About César Graña
Lived 1919 – 1986 (aged 66–67). César Graña was an American anthropologist and sociologist.
César Graña (1919, Peru – August 22, 1986, Spain) was an American sociologist and anthropologist of Peruvian origin.
Graña was born in Peru, a descendant of immigrants from Andalusia, and studied at the University of San Marcos in Lima. In 1942 he emigrated to the United States, where he studied at Brown, Duke, and the University of California (UC), from which he received his Ph.D. in 1957. He died in a car accident on the highway between Seville and Cádiz.
Works Paperback title: Modernity and its Discontents (1967, New York: Harper, Row)
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American anthropologist and sociologist (1919–1986)
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