Fred Eggan
In 1932, University of Chicago student Fred Eggan attended a Hopi ethnological field training program, an experience that changed his life. He continued to spend time with the Hopi people, which resulted in a life-long relationship.
His dissertation, “Kinship System of the Hopi Indians” earned him a PhD in 1936 from the University of Chicago. It was published in 1950 as the now-classic Social Organization of the Western Pueblos. He eventually became a professor at this university and continued to do field work around the world, resulting in many widely-respected publications.
His love for the Native People of the southwest led to his retirement in Santa Fe, NM. He attended the 1953 Pecos Conference for southwest archeologists held at MNA.
Duberman, Martin B., Fred Eggan, and Richard O. Clemmer. “Documents in Hopi Indian sexuality: imperialism, culture, and resistance.” Radical History Review, no. 20, 1979.
Eggan, Fred. “Alliance and Descent in Western Pueblo Society.” Process and Pattern in Culture, edited by Robert A. Manners, Aldine Publishing Co., 1964.
—. The American Indian: perspectives for the study of social change. Aldine Publishing Co., 1966.
—. “The Hopi cosmology or world view.” Kachinas in the Pueblo world, edited by Polly Schaafsma, University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
—. The Hopi Indians: a selected and annotated bibliography. San Vicente Foundation Publication no. 1, 1948.
—. Social organization of the western pueblos. University of Chicago, 1950.