Wilson Dallam Wallis
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Wilson Dallam Wallis (March 7, 1886 – March 15, 1970) was an American anthropologist. He is remembered for his studies of "primitive" or nature-based science and religions.
Wallis was born in Forest Hill, Maryland. He completed an undergraduate degree in philosophy and law at Dickinson College, and in 1907 went up to Wadham College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, studying Edward Burnett Tylor. He received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1915.
From 1923 to 1954, he taught at the University of Minnesota. After retiring from Minnesota, he taught for a time at Annhurst College. He died in South Woodstock, Connecticut.[1]
Works
- The Malecite Indians of New Brunswick (Ottawa, 1957)
- The Micmac Indians of Eastern Canada (Minneapolis, 1955)
- Messiahs: Christian and Pagan (Boston, 1918)
References
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- ↑ Archives Inventory of the Wilson Dallam Wallis papers, 1935-54 University of Minnesota
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