Roland Burrage Dixon

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birth_date = November 6, 1875
birth_place = Worcester, Mass
death_date = December 1934
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Roland Burrage Dixon (November 6, 1875-December 1934) was an American anthropologist, born at Worcester, Mass. In 1897 he graduated from Harvard University, where he remained as an assistant in anthropology, taking the degree of Ph. D. in 1900 and then serving as instructor and after 1906 as an assistant professor. He was vice president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1910-11 and president of the American Folklore Society from 1907 to 1909. He was professor at Harvard after 1916 and member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace (1916-18) in Paris. Professor Dixon was a contributor to anthropological and ethnological journals.

Works

* "Maidu Myths" (1902)
* "The Chimariko Indians and Language" (1910)
* "Maidu Texts" (1912)
* "Oceanic Mythology" (myths of the Indonesian, Oceanian, Australian region, published in 1915)
* "Racial History of Man" (1923)

External links

* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/dixon_roland.html Profile (Minnesota State University eMuseum)]

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