Born on April 15,1923, Canadian- born Anthony F.C. Wallace, is an accredited psychological anthropologist and historian. An author and anthropologist, he is knowledgeable in the ideas of acculturation under the influence of technological change.
Anthony Wallace studied at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he received his Ph. D. in 1950. Wallace continued to teach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1988. His main focus of study was the cultural aspects of the cognitive process, primarily when it involved the information that pertained to periods of technological expansion. He is best known as an author which is clearly noticeable in many of his works. Wallace has completed many works, most pertaining to social revolution and industrialization. His books include
King of the Delawares: Teddyuscung, 1700-1763 (1949)
Culture and Personality (1961)
Religion: An Anthropological View (1966)
Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (1970)
The Social Context of Innovation (1982)
St. Claire: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town’s Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry (1987)
The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians (1993).
His most famous work was Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution (1978).
Anthony Wallace received the Bancroft Prize for Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. In this book, Wallace looks into the products of technology and its effects on social organization. This seems to be the most significant of his books due to its compelling case for the importance of technological change in the construction of a community. His interpretive views of this socio-anthropologic view provides exceptional detail into the history of an American tradition.
Rockdale: Anthony F.C. Wallace, http://www.cfmc.com/adamb/writings/reviews/rockdale.htm March 04, 2001
Encyclopedia Britannica: Anthony F.C. Wallace http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9075959, March 04, 2001
By Jessica Rathman
Edited By Lindsey Alston