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Swanton, John Reed

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Swanton, John Reed (1873–1958)

US anthropologist and folklorist. He pioneered ethnohistorical research techniques while working for the Bureau of American Ethnology 1900–44. He published prolifically; among his most important works are Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley (1911), Indians of the Southeastern United States (1946), and studies of the Tlingit (1908) and Caddo (1942) American Indians.

He was born in Gardiner, Maine. He won the Viking Fund Medal.



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