Wilson Dallam Wallis (March 7, 1886 – March 15, 1970) was an American anthropologist. He is remembered for his studies of "primitive" science and religions. Wallis was born in Forest Hill,

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. He completed an undergraduate degree in philosophy and law at

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, and in 1907 went up to Wadham College,

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as a

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, studying Edward Burnett Tylor. He received his doctorate from the

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in 1915. From 1923 to 1954, he taught at the

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. After retiring from Minnesota, he taught for a time at

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. He died in

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.Archive
''Inventory of the Wilson Dallam Wallis papers, 1935-54''
University of Minnesota

Works

* ''The Malecite Indians of New Brunswick'' (Ottawa, 1957) * ''The Micmac Indians of Eastern Canada'' (Minneapolis, 1955) * ''Messiahs: Christian and Pagan'' (Boston, 1918)

References

External links

Wallis collection at the Canadian Museum of HistoryDickinson College photographWilson Dallam Wallis collection at the University of Minnesota
1886 births 1970 deaths People from Harford County, Maryland Dickinson College alumni Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Minnesota faculty 20th-century American anthropologists {{US-anthropologist-stub