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 Frederick Russell Eggan (September

12, 1906 in Seattle, Washington –

May 7, 1991) was an American anthropologist best known for his innovative application

of the principles of British social anthropology to

the study of Native American tribes. He was the favorite student of the British

social anthropologist A. R. years at the University of Chicago. His

fieldwork was among Pueblo peoples in the southwestern

U.S. Eggan later taught at Chicago himself. His students there included Sol Tax. His best known works include his edited volume Social

Anthropology of North American Tribes (1937) and The American

Indian (1966). His wife, Dorothy Way Eggan (1901–1965), whom he married in 1939,

was also an anthropologist. Frederick Eggan was a North American anthropologist in the 20th

century and part of the anthropology department at the University of Chicago.

He is a world-renowned social anthropologist, most famous for his works in the

Southwest involving the Hopi Indians and many of the social changes that take

place within the Western Pueblos. Ernest L. Schusky claims Fred Eggan is a founder of modern

American anthropoly's eclectic approach, which combines the functionalism of

Radcliffe-Brown with the historical approach of Franz Boas. In a paper titled

“Among the Anthropologist,” Eggan answers a question posed by Margaret Mead:

“Shouldn’t we all be branches of one human science?” Eggan states that anthropology should center on

man and his works, while providing a spectrum of specialized fields which

interlock with those of the social and behavioral sciences. Frederick Eggan was

born in Seattle, Washington on September 12, 1906 to Alfred Eggan and Olive

Smith. Eggan earned his master's degree in psychology with a minor in

anthropology from the University of Chicago in the early 20th century. He received his PhD in anthropology from the

same university several years later with a doctoral thesis entitled “Social

Organization of the Western Pueblos” analyzing the social organization of

Pueblo Indians in the Southwest. Fred was an active member in the discipline of

anthropology at a critical time when new technologies and methods were being

invented for archeological purposes. He mentions these innovations in his paper

on “Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison.”  He speaks of the new aids to anthropological

research such as radiocarbon dating, genetics, and the experimental method

which are just a few of the many rapid technological advances that had taken

place to aid the discipline in this time. Eggan married Dorothy Way in 1938; she was also an anthropologist of the Hopi. Fred died in his house in Santa Fe, New Mexico

from heart failure on May 7, 1991; he was 84.