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Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, died on 11 October 1981 in the Philippines, while she and her husband, anthropologist Renato I.

Rosaldo, Jr., were preparing to do fieldwork among the Ifugao. She was walking with two Ifugao women guides along the edge of a cliff, misstepped, and fell into a river below. Although she was only 37, she leaves behind both a rich body of work and a group of colleagues and students profoundly influenced by her thinking.

Shelly Rosaldo’s work contributed to a number of anthropological subfields, including Philippine ethnography, symbolic anthropology, socio-linguistics, and the study of gender; at the same time it conveyed her commitment to transcending classification schemes rather than to fitting into them.

Her book on the Ilongots of Northern Luzon, is itself a passionate argument against the use of such conventional and overlapping analytic dichotomies as denotative/con