Anthony F. C. Wallace

Anthropologist, Author

1923 –

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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)
Employment
  • University of Pennsylvania
Lived in
  • Pennsylvania

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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