biography
| name: |
Lowie, Robert (Harry)
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pronunciation:
[lohee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1957)
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in Vienna, Austria. The son of a merchant who brought his family to the USA in 1893, he graduated from the City University of New York (1901), taught in the public schools, and took a PhD at Columbia University under Franz Boas (1908). In 1907–21 he was on the staff of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley in 1921–50. His research interests involved North American Indian societies, particularly the Crow, and his most influential general works were Primitive Society (1920), Primitive Religion (1924), and Social Organization (1948). In later years he also applied his ethnological approach to studies of Germany in such works as Toward Understanding Germany (1954). |
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