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Alfred L. Kroeber

Columbia College, Class of 1896

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Alfred L. Kroeber

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Class of 1896 (Columbia College)

Works (190)

  1. 1899 Animal Tales of the Eskimo · The Journal of American Folklore
  2. 1900 Cheyenne Tales · The Journal of American Folklore
  3. 1902 The Arapaho. 1, Decorative art and symbolism
  4. 1903 The Native Languages of California · American Anthropologist
  5. 1903 Traditions of the Arapaho · Publication. Field Columbian Museum
  6. 1904 A Ghost-Dance in California · The Journal of American Folklore
  7. 1905 Systematic Nomenclature in Ethnology1 · American Anthropologist
  8. 1906 The Berkeley Folk-Lore Club · Science
  9. 1906 The California Branch of The American Folk-Lore Society · Science
  10. 1906 Two Myths of the Mission Indians of California · The Journal of American Folklore
  11. 1908 Notes on the Ute Language · American Anthropologist
  12. 1910 Peculiar Spiral Arch of the Eskimo Snow House · Scientific American
  13. 1911 Incorporation as a Linguistic Process · American Anthropologist
  14. 1913 The California Academy of Sciences · Science
  15. 1914 Chontal, Seri and Yuman · Science
  16. 1914 The Eskimos as Aboriginal Inventors · Scientific American
  17. 1915 A New Shoshonean Tribe in California · American Anthropologist
  18. 1915 Visible Speech · Scientific American
  19. 1918 Book Reviews · American Anthropologist
  20. 1918 Heredity, Environment, and Civilization · Scientific American
  21. 1918 The Washo Indians. S. A. Barrett · American Anthropologist
  22. 1919 AMERICA: Tizoc, Great Lord of the Aztecs, 1481–1486. Marshall H. Saville · American Anthropologist
  23. 1919 Anthropology Up‐to‐Date. George Winter Mitchell · American Anthropologist
  24. 1919 Sinkyone Tales · The Journal of American Folklore
  25. 1920 Totem and Taboo: an Ethnologic Psychoanalysis · American Anthropologist
  26. 1921 To the American Indian. Mrs. Lucy Thompson · American Anthropologist
  27. 1922 METHODS AND PRINCIPLES: Is America Safe for Democracy? William McDougall · American Anthropologist
  28. 1923 Relationship of the Australian languages · Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
  29. 1926 Archaeological explorations in Peru. Part I, Ancient pottery from Trujillo · Anthropology, memoirs. Field Museum of Natural History
  30. 1927 Coast and Highland in Prehistoric Peru · American Anthropologist
  31. 1928 Peoples of the Philippines
  32. 1930 Archaeological explorations in Peru. Part II, The northern coast · Anthropology, memoirs. Field Museum of Natural History
  33. 1930 La civilisation matérielle des tribus tupi‐guarani. A. Métraux · American Anthropologist
  34. 1931 Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological and Palaeontological Society · American Anthropologist
  35. 1931 Darien in the Past · American Anthropologist
  36. 1931 Tepoztlan: A Mexican Village · American Anthropologist
  37. 1932 ASIA: Ching Ho: A Sociological Analysis. Cato Young, Leonard S. Hsu, and collaborators · American Anthropologist
  38. 1934 Native American Population · American Anthropologist
  39. 1935 GENERAL: Patterns of Culture. Ruth Benedict. · American Anthropologist
  40. 1936 Prospects in California Prehistory · American Antiquity
  41. 1937 Discussion and Correspondence Publications Needs and Objectives · American Anthropologist
  42. 1940 CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: Archaeology of the North Coast of Peru: An Account of Exploration and Excavation in Viru and Lambayeque Valleys. Wendell C. Bennett · American Anthropologist
  43. 1942 Los métodos de la arqueología peruana · Letras (Lima)
  44. 1943 MISCELLANEOUS: A Study of History. Arnold J. Toynbee · American Anthropologist
  45. 1944 NORTH AMERICA: Crazy Weather. Carles L. McNichols · American Anthropologist
  46. 1946 The Range of the Ameiucan Anthropologist · American Anthropologist
