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Bernard Cohn (director)
Bernard Cohn may refer to: * Bernard Cohn (politician) (1835–1889), American businessman and politician in Los Angeles * Bernard Cohn (anthropologist) (1928–2003), anthropologist and scholar of British colonialism in India See also * Bernard Cohen (other) {{hndis, Cohn, Bernard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Cohn (politician)
Bernard Cohn (November 7, 1835 – November 1, 1889) was a wool buyer and a capitalist in 19th-century Los Angeles, California, as well as a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, that city's legislative body. It was Cohn who provided former California Governor Pio Pico a sum of money in exchange for all of Pico's property, which eventually led to Pico's spending the rest of his days in penury. He was also known for maintaining two families, one Jewish and one Catholic, at opposite ends of the town. Personal First family Cohn, who had a brother, Kaspar and a sister, Mrs. Simon Cohn, was born November 7, 1835, in Prussia and settled in Los Angeles in 1857. He was married to Hulda Myer in Los Angeles in 1858, and they had three children, Julius Bernard, Carrie Cahen and Kaspar Cohn. His wife died of apoplexy in June 1885. Death Cohn died on November 1, 1889, as he was visiting friends. Brief services were held on November 3 in his First Street house near Main Street, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Cohn (anthropologist)
Bernard S. Cohn (1928-2003) was an American anthropologist and scholar of British colonialism in India, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Cohn received a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1949 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Cornell University in 1954. From 1952-3 he engaged in field research in India as a Fulbright scholar. In addition to Chicago, he also taught at the University of Rochester and was a research assistant for the US Army at Fort Benning. In 1968, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Works Cohn's seminal contributions included work on India's caste system, by which he established that caste was solidified as a concept by the British codification of it, as well as the establishment of historical anthropology Historical anthropology is a historiographical movement which applies methodologies and objectives from social and cultural anthropology to the study of histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |