Stewart, Kenneth Malcolm (1916-)

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Stewart, Kenneth Malcolm (1916-)

Professor of anthropology who studied possession and shamanism. He was born on June 16, 1916, in Tecumseh, Nebraska. Stewart completed his college work at the University of California (B.A., 1938, M.A., 1940, Ph.D., 1946). In 1947 he began his long tenure as a professor of anthropology at Arizona State University. Stewart conducted ethnological field work among the Native American Mohave and Pagago tribes of the American Southwest.

Sources:

Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.

Stewart, Kenneth M. "Spirit Possession." Tomorrow (spring 1956).

. "Spirit Possession in Native America." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 2, no. 3 (1946).

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