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Martha Warren Beckwith

American folklorist and ethnographer.

Born January 19th, 1871 in Massachusetts.

Died January 28th, 1959 at 88 years old in Berkeley.

Occupations
anthropologist, ethnographer, historian, university teacher

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening. Zhuangzi