| Date | Text | |
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27 Feb 1893
Ralph Linton |
birth Ralph Linton Born 27 Feb 1893; died 24 Dec 1953 at age 60. American anthropologist who had a marked influence on the development of cultural anthropology. After combat in France during World War I, he received a Ph.D. from Harvard (1925). In the early 1920's he did fieldwork in Polynesia. He introduced the terms "status" and "role" to social science and influenced the development of the culture-and-personality school of anthropology. His works, such as The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955), are regarded more as popularizations of anthropology than as original scholarship. |
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