Famous Anthropologist

                                                        
                                                    Zora Neale Hurston

 

 

 

         Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7th, 1891 in Nostulga, Alabama. She grew up in Eatonville, Florida and has two children. her two children are John Hurston and Lucy Hurston.

 

 

                 She attended Howard University and received her Associates degree in 1920. Then she attended Barbard College, where she studied Anthropology with Franz Boas (1925-1927). Zora Neale Hurston began her Ph.D in Anthropology at Columbia University.

 

 

                    Major works that helped her become one of the most famous Anthropologists today were the texts Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Mules of Men (1935), and Tell My Horse (1938).

 

 

                   As an anthropologists, her contributions were very significant. "Hurston's research was deeply rooted in a Diaspora paradigm, which stressed an examination of the cultural continuities and differences that emerged when Blacks were scattered across the Americas and Europe as a consequence of slavery" (aaanet.org).