Aram Yengoyan
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Aram Yengoyan is a Professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Caught in the genocidal massacres in Eastern Anatolia, his parents were forced out and joined the Armenian diaspora, eventually settling in Fresno, California, where his father edited an Armenian language newspaper, and where Aram Yengoyan was born in 1936.
[edit] Education
As an undergraduate he worked with Joseph Birdsell at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964, where he worked with Fred Eggan and other anthropologists, and subsequently held a position in the anthropology department at the University of Michigan for twenty-seven years.
He has taught at the University of California, Davis since 1990.
[edit] Research
He has conducted fieldwork in various locations, principally in Australia and the Philippines.
Among his varied research subjects, he is perhaps most well known for his work on Australian aboriginal kinship systems. Some of his current research interests include:
- cultural theory
- analysis of ideologies, cultures, and national cultures
- history of anthropological theory and the enlightenment(s)
- language and culture
- epistemology of cultural and linguistic translation
- the cultural significance of fairs and expositions
- the print cultures of small nationalisms
One of his earliest publications was a chapter in the seminal book, Man the Hunter.
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