T. Scarlett Epstein

Trude Scarlett Epstein (1922 – 2014), née Grünwald, was a British-Austrian social anthropologist and economist, and a member of the "Manchester School" of anthropology.

Life and work Trude Grünwald, born 13 July 1922 in Vienna to a Jewish family, she was the daughter of the travelling salesman Siegfried Grünwald and Rosa Grünwald. She had two brothers and grew up in the Karl-Marx-Hof housing complex. She was a student at the Glasergasse high school in the ninth district in 1938, when she and her family became refugees following the Nazi annexation of Austria. She has described how "she and all the other Jewish students had been chased out of school in 1938 amid great jeering."

According to an obituary, Epstein became "one of the world's most recognized social anthropologists and taught at various universities in England, Australia, the USA, Israel, Papua New Guinea and India". Her final residence was in Hove, England.

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