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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
Research
Faculty
- Kathleen M. S. Allen
Archaeology, Iroquois, ethnoarchaeology
- Joseph S. Alter
Cultural, India, medical anthropology
- Marc Bermann
Archaeology, Andes, households
- Nicole Constable
Cultural, China, modernity
- Olivier de Montmollin
Archaeology, Maya, states
- Kathleen M. DeWalt
Cultural, Latin America, medical anthropology
- Robert D. Drennan
Archaeology, Latin America, complex societies
- Bryan K. Hanks
Archaeology, Russia, zooarchaeology
- Robert M. Hayden
Cultural, Eastern Europe, law
- Margaret Judd
Physical, Near East, paleopathology
- Terrence Kaufman
Linguistic, Mesoamerica, writing systems
- Katheryn M. Linduff
Archaeology, China, nomads
- Gabriella Lukacs
Cultural, Japan, media
- Emily McEwan-Fujita
Linguistic, Scotland, ethnolinguistic revitalization
- David W. Montgomery
Cultural, Central Asia, Balkans, religion
- Mark P. Mooney
Physical, comparative anatomy
- Hugo G. Nutini
Cultural, Mesoamerica, social structure
- Leonard Plotnicov
Cultural, US, urban studies
- James B. Richardson III
Archaeology, Andes, ecology
- Harry Sanabria
Cultural, Andes, economic anthropology
- Richard Scaglion
Cultural, Pacific, conflict
- Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Physical, hominids, evolution
- Michael I. Siegel
Physical, functional anatomy, craniofacial
- Andrew J. Strathern
Cultural, Pacific, ethnography