Franz Steiner
Franz Steiner · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Anthropologist known for his classic study 'Taboo'
1909, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) — 1952, Oxford, United Kingdom
Czechoslovakia (Prague) · United Kingdom (Oxford)
Franz Steiner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Anthropologist known for his classic study 'Taboo'
Franz Baermann Steiner was an anthropologist and poet best known for 'Taboo', a classic set of lectures analysing danger, prohibition and social order. Working at Oxford, he influenced a generation of British social anthropology. Born into a Jewish family in Prague, he escaped to Britain while much of his family was murdered in the Holocaust.
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Anthropologist known for his classic study 'Taboo'
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology
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