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Name
  
Greg Urban


Role
  
Anthropologist

Greg Urban httpswwwsasupennedugurbanimagesgregurba

Education
  
University of Chicago (1978)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

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Books
  
Metaculture, Metaphysical community, A discourse‑centered approach

Greg Urban is an American anthropologist who specializes in indigenous peoples of South America and on general theoretical problems in linguistic and cultural anthropology. Much of his work has been oriented toward the development of a discourse-centered theory of culture. Urban is the Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Raymond D. Fogelson.

References

Greg Urban Wikipedia