Durrenberger, Paul

Paul Durrenberger has done ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, Iceland, and the U.S. among tribal people, peasants, fishermen, farmers, and urban workers. He taught anthropology for twenty-five years at the University of Iowa and for fifteen years at Penn State and has been active in the governance of universities and scholarly associations. He has published many academic papers and books and has done a number of radio commentaries. In 2013 he was awarded the Society for Applied Anthropology's Malinowski Award in recognition of his, "efforts to understand and serve the needs of the world's soc...