Neil L Whitehead

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Name Neil Whitehead Role Anthropologist		Died March 22, 2012 Fields Anthropology

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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