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| (1927–2001)
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| Cultural anthropologist and writer, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at Columbia University (1949 BA; 1953 PhD) and joined the faculty there in 1952. He was chairman of the anthropology department at Columbia (1963–6) before becoming professor of anthropology at the University of Florida. Occasionally controversial for his claims, such as that the Aztecs gained much of their necessary protein from eating sacrificial victims, he gained a reputation as a ‘comparative’ anthropologist by studying the findings and issues common to the work of his fellow anthropologists in many areas. He then demonstrated an ability to relate these professional matters to concerns of a broader public in such works as Cannibals and Kings (1977) and Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where Are We Going (1990). |
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