Thomas Buckley | |
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Born | Thomas Crowell-Taylor Buckley May 28, 1942 United States |
Died | April 16, 2015 West Bath, Maine, U.S. | (aged 72)
Occupation(s) | Anthropologist and Buddhist priest |
Spouse | Jorunn Jacobsen |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Raymond D. Fogelson |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Massachusetts Boston |
Main interests |
Thomas Crowell-Taylor "Tim" Buckley (May 28, 1942 – April 16, 2015)[1] was an American anthropologist and Buddhist monastic best known for his long-term ethnographic research with the Yurok Indians of northern California,[2] his early work in the anthropology of reproduction, including menstruation and culture[3] and for his major reevaluation of the work of Alfred L. Kroeber.[4]