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Roland Burrage Dixon
Roland Burrage Dixon
(November 6, 1875 – December 19, 1934) was an
American
anthropologist
, born at
Worcester
,
Mass
. In 1897 he graduated from Harvard University, where he remained as an assistant in anthropology, taking the degree of
Ph. D.
in 1900 and then serving as instructor and after 1906 as an assistant professor. He was vice president of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 1910-11 and president of the
American Folklore Society
from 1907 to 1909. He was
professor
at
Harvard
after 1916 and member of the
American Commission to Negotiate Peace
(1916–18) in
Paris
. Professor Dixon was a contributor to
anthropological
and
ethnological
journals
.
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