The Conditions of reciprocal understanding: A centennial conference at International House, The University of Chicago, September 12-17, 1992, with Transcultura : selected papers and comments

by James W. Fernandez

451 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

James W. Fernandez, Ph.D. (Northwestern University, 1962; B.A., Amherst College, 1952), is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Previously he was Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, and was chair of the department of anthropology at Dartmouth College, 1971–1975. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for research in the social sciences in 2003. In 1983, he received the Herskovits Prize for Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination In Africa from the African Studies Association.