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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...be buried, if it is desired, in the ground of some other village; but, under any circumstances, the relatives may not take part in the burning until they have received a membership string or necklace for the ground in which the body was placed. After the body is buried, therefore, the mourners go to those who are in charge of the ground in question, and apply for such a string, so that they may take part in the next burning which is to be held. The owners or overseers of the burning-ground then give the applicant a string, for which payment has to be made in beads, furs, food, or other things. The so-called "strings" are necklaces of beads and cord, the number of beads and their arrangement varying with every burning-ground, so that from the string one can tell at once to what ground the person wearing it belongs. The arrangements of beads on the cord are varied thus:--o--o--oo--o--o--oo--o--o oo--o--oo--o--oo--o--oo ooo--o--ooo--o--ooo--o--ooo, etc. Having received such a string, the recipient is entitled to burn (or " cry ") for a period of five years. At the end of this time, if no other member of the family has died, the person may burn the string, or tell the one from whom it was received that he wishes it to be burned. When this occurs, he receives from the original giver the equivalent of the price paid for it. The strings are worn, while they are in the hands of the mourner, constantly as a necklace. Should other members of the family die before the five years are up, the string may be kept till five years from the date of the most recent death. It seems that strings are also given out under somewhat different conditions. From information obtained by Mr. Barrett, it appears that strings may be issued by the individual mourners, to...
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Pp. xvi, 583; 44 full page plates (black-and-white photos of human faces, detailed maps showing distribution of traits and people). Publisher's original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, thick lg 8vo. A detailed study of the geography of human variation. Dixon received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1900. Dixon was Franz Boas's first doctoral student at Harvard, and Dixon's early papers represent some of the earliest work inspired by Boas' views on culture. However, Boas did not fully articulate his views on culture until 1911, thus Dixon's work is less influenced by Boasian views than that of many of Boas' later students. Dixon's approach towards cultures was geographic in orientation, and he generally viewed cultures as static entities, with change primarily being induced by migration. Dixon's geographical-historical approach was not taken up by any later anthropologists. Dixon was Alfred Kroeber's closest professional colleague from 1897 until about 1906. They coordinated closely, published a number of papers jointly, and had an explicit agreement not to duplicate one another's work, Dixon working on languages and cultures in northeastern California and the northern Sierra Nevada, Kroeber in the remainder of the state (modified after Wiki). This volume comes from the research library of Berkeley's Alfred Kroeber with his pencil signature on the front endpaper; there are a few pencil marginal notes by Kroeber in the text. An important work with great provenance.
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Dixon was born on November 6, 1875, in Worcester, Massachusetts, the only son of Lewis Seaver and Ellen Rebecca (Burrage) Dixon. His father, a graduate of Harvard in 1866 and of the Harvard Medical School in 1871, was a practising physician, the son of Lewis Wheaton and Susan Eliza (Fales) Seaver. The latter upon her husband's death married her cousin, Rufus Ellis Dixon, and added the surname Dixon to her son's name.
Having received his preparation at Hopkinson's School, Boston, Dixon entered Harvard in the class of 1897. Here he acquired an interest in anthropology and received the degree of A. B. He continued his studies at Harvard and in 1900 he received the degree of Ph. D.
After graduation Dixon occupied himself in field work in Ohio, having previously been appointed assistant in anthropology at the Peabody Museum. The following summer, 1898, he went to British Columbia and Alaska with the Jesup North Pacific expedition sent out by the American Museum of Natural History. The next summer he spent among the Indians of California. After a winter in Germany, Mongolia, and Siberia he returned to Harvard, with which he remained connected for the rest of his life as instructor in anthropology, 1901-1906; assistant professor, 1906-1915; and professor from 1915 until his death. He also served as librarian of Peabody Museum, as its secretary, and as curator of ethnology. Largely through his influence and activities, the courses in the department of anthropology were so augmented and systematized and its personnel so increased that instruction could be given and research carried on in all phases of the subject. His services to the Peabody Museum were numerous, among them the introduction of a cataloguing system that greatly increased the usefulness of that institution.
An insatiable investigator, Dixon acquired a fund of ethnological information as great probably as that ever possessed by any one man. Although not primarily interested in field work, he carried on research in Asia and Oceania as well as in North and South America and was familiar with all the literature relating to the primitive peoples of these regions. His attitude toward his subject matter was extraordinarily detached and objective. His first visit to the Indians of California in 1899 was followed by others and he came to be a recognized authority on the ethnography of that section of the country. The results of his observations are set forth in bulletins and periodicals of learned societies, the most important of these monographs being "The Northern Maidu" and "The Shasta. " The bibliography of his writings contains more than eighty items. They cover a wide range of subjects in the fields of descriptive and historical ethnography, archeology, linguistics, and folklore. His longer works include Statistics of the Indian Population (1913), a bulletin of the thirteenth census of the United States; Oceanic Mythology (1916), a volume in the series Mythology of All Races; The Racial History of Man (1923); and The Building of Cultures (1928).
In The Racial History of Man, a venture into the field of physical anthropology, he made the ambitious attempt to classify mankind on the basis of certain cranial indices. His reliance on the method he adopted was such that he permitted it to lead him to some conclusions that were fantastic and the work encountered more or less criticism; nevertheless, it is a stimulating and suggestive accomplishment.
Dixon was vice president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1910-1911 and president of the American Folklore Society from 1907 to 1909.
Dixon put his abilities and knowledge at the disposal of the government, when, in 1918, he became a member of the House Commission, known as the "Inquiry, " and gathered material on political conditions in Central America, and, also, the following year, when he served with the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. He was a prodigious worker.
The summer of 1917 he served as rodman with a partyengaged in mapping Camp Devens. Though suffering from a painful disease during the last years of his life, he went resolutely on his way, meeting his customary obligations until his strength gave out on December 19, 1934.
Dixon is best remembered as the anthropologist who organized one of the world’s most comprehensive and functional anthropological libraries at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. He also developed Harvard into a leading centre for the training of anthropologists. He was Franz Boas's first doctoral student at Harvard, and Dixon's early papers represent some of the earliest work inspired by Boas' views on culture.
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Dixon was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace (1916-1918) in Paris.
Dixon took little part in social activities. Fond of outdoor life, in 1915 he established his home in Harvard, Massachusetts, where he had easy access to fields and woods. Summers, when not otherwise engaged, he spent in walking and tramping, finding pleasure in exploring comparatively inaccessible regions.
Dixon never married and had few intimates.
