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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, David Murray Schneider was an American cultural anthropologist, best known for his studies of kinship and as a major proponent of the symbolic anthropology approach to cultural anthropology. Biography He received his B.S. in 1940 and his M.S. from Cornell University in 1941. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard in 1949, based on fieldwork on the Micronesian island of Yap.

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David M. Schneider's Published Works

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A critique of the study of kinship (1984) (1067)
American Kinship: A Cultural Account (1980) (937)
The Incest Taboo and the Mating Patterns of Animals (1963) (134)
MetaCapitalism: The e-Business Revolution and the Design of 21st-Century Companies and Markets (2000) (131)
Sibling solidarity: A property of American kinship. (1961) (104)
Symbolic Anthropology: A Reader in the Study of Symbols and Meanings (1977) (78)
Kinship Terminology and the American Kinship System (1955) (73)
Marriage, authority, and final causes : a study of unilateral cross-cousin marriage (1956) (67)
Rethinking Culture: A Project for Current Anthropologists [and Comments and Reply] (1973) (54)
Personality in nature, society, and culture, 2nd ed. (1953) (51)
Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski. (1958) (48)
Kinship, Nationality and Religion in American Culture: Toward a Definition of Kinship (1969) (1996) (47)
Class differences and sex roles in American kinship and family structure (1975) (45)
The History of Public Welfare in New York State, 1867-1940.@@@The History of Public Assistance in Chicago. (1939) (38)
Disconcerting issue; meaning and struggle in a resettled Pacific community (1971) (37)
Kinship vis-à-vis Myth Contrasts in Lévi-Strauss' Approaches to Cross-Cultural Comparison (1974) (34)
The Power of Culture: Notes on Some Aspects of Gay and Lesbian Kinship in America Today (1997) (30)
Virgin Births and Sterile Debates: Anthropology and the New Reproductive Technologies (1992) (30)
Kinship and Biology (1965) (29)
Yap Kinship Terminology and Kin Groups (1953) (26)
A Note on Bridewealth and the Stability of Marriage (1953) (19)
Political Organization, Supernatural Sanctions and the Punishment for Incest on Yap (1957) (19)
Marriage, Authority, and Final Causes, a Study of Unilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage (1957) (18)
Abortion And Depopulation On A Pacific Island (1955) (18)
The mission of William Carmichael to Spain . The workers' (communist) party and American trade unions . The Virginia constitutional convention of 1901-1902 . The protection of citizens abroad by the armed forces of the United States (1929) (17)
The social dynamics of physical disability in Army basic training. (1947) (17)
Descent and Filiation as Cultural Constructs (1967) (17)
The American kin universe : a genealogical study (1975) (16)
Class differences in American kinship (1978) (16)
217. The Nature of Kinship (1964) (15)
The Micronesians Of Yap And Their Depopulation: Report Of The Peabody Museum Expedition To Yap Island, Micronesia, 1947-1948 (1949) (12)
Zuni Kin Terms (1956) (11)
Zuni daily life (1965) (8)
Schneider on Schneider (1995) (6)
The depopulation of Yap. (1954) (6)
Ancient Society and Morgan's Kinship Theory 100 Years After [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (5)
A target of opportunity: creation of the LOUIS network (1995) (3)
The rise and fall of retrolental fibroplasia in New York State; preliminary report. (1956) (3)
The workers' (communist) party and American trade unions : a dissertation submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 1928 (3)
The Rise and Fall of Retrolental Fibroplasia in New York State (1956) (3)
The culture of the Army clerk. (1946) (3)
Social Theory and Social Structure. Robert K. Merton (1958) (3)
Reply to Ember (1974) (2)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Palm‐Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm‐Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town. Amos Tutuola (1954) (2)
When the Natives Manipulate Their Own Culture: The Law of Marriage in England and Wales (1984) (2)
Responses to Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart's 'Anthropology and the Crisis of the Intellectuals' (1994) (1)
A Note on “Excess Access and Incest,” by Busch and Gundlach (1979) (1)
A Warning in Regard to The Stone Money of Yap (1976) (1)
Mother's Brother in Wikmunkan Society (1962) (1)
PSYCHOETHNOGRAPHY: Truk: Man in Paradise. Thomas Gladwin and Seymour B. Sarason (1955) (1)
ETHNOLOGY: Family and Marrriage. John Mogey (1965) (1)
STANDING COMMITTEE ON ETHICS ESTABLISHED BY BOARD (1969) (1)
Opportunities for Statistical Work in State and Local Governments (1945) (1)
The Patchwork of Relief in Provincial New York, 1664-1775 (1938) (1)
Ethnology and Ethnography. Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer. E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1953) (1)
PSYCHOETHNOGRAPHY: Symbolic Wounds: Puberty Rites and the Envious Male. Bruno Bettelheim (1955) (1)
Communes in Israel: Family and Community in the Kibbutz . Yonina Talmon. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972. xviii, 266 pp., illus. $12. (1973) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Native Money of Palau. Robert E. Ritzenthaler (1955) (0)
Robert C. Suggs. Marquesan Sexual Behavior. Pp. xviii, 251. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. $5.95 (1966) (0)
Response on SCA Formation (1985) (0)
GENERAL: Biennial Review of Anthropology, 1959. Bernard J. Siegel (1960) (0)
The Place of Research in the Long-Time Planning of a State Program for Public Welfare (1939) (0)
comment on Eugene Cooper's «cousin marriage in rural China» (1994) (0)
Executive Order Governing Procedures of Departments and Agencies of New York State for Resolution of Employee Complaints (1950) (0)
First Eleven Months of Old Age Relief Operations in New York State (1932) (0)
The Gates of the Dream. Geza Roheim. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1953. viii, 554 pp. $10.00 (1954) (0)
Relativity of War Rape (1994) (0)
Makhanya Kinship Rights and Obligations. D. H. Reader (1955) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Rethinking Anthropology. E. R. Leach (1962) (0)
Thanks and an Apology (1966) (0)
Kinship and Casework. hope Jensen Leichter and William E. Mitchell (1968) (0)
Constraint and Variety in American Education. David Riesman. (1957) (0)
Checking the 1933 Federal Census of Dependent and Neglected Children in New York State (1935) (0)
A Reply to Keesing (1985) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: A Manual of Nuer Law. P. P. Howell. Foreword by E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1955) (0)
Back Matter (1965) (0)
Notes on the history of the New York State Department of Social Welfare. (1954) (0)
Class Differences and Sex Roles in American Kinship and Family Structure. (1975) (0)
The History of Public Welfare in New York State, 1609-1866 (1939) (0)
Opportunities for Social Research in the Public Welfare Field (1932) (0)
Ethnology: Yap: Political Leadership and Culture Change in an Island Society. Sherwood Galen Lingenfelter (1976) (0)
Book Review:The Translation of Culture: Essays on E. Evans-Pritchard. T. O. Beidelman (1973) (0)
Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences Vol. IV. Warner Muensterberger and Sidney Axelrad (Eds.) (1956) (0)
Book Review:The Family System in America. Ira L. Reiss (1972) (0)
The Family in Cross‐Cultural Perspective. William N. Stephens (1964) (0)
General and Theoretical: Edward Evans‐Pritchard. Mary Douglas (1981) (0)
The Public Charities of New York: The Rise of State Supervision after the Civil War (1941) (0)
Civil Defense Slated for All Training State Aides (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOHISTORY: A Pacific Bibliography: Printed Matter Relating to the Native Peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. C. R. H. Taylor (1966) (0)

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