Roy Richard Grinker
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Roy Richard Grinker is an author and Professor of Anthropology, Human Sciences, and International Affairs at The George Washington University.
Grinker is an authority on North and South Korean relations, he testified in front of the U.S. Congress in 1997. He also spent two years living with the Lese farmers and the Efé pygmies in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Fulbright scholar and has conducted epidemiological research on autism in Korea.
He is the author of Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality among Farmers and Foragers in Northeastern Zaire (University of California Press, 1994), Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation (with Christopher B. Steiner; Blackwell Publishers, 1997), Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War (St. Martin's Press, 1998), In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull (St. Martin's Press; University of Chicago Press, 2000) and a book on autism, Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism (Basic Books, 2007).
Grinker is also editor of Anthropological Quarterly.
