Ethel Gertrude Goldberg Aginsky (September 24, 1910 – March 28, 1990) was a linguistic anthropologist, author, and professor, who conducted research among Indigenous peoples of California, primarily on the Pomo.
[9] She and her husband served as co-directors of the Institute for World Peace and Understanding in La Jolla, California.
[1] Starting in the 1930s, she conducted fieldwork with her anthropologist husband Burt W. Aginsky with Pomo people in California.
[12][6] The work conducted at the field laboratory culminated in the co-authored book Deep Valley,[1] which included interviews with Tim Jimerson, a Pomo man who spoke on the identification of self within the community.
[10] In 1964 Aginsky spent time in Miami at the Seaquarium on an anthropological study centering on language usage by porpoises.