Signe Howell

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Signe Lise Howell
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Signe Lise Lie

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Tinn, Norway
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Oslo, Norway
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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.[1]

Howell died in Oslo on 26 January 2025, at the age of 82.[2][3]

Career

Howell was a co-founder of the London based experimental street theatre The Theatre of Mistakes in the 1960s.[1]

She studied history at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies and social anthropology at the Oxford University. She investigated social structures in South-East Asia, and made field studies among the Chewong people in Malaya and Lio people in Flores in Indonesia. She was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1989.[1][2][4] 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).[1] She was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[5]

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  1. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smedal, Olaf (2001). "Howell, Signe". In Arntzen, Jon Gunnar (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in norsk). Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. pp. 408–409. ISBN 82-573-1006-9.
  2. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schackt, Jon. "Signe Howell". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in norsk). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Professor Signe Howell har gått bort". uio.no (in norsk). 27 January 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Toft, Martin (27 August 2007). "Adoptert av eit urfolk i Malaysias jungel". Uniforum (in Norwegian). Retrieved 16 January 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Medlemmer - Klassen for humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap - Norske medlemmer". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 4 February 2025.

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