Alfred L. Kroeber

"If there is nothing beyond the organic..." Heredity and culture at the boundaries of anthropology in the work of Alfred L. Kroeber.

When, in turn-of-the-20 th -century America, Alfred L. Kroeber continued the work of Franz Boas, in establishing anthropology as an academic discipline in the US, he defined culture as a phenomenon sui generis. For this he asked geneticists to enter into a coalition against hereditarian thoughts prevalent at that time in the US. To goal was to make room for anthropology as part of academia and ...

Alfred Goldberg

system, where non-sexualised images, e.g. from clothes ads or even from nudist beaches get the green light, erotic posing counts as amber, and material focusing on genitals or actual acts of child abuse gets the red light. “We train the patient to move only in the green area,” Ahlers told the paper. “Amber means: Caution! Potential danger for children and for myself! Risky behaviour on the verg...

Alfred Sheen

Alfred Adler

By Phyllis Bottome. Faber & Faber, Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. This is the third appreciation of Adler published in England since his death at Aberdeen in August, 1937. It is written by a well-known novelist who, with her husband, was in close touch with Adler and his family for the last ten years of his life. It is the most intimate account yet available in English and gives many personal details...

Alfred Maurice Wakeman

lor) Wakeman. His preliminary education was obtained at the Greenwich Academy and the New Haven High School. He received his B.A. degree from Yale University in I919, graduating with honors. In the following year he entered the Yale Medical School, where his intellectual ability and high character at once marked him as an exceptional individual. He graduated in 1923 with a cum laude degree and ...