James W. VanStone, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJames W. VanStone
American anthropologist
Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1925
Date of Death: 28-Feb-2001
Profession: anthropologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About James W. VanStone
- James W.
- VanStone (October 3, 1925 – February 28, 2001) was an American cultural anthropologist specializing in the Inuit, Inupiat, and Yup'ik Eskimos.
- He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and was a student of Frank Speck and A.
- Irving Hallowell.
- One of his first positions was at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.
- In 1951, following completion of graduate studies, he joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
- In 1955 and 1956, he conducted fieldwork with the Inuit people at Point Hope, Alaska.
- Beginning in the summer of 1960, he started field work among Chipewyan Indians, living along the east shore of Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories among eastern Athapaskans for a period of eleven months over three years.
- He died of heart failure.
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