# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/felicitas-goodman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:38:12.198Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/felicitas-goodman"
name: "Felicitas Goodman"
slug: "felicitas-goodman"
description: "Felicitas D. Goodman was a Hungarian-born American linguist and anthropologist. She was a highly regarded expert in linguistics and anthropology and researched and explored Ecstatic Trance Postures for many years. She studied the phenomenon of speaking in tongues in Pentecostal congregations in Mexico. She is the author Speaking in Tongues and Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences. Her work has been published mostly in the United States and Germany."
tagline: "American linguist and anthropologist (1914–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Felicitas_Goodman_and_student%2C_ca._1988_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-01-30"
deathDate: "2005-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.09
  momentum:             17.5
  historical:           5.715590666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cuyamungueinstitute.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Felicitas Goodman"
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    title: "فيليستاس غودمان"
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    title: "فيليستاس جودمان"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicitas_Goodman"
    title: "Felicitas Goodman"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicitas_Goodman"
    title: "Felicitas Goodman"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicitas_Goodman"
    title: "Felicitas Goodman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump