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==Later life and legacy==
In 1968, Hortense Powdermaker retired from [[Queens College, New York|Queens College]], where she had founded the department of [[anthropology]] and [[sociology]], and moved to [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], where she remained engaged in ethnographic fieldwork.  She died two years later of a heart attack.

The building on the Queens College campus that houses the anthropology and sociology departments (along with other social science disciplines) is named in her memory.<ref>[http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Map/powdermaker_hall.php Queens College – CUNY<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125065951/http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Map/powdermaker_hall.php |date=2008-01-25 }}</ref>