George Dearborn Spindler was a leading figure in 20th-century anthropology and regarded as the founder of the anthropology of education.
[1][2] He edited a very large series of short monographs, turning nearly every significant ethnographic text of the 20th century into a shorter work accessible to the public and to anthropology students everywhere.
[3] Nearly all of his publications and activities were in collaboration with his wife, Louise.
[4][5] Spindler was originally trained as a psychologist, but departed from traditional psychological methods to do participant-observation with the Menominee.
[1] He was at one time the editor of American Anthropologist, as well as the author of over 40 books, book chapters, and 224 anthropology case studies.