Peter Peregrine

Professor of Anthropology
Purdue University, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Interests: anthropological theory, the evolution of complex societies, culture contact and culture change, the integration of archeology and ethnology, the teaching of anthropology
"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it" Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man (1975) 

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Academic Information, Fall 2009

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Keep in mind this modern Chinese proverb: "The civilization is visited while lasting hygiene while not throuing out everywhere the peel without cave and spit" (Recorded in Suzhou, March, 2004).


Comments to: Peter.N.Peregrine@Lawrence.edu
revised: 08DEC2009