Alfred Louis Kroeber (/ˈkroʊbər/ KROH-bər; June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas...
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Alfred Louis Kroeber during her studies, and married him in 1926. One of her two children with Kroeber was the writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The Kroebers...
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Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuration is a 1970 biography of the anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber, written by Theodora Kroeber. Theodora was married...
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Ursula K. Le Guin (redirect from Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber)
was born in Berkeley, California, to author Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. Having earned a master's degree in French, Le Guin...
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by the anthropologists, before his death in 1916. Theodora Kroeber married Alfred Kroeber in 1926. Though she had never met Ishi, she decided to write...
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"man" in the Yana language, is an adopted name. The anthropologist Alfred Kroeber gave him this name because in the Yahi culture, tradition demanded that...
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Kroeber or Kröber may refer to: Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960), U.S. anthropologist Karl Kroeber (1926-2009), U.S. professor of literature Martin Kröber...
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American anthropology. Among his many significant students were A. L. Kroeber, Alexander Goldenweiser, Ruth Benedict, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Zora...
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conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes. Boas's student Alfred Kroeber described the rise of the relativist perspective thus: Now while some...
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languages. While finishing his Ph.D. he went to California to work with Alfred Kroeber documenting the indigenous languages there. He was employed by the Geological...
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Romantics and American Indian literature. He was the son of Theodora and Alfred L. Kroeber, both anthropologists. He wrote an account of his father's work with...
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before being absorbed into the Spanish Missions by 1806. In 1925, Alfred Kroeber, then director of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, declared the tribe...
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generations of students. His first generation of students included Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Edward Sapir, and Ruth Benedict, who each produced richly...
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comprehend of all the dialects. In his classic ethnographic study, Alfred Kroeber identified these five nations from south to north: Nanwacinaha'ana,...
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the work of taxonomy. The American anthropologists Clark Wissler and Alfred Kroeber further developed this version of the concept on the premise that cultural...
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spoke the Costanoan languages are listed by regions below. In 1925, Alfred Kroeber, then director of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, declared the tribe...
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1992 The Rainbow Warrior Peter Willcox The Last of His Tribe Professor Alfred Kroeber 1993 Return to Lonesome Dove Captain Woodrow F. Call Miniseries 1994...
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the book Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber which relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber who made friends with Ishi, thought to be...
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adventurers Richard Halliburton and Dean Ivan Lamb, the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, and the businessmen Elmer Faucett and José Lindley. In his memoir,...
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he was professor of anthropology at Berkeley, where, along with Alfred Louis Kroeber, he was a central figure in anthropological scholarship. Lowie undertook...
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Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 485–495. ISBN 0-16-004578-9. Kroeber, Alfred Louis (1910). The Chumash and Costanoan languages. Berkeley, The University...
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candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, he was a student of Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie. Johnson carried out field research among the Chinantec...
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generations of students. His first generation of students included Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict, who each produced richly...
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branches of one lineage are known to have survived the genocide. In 1925, Alfred Kroeber, then director of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, declared the Ohlone...
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Goldenweiser Melville Herskovits Zora Neale Hurston Melville Jacobs Alfred Kroeber Alexander Lesser Robert Lowie Margaret Mead Elsie Clews Parsons Paul...
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(1911–1912) Roland Burrage Dixon (1913–1914) F. W. Hodge (1915–1916) Alfred Kroeber (1917–1918) Clark Wissler (1919–1920) William Curtis Farabee (1921–1922)...
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Sino-Tibetan than to other American families. He wrote a series of letters to Alfred Kroeber where he enthusiastically spoke of a connection between Na-Dene and...
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Bureau of American Ethnology linguist John Peabody Harrington. In 1925, Alfred Kroeber, then director of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, declared the Ohlone...
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center of regional Native American religion. According to anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, the Patwin village where the city of Colusa now stands was the “hotbed”...
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January 17, 1777, at the native village of So-co-is-u-ka. In 1925, Alfred Kroeber, then director of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, declared the Ohlone...
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