Ralph Linton
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Ralph Linton (27 February 1893 – 24 December 1953) was an American anthropologist of the mid-20th century, particularly remembered for his texts The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955). One of Linton's major contributions to anthropology was defining a distinction between status and role.
Literature
- The Cultural Background of Personality, New York: Appleton Century, 1945.
- Cultura y Personalidad, trans. Javier Romero, Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1945 (in Spanish).
- Le fondement culturel de la personnalité, Paris : Éditions Dunod, 1977 (in French).
- with Paul Wingert and Rene D'Harnoncourt, Arts of the South Seas, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946.
- The Tree of Culture, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.