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Daniel J. Crowley, anthropologist and art historian, passed away on Feb 24, 1998, at the age of 76. He gained his undergraduate degree in art at the Northwestern University in 1943. During the Second World War, he served in the US Navy and was assigned in the Pacific Area. Unfortunately, he contracted polio and became wheelchair-bound. He continued his pursuit of higher education and garnered a Master of Arts degree in art history in 1948. He made several trips to the Bahamas and wrote a book on Bahamian folklore. He married a native of Trinidad and Tobago and had three children.
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Daniel J. Crowley, art historian, anthropologist and folklorist, passed away on Feb 24, 1998, at the age of 76, in Bolivia. He was making further studies on the carnival held during Lenten Season in Bolivia under the sponsorship of the University of California. Crowley devoted his life to the study of the minute components of the carnival such as narrative, art, music, drama and dance. His dissertation on the narrative and artistic styles of folklore in the Bahamas in the 1960s pioneered in the anthropological approach of performance and aesthetic analysis.
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Anthropologist and geographer Fred B. Kniffen held teaching posts at the Louisiana State University after he graduated from the University of California in Berkeley. He pursued interests in both fields and was a regular contributor to the Journal of American Folklore. Kniffen is largely recognized for his collaboration with Henry Glassie on folk housing as an aspect of American material culture.
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