Catherine S. Fowler

Catherine "Kay" S. Fowler is an anthropologist whose work has focused on preserving the cultures of the native people of the Great Basin.^[1] She earned her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh,^[2] and from 1964 to 2007 taught at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she is now Professor Emerita.^[1]

Fowler is a research associate for the Nevada State Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History where she has participated in the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records,^[3] and she has served as president of the Society of Ethnobiology.^[4] In 1995 she was named Outstanding Researcher of the Year at the University of Nevada, Reno.^[5] In 2011, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences^[6] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[7]

Selected publications[]

• Fowler, Catherine S., and Joyce E. Bath. 1981. “Pyramid Lake Northern Paiute Fishing: The Ethnographic Record.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 3(2): 176–186.
• Fowler, Catherine S., and Nancy Peterson Walter. 1985. Harvesting the Pandora Moth Larvae with Owens Valley Paiute. Journal of California and the Great Basin Anthropology 7(2): 155–165.
• Fowler, Catherine S. and Lawrence E. Dawson. “Ethnographic Basketry,” In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 11. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1986 ISBN 978-0-16-004581-3
• Fowler, Catherine S. and Sven Liljeblad. “Northern Paiute,” In Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 11. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1986. ISBN 978-0-16-004581-3
• Fowler, Catherine S. (compiler and editor) Willard Z. Parks Ethnographic Notes on the Northern Paiute of Western Nevada 1933–1940. Anthropological Paper Number 114 Volume 1 1990. ISBN 978-0-87480-316-7.
• Fowler, Catherine S. In the Shadow of Fox Peak: an ethnography of the Cattail-eater Northern Paiute people of Stillwater Marsh. Nevada: Nevada Humanities Committee, 2002, 1992. ISBN 978-1-890591-12-0.
• Fowler, Catherine S. 1992. Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics in the Great Basin: Some Proposals for the 1990s. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 14(1): 13–21.
• Fowler, Catherine S. and Don D. Fowler (eds.) The Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times. 2008. ISBN 978-1-930618-95-4 / ISBN 978-1-930618-96-1 (Winner of the 2009 New Mexico Book Award in the Anthropology/Archaeology/Science category) ^[8]
• Sven Liljeblad, Catherine S. Fowler, & Glenda Powell. 2012. The Northern Paiute-Bannock Dictionary, with an English-Northern Paiute-Bannock Finder List and a Northern Paiute-Bannock-English Finder List. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

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