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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 104,236 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). A. L. Kroeber is the 17th most popular anthropologist (down from 13th in 2019), the 1,718th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,045th in 2019) and the 5th 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 17 out of 69Before him are Clifford Geertz, Gregory Bateson, Eugène Dubois, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Knud Rasmussen. After him are Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Mary Leakey, Richard Leakey, and Marvin Harris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, A. L. Kroeber ranks 46Before him are Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Ivan Cankar, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ziya Gökalp, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck. After him are Ivan Bilibin, August Sander, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Tomáš Baťa, Anna de Noailles, and Fevzi Çakmak. Among people deceased in 1960, A. L. Kroeber ranks 41Before him are Beno Gutenberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Salvatore Ferragamo, Norodom Suramarit, Clara Haskil, and Soghomon Tehlirian. After him are Jussi Björling, Otoya Yamaguchi, Jacques Becker, Frank Lloyd, Inejiro Asanuma, and Leonard Woolley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, A. L. Kroeber ranks 1,718 out of 18,182Before him are Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Floyd Patterson (1935), Jim Rogers (1942), Edwin S. Porter (1870), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), and Edward Albee (1928). After him are Angela Bassett (1958), Joe Jackson (1928), Eva Mendes (1974), Norman Mailer (1923), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), and Juliet Anderson (1938).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, A. L. Kroeber ranks 5Before him are Lewis H. Morgan (1818), Margaret Mead (1901), Ruth Benedict (1887), and Clifford Geertz (1926). After him are Edward T. Hall (1914), Marvin Harris (1927), Leslie White (1900), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Ann Dunham (1942), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805).