University of Pittsburgh

Department of Anthropology

What makes us different is what makes us human..

Andrew J. Strathern

Andrew W. Mellon Professor

Andrew Strathern received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1966.

He is a social anthropologist whose interests include the analysis of political and economic systems, kinship theories, social change, religion, symbolism, ethnicity, legal anthropology, conflict and violence, the anthropology of the body, and the cross-cultural study of medical systems.

He has carried out long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. He also conducts research in and teaches on contemporary Europe and has an active program of research in Taiwan.

For many years he has collaborated with Dr. Pamela J. Stewart (pamjan@pitt.edu) and they have published widely on their findings. Information about their research and publications can be found at: www.pitt.edu/~strather.

strather@pitt.edu

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