Paul James Bohannan
1920-2007
Paul
Bohannan was born in 1920 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In 1951, he earned his Ph.D. at University of
Oxford. He was a Don at Oxford and then
taught at Princeton University.
From 1959 to 1975, he taught at Northwestern
University in Chicago, Illinois. He was drawn to Northwestern when
their anthropology department began focusing on African ethnography. While
there, he helped reinforce the study of Economic Anthropology within the
department. From there, he went to the University
of California at Santa Barbara. He is Emeritus Professor of
Anthropology at the University
of Southern California.
He has also been the President of the African Studies Association. In 1960, Bohannan won the August Volmer
Research Award of the American Society for Criminology for his study African
Homicide and Suicide. He has researched and written books about the Tiv and African people. Bohannan
retired from the University
of Southern California in
1987.
Bohannan died on July 13, 2007 at
his home in Visalia, California, at the time of his death he had Alzheimer's disease
which he had for several years.
His books include the
following:
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Gruter, Margaret
& Bohannan, Paul.
Law, Biology and Culture: The Evolution of Law. Ross-Erickson,
Santa Barbara, CA,
1983
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Glazer,
Mark,
High Points in Anthropology,
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988
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Bohannan, Paul & Curtin,
Philip. Africa & Africans,
Prospect Heights, IL:
Waveland Press, 1995
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Bohannan, Paul.
How Culture Works, New York: Free Press,
1995
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Van der Elst, Dirk.
Culture As Given, Culture As Choice, Prospect
Heights, IL: Waveland
Press, 1999
References
Biography.com,
http://www.biography.com,
(Dec, 1999)
Ethnographics Publications,
http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/publications/tiv.html,
(Dec, 1999)
Former Link, http://www.nwu.edu/anthropology/identity.htm,
(Dec, 1999)
Web Pals,
http://www.pals.msus.edu, (Dec, 1999)
Written By: Erin Potter
Edited By: David Gardner 2007.