- Aram Yengoyan
Aram Yengoyan is a professor of
anthropology at theUniversity of California, Davis .Biography
Early life
Caught in the genocidal massacres in Eastern Anatolia, his parents were forced out and joined the Armenian diaspora, eventually settling in
Fresno, California , where his father edited an Armenian language newspaper, and where Aram Yengoyan was born in 1936.Education
As an undergraduate he worked with
Joseph Birdsell at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from theUniversity of Chicago in 1964, where he worked withFred Eggan and other anthropologists, and subsequently held a position in theanthropology department at theUniversity of Michigan for twenty-seven years.He has taught at the University of California, Davis, since 1990.
Research
He has conducted fieldwork in various locations, principally in
Australia and thePhilippines .Among his varied research subjects, he is perhaps most well known for his work on Australian aboriginal kinship systems. Some of his current research interests include:
* cultural theory
* analysis of ideologies, cultures, and national cultures
* history of anthropological theory and the enlightenment(s)
* language and culture
* epistemology of cultural and linguistic translation
* the cultural significance of fairs and expositions
* the print cultures of small nationalismsOne of his earliest publications was a chapter in the seminal book, "Man the Hunter".
External links
* [http://www.anthropology.ucdavis.edu/anthro/fprofile/facultyprofile_s.cfm?id=14 Current UC Davis faculty homepage]
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