Alfred Irving
HallowellAlfred Irving
HallowellAlfred Hallowell was not only an archaeologist, but a businessman as well. He attended the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as a social worker as he took classes in sociology and eventually graduated with a Ph.D. in anthropology also from the University of Pennsylvania. All of Hallowell's field work took place among American Indians and except for a three year period, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement in 1962. After that he was a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Washington, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Chicago, at Temple University and at Chatham and Bryn Mawr Colleges.
Hallowell wrote Culture and Experience in 1955 and Contributions to Anthropology in 1976. He received numerous honors and awards such as Viking Fund Medalist, President of the American Anthropological Association, the American Folklore Society, and the Society for Projective Techniques; Chairman of the Division of Psychology and Anthropology of the National Research Council and a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society to mention a few. When he retired, Hallowell was awarded the degree Doctor of Science.
This picture reprinted by permission of the American Anthropological Association from American Anthropologist 78:3 1976
American Anthropologist Vol 78 [3,1976] written by Melford E. Spiro;
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