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JULIAN HAYNES STEWARD
JULIAN HAYNES STEWARD
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, a school located near Death Valley and clevotec! to the clevelopment of practical skills en c!
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conducting research in Owens Valley, Death Valley, and northward through Nevada to Idaho and Oregon. In 1935 he left university teaching to take a position as associate anthropologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, remaining there until ~ 946.
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During his last years at the BAE, Steward chaired a committee that reorganized the governance of the American Anthropological Association. He was also involved in the planning and establishment of the National Science Foundation and was instrumental in persuading Congress to appropriate funds for the creation of the Committee for the Recovery of Archeological Remains, subsequently the nation's River Basin Archeological Surveys Program, often referred to as the model and stimulus for salvage archeology in the United States.
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monuments, test pits and stratigraphy, he urged Gordon Willey, against Willey's wishes, to deal intensively with settlement patterns in the Viru Valley Project, which Stewart! helpec!
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to these objections by cirawing attention to the force of cultural ecological factors in determining when, where, how, en c! if diffusion of cultural items or artifacts conic!
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The student team preparer! for the enterprise with a semester seminar on the history, economy, polity, social structure en c!
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to determine major clevelopments in research methodology. He will be remembered for his "theory of cultural ecology," a theory that Murphy caller!
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anthropology because he was keenly aware of the cliffering values, theoretical positions, and conflicting prescriptions for social action that criss-crossec! the cliscipline.
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An c! in 1969 a group of graduate students from the University of Illinois anthropology department launched a twiceyearly publication, The Steward Anthropological Society Journal.
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NOTES 1. During the war the Office of Naval Research funded a number of projects designated "Studies of Culture at a Distance." These were generally defined as culture and personality studies and did indeed attempt to characterize national cultures by exposing the dominant patterns or the ethos of each country as revealed in the course of interviews with expatriate citizens of these nations then living in the United States.
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Steward," by Robert Murphy in Evolution and Ecology: Essays on Social Transformation, futian Steward, ecI.
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America Indigena 3:323-28. 1951 American culture history in the light of South America.
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