Department of Anthropology Records, 1930-1985.

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Fried, Morton H. (Morton Herbert), 1923-1986

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Skinner, Elliott P. (Elliott Percival), 1924-2007

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Greenberg, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1915-2001

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Professor of linguistics at Stanford University. From the description of Joseph H. Greenberg notebooks documenting Pacific languages, circa 1969-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122369578 Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. From the description of Joseph H. Greenberg lectures delivered at UCLA summer institute : typescript, 1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 705271803 Greenberg, a linguist who studied the origins of the world's langua...

Holloway, Ralph L.

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Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948

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Anthropologist. Vassar College Class of 1909. From the description of Papers, 1905-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155518646 Anthropologist. Vassar College Class of 1909. From the description of Ruth Fulton Benedict papers, 1905-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576400 ...

Wagley, Charles, 1913-

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Charles Wagley was born November 9, 1913 at Clarksville, Texas. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1941. He served as Professor of Anthropology, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. He was a staff member of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Brazilian Field Party and held several positions, including directorships, with various programs to the Brazilian-American Public Health Ser...

Columbia University. Department of Anthropology

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED The Department of Anthropology at Columbia University was established in 1902 as part of the Faculty of Philosophy, under the direction of Professor Franz Boas. At the time of its establishment, the department was also staffed by Livingston Farrand as Adjunct Professor and Joseph Hershey Bair as Assistant. Courses offered in 1902 included Anthropology, General Introductory Course, Ethnography of America, Ethnography of the Pacific Islands and of Africa, The Statist...

Solecki, Ralph S

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Ralph S. Solecki, Ph.D. (b. 1917) is an archaeologist and professor emeritus at Columbia University. He has conducted excavations in the United States, the Middle East, and eastern Europe. He is most well-known for his excavations at Shanidar Cave in the Zagros Mountains of Iraq during the 1950s, which were integral to the study of Neanderthals. In 1977, Solecki conducted an archeaological survey of several areas of Brooklyn for the Red Hook Water Pollution Control Project, which wa...

Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier), 1910-1997

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Conrad M. Arensberg was born on September 12, 1910 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Academically inclined from a young age, he excelled at school and graduated first in his class at Shadyside Academy in Pittsburgh. His early success earned him admittance into Harvard College. When he left for Cambridge, he was “singing for joy over each of the seven ridges of the Alleghenies, vowing never ever to return, but to remain forever in the greater world of Boston and beyond” (Comitas 2000). Harvard brough...

Murphy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1924-1990

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