Marilyn Strathern
British anthropologist · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Born 1941 · age 85
Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern 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.
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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.