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Name	Leonard Broom
Born	8 November, 1911 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Died	19 November, 2009 (aged 98) Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
Cultural Heritage	American Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Occupation or Descriptor *	academic (1971-1976) Australian Capital Territory, Australia sociologist (1971-1979) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Key Organisations *	Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (fellow) Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain (fellow) Australian Sociological Association (member, 1963)
Workplaces *	Australian National University (sociology) (academic, 1971-1976) Australian National University (sociology) (visiting fellow, 1977-1979)

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