My mother, Susan Drucker-Brown, who has died aged 87, was a distinguished anthropologist whose warmth and humour lasted throughout her life.
Susan began field research in Mexico – in Jamiltepec, Oaxaca – in the early 1960s, after graduating from the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico City. She learned the local language, Nahuatl, and studied the transition of villagers to Spanish-speaking Mexicans. Her work on changing clothing styles was the subject of an exhibition held last year in Oaxaca. In later life, given a guitar and some wine, Susan would sing songs about electrification in rural Mexico.
