biography
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Steward, Julian H(aynes)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1902–72)
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He studied at Cornell and the University of California, Berkeley, and became director of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution (1943), professor at Columbia (1946), and research professor in anthropology at Illinois (1956–72). He was concerned with cultures as adaptive systems geared to specific environments, and advocated a multilinear approach to cultural evolution. He edited the major Handbook of the South American Indians (1946–59). |
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