Alexander Spoehr
American anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Spoehr was an American anthropologist who served as president of the American Anthropological Association in 1965. Spoehr was born in Tucson, Arizona on August 23, 1913, to parents Herman Augustus Spoehr and Florence Mann. Alexander Spoehr was of German, Danish, and Austrian descent. He was raised in Palo Alto, California, and enrolled at Stanford University, later transferring to the University of Chicago, where he completed an A. B. in economics. Spoehr remained at the University of Chicago for graduate study in anthropology, researching the Seminole in Florida. In January 1940, Spoehr began working at the Field Museum. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, and later joined the Naval Reserve. Spoehr returned to the Field Museum in 1946. He left Chicago for Honolulu in 1953, and worked for the Bishop Museum until 1962. Spoehr had been named leader of the East–West Center in 1961, and served from 1962 until his resignation in 1963 to teach at the University of Pittsburgh. He left Pitt in 1978, and moved to Hawaii. He died at the age of 78 on June 11, 1992, in Honolulu.
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- Marianas prehistory: archaeological survey and excavations on Saipan, Tinian and Rota / Alexander Spoehr. (1957) (76)
- Zamboanga and Sulu: An Archaeological Approach to Ethnic Diversity. (1974) (37)
- Majuro, a village in the Marshall Islands (1950) (32)
- : A Solomon Island Society: Kinship and Leadership among the Siuai of Bougainville . Douglas L. Oliver. (1958) (24)
- Protein from the sea : technological change in Philippine capture fisheries (1981) (23)
- Notes On Skidi Pawnee Society (15)
- Maritime Adaptations: Essays on Contemporary Fishing Communities (1981) (14)
- Port Town and Hinterland in the Pacific Islands1 (1960) (12)
- CREEK INTER‐TOWN RELATIONS (1941) (11)
- Acculturation and material culture - George I. Quimby, Curator of Exhibits, Department of Anthropology, and Alexander Spoehr, Curator, Oceanic Ethnology. (1951) (11)
- Archaeological work in the Ackmen-Lowry area, southwestern Colorado, 1937, (1938) (10)
- Changing kinship systems: a study in the acculturation of the Creeks, Cherokee, and Choctaw / by Alexander Spoehr, Curator, Oceanic Ethnology. Formerly Curator, North American Ethnology and Archaeology. (1947) (8)
- Majuro, a village in the Marshall Islands / Alexander Spoehr (1949) (7)
- The Generation Type Kinship System in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands (1949) (7)
- Pacific port towns and cities : a symposium [held at the] Tenth Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1961 (1963) (6)
- Observations on the Study of Kinship (1950) (6)
- The Marshall Islands and Transpacific Aviation (1946) (4)
- Time Perspective in Micronesia and Polynesia (1952) (4)
- Craft History and the Merging of Tool Traditions: Carpenters of Japanese Ancestry in Hawaii (1983) (4)
- Archaeological Survey of Southern Zamboanga and the Sulu Archipelago (1968) (4)
- Historic Creek Pottery from Oklahoma (1950) (4)
- Comments on "Any Comments on the Sociology Section, Tony?" (1985) (3)
- John Fee Embree: 1908-1950 (1951) (3)
- The Part and the Whole: Reflections on the Study of a Region* (1966) (3)
- The double outrigger sailing canoe of Zamboanga and the Sulu archipelago, southern Philippines (1971) (3)
- Kinship system of the Seminole / by Alexander Spoehr. (1942) (3)
- Kinship in a Tausug poblacion (1971) (3)
- OTHER: The Forest and the Sea: A Look at the Economy of Nature and the Ecology of Man. (1961) (3)
- The Tinian Chamorros (1951) (3)
- 19th Century Chapter in Hawai'i's Maritime History: Hudson's Bay Company Merchant Shipping, 1829-1859 (1988) (2)
- Fur Traders in Hawai'i: the Hudson's Bay Company in Honolulu, 1829-1861 (1986) (2)
- Pacific Port Towns and Cities: A Symposium (1965) (2)
- Human Background of Pacific Science (1955) (2)
- A Program for Micronesian Archaeology (1951) (2)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Polynesian Navigation: A Symposium on Andrew Sharp's Theory of Accidental Voyages. Jack Golson (ed.) (1964) (2)
- George P. Murdock, 1897-1985 (1985) (1)
- ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Maori and His Religion in its Non-Ritualistic Aspects. J. Prytz Johansen (1956) (1)
- Feedback: Social Science and Civil Rights… (1965) (1)
- Linguistic Studies in Polynesia (1954) (1)
- Notes on Skidi Pawnee society, by George A. Dorsey -- and James R. Murie. Prepared for publication by Alexander Spoehr -- (1940) (1)
- The Ways of Men.John Gillin (1948) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY: Plants and the Migration of Pacific Peoples: A Symposium. Jacques Barrau (ed.) (1964) (0)
- Southwestern Pithouses (1949) (0)
- Camp, clan, and kin among the Cow Creek Seminole of Florida / by Alexander Spoehr, Assistant Curator, American Ethnology and Archaeology. (1941) (0)
- Fijian Village. By Buell Quain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. 459 pp. $5.00 (1949) (0)
- Hawai'i and the Gold Rush: George Allen of the Hudson's Bay Company Reports on His 1848 Mission in Pursuit of Captain John Sutter (1992) (0)
- Art Processes in Birchbark of the River Desert Algonquin, a Circumboreal Trait. Frank G Speck. (Bulletin 128, No. 17, pp. 229–274. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington, 1941.) (1942) (0)
- Basic information papers on coral atoll ecology (1951) (0)
- OTHER: Anthropology and the Public: The Role of Museums. H. H. Frese (1962) (0)
- : Trails: From Steppingstones to Kerbstones . Russell A. Apple. ; Hawaiian Fishponds . Catherine C. Summers. (1966) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Northern States of Fiji. A. M. Hocart (1954) (0)
- The Florida Seminole camp / by Alexander Spoehr, Curator, North American Ethnology and Archaeology. (1944) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: The Island Civilizations of Polynesia. Robert C. Suggs (1961) (0)
- Check On This One (1991) (0)
- Man's Place in the Island Ecosystem: a Symposium. F. R. Fosberg, (ed.) (1964) (0)
- Abstracts, Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting (1966) (0)
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