took possession of six large estates. She also described the rise of the fascists to power throughout Italy at the time, and the role of the Sicilian Mafia in village life, with Milocca the site of a mass arrest of suspected mafiosi in January 1928. Gower's Milocca is considered a comprehensive community study focusing on social stratification, while also serving as an account of Sicilian kinship, religious beliefs and practices, including the annual processions of saints or festas, and remains one of the only accounts of Sicilian village life from the pre-war period, and is cited extensively in John Davis's People of the Mediterranean (1977). Charlotte Gower joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in 1930 as an assistant professor, but left in 1938 to take a teaching position at Ling-Nan University in China. References American women anthropologists CIA activities in Asia 1902 births 1982 deaths American ethnologists Women ethnologists University of Chicago alumni People of the Office of Strategic Services 20th-century American women scientists 20th-century American scientists