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Alfred Kroeber

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Noun1.Alfred Kroeber - United States anthropologist noted for his studies of culture (1876-1960)
Alfred Louis Kroeber, Kroeber
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Knudson's team studied 16 trophy heads found in 1925-26 at five Nasca sites by the late anthropologist Alfred Kroeber.
Taking trophy heads close to home: ritual skulls may be from local ... by Bower, Bruce / Science News
The problem is that, while anthropologists have spent a century rigorously debating what culture means, Huntington ignores (or is ignorant of) the last 60 years of this discussion, relying on early 20th century figures like Alfred Kroeber as the source of his "model of cultures as internally coherent units, different and irreconciliable with one another" (Besteman and Gusterson: 44).
The promise and peril of public anthropology by Feinberg, Ben / Human Rights & Human Welfare
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.
Making the American berdache: Choice or constraint? by Trexler, Richard C. / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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