Harold Conklin

Who is Harold Conklin?

Professor Emeritus Harold C. Conklin is an anthropologist who has conducted extensive ethnoecological and linguistic field research in Southeast Asia and is a pioneer of ethnoscience, documenting indigenous ways of understanding and knowing the world. Minnesota State University's E-Museum describes his anthropological contribution as follows:

"Conklin was one of the world's leading authorities in the field of ethnoscience .. He was a pioneer in doing research on the indigenous systems of tropical forests and terraced agriculture... Mindoro and Luzon in the Philippines were his main field sites Through his research in the Philippines, Conklin is responsible for amassing one of the largest ethnographic collections from that area. His collection is at Yale, where he was curator from 1974 until 1996, when he retired."