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Re: Request for info on deceased professor
karl h schwerin (schwerin@UNM.EDU)
Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:31:43 -0700
On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Adrienne Dearmas wrote:
> At the meetings in Washington, I discovered that a former professor of mine,
> Dr. Virginia Lee Barnes Dean, had died. I have been looking for her for the
> past five years as she inspired me to research female genital mutilation.
> Perhaps this is a morbid request, but seeing as she died only two years after
> I last saw her and to the best of my knowledge, she was not medically ill, I
> want to know how and why she died. A woman familiar with her work told me she
> committed suicide. I was out of academia when Dr. Barnes died, but if there
> was anything published about her death in July of 1990, I would appreciate
> the reference. Thank you.
>
> - Adrienne
There is a brief obituary for Virigina Lee Barnes Dean in the December
1990 Anthropology Newsletter.
Karl Schwerin SnailMail: Dept. of Anthropology
Univ. of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131
e-mail: schwerin@unm.edu
Much charitable endeavor is motivated by an unconscious
desire to peer into lives that one is glad to be unable
to share. . . . . Edward Sapir
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