Conrad Maynadier Arensberg (September 12, 1910 – February 10, 1997) was an American anthropologist and scholar.^[1]

He was born inWilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.^{[citation needed]} He graduatedsumma cum laude fromHarvard in 1931. He was exempted from his final exams by the College Dean who viewed them as "being completely unnecessary in Conrad's case" (Comitas 2000).^[2] In 1937, his doctorate dissertation titledThe Irish Countryman became a college textbook.^[3]

Arensberg helped foundThe Society for Applied Anthropology^[4] and was elected its President (1945–1946) as well as President of theAmerican Anthropological Association (1980).^[5] In 1957, he co-analyzed economies of ancient empires inTrade Markets in the Early Empires together withKarl Polanyi.^[6]

In 1984,Owen Lynch, a former student of Arensberg organized afestschrift for his mentor, titledCulture and Community in Europe.^[7] In 1991, he received the Society of Applied Anthropology's Malinowski Award.^[8]

He was married toVivian E. Garrison.^[9]

He held theJoseph L. Buttenwieser Professorship of Human Relations atColumbia University from 1970 until his retirement in 1980.^[10] Thereafter, he joined the faculty of the Joint Applied Anthropology Program atTeachers' College.^[11]

• Arensberg, Conrad M.(1959) The Irish countryman : an anthropological study. Arensberg (Conrad Maynadier), 1910-1997. Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith

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