William H. Durham

William H. Durham is an American biological anthropologist, and Bing Professor in Human Biology, at Stanford University.^[1]

Life

William Durham earned a B.A. at Stanford University, and graduated from the University of Michigan with a master’s and PhD.

He has studied the demography, genetics, and resource management of the San Blas Kuna of Panama, El Salvador and Honduras, and deforestation in Mexico, Central, and South America.^[2]

He is currently Editor of the Annual Review of Anthropology.^[3]

Awards

• 1983 MacArthur Fellows Program
• National Science Foundation fellowship
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Danforth Foundation fellowship

Works

• Durham, William H. (1979). Scarcity and Survival in Central America. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1000-8. 
  • Escasez y sobrevivencia en Centroamérica: orígenes ecológicos de la guerra del fútbol, UCA Editores, 1988, ISBN 978-84-8405-108-4
• Durham, William H. (1991). Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-2156-1.  (reprint 1992, ISBN 978-0-8047-2156-1)
• Michael Painter, William H. Durham, eds. (1995). The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06560-8. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Arthur P. Wolf, William H. Durham, eds. (2005). Inbreeding, incest, and the incest taboo: the state of knowledge at the turn of the century. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-5141-4. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Amanda Stronza, William H. Durham, eds. (2008). Ecotourism and Conservation in the Americas. CABI. ISBN 978-1-84593-400-2. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

References