David G. Mandelbaum

David Goodman Mandelbaum(August 22, 1911, inChicago– April 19, 1987)was an American anthropologist.

He majored inanthropologyatNorthwestern University,studying withMelville J. Herskovits.His major published work dealt with the PlainsCreepeople ofSaskatchewan,Canada and he was well regarded for his study of society in India. He earned his doctorate atYale Universityin 1936.

He taught atUniversity of Minnesota(1941–1946),University of California(1946–1978), and was an active professor emeritus at the latter until his death in 1987 from cancer.

Selected works

• The Plains Cree: an Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative study,New York: American Museum of Natural History. (1940) reissued by AMS Press Inc., New YorkISBN978-0-404-15626-8
• --do.--Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 1978 Based on the author's thesis, Yale, 1936. Part 1 was previously published in 1940 by the American Museum of Natural History.
• "Alcohol and Culture",Current Anthropology;Vol. 6, No. 3. Chicago (June 1965) The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research;online
• Society in India,Berkeley (1972) University of California Press.ISBN978-0-520-01895-2

See also

Fine-Day– his principal informant on "The Plains Cree"

External links

• Guide to the David Goodman Mandelbaum PapersatThe Bancroft Library
• University of California: In Memoriam, 1987