Elizabeth Florence Colson (born June 15, 1917) is an American social anthropologist and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is best known for the classic long-term study of the Tonga people of the Gwembe Valley in Zambia and Zimbabwe, which she began in 1956 with Thayer Scudder (11 years after she obtained her doctorate and when Scudder was a second-year graduate student). Dr.
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