Round 7: Tossup 9

This thinker supplemented his funding with support from Elsie Clews Parsons, who published Pueblo Indian Religion. This thinker’s criticism of Madison Grant and protection of “non-conformist thought” led his university to bar him from teaching male undergraduates. Marvin Harris criticized this thinker for practicing “historical particularism” (10[1])instead of universal laws of cultural development. This thinker’s work on immigration for the Dillingham Commission led him to reject correlations between brain size (10[1])and ability, which he expanded in a book based on his fieldwork with the Kwakiutl. This anthropologist’s students included Zora Neale Hurston and Margaret Mead. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of The Mind of Primitive Man, known as the “father of American anthropology.” ■END■

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