in May 1958 at Northwestern University. The product of this conference was the Field Guide to West and Central Africa (1959), by Alvin William Wolfe. Albert became the Assistant Director of Ethnology for the National Science Foundation Project on Educational Resources in Anthropology for 1960 and 1961. Later life Albert actively encouraged the continuation of her work in semiotics and ethnographic semantics. In 1966, Albert commented on a paper about ethnographic semantics, stating that she hoped that more work would be done related to this topic in the field. Later in life, Albert began a manuscript on cross cultural studies of fatalism, but it remains unpublished. Notes and drafts of Albert's unpublished manuscript are in the Ethel Mary Albert Papers at the National Anthropological Archives. Semiotician Thomas Albert Seboek notes that he kept in touch with Albert throughout the 1960s after he first met her in Kluckhohn's Harvard office. He explains in his book Global Semiotics that Albert was forced into early retirement due to a progressive chronic disease. Albert died in October 1989 in Sarasota, Florida at the age of 71. The Ethel Mary Albert Papers are kept at the National Anthropological Archives. Albert's papers include writings, photographs, and sound recordings from her research among the Burundi, Rundi texts and biographies, research materials from Albert's fieldwork with the Navajo (Diné), and materials related to cross cultural studies of fatalism. Selected bibliography 1956 "The classification of values: a method and illustration." American Anthropologist 58, no. 2: 221–248. 1960 "Socio-political organization and receptivity to change: Some differences between Ruanda and Urundi." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 16, no. 1: 46–74. 1963 "Women of Burundi: A study of social values." In Women of tropical Africa, edited by Denise Paulme, pp. 179–217. 1963 "Conflict and Change in American Values a Culture-Historical Approach." Ethics 74, no. 1 (1963): 19–33. 1964 “'Rhetoric,' 'Logic,' and 'Poetics' in Burundi: Culture Patterning of Speech Behavior." American Anthropologist 66, no. 6: 35–54. 1969 Great Traditions in Ethics. New York: American Book Co. 1970 “Conceptual Systems in Africa.” In The African Experience, Volume I: Essays, edited by John N. Paden and Edward W. Soja, pp. 99–100. References American ethnologists 1918 births 1989 deaths Writers from New Britain, Connecticut Semioticians Brooklyn College alumni Columbia University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Brooklyn College faculty Syracuse University faculty American women anthropologists 20th-century American women 20th-century American people American women