Anthropology in Education

Abstract

Dr. Hoebel is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. For 1948-1954 he was Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah, and for 1953-1954 Dean of the University College (Letters and Science), responsible for the organization of the general education program for the entire university. He has done extensive field work among the North American Indian tribes, concentrating particularly on studies of the legal dynamics of primitive cultures. He is the author of: The Political Organization and Law-ways of the Comanche Indians; Man in the Primitive World; and The Law of Primitive Man: A Study in Comparative Legal Dynamics; he is the author (in collaboration with K. L. Llewellyn) of The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive lurisprudence; and (with Ernest Wallace) of The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains. With Professors lesse D. lennings and Elmer R. Smith he has recently compiled and edited Readings in Anthropology, 1955.