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Mabel Cook Cole
A white woman with short dark hair, wearing a dark jacket with a white lace lapel detail
Mabel Cook Cole, from her 1922 passport application
Born(1880-04-18)April 18, 1880
Plano, Illinois, U.S.
DiedNovember 13, 1977(1977-11-13) (aged 97)
Pomona, California, U.S.
OccupationWriter, anthropologist
GenreChildren's literature; also Philippine anthropology topics
SpouseFay-Cooper Cole

Mabel Cook Cole (April 18, 1880 – November 13, 1977) was an American writer and anthropologist. She specialized in the study of ancient humans, and in studying the people of the Philippines and Malaysia.

Early life and education

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Mabel Elizabeth Cook was born in Plano, Illinois, the daughter of Amer Brewer Cook and Ella Augusta Webster Cook. She graduated from Plano High School, and in 1903 from Northwestern University.[1]

Career

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Cole taught anthropology courses at Cornell University.[2] She studied folk culture and stories in the Philippines and Malaysia,[3][4] and made recordings of songs and spoken tales.[5] She also assisted her husband Fay-Cooper Cole in research, and in writing about their findings.[6] She was a member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood philanthropic organization,[7] the Society of Women Geographers,[8] and the National League of American Pen Women.[9] The Coles retired to California in 1948.[10]

Cover of Mabel Cook Cole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916)
Cover of Mabel Cook Cole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916)

Publications

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Cole's Philippine Folk Tales (1916) were "literary retellings with the aim of making acceptable narratives", according to one review.[11]

Personal life

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Cook married fellow anthropologist Fay-Cooper Cole.[15] They had one child, Lamont. Her husband died in 1961,[18] and Cole died in 1977, at the age of 97, in Pomona, California.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Obituary for Mabel C. Cole". Progress Bulletin. November 27, 1977. p. 5. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ a b "Mabel Cook Cole". The Ithaca Journal. November 25, 1977. p. 4. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ Fitzgerald, Helen (August 10, 1930). "Is Member of Head Hunter Tribe". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 63. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Today's Women: Mabel Cole". The Buffalo News. April 18, 1931. p. 31. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ McNamara, Sue (February 22, 1930). "Woman's Way Among Savages Smoothed with Tunes on Wax". Freeport Journal-Standard. p. 6. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ Cruz, Ruby Ann B. Dela, Wayne Orchiston, Rose Ann B. Bautista, Princess B. Tucio, Jesus Rodrigo F. Torres, and Ryan Manuel D. Guido. "Mabel Cook Cole’s Philippine Folk Tales: An Ethnoastronomical Analysis" Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 25, no. 2 (2022): 237-271.
  • ^ "P. E. O. Sisterhood Honors Its Supreme President". Evening star. April 20, 1930. p. 33. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Visitors to Lend Interest to Social Life; Prominent Folk Go to Riviera". The Birmingham News. February 2, 1930. p. 32. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Washington Society". Chicago Tribune. April 22, 1930. p. 33. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ Holcombe, Chet (October 7, 1948). "Couple Back 'Home' After Years of Writing, Travels". Santa Barbara News-Press. p. 14. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ F., D. S. (1917). "Review of Mabel Cook Cole". The Journal of American Folklore. 30 (116): 280–281. doi:10.2307/534352. ISSN 0021-8715.
  • ^ Philippine Folk Tales. A. C. McClurg & Company. 1916. ISBN 978-1-4142-3620-9.
  • ^ "The Magazines". The Fresno Morning Republican. August 10, 1924. p. 20. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ Cole, Mabel Cook (1929). Savage Gentlemen. D. Van Nostrand Company, Incorporated.
  • ^ a b "Jungle Honeymoon; An Anthropologist Takes His Bride to Wilds of Philippines". Columbia Missourian. October 19, 1929. p. 12. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ Cole, Mabel Cook. "The Island of Nias, at the Edge of the World" National Geographic 60(2)(1931): 201-224.
  • ^ "Readers Enriched by Wonder Series; Volumes Unfold New Worlds of Culture and Learning". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 29, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved May 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ Eggan, Fred (June 1963). "Fay-Cooper Cole 1881–1961". American Anthropologist. 65 (3): 641–648. doi:10.1525/aa.1963.65.3.02a00090. ISSN 0002-7294.
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