Catherine Fowler
Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada Reno.
Ph.D, University of Pittsburgh.
Research Interests: My main research interests are in the Native cultures of the Great Basin of western North America. I focus on general ethnography, as well as specifically on material culture, ethnobiology, comparative Numic and Uto-Aztecan linguistic prehistory. I also assist tribes with language and culture restoration programs and mitigation efforts. Sub-interests include Native American art and museum anthropology.
Through the years I have worked with various Northern Paiute, Southern Paiute, Western and Timbisha Shoshone communities in the above efforts, with funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Nuclear Waste Projects Office of the State of Nevada, and most recently, the National Park Service.I remain active in small societies such as the Society of Ethnobiology, Friends of the Uto-Aztecan, and Council for Museum Anthropology, as well as the large international organizations (AAA, SAA, etc.) I am presently a Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
Selected Publications:
Fowler, C. 1986. "Ethnographic Substinence; Southern Paiute (with I.T. Kelly); Northern Paiute (with S. Liljeblad); Owens Valley Paiute (with S. Liljeblad); Ethnographic Basketry (with L. Dawson). In Handbook of North American Indians , W. Sturtevant, gen. ed., Vol. 11 Great Basin , W. d'Azevedo ed., various pages. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Fowler, C. 1990. "Willard Z. Park's Ethnographic Notes on the Northern Paiute of Western Nevada, 1933-1940." University of Utah Anthropological Papers, No. 114. Salt Lake City.
Fowler, C. 1990. "Tule Technology: Northern Paiute Uses of Marsh Resources in Western Nevada." Smithsonian Folklife Studies No. 6. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Fowler, C. 1992. "Beginning to Understand: Reflections on 30 Years of Field Work in the Great Basin." In Others Knowing Others: Perspectives on Ethnographic Careers, D.D. Fowler and D. Hardesty, eds., pp. 145-66. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Fowler, C. 1992. "In the Shadow of Fox Peak: An Ethnography of the Cattail-Eater Northern Paiute People of Stillwater Marsh." Cultural Resources Series No. 5. Portland: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Fowler, C., M. Dufort, and M. Rusco. 1994. Residence Without Reservation: Traditional Land Use Study of the Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley National Monument. Washington D.C.: National Park Service. (with Historic Preservation Committee, Timbisha Shoshone Tribe).