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Eliot Dismore Chapple (April 29, 1909 – August 9, 2000,
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) was an American anthropologist. In 1941, he was one of the founders of the
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, and its first president. His 1942 work with Carleton Coon applied the notion of conditioned learning to understanding the human use of symbols in various cultural contexts. He later invented the Interaction Chronograph to develop this concept. By 1970, he had understood these phenomena as emotional-interactional rhythms and part of fundamental biological rhythmic dynamics. Sociologists including George Herbert Mead developed symbolic interactionism from ideas including Chapple's insights. Eugene D'Aquili's work in Biogenetic Structuralism also referenced Chapple's work. In 2000 he received the Conrad Arensberg Award (awarded for outstanding contributions to the field) from the
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. He received his Ph.D from
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in 1933.


Works

*''Principles of anthropology'' (1942), with
Carleton Stevens Coon Carleton Stevens Coon (June 23, 1904 – June 3, 1981) was an American anthropologist. A professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, lecturer and professor at Harvard University, he was president of the American Association of ...
*''The Biological Foundations of Individuality and Culture'' (1980/1970), (retitled from ''Culture and Biological Man'' (1970))


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* Year of birth unknown 2000 deaths 1909 births Harvard University alumni 20th-century American anthropologists {{US-anthropologist-stub