James W. VanStone
James W. VanStone (October 3, 1925 – February 28, 2001) was an American
cultural anthropologist specializing in the group of peoples then known as
Eskimos (now
Inuit,
Iñupiat, and
Yup'ik). He studied at the
University of Pennsylvania and was a student of
Frank Speck and
Alfred Irving Hallowell. One of his first positions was at the
Field Museum of Natural History in
Chicago. In 1951, following completion of graduate studies, he joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Alaska in
Fairbanks. In 1955 and 1956, he conducted fieldwork with the Inuit at
Point Hope, Alaska. Beginning in the summer of 1960, he started field work among
Chipewyan Indians (
First Nations), living along the east shore of
Great Slave Lake in Canada's
Northwest Territories among eastern Athapaskans for a period of eleven months over three years. He died of heart failure.
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