Alfred L. Kroeber Biography

Alfred L. Kroeber, Scientist
Born asAlfred Louis Kroeber
Occup.Scientist
FromUSA
BornJune 11, 1876
Hoboken, New Jersey
DiedOctober 5, 1960
Paris, France
Aged84 years
Alfred Louis Kroeber was just one of one of the most significant personalities in American sociology in the first half of the 1900s.

Kroeber obtained doctoral degrees with Franz Boas as a supervisor at Columbia University 1,901 th His thesis was based on fieldwork in arapahoindianerna. He spent most of his active job in California, primarily at the University of California, Berkeley, where he first worked as a teacher of sociology and director of what was after that called the University of California Museum of Anthropology (now called The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology). The main structure of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California called today Kroeber Hall.

Although Kroeber is most famous as a social anthropologist, he did great work, also in archeology, and also he aided to form the scientific research of anthropology via the link he saw in between archeology as well as culture. He carried out excavations in New Mexico, Mexico and also Peru.

Kroeber and also his trainees collected huge quantities of cultural data for the western tribes of Indians in the U.S., much of the work was compiled and presented in the kind of the Handbook of Indians of California 1925th This type of work, to collect the data that is protected for sure type of individuals have actually often been called "Salvage ethnography" - regarding conserving what can be saved-ethnography. Kroeber is credited to the principle of cultural space. (Cultural and also Natural Areas of Native North America, 1939).

The book Anthropology (1923, 1948) was long a common work in the study of anthropology.

Kroeber is the papa of academic Karl Kroeber as well as fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin. He additionally adopted his second wife, Theodoras two children from her first marriage: Ted as well as historian Clifton Kroeber.

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Related authors: Franz Boas (Scientist), Ursula K. Le Guin (Writer), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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Small: Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities"