Ralph Linton

Ralph Linton (Philadelphia, 27 February 1893 - New Haven, 24 December 1953) was a respected American anthropologist of the mid-20th century, particularly remembered for his texts The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955). One of Linton's major contributions to anthropology was defining a distinction between status and role.

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