Horace Mitchell Miner
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- PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
- Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
- Bachelors Sociology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Horace Mitchell Miner was an American anthropologist, particularly interested in those languages of his time that were still closely tied to the earth and agricultural practices. During World War II, he served as a counterintelligence agent in Italy and Japan. In 1937, he earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago, going on to teach there, as well as at other universities in the United States, and on a Fulbright Fellowship at a college in Uganda. He later worked elsewhere in Africa, and in South America.
Horace Mitchell Miner's Published Works
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- Body Ritual among the Nacirema (1956) (346)
- An African Aristocracy: Rank Among the Swazi. (1948) (130)
- The Living and the Dead (1960) (107)
- Urbanization and Social Change in Africa [and Comments and Reply] (1967) (86)
- Minetown, Milltown, Railtown: Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry. (1972) (65)
- The Folk-Urban Continuum (1952) (63)
- Primitive City of Timbuctoo (1954) (62)
- St. Denis: A French-Canadian Parish (1939) (53)
- The City in Modern Africa. (1969) (40)
- Culture Change Under Pressure: A Hausa Case (1960) (16)
- Culture and Agriculture: An Anthropological Study of a Corn Belt County (1949) (13)
- Principles of Sociology (1952) (13)
- Principles of sociology : a text with readings (1952) (11)
- The Importance of Textiles in the Archaeology of the Eastern United States (1936) (8)
- PARALLELISM IN ALKALOID‐ALKALI QUIDS (1939) (8)
- The French-Canadian Family Cycle (1938) (7)
- Algerian Culture and Personality in Change (1958) (6)
- 2 Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (4)
- Changes in Rural French-Canadian Culture (1938) (2)
- A New Epoch in Rural Quebec (1950) (2)
- Cave Hollow, an Ozark bluff-dweller site (1950) (2)
- Peoples of Africa. James L. Gibbs, Jr., Ed. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 1965. xiv + 594 pp. Illus. $10.50 (1965) (2)
- Researchmanship: The Feedback of Expertise (1960) (2)
- GENERAL. AND THEORETICAL: Magic, a Sociological Study. Hutton Webster (1949) (1)
- ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Chåteau‐Gérard: The Life and Times of a Walloon Village. Harry Holbert Turney‐High. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1953. xviii, 297 pp., 4 maps, 1 chart, 14 tables. $5.50 (1955) (1)
- Problems and Prognosis for the Small‐for-Gestational‐Age and the Premature Infant (1978) (1)
- The New Nigerian Elite. Hugh H. Smythe and Mabel M. Smythe. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1960. ix + 195 pp. Illus. $5 (1960) (1)
- St. Denis: A French-Canadian Parish.@@@The Germans in New Brunswick, New Jersey.@@@The Slovenes: A social History.@@@The Albanian Struggle in the Old World and New.@@@Immigrant Settlements in Connecticut: Their Growth and Characteristics.@@@The Puerto Rican Migrant in New York City. (1939) (1)
- Man in the Primitive World, an Introduction to Anthropology. E. Adamson Hoebel. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. 1949. xii+543 pages, 73 text figs., glossary, bibliography, and index. $5.00. (1950) (1)
- The city in modern Africa : [papers] (1967) (0)
- Social Dynamics: Prinicples and Cases in Introductory Sociology.@@@Principles of Sociology: A Text with Readings. (1953) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Sainte‐Marie among the Hurons. Wilfred Jury and Elsie McLeod Jury (1955) (0)
- The Purpose and Scope of This Special Issue (1960) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Nupe Religion. S. F. Nadel (1956) (0)
- MODERNIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT: L'urbanisation de la société canadienne-française. Marc-André Lessard and Jean-Paul Montminy (1970) (0)
- : The Azande, and Related Peoples of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Belgian Congo . P. T. W. Baxter, Audrey Butt. ; Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho . I. M. Lewis. (1956) (0)
- International Labor Office, Resolutions on Indigenous Labor (1951) (0)
- The New Nigerian Elite . Hugh H. Smythe and Mabel M. Smythe. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1960. ix + 195 pp. Illus. $5. (1960) (0)
- Mainstream Culture 8 Body Ritual among the Nacirema (2000) (0)
- MINETOWN, MILLTOWN, RAILTOWN: LIFE IN CANADIAN COMMUNITIES OF SINGLE INDUSTRY. By Rex A. Lucas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971. 433 pp. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $5.00 (1972) (0)
- : The Ovimbundu of Angola . Merran McCulloch. ; The Swazi . Hilda Kuper. (1954) (0)
- Africans without Masks: The Human Factor in Changing Africa . Melville J. Herskovits. Knopf, New York, 1962. 569 pp. Illus. $6.95. (1963) (0)
- Reflections on Science or Quid Pro Nihil (1978) (0)
- Back Matter (1952) (0)
- GENERAL AND CULTURE CHANGE: The Social Uses of Social Science: The Papers of Robert Redfield, Vol. II, Editing and Introduction by Margaret Park Redfield (1964) (0)
- Regarding Knotted Looping (1937) (0)
- Africa Today: Representative Cultures: Peoples of Africa . James L. Gibbs, Jr., Ed. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 1965. xiv + 594 pp. Illus. $10.50. (1965) (0)
- Rural Social Systems: A Textbook in Rural Sociology and Anthropology. Charles P. Looms and J. Allan Beegle (1952) (0)
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- In Memoriam, Robert Redfield, 1897-1958 (1959) (0)
- Book Review:Peguche, Canton of Otavalo, Province of Imbabua, Ecuador: A Study of Andean Indians. Elsie Clews Parsons (1946) (0)
- Book Review:Tangier Island: A Study of an Isolated Group. S. Warren Hall III (1940) (0)
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