Leslie Spier
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 62 years ago |
Date of birth | December 13,1893 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | New York |
United States | |
Date of died | December 3,1961 |
Died | New Mexico |
United States | |
Books | Yuman Tribes of the Gila River |
Klamath ethnography | |
Havasupai ethnography | |
Education | Columbia University |
Academic advisor | Franz Boas |
Edited works | Language, Culture, and Pers... |
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ID | 822951 |
Leslie Spier Life story
Leslie Spier was an American anthropologist best known for his ethnographic studies of American Indians. He spent a great deal of his professional life as a teacher; he retired in 1955 and died in 1961. Spier created a path for the study of cultural change, taking the time to conduct in-depth studies of group contact.