Nationality American Name Alan Fiske | ||
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Thesis Making Up Society: Four Models for Constructing Social Relations Among the Moose of Burkina Faso (1985) Known for Social relationship theories Books Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships, Structures of social life | ||
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Alan Page Fiske, born in 1947, is an US American professor of anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles known for studying the nature of human relationships and cross-cultural variations between them.
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- Alan fiske peace corps
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- Early life
- Career
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#121 Alan Fiske: The Four Relational Models, Virtuous Violence, and Morality
Early life
Fiske was born in 1947. His father, Donald W. Fiske, was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. His sister, Susan Fiske, is a social psychologist.
Fiske earned a bachelor's degree (Cum Laude) in Social Relations from Harvard College in 1968. He went on to earn a master's degree in 1973 and a PhD in 1985, both from the University of Chicago, focusing on cross-cultural problems and human development.
Career
Between earning degrees, Fiske worked as a director and consultant to the Peace Corps in Bangladesh and Upper Volta, and as consultant to USAID for the Central African Republic.
Fiske held various professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, UCSD, Swarthmore College, and Bryn Mawr College, before obtaining a full professorship at UCLA in 2002. There he is former director of the Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, and of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. His areas of research interest include psychological anthropology, social relationships, and theories of violence.