Michael M. Ames
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Canadian anthropologist
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Michael M. Ames's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
- Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
- Bachelors Anthropology University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael M. Ames, was a Canadian academic and Professor of Anthropology of the department of anthropology-sociology at the University of British Columbia. Life He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he received a B.A. in anthropology from the University of British Columbia in 1956. He received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1961. From 1962 to 1964, he was an assistant professor of sociology at McMaster University. He started at the University of British Columbia as assistant professor in 1964 and became a full professor in 1970.
Michael M. Ames's Published Works
Published Works
- Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums (1992) (304)
- Caste in Modern India and Other Essays. (1964) (115)
- Medusa's Hair (1981) (100)
- How to Decorate a House: The Re‐negotiation of Cultural Representations at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology (1999) (66)
- Magical-animism and Buddhism: A Structural Analysis of the Sinhalese Religious System (1964) (49)
- Ideological and Social Change in Ceylon (1963) (35)
- Museums, the Public and Anthropology: A Study in the Anthropology of Anthropology (1986) (34)
- Biculturalism in Exhibitions (1991) (27)
- Buddha and the Dancing Goblins: A Theory of Magic and Religion1 (1964) (20)
- Manlike Monsters on Trial. Early Records and Modern Evidence (1987) (15)
- Conflict and Change in British Columbia Sikh Family Life (1973) (14)
- Visible Storage and Public Documentation (1977) (11)
- Counterfeit museology (2006) (11)
- De‐schooling the museum: a proposal to increase public access to museums and their resources1 (2009) (9)
- Museology Interrupted (2005) (8)
- The Politics of Difference: Other Voices In a Not Yet Post‐Colonial World (1994) (8)
- Ninstints, Haida world heritage site (1983) (6)
- Westernization or Modernization : the Case of the Sinhalese Buddhism (1973) (5)
- De‐schooling the Museum: a Proposal to Increase Public Access to Museums and Their Resources (2014) (4)
- Indian Castes Old and New (1971) (3)
- Proposals for Improving Relations between Museums And The Indigenous Peoples Of Canada (1988) (3)
- The Impact of Western Education on Religion and Society in Ceylon (1967) (3)
- Modernisation and Social Structure-Family, Caste and Class in Jamshedpur (1969) (3)
- Museum Anthropologists and the Arts of Acculturation on the Northwest Coast (1981) (3)
- A Note on the Contributions of Wilson Duff to Northwest Coast Ethnology and Art (1976) (2)
- Detribalized Anthropology and the Study of Asian Civilizations (1976) (2)
- Indians as Resources: The Changing Relationship between Indians and Anthropologists. (1986) (1)
- Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch. ALDONA JONAITIS (1994) (1)
- Homo Hierarchicus: An Essay on the Caste System. (1972) (1)
- Bill Holm, Willie Seaweed and the Problem of Northwest Coast Indian "Art" (1984) (0)
- Gaon: Conjlicl and Colaesion in an Indian Village HENRY ORENSTEIN. Princeton, N.J Princeton (1967) (0)
- Letters and Comments: The Research and Interpretation Committee (1989) (0)
- Coming to shore: Northwest Coast ethnology, traditions and visions – Editors by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin & Sergei Kan (2006) (0)
- Hybrids of modernity: Anthropology, the nation state, and the universal exhibition (1998) (0)
- Contributions to Indian Sociology. (1971) (0)
- A Bibliography of South Asian Folklore.@@@Southern Asia Social Science Bibliography@@@Research Information Bulletin: Social Science Projects on Southern Asia No. 10. (1967) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Ceylon: A Divided Nation. B. H. Farmer (1964) (0)
- A Bibliography of Ceylon. Vols. I. and II. (1971) (0)
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