Anthony F. C. Wallace

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Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace (1923- ) was a Canadian-American anthropologist who specialized in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expressed an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology.

He was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1923, the son of the historian Paul Wallace, and did both undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a student of A. Irving Hallowell and Frank Speck. He received his Ph.D. in 1950. He later taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where his students included the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson.

He was also for a time the Director of Clinical Research at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.

[edit] Works

  • (1949) King of the Delawares: Teedyuscung.
  • (1952) The Modal Personality Structure of the Tuscarora Indians, as Revealed by the Rorschach Test. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • (1961) Culture and Personality. New York: Random House.
  • (1966) Religion: An Anthropological View.
  • (1969) (with Sheila C. Steen) The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. New York: Random House.
  • (1993) "The Long, Bitter Trail." New York: Hall and Wang

[edit] Sources

  • Darnell, Regna (2006) "Keeping the Faith: A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology." In: New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, ed. by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, pp. 3-16. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
  • Kan, Sergei A., and Pauline Turner Strong (2006) Introduction. In: New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, pp. xi-xlii. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.