Stephen A. Tyler (1932–2020) was an American anthropologist and Herbert S. Autrey Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Linguistics at Rice University.
An Air Force veteran of the Korean War, Tyler graduated from Simpson College with a bachelor's degree and Stanford University with a master's and Ph.D.[2] He also studied the middle voice.
The article was called Beyond Alphabets: An interview with Stephen A. Tyler[3] In this interview, he states he got the inspiration to become an anthropologist from reading Douglas Haring's 1949 textbook, Personal Character and Cultural Milieu, Gregory Bateson's 1958 book, Naven, and Ruth Benedict's 1934 book, Patterns of Culture.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston: ISBN 9780030732553 1969 – Koya: an outline grammar: Gommu dialect.
Comments on Buchler"[9] in American Anthropologist 1966 – "Context and Variation in Koya Kinship Terminology"[10] in American Anthropologist 1967 – "Social Organization"[11] in Biennial Review of Anthropology 1968 – "Dravidian and Uralian: The Lexical Evidence"[12] in Language (journal) 1969 – "The Myth of P: Epistemology and Formal Analysis"[13] in American Anthropologist 1984 – "The Vision Quest in the West or What the Minds Eye Sees"[14] in Journal of Anthropological Research 1985 – "Ethnography, intertextuality and the end of description"[15] in The American Journal of Semiotics 1986 – "On Being out of Words"[16] in Cultural Anthropology (journal) 1986 – "The Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Discourse of Training in Family Therapy"[17] with Martha Tyler in Cultural Anthropology (journal) 1987 – "On writing-up/off as speaking-for"[18] in Journal of Anthropological Research 1991 – "Presenter (Dis)play"[19] in L'Esprit Créateur 1993 – "In other words: The other as inventio, allegory, and symbol"[20] in Human Studies 1994 – "Mneme Critique of Cognitive Studies"[21] in Language Sciences 1998 – "Them Others Voices Without Mirrors"[22] in Paideuma