Richard Newbold Adams

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Richard Newbold Adams (born August 4, 1924 in Ann Arbor , † September 11, 2018 in Panajachel ) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin .

Life

Adams was born in 1924 to Randolph Greenfield Adams and Helen Spiller Adams. He served in the US Army during World War II and then studied anthropology at the University of Michigan through 1947 to a bachelor's degree. He received his master's degree from Yale University in 1949 , where he received his doctorate in 1951. He worked in Peru and Guatemala for a few years before teaching at Michigan State University from 1956 . In 1961 Adams moved to the University of Texas at Austin and later held the Rapoport Centennial Professorship. After retiring in 1990, Adams moved to Guatemala, where he died in September 2018.

Adams was married to Betty Hannstein since 1951. The couple met in Guatemala in 1950. The Adams have three children.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • A community in the Andes; problems and progress in Muquiyauyo . University of Washington Press, Seattle 1959
  • with Jack J. Preiss: Human organization research; field relations and techniques . Dorsey Press, Homewood 1960
  • with Dwight B. Heath: Contemporary cultures and societies of Latin America; a reader in the social anthropology of Middle and South America and the Caribbean . Random House, New York 1965
  • The second sowing; power and secondary development in Latin America . Chandler Pub. Co., San Francisco 1967
  • with Brian Murphy; Bryan R. Roberts: Crucifixion by power: essays on Guatemalan national social structure, 1944-1966 . University of Texas Press, Austin, 1970
  • Energy and structure: a theory of social power . University of Texas Press, Austin 1975
  • Cultural surveys of Panama - Nicaragua - Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras . B. Ethridge-Books, Detroit 1976
  • Paradoxical harvest: energy and explanation in British history, 1870-1914 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1982
  • The eighth day: social evolution as the self-organization of energy . University of Texas Press, Austin 1988
  • Las relaciones étnicas en Guatemala, 1944-2000 . Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica, Antigua 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard N. Adams, 1924-2018 , University of Texas, accessed September 28, 2018
  2. ^ Richard N. Adams , John Simon Gugenheim Foundation, accessed September 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Richard Newbold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adams, Richard N .; Adams, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Ann Arbor
DATE OF DEATH 11th September 2018
Place of death Panajachel