Dorothy Way Eggan was an American anthropologist noted for her research among the Hopi

Hopi

The Hopi are a federally recognized tribe of indigenous Native American people, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi area according to the 2000 census has a population of 6,946 people. Their Hopi language is one of the 30 of the Uto-Aztecan language...

 tribe.

She was born October 31, 1901, in Dover Hill, Indiana

Dover Hill, Indiana

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. During her first marriage, to Jean C. Harrington, she lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico

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, and became acquainted with the Pueblo

Pueblo

Pueblo is a term used to describe modern communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States of America. The first Spanish explorers of the Southwest used this term to describe the communities housed in apartment-like structures built of stone, adobe mud, and other local material...

 peoples. Her interest in anthropology was confirmed when Harrington entered the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 as a graduate student in archaeology. She became a secretary in the Department of Anthropology there and befriended the anthropologists Robert Redfield

Robert Redfield

Robert Redfield was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist. Redfield graduated from the University of Chicago, eventually with a J.D. from its law school and then a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, which he began to teach in 1927...

 and A. R. Radcliffe-Brown.

She divorced Harrington and married Fred Eggan

Fred Eggan

Frederick Russell Eggan was an American anthropologist best known for his innovative application of the principles of British social anthropology to the study of Native American tribes. He was the favorite student of the British social anthropologist A. R. Radcliffe-Brown during Radcliffe-Brown's...

, an anthropologist at Chicago, in 1939 and spent the following summer doing fieldwork with the Hopi in Arizona

Arizona

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. Her interests included dreams and psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...

 with respect to Hopi culture. She also became associated with the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago.

She died in July 1965.

Works

• (1949) "The Significance of Dreams for Anthropological Research." American Anthropologist, vol. 51, pp. 177-198.

• (1952) "The Manifest Content of Dreams: A Challenge to Social Science." American Anthropologist, vol. 54, pp. 469-485.

• (1961) "Dream Analysis." In Studying Personality Cross-Culturally, ed. by Bert Kaplan. Evanston: Illinois: Row, Peterson & Co.

• (1966) "Hopi Dreams in Cultural Perspective." In The Dream and Human Societies, ed. by G. von Grunebaum. Berkeley: University of California Press.