Carobeth Laird, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carobeth Laird

ethnologist

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1895

Place of Birth: Coleman, Texas, United States

Date of Death: 05-Aug-1983

Profession: writer, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Carobeth (Tucker) Laird (July 20, 1895 – August 5, 1983) was an American ethnographer and linguist, known for her memoirs and ethnographic studies of the Chemehuevi people in southeastern California and western Arizona.
Her book, The Chemehuevis, was characterized by ethnographer Lowell John Bean as "one of the finest, most detailed ethnographies ever written." Her memoirs, Encounter with an Angry God and Limbo, chronicled her first marriage to linguistic anthropologist John P.
Harrington and her time in a nursing home, respectively.