Roland Burrage Dixon

Roland Burrage Dixon ( November 6, 1875 in Worcester, Massachusetts, † December 1934 ) was an American anthropologist.

In 1897, he graduated from Harvard University, where he remained anthropology as a research assistant in the tray, he earned the Ph.D. in 1900 with Franz Boas, it worked as instructor and after 1906 as assistant professor. He was vice president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1910 to 1911 and president of the American Folklore society of 1907 until 1909. He was a professor at Harvard since 1916 and member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace ( 1916-18 ) in Paris. Professor Dixon also provided many contributions to anthropological and ethnological journals.

The American anthropologist Alexander Gold Weiser stood his scientific methodology in his major work, The Racial History of Man against hostile.

Works

• Maidu Myths (1902 )
• The Chimariko Indians and Language (1910 )
• Maidu Texts (1912 )
• Oceanic Mythology ( Myths of Indonesia, Oceania, Australasia, published 1915)
• Racial History of Man (1923 )
• The Building of Culture (1928 )