Kathleen Gough
| Kathleen Gough | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Eleanor Kathleen Gough Aberle 16 August 1925 Hunsingore, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 8 September 1990 (aged 65) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) |
Eric John Miller (m. 1947–50) David Aberle (m. 1955) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | King James's Grammar School, Knaresborough |
| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | J. H. Hutton and Meyer Fortes |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Sub discipline | |
| Institutions |
Brandeis University University of Oregon Simon Fraser University University of British Columbia |
Eleanor Kathleen Gough Aberle (16 August 1925 – 8 September 1990) was a British anthropologist and feminist who was known for her work in South Asia and South-East Asia. As a part of her doctorate work, she did field research in Malabar district from 1947 to 1949. She did further research in Tanjore district from 1950 to 1953 and again in 1976, and in Vietnam in 1976 and 1982. In addition, some of her work included campaigning for: nuclear disarmament, the civil rights movement, women's rights, the third world and the end of the Vietnam War. She was known for her Marxist leanings and was on an FBI .
Kathleen Gough was born on 16 August 1925 in Hunsingore, a village near Wetherby in Yorkshire, England, that then had a population of 100, no electricity and no piped water. She had a brother and a half-sister. Her father, Albert, was a blacksmith who became involved in the introduction of agricultural machinery to the area and has been described by David Price as being a "working-class radical".
She was educated at the church school in Hunsingore, from where she obtained a scholarship to King James's Grammar School, Knaresborough and then, in 1943, to Girton College, Cambridge. She excelled in anthropology at Girton and pursued postgraduate research. She received her Ph.D form Girton College in 1950. In July 1947, while undertaking that research, she married Eric John Miller, who was also a student. The couple undertook anthropological fieldwork in Kerala, with Gough being supervised by the old-fashioned J. H. Hutton until his retirement and then by the more modern-thinking Meyer Fortes. Gough and Miller found the strain of fieldwork impacted on their marriage and they divorced amicably in 1950. She completed her doctorate in anthropology from Cambridge University in the same year and returned to India alone to pursue further fieldwork.
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