ANTHROPOLOGIST

A. L. Kroeber

1876 - 1960

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Alfred Louis Kroeber ( KROH-bər; June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He was also the first professor appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. L. Kroeber has received more than 106,975 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). A. L. Kroeber is the 24th most popular anthropologist (down from 17th in 2019), the 2,378th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,718th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Anthropologist.

Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American anthropologist, ethnologist, and linguist. He is considered to be the father of cultural anthropology in the United States. His most famous work is The Nature of Culture, which was published in 1952.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, A. L. Kroeber ranks 24 out of 93. Before him are Mary Douglas, Mary Leakey, Marc Augé, Victor Turner, Cheikh Anta Diop, and Marshall Sahlins. After him are Ann Dunham, Jacques de Morgan, Fredrik Barth, Marvin Harris, Raymond Dart, and Pierre Clastres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, A. L. Kroeber ranks 67. Before him are Alvin Kraenzlein, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, André Tardieu, Ettore Bastico, Viktor Kaplan, and Josef Hofmann. After him are Julio González, Henri Winkelman, Paul Masson, Irving Baxter, Eglantyne Jebb, and Senjūrō Hayashi. Among people deceased in 1960, A. L. Kroeber ranks 60. Before him are Abram Ioffe, Alexandre Benois, Maurice de Broglie, St John Philby, Hans Wilsdorf, and Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan. After him are José Antonio Aguirre, Bruno Loerzer, Edwin Fischer, Georges Claude, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, and Princess Xenia of Montenegro.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, A. L. Kroeber ranks 2,378 out of 20,380. Before him are Johnston McCulley (1883), Royal Rife (1888), Joanna Cassidy (1945), Carol W. Greider (1961), Betty Robinson (1911), and Andy Williams (1927). After him are Mos Def (1973), J. Allen Hynek (1910), Blythe Danner (1943), Simon Fraser (1776), Perry Como (1912), and Richard Kuklinski (1935).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, A. L. Kroeber ranks 7. Before him are Lewis H. Morgan (1818), Margaret Mead (1901), Ruth Benedict (1887), Clifford Geertz (1926), Edward T. Hall (1914), and Marshall Sahlins (1930). After him are Ann Dunham (1942), Marvin Harris (1927), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), David Graeber (1961), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), and Helen Fisher (1945).

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