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| Cultural anthropologist and linguist, born in Lodz, Poland. His rabbi father took the family to Elmira, NY (1884) and he went on to graduate from the City College of New York (1902). He studied under Franz Boas at Columbia and received a PhD in 1911. He did extensive fieldwork among the Ojibwa and Winnebago Indians and in Mexico, and his Primitive Man as Philosopher appeared in 1927. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Fiske College and Black Mountain College (North Carolina), and from 1957 until his death he headed the anthropology department at Brandeis University. |
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