Jeannette Mageo
American psychological anthropologist
Jeannette Marie Mageo (1947 – February 12, 2023) was an American psychological anthropologist at Washington State University. She was known for her anthropological work that focused on dreams and the self, attachment and childhood, gender and sexuality.
Mageo died on February 12, 2023.
Education and career
Mageo was born in 1947. She received her B.A. at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, in 1970 and her doctoral degree, in psychological anthropology, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1979. Her dissertation was titled "The image and the soul. An Anthropological Critique of Jung’s Psychology." She subsequently worked at multiple institutions including American Samoa Community College, the University of California at Los Angeles, University College London, and the University of Hawaiʻi. In 1993, she joined Washington State University as an assistant professor and was then promoted by professor in 2003. Mageo began serving as chair of the Faculty Senate in 2018.
Selected publications
1996 Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind.
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