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Dillon, Wilton Sterling was born on July 13, 1923 in Yale, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Earl Henry and Edith Holland (Canfield) Dillon.
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What can men in industrial nations learn from their "primitive" contemporaries, and the habits of earlier civilizations? This book by acclaimed cultural anthropologist Wilton S. Dillon suggests that modern political, religious, and scientific communities--and alliances--would be enhanced greatly if we understood how gift exchange and reciprocity helped to balance earlier institutions and societies. Using the example of the gift behavior of France and the United States during the Marshall Plan period, Gifts and Nations examines the troubles that arise between donors and recipients when a generous donor remains innocent of the recipient's desire to give back things or ideas to which both attach value. Such innocence may produce what the author calls "the Gaullist effect"--a quest for self-esteem, autonomy, and initiative by a person, or a nation, who feels burdened and controlled by undischarged obligations. Gifts and Nations is very much an historical footnote to the rise of PaxAmericana--the American empire having been launched in 1898, enlarged in the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War, and now the subject of global debate. This volume emphasizes that building coalitions and keeping alliances strong require multi-lateralism based on reciprocity.
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(What can men in industrial nations learn from their "prim...)
What can men in industrial nations learn from their "primitive" contemporaries, and the habits of earlier civilizations? This book by acclaimed cultural anthropologist Wilton S. Dillon suggests that modern political, religious, and scientific communities--and alliances--would be enhanced greatly if we understood how gift exchange and reciprocity helped to balance earlier institutions and societies. Using the example of the gift behavior of France and the United States during the Marshall Plan period, "Gifts and Nations" examines the troubles that arise between donors and recipients when a generous donor remains innocent of the recipient's desire to give back things or ideas to which both attach value. Such innocence may produce what the author calls "the Gaullist effect"--a quest for self-esteem, autonomy, and initiative by a person, or a nation, who feels burdened and controlled by undischarged obligations. "Gifts and Nations" is very much an historical footnote to the rise of PaxAmericana--the American empire having been launched in 1898, enlarged in the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War, and now the subject of global debate. This volume emphasizes that building coalitions and keeping alliances strong require multi-lateralism based on reciprocity. ""Gifts and Nations" touches depths while it elevates, and it should set a large public on its collective tin ear."--Faubion Bowers, "The Village Voice" "This is a complex and significant book, concise, but multi-level."--Margaret Mead, "Teacher's College Record" "Dillon's message in "Gifts and Nations" is that healthy alliances are built on the capacity of a donor to change roles and become a recipient and then to give again. That is a valuable lesson for frustrated Americans in a needy and complicated world." -Bill Landsberg, "The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law" Wilton S. Dillon is Senior Scholar Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution. A student of Alfred Kroeber, Margaret Mead, and Claude Levi-Strauss, he draws upon fieldwork in Japan, Ghana, and France to formulate new uses for the ideas of Marcel Mauss in building international coalitions and alliances through reciprocity and gift exchange. Mary Catherine Bateson is Clarence J. Robinson Professor Emerita in Anthropology and English at George Mason University and president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies. Her most recent book is "Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition." Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) was professor of sociology at Harvard University. He is the co-author (with Edward Shils) of "Toward a General Theory of Action," available from Transaction.
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Dillon, Wilton Sterling was born on July 13, 1923 in Yale, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Earl Henry and Edith Holland (Canfield) Dillon.
Bachelor, University California Berkeley, 1951. Postgraduate, Institute Ethnology. Postgraduate, University Paris.
Postgraduate, University Leyden, 1951—1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1961.
News reporter, Holdenville (Oklahoma) Daily News, 1936-1941;
information specialist, civilian member Civil Information and Education Section, Supreme Command Allies Pacific, Tokyo, 1946-1949;
visiting lecturer sociology and anthropology, Hobart and William Smith colleges, Geneva
visiting lecturer sociology and anthropology, Hobart and William Smith colleges, New York, 1953-1954;
staff anthropologist, Japan Society New York
also lecturer Japanese studies, Fordham University, 1954;
director, Clearinghouse for Research in Human Organisation, Society Applied Anthropology, New York City, 1954-1956;
executive secretary, director research, Phelps-Stokes Fund New York
including director research project on higher education and African nationhood, U. Ghana, 1957-1963;
visiting lecturer, Columbia University, New School Social Research, 1957-1963;
staff director, National Academy Sciences, 1963-1969;
director symposia and seminars, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1969-1985;
director interdisciplinary studies, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1986-1990;
senior scholar, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, since 1990. Director international commemoration of 250th anniversary of birth of Thomas Jefferson, since 1992. Adjunct Professor U. Alabama, since 1971.
Chairman University of Oxford-Smithsonian Seminars, 1985.
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Delaware international conferences including United Nations Educational, Pugwash. Advisory council Africa Department State, 1964-1968. Honorary commissioner International Year of Child, 1979-1980.
President board directors Institute Intercultural Studies, New York City. Trustee emeritus Phelps-Stokes Fund, since 1985. Secretary-treasurer, board directors Institute Psychiatry and Foreign Affairs.
Board visitors Wake Forest University, 1978-1981. Advisory committee Hubert Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs, 1988-1994. Board directors Delta Research and Educational Foundation, 1987-1995.
Trustee Friends of Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, 1995-1997, Lives and Legacies Inc., 1995—2009. Advisor Nation's Capital Bicentennial Celebration 1999-2000, Margaret Mead Centenary 2001, Claude Levi-Strauss Centenary, 2008, Historic Mount Vernon 1999, Benjamin Franklin Creativity Foundation, 2002. Lay reader New York Episcopalian Diocese, 1958-1960.
With United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association, Royal Society Arts. Member New York Academy of Sciences, Literature Society Washington (president 1990), Anthropological Society Washington, Cosmos Club Washington.
Married Virginia Leigh Harris, January 20, 1956. 1 child, James Harris.