UC Anthropologist Mandelbaum Dies at 75
David G. Mandelbaum, an anthropologist and expert on cultural development in India and Southeast Asia, is dead at the age of 75 after a long battle with cancer, the University of California announced.
Mandelbaum, a professor at the Berkeley campus for 41 years, died Sunday night.
Mandelbaum studied village life and society in Asia from 1945 to 1976 and also did extensive work among American Indian tribes as well as a study of modern life in a Connecticut town.
Mandelbaum, who earned a doctorate in 1936 at Yale, was appointed to the U.S Commission for UNESCO, which advises the State Department on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
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