Assessment and Later Life
Bohannan is also part of a small school of women whose studies in anthropology were initially rejected because of their holistic (and sometimes personal) approach and style. Other women in this school of early ethnographers include Zora Neale Hurston.
From 1970 to 1973 Bohannon was the editor of American Anthropologist. She and her husband divorced in 1975; they had had one son, Denis. She retired in 1990. On March 19, 2002, she died in her home of a heart attack.
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