Clark Wissler
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Clark David Wissler (September 18, 1870 – August 25, 1947) was a prominent American anthropologist, and a great authority on Native American Indians. His early research in psychology on intelligence testing radically transformed the field, which at that time assumed that psychophysical abilities, such as reaction time, were predictors of mental abilities. This led Wissler to become instantly famous, albeit controversial, with the result that he changed his field to anthropology. Although never repeating the same level of fame, his work in ethnology laid the foundation for later research on culture, both within anthropology and sociology.
Works
- North American Indians of the Plains, New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1912.
- The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World, New York: Peter Smith Publisher, 1917.
