His career began with an influential expedition to Baffin Island and ended  some sixty years later on the other side of Canada, where he died while studying the links between the native populations of Siberia and the Pacific Northwest. One of the first scholars to describe societies by their own rather than by European standards, he pioneered the use of oral histories, and his students included Ruth Benedict and Zora Neal
His career began with an influential expedition to Baffin Island and ended  some sixty years later on the other side of Canada, where he died while studying the links between the native populations of Siberia and the Pacific Northwest. One of the first scholars to describe societies by their own rather than by European standards, he pioneered the use of oral histories, and his students included Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale Hurston. FTP, name this author of _The  Mind of Primitive Man_ who helped found cultural anthropology.
His career began with an influential expedition to Baffin Island and ended  some sixty years later on the other side of Canada, where he died while studying the links between the native populations of Siberia and the Pacific Northwest.