biography
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Murdock, George P(eter)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1985)
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in Meriden, Connecticut, USA. He studied at Yale, and taught there (1928–60) and at Pittsburgh (1960–71). He initiated the cross-cultural survey, later known as the ‘human relations area files’, as an instrument of sociological and anthropological generalization. His best-known work is Social Structure (1949), in which he focused on family and kinship organization, seeking sets of functionally interrelated traits in a wide range of societies. |
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