Marilyn Strathern

Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA (née Evans; born 6 March 1941) is a British anthropologist, who has worked largely with the Mount Hagen people of Papua New Guinea and dealt with issues in the UK of reproductive technologies. She was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 2008, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2009.

Dame Marilyn Strathern DBE
Born	Ann Marilyn Evans (1941-03-06) 6 March 1941 Wales, United Kingdom
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	Girton College
Parent(s)	Eric Charles Evans Joyce Evans
Scientific career
Fields	Social anthropology
Institutions	Girton College Trinity College University of California, Berkeley Manchester University
Thesis	Women's status in the Mount Hagen area: a study of marital relations and court disputes among the Melpa-speaking people, New Guinea (1969)
Doctoral advisor	Paula Brown Glick Esther N. Goody

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