biography
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Wissler, Clark(son Davis)
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| (1870–1947)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in Wayne Co, Indiana, USA. He spent his career at the American Museum of Natural History (1902–47). He popularized anthropology as an academic discipline and formulated the concept of North American ‘culture areas’ and the ‘age-area’ theory of the diffusion of culture. In 1917 he wrote a landmark text, The American Indian. |
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