MANDELBAUM, DAVID GOODMAN
- MANDELBAUM, DAVID GOODMAN
- MANDELBAUM, DAVID GOODMAN (1911–1987), U.S. anthropologist.
Born in Chicago, he studied at Northwestern and Yale Universities.
Mandelbaum joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota and from
1943 to 1946 served in the U.S. Army in India and Burma. In 1946 he
moved to the University of California at Berkeley, becoming professor
and serving as a director of educational resources in anthropological
projects (1959–62). His major interests were the ethnology of Southeast
and South Asia, anthropological theory, and applied anthropology. He was
one of the first cultural anthropologists to undertake ethnographic
research in Burma. In addition to his extensive fieldwork in southern
India, he worked with the Plains Cree and Chippewa Indians in the U.S.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
His works include The Plains Cree (1940), Soldier Groups
and Negro Soldiers (1952), Change and Continuity in Jewish
Life (1955), and Society in India (1970). He edited
Culture, Language, and Personality (1956) and Resources
for the Teaching of Anthropology (1963). ADD.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: P. Hockings, Dimensions of Social Life:
Essays in Honor of David G. Mandelbaum (1987).
(Ephraim Fischoff /
Ruth Beloff (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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