Word: eck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eck has climbed step-by-step up the Harvard ladder from graduate student to teaching follow to 20th tenured woman professor. She says that although she has not felt discrimination as a woman, "I do feel the same sort of frustration that any woman feels when they are working in largely male contexts...
...Eck began her study of Indian culture and religion in her sophomore year at Smith College, with a course on Modern Indian Thinkers. That summer she studied Hindu at the University of Wisconsin and then in the fall of 1965 left for Banaras, despite the continuing war between India and Pakistan...
...Eck returned to Banaras, a traditional city on the Ganges River, for research on her dissertation "It's one of the oldest cities in the world, probably 3000 years old or more and a very sacred one for Hindus," she says...
...Eck studied at Banaras University and conducted a field work projection "Hinduism and the Indian Intellectual." She went out on her bicycle with 20 letters of introduction to the intelligentiz of Banaras to ask them which were the primary gods in their home and whether they believe in reincarnation and karma...
...fairly crude questionnaire," Eck says in retrospect...