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Melford Elliot Spiro, PhD

Affiliations: 
Anthropology University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 
Area:
cultural anthropology, religion, psychological anthropology
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BA (philosophy) University of Minnesota
studied at Jewish Theological Seminary
PhD Northwestern 1950
Taught Washington Univ (St. Louis), U. Conn., U. of Washington, Univ. of Chicago, then founded UCSD Anthro dept in 1968. Retired 1990.

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Alfred ("Pete") Irving Hallowell grad student Northwestern
Melville J. Herskovits grad student 1950 Nothwestern University

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Timothy McCajor Hall grad student 1997-2003 UCSD
Jason A. Danely grad student 2001-2008 UCSD

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Spiro ME. (2004) Utopia and its discontents: The kibbutz and its historical vicissitudes American Anthropologist. 106: 556-568
Spiro ME. (2001) Cultural determinism, cultural relativism, and the comparative study of psychopathology Ethos. 29: 218-234
Spiro ME. (1999) Anthropology and human nature Ethos. 27: 7-14
El-Or T, Spiro ME. (1997) Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 3: 392
Spiro ME. (1996) Narcissus in Asia Ethos. 24: 165-191
Spiro ME. (1993) Is the Western Conception of the Self “Peculiar” within the Context of the World Cultures? Ethos. 21: 107-153
Spiro ME. (1986) Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology Cultural Anthropology. 1: 259-286
Spiro M. (1984) Cultural/Ethnology: Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry. Charles F. Keyes and E. Valentine Daniel American Anthropologist. 86: 1002-1005
Spiro ME, Ferguson JP. (1982) Essays on Burma The Journal of Asian Studies. 42: 211
Cohen PS, Spiro ME. (1981) Sex, Gender and Equality: Or, the Conversion of Melford E. Spiro@@@Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited British Journal of Sociology. 32: 411
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