Raymond Hames, Professor of Anthropology

Toropo-teri raid gathering

I received my doctorate in anthropology from the University of California-Santa Barbara in 1978. Most of my research is on native peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon (Yanomamö & Ye'kwana) with funding from the NSF, LSB Leakey Foundation, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. My research interests are in behavioral ecology, food & labor exchange, human ecology, marriage, time allocation, and parental investment.  I regularly teach courses on social organization, contentious issues in anthropology, warfare, and introductory cultural anthropology.  I am also past-president of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society of the American Anthropological Association and a consulting editor for Human Nature. and Evolution and Human Behavior  In the spring of 2020 I was elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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Early laptop for notes and data

I am engaged in a wide variety of research projects. I am currently accumulating data on the sexual division of labor from a time allocation perspective in all economic formations from hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists to urban populations, In teaching, In teaching, I am part of the CAMP consortium in conjunction with colleagues in the School of Evolution and Social Change at ASU on improving ethnographic research methods and developing an online course on behavior observations as part of a package of methods courses.

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6931-3342 

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