Patricia Rieff Anawalt Explained

Patricia Rieff Anawalt
Birth Date:	March 10, 1924
Birth Place:	Ripon, California
Death Place:	Los Angeles, California

Patricia Rieff Anawalt was an American anthropologist, author, and museum director.

Anawalt was born on March 10, 1924, in Ripon, California. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). After she received her PhD she started studying pre-Columbian culture, specifically dress. Anawalt went on to serve as the curator of costumes and textiles at the UCLA Museum of Cultural History. She founded the Center for the Study of Regional Dress at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.^{[1] [2]}

In 1988 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[3]

Anawalt wrote several books including The Essential Codex Mendoza (co-authored with Frances Berdan, University of California Press, 1997)^[4] and The Worldwide History of Dress (Thames & Hudson, 2007).^[5]

Anawalt died on October 2, 2015, in Los Angeles, California.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Patricia Rieff Anawalt dies at 91; UCLA anthropologist later headed family lumber company . Los Angeles Times . 15 September 2023 . 10 October 2015.
2. Web site: Anawalt, Patricia Rieff . A&AePortal . 15 September 2023 . en.
3. Web site: Patricia Rieff Anawalt . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... . 15 September 2023.
4. Book: The Codex Mendoza. Univ. of Calif. Pr . Berkeley . 978-0520062344.
5. Book: Anawalt . Patricia Rieff . The worldwide history of dress . 2007 . Thames & Hudson . London . 978-0500513637.
6. Web site: In Memoriam: Patricia Rieff Anawalt . L. B. M. Journal . 15 September 2023 . 22 October 2015.