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Department of Anthropology
Von KleinSmid Center, Room 348
3518 Trousdale Pkwy.
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: (213) 740-0524
E-mail: cboehm1@msn.com
Personal Web Site:
Research
Evolutionary studies: altruism and group selection, moral evolution, evolution of political behavior in apes and humans, language evolution, rational decisions in evolutionary process.
Primates: conflict resolution, anti-hierarchical behavior, vocal communication.
Political anthropology: egalitarianism, decision behavior, feuding, tribal warfare.
Legal anthropology: conflict management, social control.
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Bio
Professor Boehm is a cultural anthropologist who also works in primatology, having done field research with Navajos, Serbs, and wild chimpanzees (at Gombe National Park). His interests include conflict resolution, feuding and warfare, and moral origins. His book Hierarchy in the Forest (Harvard, 1999) is an evolutionary study of egalitarianism which also explores possibilities in humans for group selection. He is currently creating a database on hunter-gatherer ethnography (social and political behavior.)
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Education
B. A. Antioch College, philosophy 1959
M. A. Harvard University, social anthropology 1970
PH. D. Harvard University, social anthropology 1972
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Recent Publications
2000 Conflict and the Evolution of Social Control. In, Journal of Consciousness Studies 7:79-183, Special Issue on Evolutionary Origins of Morality; Leonard Katz, guest editor. [Target article with commentaries and response]
1999 Special Issue on Group Selection, for the journal Human Nature. (Guest Editor)
1999 Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
1998 Krvna Osveta u Crnoj Gori. Podgorica, Montenegro: CID. [1986 revised book translated into Serbian: Serbian title is Blood Revenge in Montenegro]
1997 Impact of the Human Egalitarian Syndrome on Darwinian Selection Mechanics. American Naturalist 150: 100-121.
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Courses Taught
Exploring Anthropology through Film
Social and Political Organization
Evolution of Sociality and Morals
Anthropological Theory
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Awards and Honors
2001-2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to write a book: The Natural History of Conflict Resolution. Academic year, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2001 Keynote Address for the meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Conference on Biodiversity, funded by National Science Foundation Biodiversity Program. House of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1999-2000 Weatherhead Fellowship, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico: one-year resident fellowship to begin book on the evolution of morality.
1998-2001 John Templeton Foundation: three year research grant to study conflict resolution in nonliterate societies. [With David Sloan Wilson]
1992 Stirling Prize in Psychological Anthropology, awarded at American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco: for paper on egalitarianism. (Ceremony with financial prize)
1987-1989 H. F. Guggenheim Foundation: field study grant to investigate conflict resolution among wild chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania.
1984-1985 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship: academic year to study the evolution of moral behavior.
1982-1983 H. F. Guggenheim Foundation: research grant to study egalitarian behavior.
1982-1983 Visiting Scholar in Anthropology, Harvard University.
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Professional Memberships
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