Melford Spiro
Melford Spiro · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychological anthropologist known for studies of the Israeli kibbutz and Burmese Buddhism
1920, Cleveland, Ohio, United States — 2014, La Jolla, California, United States
United States · Israel · Myanmar
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Melford Spiro was a psychological anthropologist whose field studies of an Israeli kibbutz, of Burmese (Myanmar) Buddhism and of family life tested psychoanalytic ideas against cross-cultural evidence. Born to a Jewish family in Cleveland, he helped found the anthropology department at the University of California, San Diego. His kibbutz research on collective child-rearing became a landmark of the culture-and-personality tradition.
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Psychological anthropologist known for studies of the Israeli kibbutz and Burmese Buddhism
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