  47. 1948 Anthropology: Race, Language, Culture, Psychology, Prehistory · New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948
  48. 1948 Review of The American People: A Study in National Character. · The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
  49. 1949 Roy Franklin Barton, 1883–1947 · American Anthropologist
  50. 1951 Review: The Koreans and Their Culture, by Cornelius Osgood · Far Eastern Survey
  51. 1952 Sign and Symbol in Bee Communications · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  52. 1953 Anthropology today
  53. 1953 Anthropology Today: An Encyclopedic Inventory · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953
  54. 1953 Paracas Cavernas and Chavin · Letras (Lima)
  55. 1953 The Delimitation of Civilizations · Journal of the History of Ideas
  56. 1954 Comments · American Anthropologist
  57. 1954 Culture; A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions. · The Journal of Philosophy
  58. 1957 PRIMITIVE ART: The Voices of Silence. André Malraux · American Anthropologist
  59. 1959 The History of the Personality of Anthropology* · American Anthropologist
  60. 1963 A Roster of Civilizations and Culture · Revue Française de Sociologie
  61. 1963 An Anthropologist Looks at History · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963
  62. 1963 Anthropology: Culture Patterns & Processes · New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1963
  63. 1963 The Nature of Land-Holding Groups in Aboriginal California · Aboriginal California
  64. 1976 Handbook of the Indians of California · New York: Dover, 1976
  65. 1994 A Mohave War Reminiscence, 1854-1880 · Mineola: Dover, 1994
  66. 1896 Alfred L. Kroeber and the Arapaho
  67. 1896 American Indian life
  68. 1896 An anthropological expedition of 1913
  69. 1896 An anthropological expedition of 1913, or, Get it through your head, or, Yours for the revolution
  70. 1896 An Anthropologist Looks at History with a foreword by Milton Singer
  71. 1896 Anthropology
  72. 1896 Anthropology -- with Fold-Out Maps
  73. 1896 Anthropology Biology and Race
  74. 1896 Anthropology, with supplement
  75. 1896 Antropologia
  76. 1896 Antropologia general
  77. 1896 Arapaho Dialects
  78. 1896 Archaeological Explorations in Peru; Fieldiana Anthropology Memoirs V. 2, No. 2
  79. 1896 Archaic culture horizons in the valley of Mexico
  80. 1896 Area and climax
  81. 1896 Arrow release distributions
  82. 1896 Basic report on California Indian land holdings
  83. 1896 Basket Designs of the Indians of NorthWestern California
  84. 1896 Basket Designs of the Mission Indians of California
  85. 1896 Basket Designs of the Mission Indians of California, Volume 20, Issue 2
  86. 1896 Basket Designs of the Native Americans of North Western California
  87. 1896 Basketry designs of the mission Indians
  88. 1896 California culture provinces
  89. 1896 California Kinship Systems
  90. 1896 California place names of Indian origin
  91. 1896 Cañete valley
  92. 1896 Checklist of Civilizations and Culture
  93. 1896 Chumash and Costanoan Languages
  94. 1896 Chumash place name lists
  95. 1896 Classification of the Yuman languages
  96. 1896 Classificatory systems of relationship
  97. 1896 Configuations of culture growth
  98. 1896 Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America
  99. 1896 Culture
  100. 1896 Culture element distributions: XI
  101. 1896 Culture growth
  102. 1896 Decorative Symbolism of the Arapaho
  103. 1896 Documents on peyote ...
  104. 1896 Elements of Culture in Native Californi
  105. 1896 Essays in Anthropology Presented to A. L. Kroeber in Celebration of His 60th Birthday, June 11, 1936
  106. 1896 Essays in anthropology presented to A. L. Kroeber in celebration of his sixtieth birthday, June 11, 1936
  107. 1896 Ethnographic interpretations
  108. 1896 Ethnographic interpretations, 7-11
  109. 1896 Ethnography of the Cahuilla Indians
