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Netting, Robert M. was born on October 14, 1934 in Racine, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Robert Jackson and Martha Marie (McCorkle) Netting.
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Netting, Robert M. was born on October 14, 1934 in Racine, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Robert Jackson and Martha Marie (McCorkle) Netting.
Bachelor English summa cum laude, Yale University, 1957; Master of Arts Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1963.
From assistant professor to associate professor University Pennsylvania, 1963-1972. Professor anthropology University Arizona, Tucson, 1972-1991, Regents' professor anthropology, 1991-1995. Field researcher Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, 1958, Jos Plateau, Northern Nigeria, 1960-1962, 66-67, 84, 94, Törbel, Valais, Switzerland, 1970-1971, 77, Senegal, Ivory Coast, 1977, Portugal, 1982.
Consultant Agency for International Development project Stanford University, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Agency for International Development Agricultural Development Program. Member advisory council Wenner-Gren Foundation Anthropological Research, 1982-1986, search committee new director research, 1985-1986. Member committee human dimensions global change commission behavioral and social science and education National Research Council, 1989-1991.
President International Association Study Common Property, 1991-1992.
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Fellow American Anthropological Association (executive board 1981-1984). Member National Academy of Sciences, American Ethnological Society (councillor 1976-1979), American Anthropological Association (executive board 1981-1984), Society Ethnohistory, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Rhonda Marie Gillett, March 13, 1993. Children from previous marriage: Robert Frazier, Jessa Forte, Laurel Marthe, Jacqueline Ann Frazier.