Schneider, David Murray, 1918-....

Variant names

Hide Profile

While at the University of Chicago, Schneider taught in the Department of Anthropology. He was director of the Kinship Project, which was a study funded by the National Science Foundation that explored the way middle-class families in the United States and the United Kingdom respond to their kinship relations. Perhaps Schneider's most famous publication was American Kinship: A Cultural Account (1968).

From the description of David M. Schneider papers, 1918-1994 (inclusive) (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 773088069

David M. Schneider was born on November 11, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York. He was educated at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, where he received a B.S. in 1940 and an M.A. in 1941. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard in 1949, based on fieldwork on the Micronesian island of Yap.

After graduate school, Schneider first taught at the University of California, Berkeley before accepting a position at the University of Chicago in 1960. While at the University of Chicago, he taught in the Department of Anthropology, serving as its chair between 1963 and 1966, and in the Committee on Human Development. He retired from the University of Chicago in 1986, and worked in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz until his death on October 30,1995.

While at Chicago, Schneider was director of the Kinship Project, which was a study funded by the National Science Foundation that explored the way middle-class families in the United States and the United Kingdom respond to their kinship relations. A number of publications grew out of his work with this project which argued that kinship relations needed to be understood as cultural and social phenomena. Perhaps Schneider's most famous publication was American Kinship: A Cultural Account (1968).

From the guide to the Schneider, David M. Papers, 1918-1994, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.)

Archival Resources
Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf Freeman, Derek. Papers, 1940-2000. University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library
referencedIn Dell H. Hymes Papers, 1947-1992 American Philosophical Society
creatorOf Schneider, David M. Papers, 1918-1994 Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library,
referencedIn Derek Freeman Papers, 1940 - 2001 University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.
creatorOf Schneider, David Murray, 1918-1995. David M. Schneider papers, 1918-1994 (inclusive) University of Chicago Library
Role Title Holding Repository
Relation Name
correspondedWith Freeman, Derek person
associatedWith Freeman, Derek. person
associatedWith Hymes, Dell H. person
associatedWith Mescalero Indians corporateBody
associatedWith University of Chicago. Dept. of Anthropology. corporateBody
associatedWith Yap (Micronesia) corporateBody
Place Name Admin Code Country
United States
Subject
Anthropologists
Anthropology
Families
Kinship
Yap (Micronesia)
Occupation
Activity

Person

Birth 1918-11-11

Death 1995-10-30

Americans

English

Information

Permalink: http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b35f5g

Ark ID: w6b35f5g

SNAC ID: 22379070