# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-bohannan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:44.246Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-bohannan"
name: "Laura Bohannan"
slug: "laura-bohannan"
description: "Laura Bohannan, pen name Elenore Smith Bowen, was an American cultural anthropologist best known for her 1966 article, \"Shakespeare in the Bush.\" Bohannan also wrote two books during the 1960s, Tiv Economy, with her husband, and Return to Laughter, a novel. These works were based on her travels and work in Africa between 1949 and 1953."
tagline: "Cultural anthropologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922"
deathDate: "2002-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.3
  momentum:             0.6249999999999999
  historical:           5.275090666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bohannan"
    title: "Laura Bohannan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bohannan"
    title: "Laura Bohannan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bohannan"
    title: "Laura Bohannan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Altman_Smith_Bohannan"
    title: "Laura Altman Smith Bohannan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bohannan"
    title: "Laura Bohannan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bohannan"
    title: "Laura Bohannan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6498718"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump