Carroll McClure Lewin

Carroll McClure Lewin
A smiling young white woman with long straight dark hair and dark eyes
Carroll McClure Pastner, later Lewin, from a 1970 newspaper
BornNovember 26, 1942
St. Paul, Minnesota
DiedOctober 20, 2022
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
Other namesCarroll McClure Pastner
Occupation(s)Anthropologist, college professor

Carroll McClure Pastner Lewin (November 26, 1942 – October 20, 2022) was an American anthropologist who worked in Pakistan, and later in the field of Holocaust studies.

Early life and education

Carroll was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of John Carroll and Helen Fischer Carroll. Her father died in a military accident in Alaska before she was born. She was adopted by her mother's second husband, Grover "Ben" McClure. She attended the Lenox School and studied ballet in New York City.[1] She graduated from Oberlin College in 1965, and completed doctoral studies in anthropology at Brandeis University[2] with Helen Codere as her advisor.[3] Her dissertation was titled "Sexual Dichotomization in Society and Culture: The Women of Panjur, Baluchistan" (1971).[4]

Career

Lewin was on the faculty of the University of Vermont for thirty years, from 1971 until her retirement with emerita status in 2001.[1][5][6] She served as chair of the anthropology department. She helped found the school's women's studies program, and was an advisor to the school's Miller Center for Holocaust Studies and Fleming Museum of Art.[1]

In 1977, with her first husband and their young daughter, she conducted participant observation research among the Zikri people on the coast of the Arabian Sea, sponsored by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.[7] In retirement, she used her language and cultural skills as a volunteer at the Shalom Shuk thrift shop, which serves resettled refugees and immigrants in Burlington.[8]

Publications

Lewin's research was published in journals including Anthropological Quarterly,[9] Journal of Marriage and Family,[10]Anthropologica,[11] Journal of Anthropological Research,[12] Signs,[13] Ethos,[14] Ethnology,[15] American Anthropologist,[16] and Human Organization.[17]

  • "A Social Structural and Historical Analysis of Honor, Shame and Purdah" (1972)[9]
  • "Aspects of Religion in Southern Baluchistan" (1972, with Stephen Pastner)[11]
  • "Accommodations to Purdah: The Female Perspective" (1974)[10]
  • "Kinship Terminology and Feudal Versus Tribal Orientations in Baluch Social Organization" (1978)[18]
  • "Englishmen in Arabia: Encounters with Middle Eastern Women" (1978)[13]
  • "The Status of Women and Property on a Baluchistan Oasis in Pakistan" (1978)[19]
  • "Cousin Marriage among the Zikri Baluch of Coastal Pakistan" (1979)[15]
  • "Rethinking the Role of the Woman Field Worker in Purdah Societies" (1982)[17]
  • "The Westermarck Hypothesis and First Cousin Marriage: The Cultural Modification of Negative Sexual Imprinting" (1986)[12]
  • "The Holocaust: Anthropological Possibilities and the Dilemma of Representation" (1992)[16]
  • "Negotiated Selves in the Holocaust" (1993)[14]
  • "Aspects of the Transition Between the Living Memory and the History of the Holocaust" (2001)[20]
  • "Ghettos in the Holocaust: The Improvisation of Social Order in a Culture of Terror" (2002)[21]
  • "Rescue in the Holocaust and the Suspension of Ordinary Life" (2004)[22]

Personal life

McClure's first husband was fellow anthropologist Stephen Pastner. Her second husband was Shallom Lewin. She had two daughters. She died in 2022, at the age of 79, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Carroll McClure Lewin". The Burlington Free Press. 2022-10-23. pp. A6. Retrieved 2023-10-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b "In Memoriam: Alumni Class of 1970 - 1979". Brandeis Magazine. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  3. ^ a b "Resolution in Memoriam" University of Vermont Faculty Senate Minutes (November 28, 2022).
  4. ^ Pastner, Carroll McClure (1982). Sexual Dichotomization in Society and Culture: The Women of Panjur, Baluchistan. University Microfilms.
  5. ^ "Beautiful Day for a Fall Tea". The Burlington Free Press. 1970-10-08. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-10-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Emeriti Faculty". University of Vermont. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  7. ^ Mares, Bill (1977-07-22). "Family Studies a Pakistan Fishing Village". The Burlington Free Press. p. 23. Retrieved 2023-10-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Ober, Lauren. "Barn Mitzvah". Seven Days. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  9. ^ a b Pastner, Carroll McC. (1972). "A Social Structural and Historical Analysis of Honor, Shame and Purdah". Anthropological Quarterly. 45 (4): 248–261. doi:10.2307/3317064. ISSN 0003-5491. JSTOR 3317064.
  10. ^ a b Pastner, Carroll McC. (1974). "Accommodations to Purdah: The Female Perspective". Journal of Marriage and Family. 36 (2): 408–414. doi:10.2307/351168. ISSN 0022-2445. JSTOR 351168.
  11. ^ a b Pastner, Stephen; Pastner, Carroll McC. (1972). "Aspects of Religion in Southern Baluchistan". Anthropologica. 14 (2): 231–241. doi:10.2307/25604880. ISSN 0003-5459. JSTOR 25604880.
  12. ^ a b Pastner, Carroll McC. (December 1986). "The Westermarck Hypothesis and First Cousin Marriage: The Cultural Modification of Negative Sexual Imprinting". Journal of Anthropological Research. 42 (4): 573–586. doi:10.1086/jar.42.4.3630109. ISSN 0091-7710.
  13. ^ a b Pastner, Carroll McC. (December 1978). "Englishmen in Arabia: Encounters with Middle Eastern Women". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 4 (2): 309–323. doi:10.1086/493609. ISSN 0097-9740.
  14. ^ a b Lewin, Carroll McC. (1993). "Negotiated Selves in the Holocaust". Ethos. 21 (3): 295–318. doi:10.1525/eth.1993.21.3.02a00030. ISSN 0091-2131. JSTOR 640552.
  15. ^ a b Pastner, Carroll McC. (1979). "Cousin Marriage among the Zikri Baluch of Coastal Pakistan". Ethnology. 18 (1): 31–47. doi:10.2307/3773182. ISSN 0014-1828. JSTOR 3773182.
  16. ^ a b Lewin, Carroll McC. (1992). "The Holocaust: Anthropological Possibilities and the Dilemma of Representation". American Anthropologist. 94 (1): 161–166. doi:10.1525/aa.1992.94.1.02a00100. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 680043.
  17. ^ a b Pastner, Carroll McC. (1982). "Rethinking the Role of the Woman Field Worker in Purdah Societies". Human Organization. 41 (3): 262–264. doi:10.17730/humo.41.3.04465375r33k914g. ISSN 0018-7259. JSTOR 44126252.
  18. ^ Pastner, Carroll. "Kinship Terminology and Feudal Versus Tribal Orientations in Baluch Social Organization." The Nomadic alternative. Mouton Publisher, The Hague (1978).
  19. ^ Pastner, Carroll McC (2013-10-01), "21 The Status of Women and Property on a Baluchistan Oasis in Pakistan", Women in the Muslim World, Harvard University Press, pp. 434–450, doi:10.4159/harvard.9780674733091.c24, ISBN 978-0-674-73309-1, retrieved 2023-10-23
  20. ^ Lewin, Carroll McC. "Aspects of the Transition Between the Living Memory and the History of the Holocaust." Reflections on the Holocaust: Festschrift for Raul Hilberg on His Seventy-fifth Birthday (2001): 63.
  21. ^ Greenhouse, Carol J.; Mertz, Elizabeth; Warren, Kay B. (2002-03-13). Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8348-2.
  22. ^ Lewin, Carroll McC. "Rescue in the Holocaust and the Suspension of Ordinary Life." Making a Difference: Rescue and Assistance During the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Marion Pritchard (2004): 49.