PEACOCK, James L. - Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965, Kenan Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Comparative Literature. Identities, Symbols, History, Southeast Asia, Southeast USA. (919) 966-4106 - 306A Alumni Bldg. E-Mail: peacock@unc.edu

James L. Peacock, received his B.A. in Psychology from Duke Univresity and his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, with fieldwork done in Southeast Asia and the United States. His fieldwork includes studies of proletarian culture in Surabaja, Indonesia (see Rites of Modernization, University of Chicago Press), of Muslim reformation in southeast Asia (see Muslim Puritans, Universityof California Press), symbols in social life (see Consciousness and Change, Oxford) and of Primitive Baptists (see Pilgrims of Paradox, Smithsonian). He is also the author of The
Anthropological Lens (Cambridge University Press, 1988). President of American Anthropological Association, 1993-95.

Present Research: USA south and Southeast Asia in relation to history, memory and global issues.

Recent Honors: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995); Order of the Golden Fleece (1995); Thomas Jefferson Award (1995); Boaz award, American Anthropological Association, 2002.

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Selected Recent Publications:

2002 "The South in a Global World" The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 2002, Volume 78, number 4, pp. 581-594

2001 The Anthropological Lens. Revised Addition 2001. Cambridge University Press.

1995 Muhammadiyah. In Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Oxford University Press, Vol. 3, pp. 168-169.

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