Alfred Louis Kroeber
Biographic Data
| ID | 4338831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfred Louis Kroeber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfred Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Kroeber |
| SIGNATURE | KROEBER A L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reflections on Edward Sapir, Scholar and Man [1959]
Linguistic Anthropologist
This chapter, originally a lecture delivered in 1923, examines the nature of culture from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Kroeber argues for the autonomy of culture as a superorganic entity, distinct from individual psychology and biological determinism. He emphasizes the role of language in shaping and transmitting culture, highlighting its symbolic and communicative power. Kroeber explores the relationship between language, thought, a…
Aboriginal California
Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America
Configurations of Culture Growth
"This handsome volume, one of a group commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of California, caps the prolific and extraordinarily varied publications of the most distinguished of living American anthropologists. In this book [Kroeber] demonstrates his control over amazing ranges of world history. Kroeber's versatility and intellectual robustness are all the more refreshing when viewed against the background of the narrownes…
Archaeological explorations in Peru. Part II, The northern coast
Peoples of the Philippines
Relationship of the Australian languages
sterile.All the occurrences of a single stem and its variants were then plotted on a map.At first the several fundamental stems for one concept, such as "eye," were represented by different colours on one map.It was soon found that for most concepts the distribution of stems was so irregular, and their number so great, that such maps yielded no very clear picture.The data for each concept were therefore entered on several maps, each of which show…
Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America
Archaeological explorations in Peru. Part II, The northern coast
Relationship of the Australian languages
sterile.All the occurrences of a single stem and its variants were then plotted on a map.At first the several fundamental stems for one concept, such as "eye," were represented by different colours on one map.It was soon found that for most concepts the distribution of stems was so irregular, and their number so great, that such maps yielded no very clear picture.The data for each concept were therefore entered on several maps, each of which show…
Relationship of the Australian languages
sterile.All the occurrences of a single stem and its variants were then plotted on a map.At first the several fundamental stems for one concept, such as "eye," were represented by different colours on one map.It was soon found that for most concepts the distribution of stems was so irregular, and their number so great, that such maps yielded no very clear picture.The data for each concept were therefore entered on several maps, each of which show…
Peoples of the Philippines
Archaeological explorations in Peru. Part II, The northern coast
Configurations of Culture Growth
"This handsome volume, one of a group commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of California, caps the prolific and extraordinarily varied publications of the most distinguished of living American anthropologists. In this book [Kroeber] demonstrates his control over amazing ranges of world history. Kroeber's versatility and intellectual robustness are all the more refreshing when viewed against the background of the narrownes…
Aboriginal California
Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America
Linguistic Anthropologist
This chapter, originally a lecture delivered in 1923, examines the nature of culture from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Kroeber argues for the autonomy of culture as a superorganic entity, distinct from individual psychology and biological determinism. He emphasizes the role of language in shaping and transmitting culture, highlighting its symbolic and communicative power. Kroeber explores the relationship between language, thought, a…
Reflections on Edward Sapir, Scholar and Man [1959]
Geography (5 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work)