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Bohannan, Paul James was born on March 5, 1920 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Hillory and Hazel (Truex) Bohannan.
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Bohannan, Paul James was born on March 5, 1920 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Hillory and Hazel (Truex) Bohannan.
In 1947 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with his bachelor"s degree in German from the University of Arizona. He attended Queen"s College, Oxford, thereafter as a Rhodes scholar, receiving a Bachelor of Science in 1949 and his doctor of philosophy degree in 1951, both in anthropology.
During the dust bowl his family moved to Benson, Arizona. World World War II interrupted his college education, and he served in the United States. Army Quartermaster Corps from 1941 to 1945 reaching the rank of captain. Bohannan remained in England and was a lecturer in social anthropology at Oxford University until 1956 when he returned to the States taking up an assistant professorship in anthropology at Princeton University.
In 1959, Bohannan left Princeton for a full professorship at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
From 1975 to 1982 he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1982 he became dean of the social science and communications department at the University of Southern California ( University of Southern California).
He retired from full-time teaching in 1987, but remained at United States.C. as professor emeritus until his death. From 1962 to 1964 Bohannan was a director on the Social Science Research Council.
He was a director of American Ethnological Society from 1963 to 1966.
Bohannan was president of the African Studies Association in In 1979-1980, he was president of the American Anthropological Association.
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Served to captain United States Army, 1941-1945. Member American Anthropological Association (president 1979-1980), American Ethnological Society (director 1963-1966), African Studies Association (president 1963-1964), Social Science Research Council (director 1962-1964) M C.
Married Laura Marie Smith, May 15, 1943 (divorced 1975). 1 child, Denis Michael. Married Adelyse D'Arcy, February 28, 1981.