Michael E. Harkin
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Michael Eugene Harkin (born 1958) is an American anthropologist specializing in the Heiltsuk people of coastal British Columbia.
From 1985 to 1987 he did fieldwork in the Heiltsuk community of Bella Bella, B.C. More recently he has worked with the Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly "Nootka") people of Vancouver Island.
He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Raymond D. Fogelson.
He is professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Previously he taught at Emory University and Montana State University.
[edit] Bibliography
- Harkin, Michael E. (1997) The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Harkin, Michael E. (2001) "Ethnographic Deep Play: Boas, McIlwraith, and Fictive Adoption on the Northwest Coast." In: Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America, ed. by Sergei Kan, pp. 57-79. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Kan, Sergei A., and Pauline Turner Strong, eds. (2006) New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Mauzé, Marie, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan (eds.) (2004) Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.