Thomas Buckley
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Thomas Buckley is an American anthropologist known for his long-term ethnographic research with the Yurok Indians of northern California, his early work in the anthropology of reproduction, and for his major reevaluation of the work of Alfred L. Kroeber.
He received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1982 from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Raymond D. Fogelson.
His decades-long fieldwork with the Yurok, beginning in 1976 (following upon Buddhist training in California under Sunryu Suzuki, 1965-71), culminated in his ethnographic monograph Standing Ground, published in 2002.
Harry Roberts (1906-81), a Yurok-trained spiritual teacher from whom Buckley learned, adopted him as his nephew in 1971.
Buckley taught anthropology and American Indian studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston for many years and at other institutions as a visiting professor. He is currently an independent scholar living in Maine.
[edit] Selected Works
- (l982) Menstruation and the power of Yurok women: Methods in cultural reconstruction. American Ethnologist 9(1): 47-60.
- (1984) Yurok speech registers and ontology. Language in Society 13(4): 467-88.
- (1988) (ed., with Alma Gottlieb) Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- (1996) "The pitiful history of little events": The epistemological and moral contexts of Kroeber's Californian ethnology, 1900-1915. In, Stocking, George W., Jr., ed., History of Anthropology, Vol. 8: Volkengeist as Method and Ethics: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. 257-297.
- (2001) "Adopting Outsiders on the Lower Klamath River." In: Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America, pp. 159-174. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- (2002) Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- (2006) "Native Authorship in Northwestern California." In: New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, ed. by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, pp. 211-238. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
