David Goodman Mandelbaum (August 22, 1911, Chicago

Chicago

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 - April 19, 1987) was an American anthropologist.

He majored in anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

 at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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, studying with Melville J. Herskovits

Melville J. Herskovits

Melville Jean Herskovits was an American anthropologist who firmly established African and African American studies in American academia. The son of Jewish immigrants, he obtained a Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1923 and obtained his Master's and Ph.D...

. His major published work dealt with the Plains Cree

Cree

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 people of Saskatchewan

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, Canada

Canada

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 and he was well regarded for his study of society in India.

He taught at University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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 (1941-1946), University of California

University of California

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 (1946-1978), and was an active professor emeritus at the latter until his death in 1987.

Literary works

• The Plains Cree: an Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative study, New York (1940) Ams Pr Inc. ISBN 978-0404156268
• Alcohol and Culture, Current Anthropology, Vol. 6, No. 3. Chicago (June, 1965) The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2739922
• Society in India, Berkley (1972) University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520018952

External links

• Guide to the David Goodman Mandelbaum Papers at The Bancroft Library
• University of California: In Memoriam, 1987