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Spiro, Melford E

LC control no.n 79100154
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Personal name headingSpiro, Melford E.
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeSan Diego (Calif.)
Birth date1920-04-26
Death date2014-10-18
Place of birthOhio
Field of activityAnthropology
AffiliationUniversity of California, San Diego
Profession or occupationAnthropologists College teachers
Found inBurrows, E. G. An atoll culture, 1953.
Fernandez, J. W. On symbols in anthropology, 1982: t.p. (Melford Spiro)
His Oedipus in the Trobriands, c1992: CIP t.p. (Melford E. Spiro) data sheet (b. 4/26/20)
UC San Diego news center, Oct. 30, 2014: (Melford E. Spiro, founding chair of the department of anthropology at UC San Diego, died Oct. 18 at the age of 94; Spiro came to UC San Diego in 1968 to found the department of anthropology; born in 1920 in Ohio and moved to Minnesota as an infant)
Wikipedia, Oct. 30, 2014: (Melford Spiro; Melford Elliot Spiro (April 26, 1920 - October 18, 2014) is an American cultural anthropologist specializing in religion and psychological anthropology)
Associated languageeng