Background
Raymond C. Kelly was born February 16, 1942, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the son of Helen Varkala Kelly and Rowland Leigh Kelly.
Raymond C. Kelly was born February 16, 1942, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the son of Helen Varkala Kelly and Rowland Leigh Kelly.
Both attended the University of Chicago. He received his bachelor"s degree from the University of Chicago in 1965, his Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1974.
He has two daughters by previous marriages. He taught at the University of Michigan for 33 years, and retired in 2002. His Doctor of Philosophy research was in Papua New Guinea, where he spent 16 months doing ethnographic research with the Etoro tribe.
This research was the basis for many of his publications.
He is the author of four books He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
Selected publications Kelly, R. C. (2005). "Inaugural Article: The evolution of lethal intergroup violence". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (43): 15294–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.0505955102.
PMC 1266108. PMID 16129826. (2000) Warless Societies and the Origin of War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (1993) Constructing Inequality: The Fabrication of a Hierarchiy of Virtue Among the Etoro.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (1985) The Nuer Conquest: The Structure and Development of an Expansionist System. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (1977) Etoro Social Structure: A Study in Structural Contradiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
National Academy of Sciences.
