Signe Howell

Signe Lise Howell (15 July 1942 – 26 January 2025) was a Norwegian social anthropologist.

Background Howell was born in Tinn to physician Finn Oddvar Lie and Lise Thomassen. She was married to performance artist Anthony Howell from 1970 to 1977, and to Desmond James McNeill from 1986.

Career Howell was a co-founder of the London-based experimental street theatre The Theatre of Mistakes in the 1960s. Among her works are Chewong Myths and Legends from 1982, and Society and Cosmos. Chewong of Peninsular Malaysia from 1984. She co-edited Blod – tykkere enn vann? Betydninger av slektskap i Norge (2001).