Leslie Spier
Leslie Spier · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Boasian anthropologist known for his comparative study of the Sun Dance
1893, New York City, United States — 1961, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
United States (Southwest)
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Spier was a leading Boasian anthropologist whose comparative study of the Plains Sun Dance became a model for systematic distributional analysis of cultural traits. He conducted extensive fieldwork among Native American peoples of the American Southwest and Plateau and founded and edited scholarly journals. He was born to a Jewish family in New York City.
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Boasian anthropologist known for his comparative study of the Sun Dance
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology
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