Quote of the day
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Leslie White

Born: January 19, 1900
Died: March 31, 1975 (aged 75)
Bio: Leslie Alvin White was an American anthropologist known for his advocacy of theories of cultural evolution, sociocultural evolution, and especially neoevolutionism, and for his role in creating the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
Known for:
- The evolution of culture (1959)
- The science of culture (1949)
- Modern Capitalist Culture
- The pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico (1935)
- The Pueblo of Sia, New Mexico (1962)