RARE "Native American Tribes" Fred Eggan Hand Signed 3X5 Card For Sale
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Up for sale a RARE! "Anthropologist" Fred Eggan Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Frederick Russell Eggan (September
12, 1906 in Seattle, Washington –
May 7, 1991) was an American anthropologist best known for his innovative application
of the principles of British social anthropology to
the study of Native American tribes. He was the favorite student of the British
social anthropologist A. R. years at the University of Chicago. His
fieldwork was among Pueblo peoples in the southwestern
U.S. Eggan later taught at Chicago himself. His students there included Sol Tax. His best known works include his edited volume Social
Anthropology of North American Tribes (1937) and The American
Indian (1966). His wife, Dorothy Way Eggan (1901–1965), whom he married in 1939,
was also an anthropologist. Frederick Eggan was a North American anthropologist in the 20th
century and part of the anthropology department at the University of Chicago.
He is a world-renowned social anthropologist, most famous for his works in the
Southwest involving the Hopi Indians and many of the social changes that take
place within the Western Pueblos. Ernest L. Schusky claims Fred Eggan is a founder of modern
American anthropoly's eclectic approach, which combines the functionalism of
Radcliffe-Brown with the historical approach of Franz Boas. In a paper titled
“Among the Anthropologist,” Eggan answers a question posed by Margaret Mead:
“Shouldn’t we all be branches of one human science?” Eggan states that anthropology should center on
man and his works, while providing a spectrum of specialized fields which
interlock with those of the social and behavioral sciences. Frederick Eggan was
born in Seattle, Washington on September 12, 1906 to Alfred Eggan and Olive
Smith. Eggan earned his master's degree in psychology with a minor in
anthropology from the University of Chicago in the early 20th century. He received his PhD in anthropology from the
same university several years later with a doctoral thesis entitled “Social
Organization of the Western Pueblos” analyzing the social organization of
Pueblo Indians in the Southwest. Fred was an active member in the discipline of
anthropology at a critical time when new technologies and methods were being
invented for archeological purposes. He mentions these innovations in his paper
on “Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison.” He speaks of the new aids to anthropological
research such as radiocarbon dating, genetics, and the experimental method
which are just a few of the many rapid technological advances that had taken
place to aid the discipline in this time. Eggan married Dorothy Way in 1938; she was also an anthropologist of the Hopi. Fred died in his house in Santa Fe, New Mexico
from heart failure on May 7, 1991; he was 84.
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