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Ellen Dissanayake
American anthropologist
Ellen Dissanayake[pronunciation?] (born Ellen Franzen), an American anthropologist and writer focusing on art and culture.[1] She lives in Seattle, Washington, and is affiliated with the University of Washington.[2]
Biography
Dissanayake's birth name was Ellen Franzen; she was born in Illinois and raised in Walla Walla, Washington, where her father was an engineer and her mother a homemaker.
She received a B.A. degree from Washington State University in 1957 (Humanities: Music and Philosophy) and an M.A. from the University of Maryland in 1970. (Art History)[3] For her work she has received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, in 2013.[4]
She cites[citation needed][year needed] "lived experience" abroad where she observed first-hand the cultural differences and attitudes toward art and
