Marlene Dobkin de Rios explained

Marlene Dobkin de Rios
Birth Date:12 April 1939
Alma Mater:Queens College, City University of New York
New York University
University of California, Riverside
Workplaces:California State University, Fullerton
Birth Place:The Bronx, New York City, U.S.[1]
Death Place:Placentia, California, U.S.
Occupation:Cultural anthropologist, medical anthropologist, psychotherapist
Children:2

Marlene Dobkin de Rios (April 12, 1939 – November 10, 2012) was an American cultural anthropologist, medical anthropologist, and psychotherapist. She conducted fieldwork in the Amazon for almost 30 years. Her research included the use of entheogenic plants by the indigenous peoples of Peru.

Early life and education

Dobkin de Rios was born in 1939 in The Bronx into a Ukrainian Jewish family. She was the daughter of Bernard Dobkin, a salesman from Kyiv, and Anne (née Schwartz), a bookkeeper whose parents emigrated from Galicia.[2] Her family were Russian Jews.

Dobkin de Rios completed a bachelor's degree in clinical psychology at Queens College, City University of New York in 1959. In 1963, Dobkin de Rios earned a M.A. in anthropology from New York University. She researched gender issues including the social aspects of purdah in Turkey and the French colonial empire's policies impacting women in French West Africa.[3]

She conducted doctoral research on the Preclassic Maya's use of psychoactive plants. In 1972, she earned a Ph.D. at University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation was titled The Use of Hallucinogenic Substances in Peruvian Amazonian Folk Healing.[4]

Career

In 1972, Dobkin de Rios became a tenured professor cultural anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. She taught at Fullerton from 1969 until her retirement in 2000. Dobkin de Rios led fieldwork in the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon for almost thirty years.[5] Her research included the use of entheogenic plants by the indigenous peoples of Peru.

From 1999 to 2000, Dobkin de Rios directed the qualitative dimension of research of ayahuasca use among adolescents within the União do Vegetal in Brazil.

Dobkin de Rios was a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. She served as president of the Ethnopharmacology Society (1979-1981) and the (1979-1980).[6]

Personal life

On November 7, 1969, Dobkin married artist Yando Rios, son of Peruvian healer Don Hilde.[7] They had two children. Dobkin de Rios died on November 10, 2012, in Placentia, California of cancer.[8]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910–1965
  2. New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794–1943
  3. Web site: Francuski. Xavier. 2019-06-27. Marlene Dobkin de Rios: The Mother of Ayahuasca Research (1939-2012). 2021-09-07. Kahpi. en-US.
  4. The Use of Hallucinogenic Substances in Peruvian Amazonian Folk Healing. 1972. English. Marlene. Dobkin de Rios. Ph.D.. University of California, Riverside. 982683.
  5. Web site: Dobkin de Rios, Marlene. 2021-09-07. Purdue University.
  6. October 24, 2014. Marlene Dobkin De Rios. Contemporary Authors. Gale In Context: Biography.
  7. 2002. Marlene Dobkin De Rios. Directory of American Scholars. Gale.
  8. Web site: Erowid Marlene Dobkin de Rios Vault. 2021-09-07. erowid.org.
  9. Reviews of Visionary Vine:
    • Mithun. Jacqueline S.. 1976. Review. American Anthropologist. 78. 2. 393–394. 10.1525/aa.1976.78.2.02a00660 . 0002-7294. 675296.
    • Cowan. Jonathan. 1973. Review. Medical Anthropology Newsletter. 4. 4. 13–14. 10.1525/maq.1973.4.4.02a00090 . 0543-2499. 648210.
    • Rubel. Arthur J.. June 1976. Review. American Anthropologist. en. 78. 2. 394–395. 10.1525/aa.1976.78.2.02a00670. 0002-7294. free.
  10. Reviews of Hallucinogens, Cross-Cultural Perspectives:
    • Furst. Peter T.. 1985. Review. American Ethnologist. 12. 3. 594–596. 10.1525/ae.1985.12.3.02a00510 . 0094-0496. 644579. free.
    • Joralemon. Donald. 1985. Review. American Anthropologist. 87. 4. 959–960. 10.1525/aa.1985.87.4.02a00540 . 0002-7294. 678192. free.
    • Blätter. Andrea. 1987. Review. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 112. 2. 310–312. 0044-2666. 25842036.
    • Collins. Darron. Darron Collins. 1998. Review. Economic Botany. 52. 1. 115–116. 0013-0001. 4256039.
  11. Luhrmann. Tanya. Tanya Luhrmann. 1993. Review. Man. 28. 3. 621. 10.2307/2804268. 0025-1496. 2804268.
  12. Reviews of A Hallucinogentic Tea, Laced with Controversy:
    • Luke. David. June 2011. Review. Time and Mind. en. 4. 1. 115–118. 10.2752/175169711X12900033260600. 161154958 . 1751-696X.
    • Heath. D. B.. June 2009. Review. Choice Reviews. 46. 10. 1982. 0009-4978. 1943-5975.
  13. Reviews of The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios:
    • Smith. David E.. David E. Smith. April 2011. Review. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. en. 43. 2. 172–173. 10.1080/02791072.2011.587716. 58661967 . 0279-1072.
    • Heinrich. Michael. March 2010. Review. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. en. 128. 1. 258. 10.1016/j.jep.2010.01.010.

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