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Also Known As Leslie Alvin White
Born January 19, 1900 • Colorado
Died March 31, 1975 (aged 75) • California
Subjects Of Study culturology • cultural evolution
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
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Robert Redfield
American anthropologist
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Elman Rogers Service
American anthropologist
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
British anthropologist
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Sir James George Frazer
British anthropologist
Leo Frobenius
Leo Frobenius
German ethnologist
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Gustav Friedrich Klemm
German anthropologist
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
American author
Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
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Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict
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Fletcher, Alice Cunningham
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American anthropologist
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
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Matilda Coxe Stevenson
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Edward Sapir and colleagues from the University of Chicago
Edward Sapir
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A.L. Kroeber
American anthropologist
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Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
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Alfred M. Tozzer
American anthropologist