David Aberle
David Aberle · Philosophy & Social Sciences
American cultural anthropologist known for 'The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho' and theories of social movements
1918, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States — 2004, Vancouver, Canada
United States · Canada
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David Friend Aberle was an American cultural anthropologist best known for 'The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho' (1966) and for his relative-deprivation theory of social movements. Trained at Columbia and later a professor at the University of British Columbia, he combined ethnography of the American Southwest with comparative analysis. He came from an American Jewish family.
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American cultural anthropologist known for 'The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho' and theories of social movements
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology