Roberts, John M. (John Milton), 1916-
Contributed to
nt13Three Navaho households
Three Navaho householdsBook 1951
nt23Zuni law
Zuni lawBook 1954
nt23Zuni kin terms
Zuni kin termsBook 1956
nt23Zuni daily life
Zuni daily lifeBook 1956
- Summary
- John M. Roberts was an American anthropologist who developed the field of expressive culture in a series of studies on games in culture, and published over 50 articles on these subjects. His complete list of publications can be found in the biography by Goodenough (1995). His 1964 article marked the first anthropological view of distributed cognition through the social organization of a community, looking at how information moves through the people in society. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [2][3][4][1]
- Born
- 1916-12-08 [1][3]
- Birth Place
- Omaha, Nebr. [2]
- Died
- 1990-04-02 [1][3]
- Country
- United States [1]
- Language
- English [2]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [3]
- ethnologist [3]
- university teacher [3]
- Profession
- Anthropologe [1]
- Employer
- University of Nebraska system [3]
- Educated at
- Yale University [3]
- University of Nebraska system [3]
- Country of Education
- United States [3]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [3]
- American National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [3]
- Sources
- 1. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 2. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 3. Wikidata
- 4. VIAF
autorenewLast updated Dec 16, 2025