Professor of Anthropology at the Universities of Washington, Oklahoma, Chicago, Yale & New Mexico; Editor of the Publications in Anthropology series at Washington, Yale & New Mexico; Editor of the American Anthropologist; President of the American Anthropological Association; Founding Editor of the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (now the Journal of Anthropological Research), 1945-1961. With a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1916 under Franz Boas, Spier practiced four-fields anthropology, but with a strong specialization in the ethnography of various Native peoples in the American West.
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