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Alfred Kroeber

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Noun1.Alfred Kroeber - United States anthropologist noted for his studies of culture (1876-1960)


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(77) In closing I would point to one of the outstanding figures in American anthropology, Alfred Kroeber, in order to show by one example how deeply a certain ideology of the American native has sunk into the marrow of modern scholarship.
Theodora Kroeber, the wife of Alfred Kroeber, notes in her book that Ishi's brain was removed during an autopsy, although she makes no mention of what happened to it.
Alfred Kroeber of Berkeley, one of the leading anthropologists of the 20th century, proclaimed Ishi the last of the Yahi Indians, a lost tribe dating back to the Stone Age.
 
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