LEADING SCHOLARS IN ANTHROPOLOGY OF WAR AND PEACE


Historical

Franz Boas 1858-1942 (WWI, WWII, pacifism)

Bronislaw Malinowski 1884-1942 (war in general, WWII)

Margaret Mead 1901-1978 (war in general, applied anthropology during WWII)

Ashley Montagu (aggression and territoriality, nature vs. nurture)

Primatology/Ethology

Robert Ardrey (hunting hypothesis, innate aggression, territoriality)

Richard W. Wrangham/Harvard University (chimpanzees and origins of warfare) wrangham@fas.harvard.edu

Michael Ghiglieri (chimpanzees and origins of warfare)

Jane Goodall (chimpanzees and origins of warfare)

Frans de Waal/Emory University, Atlanta, GA (conflict resolution in nonhuman primates)

Archaeology/Prehistory

Lawrence Keeley/University of Illinois @ Chicago (archaeology and prehistory of warfare, Europe) lkeeley@uic.edu

Arthur A. Demarest (archaeology and prehistory of Mesoamerica, Mayan warfare), arthur.a.demarest@vanderbilt.edu

Steven LeBlanc/University of California, Los Angeles (archaeology and prehistory of warfare in the American Southwest)

Cross-Cultural Studies/Ethnology

Harry Turney-High (cultural evolution of military and warfare)

Robert L. Carneiro/American Museum of Natural History, New York City (cultural evolution of state and warfare) carneiro@amnh.org

Andrew P. Vayda/Rutgers University (ecological and cross-cultural analysis of warfare in Pacific and Southeast Asia) vayda@aesop.rutgers.edu

Keith F. Otterbein/State University of New York Buffalo (cross-cultural studies of warfare)

Carol R. and Melvin Ember (cross-cultural studies of aggression and warfare) ember@yale.edu

J.M.G. van der Dennen (cross-cultural studies of war and peace)

Marvin Harris 1929-2001 (cultural materialism, cultural evolution and warfare, Yanomami "warfare")

Brian Ferguson (cross-cultural studies of warfare, Lowland SOuth America, Yanomami) bfergusn@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Raymond C. Kelly/University of Michigan Ann Arbor (origins of warfare, Nuer of Sudan, Melanesia) rck@umich.edu

Neil Whitehead/University of Wisconsin, Madison (ethnohistory, European contact and tribal warfare in South America and Caribbean) nwhiteh@facstaff.wisc.edu

Geoffrey M. White/University of Hawaii, Honolulu (cultural impact and memory of WWII, Oceania) white@hawaii.edu

Bruce D. Bonta (cross-cultural analysis of nonviolence and peace)

Ethnography

Roy Rappaport 1926-97 (Tsembaga Maring warfare in Papua New Guinea)

Mervyn J. Meggitt (Mae Enga, Papua New Guinea)

Karl Heider/University of South Carolina, Columbia (Dani warfare in Irian Jaya) heiderk@sc.edu, heiderk@gwm.sc.edu

Klaus-Friedrich Koch (Jalemo, Papua New Guinea)

Bruce M. Knauft/Emory University, Athens, GA (warfare in Melanesia, evolution of violence) anthbk@anthro.emory.edu, knauft@learnlink.emory.edu

Robert Knox Dentan/State University of New York, Buffalo, NY (nonviolent Semai in Malaysia) rkdentan@acsu.buffalo.edu

Clayton and Carole Robarchek/Witchita State University, KS (nonviolent Semai in Malaysia comapared with violent Waorani in Amazonian Ecuador) robarche@cs.twsu.edu

Christopher Boehm (blood revenge, conflict management, Montenegro) aboehm1@concentric.net

Douglas P. Fry/Helsinki, Finland (Mexico, nonviolent conflict resolution) dfry@abo.fi

Napoleon Chagnon/University of California, Santa Barbara, CA ("primitive warfare" of Yanomami)

Leslie Sponsel/University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (anthroplogical aspects of peace studies and war studies, Yanomami) sponsel@hawaii.edu

Carolyn Nordstrom/University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (peace and conflict resolution, Mozambique, Sri Lanka) Carolyn.R.Nordstrom.1@nd.edu

Military, State, and Terrorism

Anna Simons (military, Somalia) asimons@nps.navy.mil, asimons@ucla.edu

Paul Magnarella/University of Flordia, Gainesville (human rights) paulmag@anthro.ufl.edu

Kevin Avruch/George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (conflict resolution, Middle East) kavruch@gmu.edu

Robert A. Rubinstein Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (conflict studies) rar@syr.edu

Cynthia Mahmood/University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (peace and conflict resolution, human rights, militancy, Sikhs, India, Middle East) mahmood.2@nd.edu

Carole Nagengast/University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (ethnicity, nationalism, state, terrorism, human rights) cnagenga@unm.edu

Jeffrey A. Sluka/Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (state terror, death squads, Northern Ireland) J.Sluka@massey.ac.nz