Kroeber
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1. Kroeber - Noun
2. Kroeber - Proper noun
Meaning
United States anthropologist noted for his studies of culture (1876-1960)
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Alfred Kroeber, one of the founders of the anthropology department at UC Berkeley, was consulted in the earlier years of the 20th century as the expert on the status of tribes, although he was white and had no connection to any Native American tribe.
Another scholar Parsons met while at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto was Alfred L. Kroeber who at the time was the "dean of American anthropologists."
D. he went to California to work with Alfred Kroeber documenting the indigenous languages there.
Darnell 1990:59 Work with Ishi Alfred Kroeber and Ishi In 1915 Sapir returned to California, where his expertise on the Yana language made him urgently needed.
Boas's student Alfred Kroeber described the rise of the relativist perspective thus: Kroeber, Alfred (1948) "Anthropology" p. 11. Harcourt and Brace, New York.
Cultural systems may, on one hand, be considered as products of action, and on the other, as conditioning elements of further action (Kroeber & Kluckholn, 1963, p. 357).