Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Ruth Underhill
Born: August 22, 1883
Died: August 15, 1984 (aged 100)
Bio: Ruth Murray Underhill was an American anthropologist. She was born in Ossining-on-the-Hudson, New York, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1905 with a degree in Language and Literature.
Known for:
- Papago woman (1979)
- Red Man's America (1953)
- The Autobiography of a Papago Woman (1936)
- Pueblo crafts (1944)
- An Anthropologist's Arrival: A Memoir