Comparative functionalism: an essay in anthropological theory

Walter Rochs Goldschmidt (b.1913) was a professor in UCLA's department of Anthropology (1946-69), founder and member of the board of directors (1957-60), African Studies Association, president of the Southwestern Anthropological Society (1950-51), president of the American Ethnological Society (1969-70), and editor of the American anthropologist (1956-59); publications include The Hupa white deerskin dance (1940), Nomlaki ethnography (1951), Man's way: a preface to the understanding of human society (1959), and Comparative functionalism: an essay in anthropological theory (1966). “I was raised an atheist with a high sense of morality, too much morality,” he told a Times reporter in 1990. “That’s what gave me the questions” that led to a career in anthropology.