Lewis Henry Morgan was an influential 19th-century ethnologist who dedicated most of his career to kinship studies. He documented an extensive amount of valuable written and physical material on the Iroquoian culture. Morgan was born on November 21, 1818. He grew up in a farmhouse close to Aurora, New York, and enrolled at the Cayuga
Alfred Lewis Kroeber was an early American anthropologist who made significant contributions to all four of anthropology’s subdisciplines. Kroeber is significant for his research on North American indigenous populations, his dedication to characterization and classification methods in ethnographic research, and his advancement of a definition of culture as a superorganic phenomenon. He established one of
Lewis Binford is one of the most productive and influential archaeologists of the 20th century. His primary accomplishment has been the organization and definition of the so-called New Archaeology. Binford did graduate study as a student of A. C. Spaulding at the University of Chicago. Like Spaulding, Binford emphasized in his writing the importance of
Lewis R. Goldberg is an internationally acclaimed psychologist best known for his programmatic studies testing the lexical hypothesis that any culturally important personality characteristic will be represented in the language of that culture. Goldberg was born in Chicago on January 28, 1932. As an undergraduate at Harvard (1949-1953), he decided against following his father into