiwok.[7][8] Her 1960 doctoral dissertation wasA grammar of Southern Sierra Miwok, written under the advisement ofMary Haas.[9]
Broadbent began teaching atNorthwestern University for Spring Semester 1961 followed byBarnard College that fall. She joined the faculty ofUniversidad de Los Andes in the Fall of 1964 to focus on theMuisca, native to theAltiplano Cundiboyacense, the high plateau of the ColombianAndes. She began teaching atUniversity of California, Riverside (UCR) in 1966 and was promoted to full professor in 1972.[10] She eventually retired as chair of the anthropology department. Her papers are archived with the special collections department at UCR.[11] Broadbent, a member of theSierra Club, was party to a lawsuit against theBureau of Land Management to restrict the use of vehicles in the California desert.[12] In 1981 she wroteThe Formation of Peasant Society in Central Colombia, for which she was awarded the American Society for Ethnohistory's 1983Robert F. Heizer prize.[13] UCR offers a fellowship for anthropology graduate students in her name.[14]
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