Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Alfred L. Kroeber
Born: June 11, 1876
Died: October 5, 1960 (aged 84)
Bio: Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his Ph.D. under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia.
Known for:
- Handbook of the Indians of California (1925)
- The Arapaho (1902)
- Indian Myths of South Central California (1907)
- Decorative Symbolism of the Arapaho (1901)