Fay cooper cole biography of abraham
By Fay-Cooper Cole and others.
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Cole, Fay-Cooper
WORKS BY COLE
SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fay-Cooper Cole (1881–1961) was born in Plainwell, Michigan.
His family soon moved to California, where Cole spent his youth. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1903, and after a period of postgraduate work at the University of Chicago he joined the staff of the department of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History.
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago was founded in under the chairmanship of Fay-Cooper Cole.The museum was then initiating an active program of exploration, and in preparation for his participation in this program Cole undertook formal graduate training in anthropology at Columbia and Berlin. On behalf of the museum, he then made two extended field trips to the Philippines, first working among the Tinguian of northern Luzon, 1907–1908, and then primarily in Mindanao, 1910–1912.
His work among the Tinguian provided the material for his doctoral dissertation, and he received his ph.d. from Columbia in 1914.
In 1922/1923 Cole made a third trip for the museum to southeast Asia, spe