John Milton Roberts

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John M. Roberts (December 8, 1916 – April 2, 1990) was an American anthropologist who developed the field of expressive culture in a series of studies on games in culture, and published over 50 articles on these subjects. His complete list of publications can be found in the biography by Goodenough (1995). His 1964 article marked the first anthropological view of distributed cognition through the social organization of a community, looking at how information moves through the people in the society.

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• Bolton, Ralph (1989). The Content of Culture: Constants and Variants. Studies in Honor of John M. Roberts. New Haven: HRAF Press.

• Chick, Garry, and Liliana González (2005) Case Studies in Cultural Control: John M. Roberts’s Four Southwestern Men. Cross-Cultural Research 39(3):322-346.

• Goodenough, Ward H. (1995) Biographical Memoirs V.67. National Academy of Sciences.

• Roberts, John. M. (1964). The Self-Management of Cultures. p. 433-454, in Explorations in Cultural Anthropology, edited by Ward H. Goodenough. New York: McGraw Hill.

• --- (1987) Within Culture Variation: A Retrospective Personal View. American Behavioral Scientist 31(2): 266-279. (contains a complete bibliography).

• --- and Michael L. Forman (1991) Riddles: Expressive Models of Interrogation. Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication, Eds., John Gumperz, Dell Hymes. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Reprinted from 1971 Ethnology 10(4):509-533.