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Born April 2, 1883 • Łódź • Poland
Died February 21, 1959 (aged 75) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study Ho-Chunk • Indigenous North American languages • culture • primitive culture
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Elman Rogers Service
American anthropologist
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
British anthropologist
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict
American anthropologist and author
Fletcher, Alice Cunningham
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American anthropologist
Edward Sapir and colleagues from the University of Chicago
Edward Sapir
American linguist
A.L. Kroeber
American anthropologist
Alfred M. Tozzer
American anthropologist
Carleton S. Coon
American anthropologist
Joseph H. Greenberg
American anthropologist and linguist
Julian Steward
Julian Steward
American anthropologist
Robert H. Lowie
American anthropologist
Géza Róheim
American ethnologist
William Duncan Strong
American anthropologist
Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn
American anthropologist
Sol Tax
American anthropologist
John Reed Swanton
American anthropologist