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Prof. Charlton
Prof. Diaz-Barriga, Chair
Prof. Ezawa
Prof. Ghannam
Prof. Hultin
Prof. Keith
Prof. Mullan
Prof. Muñoz
Prof. O'Connell
Prof. Piker
Prof. Sheller
Prof. Smithey
Prof. Wagner-Pacifici
Prof. Willie
Rose Maio

Steven Piker

Professor of Anthropology

Phone: (610) 328-8111
email: spiker1@swarthmore.edu
Office Hours:Fall 2006
Tues. & Thurs. 8:30-11:00am

Kohlberg 244

Education:

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Washington, 1964
B.A., History, Reed College, 1959

Selected Publications and Activities:

"Peasants in a Post Peasant Society". Papers in Anthropology, Arizona State University, 1983

(Editor) The Psychological Study of Theravada Societies. "Contributions of Asian Studies", vol 8, 1975

"Classical Culture and Personality." in: Phillip K. Bock (edit) Handbook of Psychological Anthropology Greenwood.Westport, CT 1993

Contributions of Psychological Anthropology." Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, vol 29, no 1, January 1998.

"Buddhist Ethics: An Anthropological Perspective," in P. DeSilva and H. O. Thompson (edit) Man's Search for Meaning in a Fragmented Universe: A Buddhist Dialogue with Contemporary Thinkers. Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown, NY. 1988.

1992 to present: Foreign Study Adviser, Swarthmore College

Teaching and Research Interests:

Anthropology of Religion, Psychological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Native Americans and Field Work.


Courses and Seminars Taught


Religion in Lives and Culture (SOAN 005B)
Learning Cultures (SOAN 005C)
Psychological Anthropology (SOAN 005D)
Culture, Illness, and Health (SOAN 045B)
The Only Good Indian (SOAN 055B)
Religion as a Cultural Institution (SOAN 107)
Evolution, Culture, and Creativity (SOAN 119)

 

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