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Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958

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Personal name headingSwanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
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Variant(s)Swanton, John R.
Associated placeWashington (D.C.)
Birth date1873-02-19
Death date1958-05-02
Place of birthGardiner (Me.)
Place of deathNewton (Mass.)
Field of activityAnthropology Linguistics Ethnology Ethnohistory
AffiliationHarvard University
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Profession or occupationAuthors Anthropologists Linguists Ethnologists
Found inHis Haida texts and myths, 1905.
OCLC, February 5 2015 (hdg.: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958; usage: John R. Swanton)
Wikipedia, April 3, 2019: (John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873-May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and ethnohistory. He is particularly noted for his work with indigenous peoples of the Southeast and Pacific Northwest; Born in Gardiner, Maine; Harvard University, earning an A.B. in 1896, an A.M. in 1897, and a Ph.D. in 1900; Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; died in Newton, Massachusetts)
Associated languageeng