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The Anthropologist is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger of Ironbound Films. [1] The film follows environmental anthropologist Susie Crate and her teenage daughter Katie as they visit indigenous communities threatened by climate change .
Laura Nader (born February 16, 1930) is an American anthropologist.She has been a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley since 1960. [1] She was the first woman to receive a tenure-track position in the department.
Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. (May 16, 1914 – July 20, 2009) was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He is remembered for developing the concept of proxemics and exploring cultural and social cohesion, and describing how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined personal space.
In 1974 Barth moved to Oslo, where he became professor of social anthropology and the head of the city's Museum of Cultural History. During this period, anthropology was changing. Marxism and interpretive approaches were becoming more central, while Barth's focus on strategy and choice was being taken up by economics and related disciplines.
Catherine A. Lutz (/ l ĘŚ t s /; born 1952) is an American anthropologist and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University. [1] She is also a Research Professor at the Watson Institute where she serves as a director of the Costs of War Project , which attempts to calculate the financial ...
His first academic job was as assistant professor in the Anthropology Department at Washington University in St. Louis (1986–1988) followed by 10 years at San Francisco State University (1988–1998) and a decade at the University of California, San Francisco. He has also been a Fulbright Research professor in Costa Rica (1993–1994) and a ...
In 2009 she retired as Regents' Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona, [5] [3] but continued to work on a variety of research projects until her death. Hill published more than 100 articles and chapters, as well as eight books, [ 3 ] spanning many sub-disciplines of both linguistics and anthropology.
June C. Nash (May 30, 1927 [1] – December 9, 2019) was a social and feminist anthropologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She conducted extensive field work throughout the United States and Latin America, most notably in Bolivia, Mexico and Guatemala.