Ward Goodenough

American anthropologist (1919–2013) Ward GoodenoughBornWard Hunt Goodenough II(1919-05-30)May 30, 1919Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.DiedJune 9, 2013(2013-06-09) (aged 94)EducationGroton SchoolCornell University (BA)Yale University (PhD)OccupationAnthropologistParent(s)Erwin Ramsdell GoodenoughHelen Miriam LewisRelativesJohn B. Goodenough (brother) Ward Hunt Goodenough II (May 30, 1919 – June 9, 2013) was an American anthropologist, who made contributions to kinship studies, linguistic anthropology, cross-cultural studies, and cognitive anthropology. Biography and major works Goodenough was born May 30, 1919, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Helen Miriam (Lewis) and Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough, a scholar in the history of religion, who was then a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School. He was a brother to noted solid-state physicist John B. Goodenough. As a child his family moved between Europe and Germany as his father conducted research on a Ph.D. As a result, Goodenough developed an early interest in German and languages in general. He began attending Groton School in 1932. In 1937 he began studying at Cornell University. He majored in Scandinavian languages and lit