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Ralph Linton



Ralph Linton (Philadelphia, 27 February 1893 - New Haven, 24 December 1953) was one of the best-known American anthropologists of the mid-twentieth century, and is particularly remembered for his works' 'The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955). One of Linton's major contributions to anthropology was finding a distinction between status and role.



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