PETER M. GARDNER
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University
of Pennsylvania, 1965
I
am a generalist, with several specialties that I try to keep
in general perspective. Research interests include: ecology, social organization
and cognition of foragers (in South India 1962-64,1978; in Canadian subarctic
1973, 1974-75); cultural transmission in Hindu India (in general 1967-68,
among South Indian sculptors 1978); problems in the study of cognition
(1983); and anthropological perspectives on culture theories. I have offered
seminars on recent developments in culture theory, ethnosemantics and
cognitive diversity, ethnographic generalization, and foraging adaptations
plus lecture courses on history of anthropology (covering the four subfields),
culture change, anthropology of knowledge, and Asian ethnography. Most
importantly, I seek to offer people guidance in effective criticism of
their own ideas.
I
am a generalist, with several specialties that I try to keep
in general perspective. Research interests include: ecology, social organization
and cognition of foragers (in South India 1962-64,1978; in Canadian subarctic
1973, 1974-75); cultural transmission in Hindu India (in general 1967-68,
among South Indian sculptors 1978); problems in the study of cognition
(1983); and anthropological perspectives on culture theories. I have offered
seminars on recent developments in culture theory, ethnosemantics and
cognitive diversity, ethnographic generalization, and foraging adaptations
plus lecture courses on history of anthropology (covering the four subfields),
culture change, anthropology of knowledge, and Asian ethnography. Most
importantly, I seek to offer people guidance in effective criticism of
their own ideas.