Robert Plant Armstrong

Background

Armstrong, Robert Plant was born on May 19, 1919 in Wheeling, West Virginia, United States. Son of Clarence Warren and Dorothy Johanna (Green) Armstrong.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University Arizona, 1944; Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1946; Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1957.

Career

Traveler, Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1945-1946; instructor English, Montana State University, Missoula, 1946-1950; field editor, Harper and Brothers, 1956-1958; editor, Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, 1958-1959; director publications, U. Arizona Press, 1959-1960; director, Northwestern University Press, 1960-1973; professor College Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University Press, 1967-1973; professor anthropology, University Texas at Dallas, 1974-1984. Visiting professor art history State University New York, Buffalo, summer 1970. Visiting curator African art Buffalo Museum Science, summer 1970.

Visiting professor U. Ibadan, Nigeria, 1972-1973. Also visiting director University Press.

Achievements

• Robert Plant Armstrong has been listed as a noteworthy editor, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Powers of Presence: Consciousness, Myth and Affecting Presence

    (Book by Armstrong, Robert Plant)

  • THE AFFECTING PRESENCE - An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology by Robert Plant Armstrong (1986) Hardcover

    (First Edition)

  • The affecting presence : an essay in humanistic anthropology.

    (Nonfiction)

  • Wellspring: On the Myth and Source of Culture by Robert Plant Armstrong (1975-12-01)
  • Wellspring: On the Myth and Source of Culture by Robert Plant Armstrong (1975-12-03)
  • Wellspring: On the Myth and Source of Culture
  • THE AFFECTING PRESENCE - An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology by Robert Plant Armstrong (1986-06-01)
  • Affecting Presence: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology by Robert Plant Armstrong (1971-07-27)
  • Powers of Presence: Consciousness, Myth and Affecting Presence by Robert Plant Armstrong (1981-10-01)
  • THE AFFECTING PRESENCE - An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology
  • Powers of Presence: Consciousness, Myth and Affecting Presence by Armstrong, Robert Plant (1981) Hardcover

Membership

Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1940-1943. Fellow African Studies Association, American Anthropological Association.

Connections

Father:

Clarence Warren Armstrong

Mother:

Dorothy Johanna (Green) Armstrong