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Catharine “Kitty” McClellan (March 1, 1921 - March 3, 2009) is a cultural anthropologist who is renowned for her documentation of the oral history and storytelling typical of Athabascan speaking, Tlingit and Tagish peoples of the Yukon Territory. Catharine’s work extended past her academic research, as she became close to the communities she worked in she also became an advocate for their rights on issues such as the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline debate in 1976. Her husband was fellow anthropologist John Hitchcock whom she married in 1974; he died in 2001 from natural health complications.〔Cruikshank, Julie. Obituary. American Anthropologist. 2010 (112:2)〕 == Biography == Catharine was born in York, PA, lived throughout the United States and Yukon Territory throughout the course of her life, and died in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She did extensive work in the Yukon from the 1950s to 1980s, where she conducted a detailed research study using their traditional oral stories as research material to study the Aboriginal peoples in the Yukon. Though it was not her initial intention upon arriving in the North to document the lives of the Athabascan peoples in narrative story form, it quickly became a dominant part of her work. For over 30 years she worked as a scholar and close companion with many northern individuals as they used their traditional stories to instruct and guide her work. Storytelling is very important to the Yukon peoples, and her work helped document and preserve such diverse linguistic and cultural history.〔 According to the lengthy obituary written by Julie Cruikshank in American Anthropology Catharine was incredibly humble about the impact of her Northern research. Her work became incredibly important for applied anthropology in the future,〔 though she never defined it as such. She was one of the first to dedicate so much of her research to northern oral tradition, and in doing so, she helped pragmatically standardize the rules for transcribing oral history.〔McClellan, Catharine. My Old People’s Stories: A Legacy for Yukon First Nations. PART 1: Southern Tutchone Narrators. 2007.〕 Catharine’s attitude towards her Northern research was inherently feminist, however she denied any claims of such motivation driving her work against the rigor of a paternalistic discipline, nor did she participate in the feminist movement. She studied at Bryn Mawr college and spoke of her time there fondly; however it was not because of the solely-female enrollment, it was because of the stimulating education she received while there.〔Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies. "Catharine McClellan" by Ann Stoler. pp. 246-51.〕 She remained unmarried for the first twenty-five years of her career, yet even in her marriage to the cultural ecologist John Hitchcock, she remained independently driven to complete her own research. Their scholarly partnership began when they worked at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, together, though they were not romantically involved until years later.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catharine McClellan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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