Word: kroeber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alfred L. Kroeber, generally recognized as the leading social anthropologist in the country, has been appointed as visiting professor at the University for 1947-48, Talcott Parscus, Chairman of the Department of Sociology, disclosed yesterday. Kroeber is at the present time professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley...
...Kroeber will give two half-courses, the first for undergraduates and the second primarily for graduates. During the fall he will conduct Social Relations 22 on "The Nature of Culture," a course not originally scheduled for next year. In the spring he will have Social Relations 222, a somewhat similar course for graduates...
...Among his students: Margaret Mead (And Keep Your Powder Dry, TIME, Nov. 30), Colum bia's Ruth Benedict, Yale's Edward Sapir, Northwestern's Melville Jean Herskovits, the late Elsie Clews Parsons, University of Cali fornia's Alfred L. Kroeber, Harvard's Alfred Marston Tozzer, University of New Mexico's Leslie Spier, University of Pennsylvania's John Alden Mason...