  110. 1896 Fishing among the Indians of northwestern California
  111. 1896 Franz Boas, 1858-1942
  112. 1896 Frederic Ward Putnam
  113. 1896 Gros Ventre Myths and Tales
  114. 1896 Il concetto di cultura
  115. 1896 Indian Myths of South Central California
  116. 1896 Karok Myths
  117. 1896 Kinship in the Philippines
  118. 1896 Languages of the Coast of California North of San Francisco
  119. 1896 Linguistic Families of California
  120. 1896 Mission Record of the California Indians
  121. 1896 Mohave pottery
  122. 1896 More Mohave myths
  123. 1896 Nabaloi songs
  124. 1896 Native culture of the Southwest
  125. 1896 Native Tribes Map
  126. 1896 Nature of Culture by Kroeber A. L. (1952-12-01) Hardcover
  127. 1896 On the evidences of the occupation of certain regions by the Miwok Indians
  128. 1896 Parenté et anthropologie sociale
  129. 1896 Peruvian archaeology in 1942
  130. 1896 Peruvian archeology in 1942 (Viking Fund publications in anthropology)
  131. 1896 Peruvian cultural relationships with Central America
  132. 1896 Phonetic Elements of the Diegueño Language
  133. 1896 Phonetic elements of the Mohave language
  134. 1896 Pomo
  135. 1896 Proto-Lima
  136. 1896 Publications In American Archaeology And Ethnology, Volume 16
  137. 1896 Religion of the Indians of California
  138. 1896 Report on aboriginal territory and occupancy of the Mohave tribe
  139. 1896 Roster Of Civilizations And Culture - Essay On The Natural History Of The World's Cultures, Living And Extinct
  140. 1896 Salt, Dogs, Tobacco
  141. 1896 Seri
  142. 1896 Serian, Tequistlatecan, and Hokan
  143. 1896 Seven Mohave Myths
  144. 1896 Shoshonean Dialects of California
  145. 1896 Sign Language among North American Indians Compared with That among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes
  146. 1896 Sign Language among North American Indians Compared with That of Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes (Washington 1881)
  147. 1896 Studies in Cahuilla culture
  148. 1896 Style and Civilizations
  149. 1896 Symbolism of the Arapaho Indians
  150. 1896 The ancient Oikoumenê as an historic culture aggregate
  151. 1896 The Arapaho
  152. 1896 The archaeology and pottery of Nazca, Peru
  153. 1896 The Chemehuevi
  154. 1896 The Eskimo of Smith Sound
  155. 1896 The history of Philippine civilization
  156. 1896 The history of Philippine civilization as reflected in religious nomenclature
  157. 1896 The Koso or Panamint
  158. 1896 The languages of the coast of California south of San Francisco
  159. 1896 The Mohave: concrete life, and the The Mohave: dream life
  160. 1896 The Nature of Culture
  161. 1896 The Patwin and their neighbors
  162. 1896 The Sources And Authenticity Of The History Of The Ancient Mexicans
  163. 1896 The Sparkman grammar of Luiseno
  164. 1896 The superorganic
  165. 1896 The Tübatulabal
  166. 1896 The Uhle collections from Chincha
  167. 1896 The Uhle pottery collections from Chancay
  168. 1896 The Uhle pottery collections from Ica
  169. 1896 The Uhle pottery collections from Supe
  170. 1896 The valley Nisenan
  171. 1896 The Washo
  172. 1896 The Washo language of east central California and Nevada
  173. 1896 Three Centuries of Women's Dress Fashions: A Quantitative Analysis (University of California Publications : Anthropological Records, No 5:2)
  174. 1896 Toward definition of the Nazca style
  175. 1896 Tribes surveyed
  176. 1896 Tribes surveyed / by A. L. Kroeber
  177. 1896 Two papers on the aboriginal ethnography of California
  178. 1896 Types of Indian culture in California
  179. 1896 Uto-Aztecan languages of Mexico
  180. 1896 Walapai ethnography
  181. 1896 World renewal
  182. 1896 World Renewal, a Cult System of Native Northwest California; 13
  183. 1896 Yokuts Dialect Survey
  184. 1896 Yokuts names
  185. 1896 Yuman Tribes of the Lower Colorado
  186. 1896 Yurok
  187. 1896 Yurok and neighboring kin term systems
  188. 1896 Yurok myths
  189. 1896 Zuñi Kin and Clan
  190. 1896 Zuñi Potsherds

