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Nationality
  
English

Name
  
Charlotte Chapman

Role
  
Ethnologist


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Died
  
1982, Washington, D.C., United States

Books
  
Milocca, a Sicilian Village, The northern and southern affiliations of Antillean culture

Charlotte Gower Chapman, born Charlotte Day Gower, was an ethnologist and an author. In 1928, she received a Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Later on while working at Lingnan University in China during World War II she was taken prisoner by the Japanese when the US entered the war, but was released by 1942. After, she joined the United States Marine Corps and worked in the Office of Strategic Services until 1947 when she became an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency until her retirement in 1964.

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Chapman wrote an anthropological study titled Milocca: A Sicilian Village, which included a detailed account

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References

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