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Julian H. Steward  

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  • Julian Haynes Steward is best known for his seminal contributions to cultural ecology, multilinear evolutionism, archaeology, and ethnography of the Great Basin and Plateau region, ethnology of South America, the settlement pattern and salvage approaches in archaeology, irrigation agriculture and early civilization, hunter-gatherers, peasants, and area studies. Steward became the single most important individual in cultivating an ecological approach to culture and cultural change from the 1930s into the late 1960s. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Steward, Julian H. (1902–1972)]

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