Bradd Shore, Date of Birth
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American cultural anthropologist
Date of Birth: 14-Jun-1945
Profession: anthropologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Bradd Shore
- Bradd Shore (born 1945) is an American cultural anthropologist who is best known as a leading authority on Samoan culture and a foundational theorist of the cultural models school of cognitive and psychological anthropology.
- He holds the Goodrich C.
- White Chair of Anthropology at Emory University and is the current Department Chair.
- He is the former Director of the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life and is also a past President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.His 1996 monograph Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning was among the first studies to link multiculturalism to cognitive psychology, and was an effort to reformulate a conception of culture that could bridge the fields of anthropology and the cognitive sciences.
- It has become a keystone text in the field of cognitive anthropology.
- Shore's graduate research was done in Western Samoa and was focused on the local modeling of personhood and selfhood – with an emphasis on ethics, conflict and social control.
- It resulted in his first book, Sala’ilua: A Samoan Mystery (1982), considered one of the earliest studies of ethnopsychology.
- He has authored dozens of scholarly articles and chapters published in numerous Journals and edited books.
- He has also produced and directed a documentary film Family Revival: Salem Camp Meeting. Shore received his B.A.
- from the University of California at Berkeley, and his Ph.D.
- in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Marshall Sahlins and David M.
- Schneider. Books · What Culture Means, How Culture Means (The Heinz Werner Lectures) (1998).
- · Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning (1996). · Sala’ilua: A Samoan Mystery (1982). · New Neighbors: Pacific Islander Migration in Adaptation (1978) (Edited, with C.
- MacPherson and R.
- Franco). Awards and Positions Shore is the winner of the Emory Williams Teaching Award, Emory’s highest award for teaching.
- Before holding his current Chair, he was the first holder of the Emory College Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Sciences and Social Sciences.He is a former Fellow (1988–89) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California.
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