Henry, Jules
HENRY, JULES
HENRY, JULES (1904–1969), U.S. anthropologist. Henry taught at various institutions in the United States and Mexico and from 1947 taught at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. He served in various governmental agencies, such as U.S. Department of Agriculture and Office of War Information. As research associate and consultant he also served various national and international organizations, e.g., the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Mental Health. His special interests were in the interrelations of personality and culture; the anthropological approach to the study of education; the analysis of social structure and function; and the emotional problems of children and adolescents. He wrote Culture Against Man (1963), and Jungle People… (1964).
bibliography:
B. Kaplan, Studying Personality Cross Culturally (1961), index.
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