David Goodman Mandelbaum (August 22, 1911, in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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– April 19, 1987)
was an American anthropologist.
He majored in
anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...
at
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
, studying with
Melville J. Herskovits. His major published work dealt with the Plains
Cree people of
Saskatchewan
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, Canada and he was well regarded for his study of society in India. He earned his doctorate at
Yale University
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in 1936.
He taught at
University of Minnesota
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(1941–1946),
University of California
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(1946–1978), and was an active professor emeritus at the latter until his death in 1987 from cancer.
Selected works
*''The Plains Cree: an Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative study'', New York: American Museum of Natural History. (1940) reissued by AMS Press Inc., New York
*--do.--Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 1978 Based on the author's thesis, Yale, 1936. Part 1 was previously published in 1940 by the American Museum of Natural History.
*"Alcohol and Culture", ''Current Anthropology''; Vol. 6, No. 3. Chicago (June 1965) The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
online*''Society in India'', Berkeley (1972) University of California Press.
See also
Fine-Day
Fine Day or Kamiokisihkwew (Miyo-Kîsikaw) (c. 1856 – c. 1942) was a Cree war chief of the River People band of Plains Cree. He participated in the North-West Rebellion of 1885. During the Battle of Cut Knife, he acted as the Battle Chief, t ...
– his principal informant on "The Plains Cree"
References
External links
Guide to the David Goodman Mandelbaum Papersat
The Bancroft Library
The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library. It was acquired from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1905, with the proviso that it retai ...
University of California: In Memoriam, 1987
1911 births
1987 deaths
Deaths from cancer in California
Northwestern University alumni
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
University of Minnesota faculty
Yale University alumni
20th-century American anthropologists
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