biography
| name: |
Graebner, (Robert) Fritz
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pronunciation:
[graybner]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1934)
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| biography:
| Ethnologist, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied in Berlin and joined the staff of the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin in 1899, but moved to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne in 1906 (director in 1925), and became honorary professor at Cologne University in 1926. He is principally known for developing the theory of Kulturkreise (culture complex), clusters of diffusing cultural traits which he used to explain cultural similarities and differences. His most important work, Methode der Ethnologie (1911, Method of Ethnology), became the cornerstone for the German culture-historical school of ethnology. |
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