Laura Maud Thompson | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 23, 1905 |
| Died | January 28, 2000 (aged 95) |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Spouse(s) | Bernhard Teuting, John Collier (1943–?),[2] Sam Duker (1963–1978)[3] |
| Awards | Bronislaw Malinowski Award (1979) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Mills College (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | A. L. Kroeber |
| Influences | Bronisław Malinowski, Robert Lowie[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Socio-cultural anthropologist |
| Sub-discipline | Culture of the CHamoru people of Guam; cultures of the Native Americans |
| Institutions | Consultant on Native Affairs to the Naval Governor of Guam; Coordinator, Indian Education, Personality, and Administration Project; teaching positions at many institutions (see article for list) |
| Notable works | Guam and Its People |
Laura Maud Thompson (January 23, 1905 ― January 28, 2000) was an American social anthropologist best known for her studies of CHamoru culture in Guam. She studied many cultures around the world, including many Native American nations, with the self-professed aim of "trying to build an integrated theory of human group behavior that was grounded in actual behavior and relied on rigorous methods of verification to ensure reliability."[1] She was the recipient of the 1979 Bronislaw Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology.