Robert Lowie
Robert Lowie · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Boasian anthropologist, author of 'Primitive Society' and expert on the Crow
1883, Vienna, Austria — 1957, Berkeley, California, United States
Austria · United States
Robert Lowie is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Boasian anthropologist, author of 'Primitive Society' and expert on the Crow
Robert Lowie was a leading Boasian anthropologist whose 'Primitive Society' (1920) and expert ethnography of the Crow people shaped American cultural anthropology and its critique of unilinear evolutionism. He long taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born into an Austrian-Jewish family in Vienna and emigrated as a child to New York.
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Boasian anthropologist, author of 'Primitive Society' and expert on the Crow
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology
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