biography
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Spier, Leslie Ephraim
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| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1961)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in New York, USA. He was a specialist in American Indian culture, particularly known for his work on the Ghost Dance religion. During a long teaching career ending at the University of New Mexico (1939–55), he helped develop anthropology as an academic discipline and led the application of ethnographical techniques to historical research. |
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