Roland Burrage Dixon

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Roland Burrage Dixon (born November 6, 1875 in Worcester , Massachusetts , † December 19, 1934 ) was an American anthropologist .

In 1897 he graduated from Harvard University, where he remained as a research assistant in the subject of anthropology, he obtained his Ph. D. under Franz Boas in 1900 , then worked as an instructor and after 1906 as an assistant professor . In 1910 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was its Vice President from 1910 to 1911 and President of the American Folklore Society from 1907 to 1909. He was a professor at Harvard since 1916 and a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace (1916-18) in Paris and since 1926 of the American Philosophical Society . Professor Dixon has also made many contributions to anthropological and ethnological journals.

The American anthropologist Alexander Goldenweiser opposed his scientific methodology in his main work The Racial History of Man .

Works

  • Maidu Myths (1902)
  • The Chimariko Indians and Language (1910)
  • Maidu Texts (1912)
  • Oceanic Mythology (Myths of the Region of Indonesia , Oceania , Australia , published 1915)
  • Racial History of Man (1923) digitized
  • The Building of Culture (1928)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: Earnest A. Hooton: Roland Burrage Dixon. In: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Volume 75, No. 8 (1935), pp. 770-774 ( JSTOR 984594 ).
  2. ^ Member History: Roland B. Dixon. American Philosophical Society, accessed July 18, 2018 .