Anthony F. C. Wallace
Anthropologist, Author
1923 –
Who is Anthony F. C. Wallace?
Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace is a Canadian-American anthropologist who specializes in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expresses an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology. He is famous for the theory of revitalization movements.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1923, the son of the historian Paul Wallace, and did both undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a student of A. Irving Hallowell and Frank Speck. He received his Ph.D. in 1950. He later taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where his students included the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson.
He was also for a time the Director of Clinical Research at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.
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- Born
- Apr 15, 1923
Toronto - Also known as
- Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace
- Ethnicity
- Canadian American
- Nationality
- Canada
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Cultural anthropology
( - 1950)
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania
- Employment
- University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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