Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Anthropology

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Frank Waters, American Writer
(1902-1995)

Just the Facts:

Name: Frank Waters
Birth: July 25, 1902, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Death: June 3, 1995, Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American writer; novels: The Man Who Killed the Deer; The Yogi of Cockroach Court; The Woman at Otowi Crossing; also, Book of The Hopi; Pumpkin Seed Point
Included in lists (What's This?): (SW)

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Oliver La Farge, American Novelist and Anthropologist
(1901-1963)

Just the Facts:

Name: Oliver La Farge
Birth: December 19, 1901, New York City, New York, USA
Death: August 2, 1963, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American novelist and anthropologist; Laughing Boy; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, (1929)
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

A. L. Kroeber, American Cultural Anthropologist
(1876-1960)

Kroeber with Ishi, last member of the Yahi tribe

Just the Facts:

Name: Alfred Louis Kroeber
Known as: A. L. Kroeber
Birth: June 11, 1876, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Death: October 5, 1960, Paris, France
Language: English
Who he was: American cultural anthropologist; Handbook of the Indians of California

Herbert E. Bolton, American Historian
(1870-1953)

Just the Facts:

Name: Herbert E. Bolton
Birth: July 20, 1870, between Wilton and Tomah, Wisconsin, USA
Death: January 30, 1953, Berkeley, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American historian; Anza's California Expeditions
Included in lists (What's This?): CA

Franz Boas, German-American Anthropologist
(1858-1942)

Just the Facts:

Name: Franz Boas
Birth: July 9, 1858, Minden, Germany
Death: December 21, 1942, New York, USA
Language: German, English
Who he was: German-American anthropologist; The Mind of Primitive Man; Folk-tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes

James George Frazer, Scottish Anthropologist
(1854-1941)

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Name: James George Frazer
Birth: January 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Death: May 7, 1941, Cambridge, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: Scottish anthropologist; mythology and comparative religion, especially The Golden Bough
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)

George Bird Grinnell, American Naturalist
(1849-1938)

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Name: George Bird Grinnell
Birth: September 20, 1849, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Death: April 11, 1938, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer; The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways; Pawnee Hero Stories; Blackfoot Lodge Tales; founded the first Audubon Society in America, and co-founded the New York Zoological Society

Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist
(1901-1978)

Just the Facts:

Name: Margaret Mead
Birth: December 16, 1901, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: November 15, 1978, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American cultural anthropologist; Coming of Age in Samoa; Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, French Anthropologist
(1908-2009)

Just the Facts:

Name: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Birth: November 28, 1908, Brussels, Belgium
Death: October 30, 2009, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French anthropologist who wrote Tristes Tropiques (Sad Tropics); La Pensée Sauvage (The Savage Mind); Le Cru et le Cuit (The Raw and the Cooked); Myth and Meaning
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 2); Bloom

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

Ruth Benedict, American Anthropologist
(1887-1948)

Just the Facts:

Name: Ruth Benedict
Birth: June 5, 1887, New York City, New York, USA
Death: September 17, 1948, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American anthropologist particularly interested in the American Southwest; wrote Patterns of Culture; The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

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