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Name: Alfred Louis Kroeber
Birth Date: June 11, 1876
Death Date: October 5, 1960
Place of Birth: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: anthropologist

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Biography of Alfred Louis Kroeber
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The American anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) was one of the major proponents of the so-called Boasian school of American anthropology. Alfred Kroeber was born on June 11, 1876, in Hoboken, N. J. He entered Columbia College in 1892,...
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Biography of Alfred Louis Kroeber
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An authority on the culture of native American tribes, Alfred Kroeber was known among colleagues as the "man who shaped the science of anthropology." His most noted publication is the massive textbook Anthropology , considered the most authoritative...


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Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the...


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Alfred L. Kroeber Information
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Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876–October 5, 1960) was one of the most influential figures in American anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century. Kroeber was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. He received his doctorate under Franz Boas...


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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
The archaeology and pottery of Nazca, Peru: Alfred L. Kroeber's 1926 expedition.(Review) (book review)
06/01/2000: 669 words, approx. 2 pages
KROEBER, ALFRED L. & DONALD COLLIER. The archaeology and pottery of Nazca, Peru: Alfred L. Kroeber's 1926 expedition; edited by Patrick H. Carmichael with an afterword by Katharina J. Schreiber. 283 pp., illus., col. plates, maps, tables, bibliogr. Walnut Creek, London: AltaMira in...
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The Virginian Pilot
Alfred L. Grotzinger.(local)
08/02/2000: 353 words, approx. 1 pages
Father Alfred L. Grotzinger, O.S.B., a monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey, died Sunday, July 30, 2000, after a long illness. He was 87 years old. Fr. Alfred was born July 5, 1913, in St. Mary's, Pa., the son of the late Edward...
 


 

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