Name Anthony C. Role Anthropologist | Died October 5, 2015 | |
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Notable awards Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Society for Psychological Anthropology (2013) Awards Books long - bitter trail, The death and rebirth of the Se, Religion: an anthropol, Jefferson and the Indians, Rockdale | ||
Anthony F. C. Wallace and Supernatural Forces
Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace (April 15, 1923 – October 5, 2015) was a Canadian-American anthropologist who specialized in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expressed an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology. He was famous for the theory of revitalization movements.
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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 and anthropologist/folklorist Richard Bauman.
He was also for a time the Director of Clinical Research at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.
He died on October 5, 2015, in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, where he had been residing.