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John Milton Roberts
John Milton Roberts
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Anthropologists of the second half of the twentieth century."2 His brilliance anct creativity were not only in anthropology, in the prevailing understanding of that term, but more broadly in behavioral science. He had a penchant for looking at things that others thought unimportant or took for granted and for coming up with intriguing insights and discoveries, at times with profound implications for anthropological and social psychological theory, at other times with equally profound implications for the practical conduct of human affairs.
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Army Reserve, less than a year after his marriage to Marie Louise Kotouc of Lincoln, Nebraska. In World War IT, he commanded a company of infantry in northern France and was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action and the Bronze Star for meritorious service.
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He was also a research associate in the Laboratory of Social Relations and an assistant curator in the Peabody Museum. At Harvard, he was macle coordinator of the project called The Comprehensive Study of Values in Five Cultures, which carried out field research from 1949 to 1953 in Zuni, Navaho, Spanish-American, Mormon, and Texan Homesteader communities in western New Mexico.
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Anthropologists had widely recognized individual and local differences in how people did things and understood things but hacI ignored such differences in regard to culture theory. Roberts was the first to undertake systematically to document cultural differences at the household level ~95~ and to stimulate anthropological recognition that every social group at every level of societal organization had its own distinctive culture.
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Using psychological tests that sorted people into those who are "high self-testers" against those who are not, Roberts showed how this personality difference affected performance in driving automobiles ~1972) , in the conduct of war games (1972)
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In his later years Roberts had begun, with Hugo Nutini, to study expressive behavior among Mexican aristocracy; and at the time of his death, he was about to undertake, with Garry Chick, a study of how work, leisure, and technoTogical change were influencing the lives of machine shop workers in western Pennsylvania.3 Funding for the latter had been approved by the National Science Foundation only a few weeks before Roberts's death. These projects, as well as many more that his work has inspired, go on after him.
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Lincoln: Laboratory of Anthropology. Reprinted in 1965 as Monograph I, Behavior Science Reprints.
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El Palacio 73~2~:27-41.
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A technique for measuring preferential family size and composition. Eugen.
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Meaningful god sets from a Chinese personal pantheon and a Hindu personal pantheon. Ethnology 14:121-48.
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Butler County Eight Ball: A behavioral space analysis. In Sports, Games and Play: Social and Psychological Viewpoints, ed.
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Quitting the game: Covert disengagement from Butler County Eight Ball.
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Young adult male categorizations of fifty Arabic proverbs. Anthropol.
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