Primary sources

The Columbia Daily Spectator

1896-05-13 Philolexian Society. won second prize for essay
Philolexian Society. HE Philolexian Society of Columbia College closed its year's work 011 Friday, April 29th, with its membership equal to the constitutional limit. The new officers elected at the meeting of that date were : —President, C. F. Wheaton, '97 ; Vice-President, C. C. Burke, '9B; Secretary, Theo. Parsons, '99; Treasurer, C. A. Baker, '99. At the same meeting the results of the society's prize contests were announced. These prizes are the income of a fund of $1,500 presented by the alumni on the Society's fiftieth anniversary in 1852. They are awarded for orations essays and debates. The successful contestants are as follows: — For the Oration. —First, G. Parsons, '99; second, A., R. Lesinsky, '96; third, J. M. Proskaner, '96. For the Debate. —First, J. M. Proskauer,'96; second C. F. Wheaton, '97. For the Essays— First, J. M. Proskauer, '96;…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1896-05-13 →

1898-04-13 DEBATING SOCIETIES judged the oratorical contest
DEBATING SOCIETIES THE weekly meeting of the Barnard Literary Association was held on Thursday evening, April 7th. The oration was delivered by C. J. Ogden, a humorous selection was read by D. H. Smith, and Cane and Hall spoke extemporaneously. The question for debate was, '' Resolved , that a censorship of the press should be established." Messrs. Cole and Ross, who supported the affirmative, received the decision over Messrs. Erskine and Giddings. It was decided to hold the annual Spring dinner at the Hotel Marie Antoinette, on Tuesday evening, April 13th. Mr. Ringwalt of the Rhetoric Department,and Mr. Geoffrey Parsons of the Philolexian Society, will be the guests of the Barnard. The regular annual oratorical contest of the Philolexian Society was held on Thursday, April 7th. Nine men contested, and the ; prizes were awarded as follows: Ist prize, twenty dollars, to M. H. France;…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1898-04-13 →

1895-03-27 About College [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION] board member
About College W. B. Crowell, '96 Z,., has been looking for candidates for the Crescent eleven among Columbia's athletes. '97 Mines has elected its representatives to the '97 Columbian board. The men elected are the following: J. L- Fearing, H. H. Armstead, C. H. Fulton, T. De Coppet, and H. B. Mitchell. The Arts have not had their election as yet. A benefit will be given Forrest D. Carr, at Dr. Baton's Church, 45th Street and Fifth Avenue, on the evening of April Ist. The Mandolin Club has been asked to play. The 24th of April has been decided on as the date for the '96 class dinner. The place has not yet been settled. The committee consists of R. H. Halsey (chairman), Manfred Uhl, and R. A. M'Culloch. At the annual dinner of' 96 Law, in place of set toasts each man was called upon to respond to some words appropriate to himself. There was also a musical programme, ranging from banjo…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1895-03-27 →

The Annals of the Philolexian Society (1912)

The Annals of the Philolexian Society (1912) Leaf / page 53

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Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916)

Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 99

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Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 175

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Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 900

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Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 1000

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Philolexian Annals 1912, Roll of Members

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