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John Montgomery Cooper was an American priest, anthropologist, and sociologist. He was a sociology professor at the Catholic University of America and from 1934 to 1949 served as chairman of the first Department of Anthropology in a Catholic university. In his anthropological fieldwork, he specialized in studying the Indians of South America and Native Americans of North America.

Early life
John Montgomery Cooper was born on October 28, 1881, in Rockville, Maryland and grew up in the city of Baltimore. He received his education at Pontifical North American College and was ordained a priest in 1905, having completed Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Sacred Theology degrees. == Career ==
Career
After his ordination to the priesthood in 1905, Cooper received an invitation from the rector of the Catholic University of America to join the Department of Apologetics. As an anthropologist, his original fieldwork was in the Tête de Boule of Ottawa. Cooper founded the academic journal Primitive Man, which was renamed Anthropological Quarterly in 1953. ==Personal life==
Personal life
Cooper died on May 22, 1949, in Washington, D.C. == Selected works ==
Selected works
An Analytical and Critical Bibliography of the Tribes of Tierra del Fuego and Adjacent Territory (1917) • Religion Outlines for CollegesTemporal Sequence and the Marginal Cultures (1941) • The Gros Ventres of Montana (1957) == References ==
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