Robert Harry Lowie (redirected from Robert Lowie)

Lowie, Robert Harry 

Born June 12, 1883, in Vienna; died Sept. 21, 1957, in Berkeley, Calif. American ethnologist. Professor at the University of California from 1921 to 1950.

Lowie conducted field investigations among numerous American Indian tribes and devoted a series of monographs to them. He was a representative of the antievolutionist historical school in ethnology but toward the end of his life departed considerably from his former views and recognized the scientific importance of the principal concepts of historical materialism.

WORKS

Primitive Society. New York, 1920.
Primitive Religion. New York, 1924.
Social Organization. London, 1950.

REFERENCE

Averkieva, Iu. P. “Sovremennye tendentsii v razvitii etnografii SShA.” In the collection Sovremennaia amerikanskaia etnografiia. Moscow, 1963.