| LC control no. | n 50023644 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Drucker, Philip, 1911-1982 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Washington (D.C.) Lexington (Ky.) Veracruz-Llave (Mexico : State) |
| Located | Lexington (Ky.) |
| Birth date | 1911-01-13 |
| Death date | 1982-02-28 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Lexington (Ky.) |
| Field of activity | Anthropology |
| Affiliation | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology University of Kentucky National Research Council (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Anthropologists |
| Found in | His Southern California, 1937. American anthropologist, v. 85: p. 897 (Philip Drucker, 1911-1982) Drucker, Philip. Indians of the Northwest Coast, 1955: title page (by Philip Drucker, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution) about the author (Philip Drucker anthropologist and authority on aboriginal cultures of the American Northwest; born January 13, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois; doctorate in anthropology from University of California in 1936; staff anthropologist with Bureau of American Ethnology for Smithsonian Institution, 1940-; field-work on Northwest Coast 1933-, made ethnographic study of Nootka Indians in 1935 as a Social Science Research Council predoctoral fellow, and ethnographic survey of Northwest Coast for University of California program in "Culture Element Distribution" in 1936; 1938, post-doctoral fellow with National Research Council, made archaeological survey of Northwest Coast; also made archaeological investigations in southern Mexico; author of many anthropological studies) Newspapers.com, The Courier-journal (Louisville, Kentucky), viewed March 15, 2021: 03 Mar 1982, Wed., page 10 (Dr. Philip Drucker dies; was cultural researcher; retired from University of Kentucky in 1976; died at home [Lexington, Kentucky] Sunday [February 28, 1982]; 71 years old; wrote 14 books and monographs; authority on Indian culture of Northwest coast and on cultural history of Mexico; served as assistant curator of U.S. National Museum and spent several years with Bureau of American Ethnology in Smithsonian Institution; in 1955 returned to study of Mexican cultural history and established cattle ranch in Veracruz, Mexico; 1967 returned to US to accept post at University of Kentucky; recently conducting research in Robertson County for the National Institute for Aging) <https://www.newspapers.com/image/109520622/?terms=%22philip%20Drucker%22&match=1> |
| Associated language | eng |
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