Michael McClean McClean Ames

Background

Ames, Michael McClean was born on June 19, 1933 in Vancouver, B.C., Can. Son of Ernest Oliver Francis and Elsie Ames.

Education

Bachelor with honors, U. B.C., 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1961.

Career

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he received a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from the University of British Columbia in 1956. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1961. From 1962 to 1964, he was an assistant professor of sociology at McMaster University.

He started at the University of British Columbia as assistant professor in 1964 and became a full professor in 1970.

From 1974 to 1997, he was director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. From 2002 to 2004, he was also the acting director

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1979 and made a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1996.

Achievements

• Michael McClean Ames has been listed as a noteworthy anthropology educator, director by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums

    (In Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes, Michael Ames examines ...)

  • Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums by Michael M. Ames (1995-01-01)
  • Museums, the Public and Anthropology: A Study in the Anthropology of Anthropology

Membership

Fellow Royal Society Canada, Canadian Museum Association, American Anthropological Society, Canada Anthropology Society, Society Applied Anthropology. Member Indian Sociological Association.

Interests

• Hiking, photography.

Connections

Children: Daniel J., Kristin Julia.

Father:

Ernest Oliver Francis

Mother:

Elsie Ames

child:

Kristin Julia Ames

child:

Daniel J. Ames