Yale University Anthropology

Harold W. Scheffler

Harold W. Scheffler (Ph.D., Chicago 1963) joined the Yale faculty in 1963. His principal ethnographic research has been done in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and aboriginal Australia, focusing mainly on kinship and social organization in small-scale societies. His principal publications are Choiseul Island Social Structure (1965), A Study in Structural Semantics: The Siriono Kinship System (with F. G. Lounsbury 1972), Australian Kin Classification (1978), and Filiation and Affiliation (2000). Currently he offers lecture courses and seminars on kinship and social organization, human sexuality in comparative and historical perspective, modes of thought, and theoretical perspectives in social and cultural anthropology.

Mailing address:
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
P. O. Box 208277
New Haven, CT 06520-8277

Office address:
Room 311, 10 Sachem Street
Tel: (203) 432-3673
Fax: (203) 432-3669
Email: harold.scheffler@yale.edu

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