Research topic: Julian Haynes Steward

Julian Haynes Steward 1902-72, American anthropologist, b. Washington, D.C., grad. Cornell Univ., 1925, Ph.D. Univ. of California, 1929. He taught at the Univ. of Michigan (1928-30), Columbia (1946-52), and the Univ. of Illinois (1952-72), as well as other universities. He conducted both archaeological and ethnographic studies. At the Smithsonian Institution he was anthropologist (1935-43) in the Bureau of American Ethnology, edited for the bureau the monumental Handbook of South American Indians (7 vol., 1946-59), and was director (1943-46) of the Institute of Social Anthropology. He advanced... Read more