Background
Winans, Edgar Vincent was born on April 23, 1930 in Salt Lake City. Son of Edgar McKinley and Marye (Vincent) Winans.
(It is in the modern anthropological tradition to take the...)
It is in the modern anthropological tradition to take the empirical view; to look at the actual cases and conditions as demonstrated by the peoples of the world, without any let or hindrance from those cultural predilections and social biases that form part of the anthropologists' own heritage. Thus in the field of political enquiry, as in every other field of human activity from economic life to religious belief, the anthropologists start with the data derived from ethnographic investigation. While the anthropologist cannot observe the actual coming into being of a governmental system, he does have the opportunity to examine the nascent aspects of political activities; he does see institutions of government in something comparable to their primordial condition. To the anthropological study of political systems, Africa represents a natural laboratory. For among the peoples of sub Saharan Africa were to be found the widest possible range in the development of the institutions of governance, from the smallest bands of Bushmen and Pygmy to such great political systems as the Baganda, Ashanti, and Dahomey. In the past two decades there have expectably been several works dealing with the institutions of government in native Africa.
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academic administrator educator consutlant
Winans, Edgar Vincent was born on April 23, 1930 in Salt Lake City. Son of Edgar McKinley and Marye (Vincent) Winans.
Bachelor in Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1952; Master of Arts in Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1959.
Assistant professor, University of California, Riverside, 1959-1963;
associate professor, University of California, Riverside, 1963-1965;
professor, U. Washington, Seattle, since 1966;
chair anthropology Department, University Washington, Seattle, 1973-1975, 93-;
chair African studies Department, University Washington, Seattle, 1986-1992. Consultant adviser Ministry of Planning, Nairobi, Kenya, 1972-1974. Program officer Ford Foundation International Division, Nairobi, 1975-1978.
Visiting scholar U.Bergen, Norway, 1990. Member visiting mission International Labor Organisation, Kenya.
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Board of directors Overlake School, Redmond, Washington, 1974-1990. Fellow American Anthropologist Association, American Ethnological Society, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, Sigma Xi. Member Tanzania Society.
Married Patricia Ann Boyce, June20, 1952. Children: Gretchen C., John B.