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Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn , 1905-60, American anthropologist, b. LeMars, Iowa, grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1928, M.A. Oxford, 1932, Ph.D. Harvard, 1936. He taught at the Univ. of New Mexico (1932-34) and at Harvard (1935-60). Kluckhohn is known primarily for his studies of the Navajo and of personality and culture. His other works include an introduction to anthropology, Mirror for Man (1949) and Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions (1952).

Bibliography: See W. W. Taylor et al., ed., Culture and Life (1973).

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