Tue, Oct 17
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Shelby Tisdale, No Place for a Lady: The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie F. Lambert
In this delightful biography, we gain insight into a time when there were few women establishing full-time careers in anthropology, archaeology, or museums. Women’s voices have long been absent throughout history, and Marjorie Lambert’s story adds to the growing literature on feminist archaeology.
Date, Time & Location
Oct 17, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Shelby will be in conversation with award-winning author Lesley Poling-Kempes (The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West; Valley of Shining Stone: The Story of Abiquiu; Georgia O’Keeffe & New Mexico, and Ghost Ranch.)
This will be an in-store event and will be live streamed to Zoom, register here for Zoom.
Copies of No Place for a Lady ($33, paperback) can be purchased online from CW here or by calling the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
In the first half of the twentieth century, the canyons and mesas of the Southwest beckoned and the burgeoning field of archaeology thrived. Among those who heeded the call, Marjorie Ferguson Lambert became one of only a handful of women who left their imprint on the study of southwestern archaeology and anthropology.
Shelby Tisdale successfully combines Lambert’s voice from extensive interviews with her own to take us on…