Holmes, Lowell D.

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HOLMES, Lowell D.

HOLMES, Lowell D. American, b. 1925. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology, Music, Bibliography, Biography. Career: Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Wichita State University, Kansas, 1990- (Professor, 1959-90). Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, 1956-58. Publications: Ta'u, Stability and Change in a Samoan Village, 1958; Anthropology: An Introduction, 1965, 4th ed., 1987; The Story of Samoa, 1967; Samoan Village, 1974; Other Cultures, Elder Years, 1983, 2nd ed. (with E.C. Holmes), 1995; Samoan Islands Bibliography, 1984; Jazz Greats, Getting Better with Age, 1986; Quest for the Real Samoa: The Mead-Freeman Controversy and Beyond, 1987; (with E.C. Holmes) Samoan Village, Then and Now, 1991; Treasured Islands: Cruising the South Seas with Robert Louis Stevenson, 2001. EDITOR: Readings in General Anthropology, 1971; (with D.O. Cowgill) Aging and Modernization, 1972; The Anthropology of Modern Life, 1975; The American Tribe, 1978. Address: Dept. of Anthropology, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67208, U.S.A.

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