- Frank Speck
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name = Frank Speck
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caption = Frank Speck
birth_date =November 8 ,1881
birth_place =Brooklyn
death_date =February 6 ,1950
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nationality =United States
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field =anthropology
work_institutions =University of Pennsylvania
alma_mater =University of Pennsylvania .
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known_for =Algonkian andIroquoian peoples
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influences =Franz Boas
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religion = |footnotes = |Frank Gouldsmith Speck (
November 8 ,1881 –February 6 ,1950 ) was an American anthropologist specializing in First Nations peoples of eastern borealCanada , especiallyAlgonkian andIroquoian peoples.Born in
Brooklyn , he was a student ofFranz Boas when he earned an M.A. atColumbia University . Later he earned a Ph.D. from theUniversity of Pennsylvania .He was given the Iroquois name Gahehdagowa ('Great Porcupine') upon his adoption into the Turtle clan of the Seneca people.
In 1907 he joined the faculty at the
University of Pennsylvania , first on a fellowship that passed to his colleagueEdward Sapir the following year. Speck's students at Penn included the anthropologistsA. Irving Hallowell ,Anthony F. C. Wallace , Loren Eiseley, andJames W. VanStone .Bibliography
* Darnell, Regna (2006) "Keeping the Faith: A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology." In: "New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations," ed. by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, pp. 3-16. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
* Fenton, William N. (2001) "He-Lost-a-Bet (Howanʔneyao) of the Seneca Hawk Clan." In: "Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America," ed. by Sergei Kan, pp. 81-98. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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* [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!248692!0&term= Smithsonian Institution Research Information System]
External links
* [http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/s/speck.htm American Philosophical Society's page about Frank Speck]
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