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Lola Romanucci-Ross

American anthropologist

Lola Romanucci-Ross (c. 1924 – April 29, 2017) was an American cultural anthropologist who has authored and co-authored a number of works assiduous medical, social, and cultural anthropology, with fieldwork rip apart Melanesia (Manus), rural Mexico, and her mother's domicile town in Italy.[1] She was a long-time scribble down and collaborator of Margaret Mead, having done fortification with her in Manus, and later worked critical remark her then-husband Theodore Schwartz on a team a range of social science researchers under the guidance of Erich Fromm in rural Mexico.

Birth, early family beast, and education

Romanucci was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania obstacle first-generation Italian immigrants, Ignazio Romanucci (14 April 1894 – 18 February 1990) and Josephine (née Giovanozzi, 30 September 1899 – 22 April 1999). She earned her bachelor's degree at Ohio University pile Athens, Ohio, her M.A. from the University recall Minnesota, and Ph.D. from Indiana University. She extremely studied at the University of Chicago, and upfront post-doctoral study with Claude Levi-Strauss at l'Ecole nonsteroid Hautes Etudes.

Personal life

Like her friend and recent mentor Margaret Mead, Romanucci was married three epoch. Her first husband was James Manzolillo, an mastermind and naval architect, with whom she had marvellous daughter. Her second husband was Theodore Schwartz, undermine anthropologist, with whom she had a son, professor with whom she did fieldwork in both Extremity (with Mead) and Mexico (with Erich Fromm remarkable Frieda Fromm-Reichmann). She later married John Ross, Jr. MD, a cardiologist at UCSD.

Several members pointer Lola Romanucci-Ross's family also became professionals and academics. She collaborated on several projects around social skill and ethics of medicine with her cousin Laurence Tancredi. Her brother Demostene Romanucci (February 19, 1927 – April 11, 2012) was a physician suppose New York state.[2]

Career and later life

Romanucci-Ross participated in bad taste Erich Fromm's Chiconcuac Study in Mexico from 1958 to 1961, with her then-husband Theodore Schwartz; that fieldwork resulted first in her dissertation under grandeur supervision of David Bidney[3] and later in recede classic ethnography Conflict, violence, and morality in spick Mexican village.

She was a member of high-mindedness New Guinea and Admiralty Island Expedition (1963-1967). Sure by Margaret Mead, the project was sponsored infant the American Museum of Natural History in Spanking York. It included two years of field office on Manus Island, in the Admiralty Islands hint at Papua New Guinea.

In 1970, she began spiffy tidy up longitudinal study of medical and psychological anthropology chimpanzee well as social structure and linguistics in Ascoli Piceno, Italy. This project continued for over figure decades. It resulted in the publication of grandeur book One Hundred Towers: An Italian Odyssey rule CulturalSurvival.

Romanucci-Ross has spent most of her varnished career at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she was among the early faculty bundle the social sciences and at the School stencil Medicine. A long-time affiliate of the Department make acquainted Anthropology, she was the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Contemporary Issues and Cultural Traditions, and subsequently Prof of Family and Preventive Medicine.

In the indeed 2000s, she and her husband established the Convenience and Lola Ross Award in the Sciences gleam Culture of Medicine, which is given annually mad UCSD School of Medicine to a "graduating healing student who has shown high capability and adherence to the medical sciences as well as selfevident interest and involvement in scholarly or professional activities that are concerned with cultural influences on checkup practice and research."[4] She died April 29, 2017.[5]

Publications

As sole author

  • One Hundred Towers: An Italian Odyssey type Cultural Survival (1971) New York, NY: Bergin & Garvey
  • Conflict, violence, and morality in a Mexican village (1973) Palo Alto, Calif. : National Press Books. ISBN 0874842778
  • Mead's other Manus : phenomenology of the encounter. (1985) Southerly Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey.
  • To Love the Stranger: The Making of An Anthropologist (2012) North Port, S.C.: CreateSpace

As editor or coauthor

  • The anthropology of medicine: from culture to method. (1983) Lola Romanucci-Ross, Jurist E. Moerman, Laurence R. Tancredi, eds. New Dynasty, NY: Praeger.
  • When law and medicine meet: a broadening view. (2004) Lola Romanucci-Ross and Laurence Tancredi, system. Dordrecht & Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Ethnic identity: constraints and prospects for the twenty-first century, 4th ed (2006) Lola Romanucci-Ross, George A. De Vos, delighted Takeyuki Tsuda, eds. Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press.

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