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Alfred Lewis Kroeber was an early American anthropologist who made significant contributions to all four of anthropology’s subdisciplines. Kroeber is significant for his research on North American indigenous populations, his dedication to characterization and classification methods in ethnographic research, and his advancement of a definition of culture as a superorganic phenomenon.
ALFRED LOUIS KROEBER 1876–1960. 1. For much of the personal information, I have drawn upon several unpublished manuscripts written by Kroeber in 1958 and 1959 for the Bancroft Library: “Early Anthropology at Columbia,” “Teaching Staff (at California),” and the typescript of an interview. Mrs.
1896). His first successful Ph. D. candidate, Alfred Louis Kroeber, was to develop Boas's insight most fully in arriving at his position that space and time provide the proper contexts within which the signifi-cance of cultural phenomena are to be understood (cf. Driver 1962; Freed and Freed 1983). In Kroeber's scheme, northwest California was a
This article reviews the interplay of the personal, institutional, and intellectual factors in the relationship between Franz Boas and Alfred Kroeber, his first important student. It focuses on their first decade, 1896-1905, a critical transitional period in the formation of American anthropology.
Alfred Louis Kroeber offers an all-embracing account of human culture, looking at its historical definitions, contemporary definitions, and its role as a foundation for all of the social sciences. A work striking for its thoroughness, Culture: A Critical Review begins by examining the origins of the term Culture, and how it came to be ...
- A L Kroeber, Clyde Kluckhohn
Jul 21, 2022 · So even before Alfred Kroeber departed UC Berkeley on June 1, 1915, for his one-year sabbatical to the American SW, New York, Europe, Washington D.C., and back to Zuni territory in the SW, Kroeber made it known to all that if and when Ishi died, that their friend Ishi was entitled to a traditional Yahi cremation, and nothing else would do.
Alfred Louis Kroeber was a renowned professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a keen intellect who played a major role in shaping the study of anthropology into the academic discipline that it is today.
