Robert Henry Lowie (June 12, 1883 – September 21, 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist. An expert on North American Indians, he was instrumental in the development of modern anthropology.
Lowie was born in Vienna, but came to the United States in 1893, graduated from the College of the City of New York (A.B.) in 1901, and from Columbia University (Ph.D.) in 1908, where he studied under Franz Boas. In 1909, he became assistant curato...
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Robert Henry Lowie (June 12, 1883 – September 21, 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist. An expert on North American Indians, he was instrumental in the development of modern anthropology.
Lowie was born in Vienna, but came to the United States in 1893, graduated from the College of the City of New York (A.B.) in 1901, and from Columbia University (Ph.D.) in 1908, where he studied under Franz Boas. In 1909, he became assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Influenced by Clark Wissler, Lowie became a specialist in American Indians. In 1917 he became assistant professor in Berkeley, from 1925 until his retirement in 1950 he was professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where along with Alfred Kroeber he was a central figure in anthropological scholarship.
Lowie made numerous field expeditions to the Great Plains, and did significant ethnographic fieldwork among the Arikara, Shoshone, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Crow peoples...
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