People

 Robert Lowie 1883-1957 - United States

1883–1957, American anthropologist, b. Vienna, grad. College of the City of New York, 1901, Ph.D. Columbia, 1908. He was on the staff of the American Museum of Natural History from 1908 until 1921. From that year until his death he taught at the Univ. of California. Lowie gained international fame through his studies of the Native North American, especially the northern Plains tribes, and his contributions to ethnological theory.

Encyclopedia Entries

Columbia Encyclopedia

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Reading

Primitive Society (1920, 2d ed. 1947),

Social Organization (1948), 

Primitive Religion (1924, rev. ed. 1948), 

An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (1934, rev. ed. 1940), 

The History of Ethnological Theory (1938),

 Indians of the Plains (1954). 

His autobiography was published in 1959;

 The Crow 

Selected Papers in Anthropology appeared in 1960.

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Berkeley Obit

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