Born: 18 October 1914, United States
Died: 26 November 2003
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Rhoda Bubendey, Rhoda Proctor
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1914, Oct. 18 Born, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1927-1932 Student, Packer Collegiate Institute, New York, N.Y.
1934 B.A., Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
1934 Married Arthur B. Proctor (died 1935)
1935-1939 Worked for Oxford University Press
1940-1941 Postgraduate studies, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1941 Married Alfred Métraux (divorced 1959)
1941-1949 Fieldwork, Haiti (1941, 1946, 1948-1949)
1942-1943 Research assistant, Committee on Food Habits, National Research Council
1943 Fieldwork, Mexico
1943-1945 Planning staff, Office of Strategic Services, Washington, D.C.
1946 Fieldwork, Mendoza, Argentina
1946-1947 Postgraduate studies, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1947-1948 Convener, French Group, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1947-1952 Research on contemporary cultures, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1948 Birth of son, Daniel Alfred Metraux, New York, N.Y.
1951 Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1952-1953 Assistant director, Studies in Contemporary Cultures, American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y.
1953 Published with Margaret Mead The Study of Culture at a Distance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
1953-1954 Director, Montserrat Anthropological Expedition
1954 Published with Margaret Mead Themes in French Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press
1954-1957 Research fellow, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
1957-1980 Consultant, Institute for Intercultural Studies
1960-1965 Associate director, Studies in Allopsychic Orientation, American Museum of Natural History
1965-1969 Project director, Cultural Structure Perceptual Communication, American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y.
1967-1973 Fieldwork, Papua New Guinea (1967-1968, 1971, 1972-1973)
1970-1980 Research associate, American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y.
1970 Published with Margaret Mead A Way of Seeing. New York: McCall Publishing Co.
1974 Published with Theodora Mead Abel Culture and Psychotherapy. New Haven, Conn.: College and University Press
1979 Edited Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views. New York: Walker
2003, Nov. 26 Died, Barton, Vt.