• Anthropologist Margaret Zehmer Searcy, 90, in May

    From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 30 05:34:55 2017
    XPost: alt.obituaries

    On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:44:42 -0700 (PDT), lenona321@yahoo.com wrote:

    She lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

    http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tuscaloosa/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-zehmer-searcy&pid=185747711

    Excerpts:

    ...In 1946, at the age of 19, Margaret earned her Bachelor of Arts in
    Sociology from Duke University. In 1954, she became the first student
    to receive a Master of Arts in Anthropology from The University of
    Alabama. Her thesis was "Tuscaloosa County Hunting". Yes, it was
    Margaret who taught her husband, son and grandson, Jeph, to hunt.
    Well, not really, but like Margaret would have said, "It makes an
    entertaining story".
    In 1963, she was hired to teach in the Department of Sociology and
    Anthropology at The University of Alabama. She was a founding member
    of the Department of Anthropology when it became a separate entity
    from the Sociology Department in 1967. She provided the first exposure
    to anthropology for thousands of students at Alabama. She retired in
    1988 as emeritus faculty...

    ...Throughout her life she received many awards, including a faculty
    grant by The University of Alabama (1969), Alabama Consortium of
    Higher Education Award (1973), Charlton W. Tebeau Literary Award from
    Florida Historical Society (for Ikwa of the Temple Mounds), Alabama
    Author Award and Alabama Library Association Award (1980, for Tiny Bat
    and the Ball Game).
    Margaret was very proud of her work, including U.S. Congressional
    testimony associated with the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians. One of her
    most cherished honors was being officially adopted by the MOWA Choctaw
    tribe...



    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.arts.books.childrens/searcy%7Csort:relevance/rec.arts.books.childrens/AHtz4ogynZ4/iHZEeQ_DBQAJ
    (birthday post from 2016, with booklist)

    Excerpt:

    From the Pelican Publishing Company:

    ...Searcy's series for the intermediate reader is based upon extensive archaeological data and ethno-historic accounts. All of the details in
    Eyr the Hunter: A Story of Ice-Age America have been carefully
    researched. Searcy visited an archaeological site that had been
    occupied by a band society. She also studied Arctic animals and viewed
    the bones of the extinct giant animals that are depicted in the story.
    In addition, she read reports about more modern bands who hunted
    elephants (closely related to ancient mammoths) with spears.

    Ikwa of the Mound-Builder Indians was dramatized on Alabama Public
    Television and aired numerous times as a part of the school
    curriculum. In 1976, Ikwa of the Mound-Builder Indians won the
    Charlton W. Tebeau Prize of the Florida Historical Society for the
    “best children's or young adults' book dealing with a Florida-related subject.” Pelican has reissued Ikwa and has released the companion
    volumes to this acclaimed book, Wolf Dog of the Woodland Indians and
    The Charm of the Bear Claw Necklace.

    Her fact and fantasy series for the younger reader adapts Indian myths
    and legends to the problems of the multi-ethnic classroom, while
    teaching basic biology...

    Lenona.

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