Patricia Rieff Anawalt
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| Born | March 10, 1924 Ripon, California |
| Died | October 2, 2015 (aged 91) Los Angeles, California |
Patricia Rieff Anawalt was an American anthropologist, author, and museum director.
Anawalt was born on March 10, 1924, in Ripon, California. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). After she received her PhD she started studying pre-Columbian culture, specifically dress. Anawalt went on to serve as the curator of costumes and textiles at the UCLA Museum of Cultural History. She founded the Center for the Study of Regional Dress at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.[1][2]
In 1988 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]
Anawalt wrote several books including The Essential Codex Mendoza (co-authored with Frances Berdan, University of California Press, 1997)[4] and The Worldwide History of Dress (Thames & Hudson, 2007).[5]
Anawalt died on October 2, 2015, in Los Angeles, California.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Patricia Rieff Anawalt dies at 91; UCLA anthropologist later headed family lumber company". Los Angeles Times. 10 October 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- ^ "Anawalt, Patricia Rieff". A&AePortal. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- ^ "Patricia Rieff Anawalt". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- ^ The Codex Mendoza. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Pr. ISBN 978-0520062344.
- ^ Anawalt, Patricia Rieff (2007). The worldwide history of dress. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0500513637.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Patricia Rieff Anawalt". L. B. M. Journal. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
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