He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University under the supervision of Julian Steward and Ruth Benedict.

Julian Steward: The Ceremonial Buffoon of the American Indian.

This focus on environmental adaptation is based on the cultural ecology and multilinear evolution ideas of anthropologists such as Julian Steward.

The main focus of system theories in the sixties, as conveyed by Julian Steward, was acknowledgment of recurrence, cultural patterns or "laws."

Julian Steward was another anthropologist whose ideas and theories influenced the use ethnoecology.

Political Economy was introduced in American anthropology primarily through the support of Julian Steward, a student of Kroeber.

In the 1960s, ecological anthropology first appeared as a response to cultural ecology, a sub-field of anthropology led by Julian Steward.

Some 20th-century ethnologists, like Julian Steward, have instead argued that such similarities reflected similar adaptations to similar environments (see cultural evolution).

Julian Steward and the Great Basin: the Making of an Anthropologist.

Julian Steward.