Loring Danforth
{{Short description|American professor of anthropology}}
Loring M. Danforth (born 1949) is an American professor of anthropology and an author who's a professor emeritus of Bates College. His research has focused on the interpretation of a wide variety of symbolic or expressive forms in a range of cultures.
Education and career
Danforth received a B.A. from Amherst College in 1971 and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 and 1978. He completed a doctoral dissertation titled "The anastenaria: a study in Greek ritual therapy."{{Cite book|last=Danforth|first=Loring M.|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/1334006|title=The anastenaria : a study in Greek ritual therapy|date=1978|language=English}}
He has written many books and articles on Macedonia, Greece, Australia, Saudi Arabia and nationalism. Danforth won a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, and was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship. His books have been featured on the CHOICE lists. Danforth has taught at Bates College since 1978. He received the 2013 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching.{{cite web | url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2013/03/14/cultural-collisions-drive-kroepsch-honoree/ | title=Multimedia: Cultural collisions drive Kroepsch honoree | date=14 March 2013 }}
In 2016 he served as the co-curator for the contemporary Saudi art exhibit "[https://www.bates.edu/museum/exhibitions/2016-3/phantom-punch-contemporary-art-from-saudi-arabia-in-lewiston-maine/ Phantom Punch]" at the Bates College Museum of Art.
He is the husband of Maine politician Margaret Rotundo. They currently reside in Lewiston, Maine. They have two children, Nick and Ann.
Books
- The Death Rituals of Rural Greece. Princeton University Press, 1982.
- Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement. Princeton University Press, 1989.
- The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World. Princeton University Press, 1992.
- Children of the Greek Civil War. University of Chicago Press, 2012. (with Riki Van Boeschoten)
- Crossing the Kingdom: Portraits of Saudi Arabia. University of California Press, 2016.
- Phantom Punch: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia. Bates College Museum of Art, 2017. (with Dan Mills).
References
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- [https://loringdanforth.com/ Personal website]
- [http://www.bates.edu/anthropology/faculty/danforth-loring-m/ Bates College biography]
- [http://www.bates.edu/x43957.xml Curriculum vitae]
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Category:21st-century American anthropologists
Category:Anthropology educators
Category:American non-fiction writers
Category:Amherst College alumni
Category:Bates College faculty
Category:Princeton University alumni
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