Harold W. Scheffler
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| Born | October 24, 1932 |
| Died | July 24, 2015 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | American |
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| Occupation | Anthropologist |
Harold Walter Scheffler (October 24, 1932 - July 24, 2015)[1] was an American anthropologist. He is best known for his scholarship in kinship and descent.
Scheffler was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Southeast Missouri State College and the University of Missouri, where he received his B.A. in anthropology and sociology in 1956. He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1957, where he also completed his Ph.D. in 1963. During his doctoral studies, he completed 18 months of fieldwork on the island of Choiseul in the Solomon Islands, at the time known as the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.[2] Scheffler taught at the University of Connecticut and Bryn Mawr College before joining the Department of Anthropology at Yale University in 1963, where he remained until his retirement in 2008.[3] While at Yale, he completed further research in the Solomon Islands and Australia. He was also a close collaborator of fellow Yale colleague Floyd Lounsbury. The two studied the Sirionó people in Bolivia, completing a case study on their kinship system in 1971.[2]
References
- ↑ Scheffler, Harold W. "Harold W. Scheffler Papers". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kelly, William W. (September 2016). "Harold W. Scheffler (1932-2015)". American Anthropologist. 118 (3): 710–713. doi:10.1111/aman.12602.
- ↑ "Harold W. Scheffler: anthropologist illuminated fundamental patterns of kinship". YaleNews. 2015-07-27. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
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