Terence Turner

Terence Turner is professor of anthropology at Cornell University. He has been extensively involved in human rights and indigenous support activities in South America, having served on the Ethics Committee of the American Anthropological Association from 1969 to 1972, headed the Special Commission of the American Anthropological Association to Investigate the Situation of the Brazilian Yanomami in 1991, and been a member of the AAA Committee for Human Rights from 1992 until 1997. In 1998 he was the recipient of the Solon T. Kimball Award of the American Anthropological Association for outstanding contributions to the application of anthropology to human rights and development issues, primarily for his work with the Kayapó, Yanomami, and other South American indigenous groups.

 

 

 

 

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