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Leslie Spier

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Gender Female
Death62 years ago
Date of birth December 13,1893
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born New York
United States
Date of died December 3,1961
DiedNew Mexico
United States
BooksYuman Tribes of the Gila River
Klamath ethnography
Havasupai ethnography
Education Columbia University
Academic advisor Franz Boas
Edited worksLanguage, Culture, and Pers...
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Leslie Spier was an American anthropologist best known for his ethnographic studies of American Indians. He spent a great deal of his professional life as a teacher; he retired in 1955 and died in 1961. Spier created a path for the study of cultural change, taking the time to conduct in-depth studies of group contact.

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