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Neil L Whitehead

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Name
  
Neil Whitehead

Role
  
Anthropologist


Died
  
March 22, 2012

Fields
  
Anthropology

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Institutions
  
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Known for
  
Anthropology of violence, dark shamanism, kanaima, post-human anthropology, historical anthropology and archaeology of South America and the Caribbean

Institution
  
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Books
  
Lords of the tiger spirit, Of Cannibals and Kings: Primal Anthropology in the Americas

Neil L. Whitehead (19 March 1956 – 22 March 2012) was an English anthropologist, who is best known for his work on the anthropology of violence, dark shamanism (and Guyanese kanaimà in particular), post-human anthropology and the historical anthropology of South America and the Caribbean.

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Awards

  • James Henry Breasted Prize (American Historical Association) for "Indigenous Cartography in Lowland South America and the Caribbean" in The History of Cartography II. 3, pp. 301–326. Ed. D. Woodward and G. M. Lewis. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
  • The Rasputin Award (University of Wisconsin-Madison) for Dark Shamans. Kanaimá and the Poetics of Violent Death.

    • References

    Neil L. Whitehead Wikipedia
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