Eleanor Kathleen Gough Aberle was born in Hunsingore, Wetherby, York, in the United Kingdom, on August 16, 1925. She was trained as an anthropologist at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities and received her Ph.D. in 1950. During this period, her extensive research fieldwork -- Kerala, India (1947-1949) and the Tanjore District, India (1950-1953) -- forms the basis for most of her published work. It followed her return trips to India in 1976, Vietnam that same year, and again in 1982. More specifically, her books include Ten Times More Beautiful: The Rebuilding of Vietnam (1978), Rural Society in Southeast India (1981), Rural Change in Southeast India, the 1950s-1980s (1989) and Political Economy in Vietnam (1990). While Gough held numerous teaching positions in both England and the United States, her most prominent included positions at Brandeis University (1961-1963), the University of Oregon (1963-1967) and Simon Fraser University (1967- 1970). In each instance, her deeply held political views, in part, precipitated her leaving these posts. However, from 1974 until her death, she had the Honorary Research Associate's rank at the University of British Columbia. Kathleen Gough died on September 8, 1990.