Henny Harald Hansen

1900–1993 (age 93)

Biography

Henny Harald Hansen (née Plenge; 8 April 1900 in Copenhagen – 12 October 1993) was a Danish anthropologist and ethnographer, best remembered for her publications Daughters of Allah: Among Muslim Women in Kurdistan (1958) and Kurdish Women's Lives: Field Research in a Muslim Society (1961), studying Kurds, and in particular Kurdish women.

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