If I’m reading this right, this is another case where the numbers don’t fit the narrative.
In 1983, Barry would have been, according to his stated 1961 birthdate, 22 years old and on the mainland. “Several years later” (the words used in the quote), he would have been in his mid-twenties. So I don’t understand Ann’s “difficulties finishing her dissertation between making a living and raising a son. . .” at that time.
She doesn’t appear to have been around much during his “raising” years. And it doesn’t make sense to claim that she was still rearing him in adulthood.
Maggie’s reference is to the fellow
anthropologists who were traveling thru
the area and met with Dunham.