Anthony F. C. Wallace

Anthony F. C. Wallace
Born April 15, 1923
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fields Anthropology
Institutions Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
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Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace (born April 15, 1923[1]) is a Canadian-American anthropologist who specializes in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expresses an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology. He is famous for the theory of revitalization movements.

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.

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  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc (1998). The New Encyclopaedia Britannica - Volume 8; Volume 12 (15 ed.). Encyclopaedia Britannica. ISBN 0852296339.

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