Anthropology in Government: United States

Dr. Macgregor is at present a Research Associate of the Committee on International Exchange of Persons, Conference Board of Associated Re? search Councils, Washington, D. C. He formerly served as anthropologist with several departments of the United States government: from 1951 to 1953 he was successively Acting Deputy Director of the Near Eastern and African Division and Advisor on Country Cultures for the Technical Cooperation Administration; previously he held the position of Pacific Specialist in the Office of Territories, Department of the Interior, and participated in the planning of civilian government for the territories of Guam and American Samoa; for eleven years he served variously as applied anthropologist with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Divisions of Tribal Organization and of Education, as superintendent of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, and as social economist with the Missouri River Basins Investigations Committee. His writings include: Ethnology of the Tokelau Islands, 1936; Warriors Without Weapons, 1946; Harnessing the Big Muddy, 1949; and a monograph, The Exchange of Scholars with Countries of the Near East and South Asia, 1954.