Early Life
Marilyn Strathern was born to Eric Evans and Joyce Evans in Bromley Kent on March 6, 1941. She married fellow anthropologist Andrew Strathern in 1965 and they had three children together, before the marriage was dissolved. Her first school experience was in Crofton Lane Primary School which was followed by Bromley High School. She excelled in academics in both with great help from her mother who was a teacher by trade. Following in her mother’s footsteps, she enrolled in Girton College to study Archaeology and Anthropology. She then became a research student there and went on to obtain her PhD. in 1968.
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