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\n Name\n | \n\n E. Anderson Hoebel\n | \n
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\n Born\n | \n\n November 16 1906\n | \n
\n Died\n | \n\n July 23 1993\n | \n
\n Birth Location\n | \n\n Madison, Wisconsin\n | \n
\n Anthropologist and briefly the second\n \n community analyst\n \n at\n \n Amache\n \n , June to September 1944. A renowned anthropologist known for his pioneering studies on Native American legal systems, E. Adamson Hoebel was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1906. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1928 and went on to M.A. (New York University, 1930) and Ph.D. (Columbia University, 1940) degrees in anthropology, the latter under the direction of Franz Boas. While a graduate student, he became an instructor at NYU and became an assistant professor there in 1936 and an associate in 1942.\n \n \n [1]\n \n \n
\n\n He arrived at Amache in June 1944, replacing\n \n John Rademaker\n \n as the camp's community analyst. During his brief stint there, he focused on reporting on inmate attitudes towards leaving camp (\"relocation\" in War Relocation Authority language) and also attended the Community Analysis Section conference in Denver in September. After the summer, he returned to NYU.\n \n J. Ralph McFarling\n \n replaced Hoebel and served as the final community analyst at Amache.\n \n \n [2]\n \n \n
\n\n He remained at NYU until 1948, going on to positions at the University of Utah (1948–54) and at the University of Minnesota, where he served served as anthropology department chair for fifteen years until his retirement in 1972. He served as president of the both the American Ethnological Society (1946–47) and American Anthropological Association (1957) and authored a widely used textbook (\n \n Anthropology: The Study of Man\n \n , first published in 1949) as well as several specialized monographs on Native Americans. He passed away in St. Paul in 1993.\n \n \n [3]\n \n \n
\n \n \n\n McFarling, J. Ralph.\n \n \n Final Report: Community Analysis Section, Granada Porject, Amache Colorado\n \n \n . War Relocation Authority, Department of the Interior. July 10, 1945. The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.\n
\n\n Miller, Frank C. \"Deaths: E. Adamson Hoebel.\"\n \n Anthropology Newsletter\n \n , Sept. 1993, 6.\n
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