biography
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La Farge, Oliver (Hazard Perry)
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| lived:
| (1901–63)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist and writer, born in New York City, New York, USA. An architect's son, he graduated from Harvard in 1924. With a background of three field trips into Navajo country, he became an assistant in ethnology at Tulane (1925), and co-wrote Tribes and Temples (1927), an ethnology of the Guatemalan Indians. A prolific writer, his novel Laughing Boy won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929. He headed the Association of American Indian Affairs, and in the 1950s became a prominent champion of Native American political and social causes. |
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