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American anthropologist
Conrad Maynadier Arensberg (September 12, 1910 – February 10, 1997) was an American anthropologist and scholar.
[1]
He was born in
Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania .[
citation needed ] He graduated
summa cum laude from
Harvard in 1931. He was exempted from his final exams by the College Dean who viewed them as "being completely unnecessary in Conrad's case" (Comitas 2000).
[2] In 1937, his doctorate dissertation titled The Irish Countryman became a college textbook.
[3]
Arensberg helped found
The Society for Applied Anthropology
[4] and was elected its President (1945–1946) as well as President of the
American Anthropological Association (1980).
[5] In 1957, he co-analyzed economies of ancient empires in Trade Markets in the Early Empires together with
Karl Polanyi .
[6]
In 1984,
Owen Lynch , a former student of Arensberg organized a
festschrift for his mentor, titled Culture and Community in Europe .
[7] In 1991, he received the Society of Applied Anthropology's Malinowski Award.
[8]
He was married to
Vivian E. Garrison .
[9]
He held the
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professorship of Human Relations at
Columbia University from 1970 until his retirement in 1980.
[10] Thereafter he joined the faculty of
the Joint Applied Anthropology Program at
Teachers' College .
[11]
References
^ Thomas, Robert McG Jr. (1997-02-16).
"Conrad Arensberg, 86, Dies; Hands-On Anthropologist" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-05-07 .
^ Fic, Christy.
"Register to the Papers of Conrad M. Arensberg" (PDF) . Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Anthropology Department .
^
"Waveland Press - The Irish Countryman - An Anthropological Study by Conrad M. Arensberg" . www.waveland.com . Retrieved 2018-05-07 .
^ Halpern, Joel.
"Conrad Maynadier Arensberg (1910–1997)" . University of Massachusetts Amherst .
^
"ACE - Conrad Maynadier Arensberg" . www.culturalequity.org . Retrieved 2018-05-07 .
^ Nash, Manning (March 1958).
"Trade and Market in the Early Empires: Economies in History and Theory.Karl Polanyi , Conrad M. Arensberg , Harry W. Pearson" . American Journal of Sociology . 63 (5): 562–563.
doi :
10.1086/222336 .
ISSN
0002-9602 .
^ Friedlander, Eva (November 2014). "Owen M. Lynch (1931-2013)". American Anthropologist . 116 (4).
doi :
10.1111/aman.12160 .
^
"Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) :: Malinowski Award Papers - Chapter Selection" . www.appliedanthro.org . Retrieved 2018-05-07 .
^
"Conrad M. Arensberg papers, 1931–1997, bulk 1933–1990 | NAA Collections" . anthropology.si.edu . Retrieved 2018-05-14 .
^ Cribbs, Bill.
"Miscellaneous Obituaries of Anthropologists" . www.obitcentral.com . Retrieved 2018-05-07 .
^
"Famed Anthropologist Arensberg, 86. Columbia University Record. February 21, 1997" . www.columbia.edu . Retrieved 2018-05-07 .
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