Alexander Aleksandrovich Goldenweiser ( – July 6, 1940) was a Russian-born U.S. anthropologist and sociologist.
Biography Alexander Alexandrovich Goldenweiser was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1880. He emigrated to the United States in 1900. He studied anthropology under Franz Boas, and earned his AB degree from Columbia University in 1902, his AM degree in 1904, and his Ph.D. in 1910.Alexander Goldenweiser, an American Anthropologist with Russian Jewish Roots, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
In addition to many books, articles, and reviews, Goldenweiser taught at the following institutions: Lecturer, Anthropology, Columbia University, 1910–1919; New School for Social Research, NY, 1919–1926; Lecturer, Rand School of Social Science, 1915–1929; Professor, Thought and Culture, Oregon State System of Higher Education, Portland Extension, 1930–1938; Visiting professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1937–1938; Professor, University of Washington, 1923; Visiting professor of sociology, Reed College, 1933–1939.Wilson D. Wallis. Alexander A. Goldenweiser, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 43, No. 2, Part 1, April–June, 1941, pp. 250-255
Among his other contributions, Goldenweiser introduced the term "involution" to social sciences research.Clifford Geertz. Change without progress in a wet rice culture: A citation classic commentary on Agricultural Involution, in Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa., Institute for Scientific Information, vol. 22 no. 12, 1991, p. 8. Archived It was applied by Clifford Geertz in his Agricultural Involution.
He died on July 6, 1940, in Portland, Oregon.
Works Totemism; An analytical study, 1910 Early civilization, An Introduction to Anthropology, 1922 Robots or Gods, 1931 Anthropology, An Introduction to Primitive Culture, 1937 History, psychology and culture, 1937
Further reading Goldenweiser, Alexander (1933). History Psychology, and Culture.
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