Catherine "Kay" S. Fowler is an anthropologist whose work has focused on preserving the cultures of the native people of the Great Basin.[1] She earned her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh,[2] and from 1964 to 2007 taught at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she is now Professor Emerita.[1]
Fowler is a research associate for the Nevada State Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History where she has participated in the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records,[3] and she has served as president of the Society of Ethnobiology.[4] In 1995 she was named Outstanding Researcher of the Year at the University of Nevada, Reno.[5] In 2011, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences[6] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7]
Selected publications
- Fowler, Catherine S.; Bath, Joyce E. (1981-12-01). "Pyramid Lake Northern Paiute Fishing: The Ethnographic Record". Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 3 (2): 176–186. ISSN 0191-3557.
- Fowler, Catherine S.; Walter, Nancy Peterson (1985-07-01). "Harvesting Pandora Moth Larvae with the Owens Valley Paiute". Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 7 (2): 155–165. ISSN 0191-3557.
- Fowler, Catherine S.; Dawson, Lawrence E. (1986). "Ethnographic Basketry". In D' Azevedo, Warren L. (ed.). Great Basin. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 11. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 978-0-16-004581-3.
- Fowler, Catherine S.; Liljeblad, Sven (1986). "Northern Paiute". In D' Azevedo, Warren L. (ed.). Great Basin. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 11. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 978-0-16-004581-3.
- Fowler, Catherine S., ed. (1989). Willard Z. Park's ethnographic notes on the northern Paiute of western Nevada, 1933–1940. Anthropological papers 114. Vol. 1. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah. ISBN 978-0-87480-316-7.
- Fowler, Catherine S. (2002) [1992]. In the shadow of Fox Peak : an ethnography of the Cattail-eater Northern Paiute people of Stillwater Marsh. Nevada Humanities Committee. ISBN 9781890591120.
- Fowler, Catherine S. (1992-07-01). "Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics in the Great Basin: Some proposals for the 1990s". Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 14 (1): 13–21. ISSN 0191-3557.
- Fowler, Catherine S.; Fowler, Don D. (2008). The Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times. School for Advanced Research Press. ISBN 978-1-930618-95-4. (Winner of the 2009 New Mexico Book Award in the Anthropology/Archaeology/Science category)[8]
- Liljeblad, Sven; Fowler, Catherine S.; Powell, Glenda, eds. (2012). The Northern Paiute-Bannock dictionary: with an English-Northern Paiute-Bannock finder list and a Northern Paiute-Bannock-English finder list. Salt Lake City, Utah: The University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-1-60781-030-8.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Kay Fowler Elected into AAAS". University of Nevada, Reno. Nevada Today. 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
- ^ "UNR Anthropology Faculty". University of Nevada. retrieved June 30, 2011
- ^ "Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records". CoPar. retrieved 06-30-2011
- ^ "Society of Ethnobiology news". Society of Ethnobiology. Retrieved 2011-06-30.
- ^ "UNR Outstanding Researchers". University of Nevada. Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ "NAS member directory". www.nasonline.org. 2011-03-05.
- ^ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences members" (PDF). amacad.org. Retrieved 2011-06-30.
- ^ "SAR Press Book Wins". School for Advanced Research. Retrieved 2011-06-30.
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