The Painter's Eye: Paul-Henri Bourguignon's Haitian Photographs

Professor of Anthropology emerita at the Ohio State University, where she taught for more than forty years. Her doctoral fieldwork in Haiti raised questions some of which she was able to address in the five-year Cross-Cultural Study of Dissociational States that she directed under a grant from NIMH. Her book Religion, Altered States of Consciousness, and Social Change (Ohio State, 1973) and a series of other publications by her and her collaborators and students report some of the results of this study. She saw this work as relating to the larger field of psychological and psychiatric anthropology, religion, and the then new field of the anthropology of women. Her publications include a widely used textbook Psychological Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Nature and Cultural Diversity (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979) and A World of Women: Anthropological Studies of Women in the Societies of the World (Praeger, 1980). In later years she published Exile: A Memoir of 1939 (Ohio State, 1998) by her aunt Bronka Schneider, who, with her husband Joseph, escaped from Austria in 1939, following which they spent a year as servants in a castle in Scotland. Bourguignon received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology and a Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ohio State University. Her Alma Mater, Queens College of the City of New York, awarded her the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.