biography
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| lived:
| (1893–1953)
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Swarthmore College, PA, then at Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Harvard universities. On his return from fieldwork in Polynesia, he joined the Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and became professor of sociology at Wisconsin (1928–37), Columbia (1937–46), and Yale (1946–53). He pioneered the use of the terms status and role in social science, and exercised an important influence on the development of the culture-and-personality school of anthropology. His major work was The Study of Man (1936). |
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