Joanna Overing
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Ph.D. in Anthropology Brandeis University
Joanna Overing | |
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| Born | August 12, 1938 |
| Education | M.A. in History, University of Connecticut Ph.D. in Anthropology Brandeis University |
| Alma mater | Duke University University of Connecticut Brandeis University |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
Joanna Overing (born August 12, 1938 in Takoma Park, Maryland) is an American anthropologist based in Scotland. She has conducted research on egalitarianism, indigenous cosmology, philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, the ludic and linguistics through fieldwork in Amazonia. She has extensively studied indigenous Piaroa people in the Orinoco basin of Venezuela.
Overing completed her B.A. at Duke University and the University of Connecticut in History, followed by her M.A. in History from the University of Connecticut. She completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Brandeis University.[1] She is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews in the Department of Social Anthropology,[1] and a Researcher within the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies.[2] She has previously held posts as Professor and Chair in Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews and Director of Centre of Indigenous American Studies and Exchange (CIASE), as well as teaching positions at Vanderbilt University and the London School of Economics.
