Harald Prins
| Dr. Harald E.L. Prins | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sept 7, 1951 Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Netherlands |
| Fields | Cultural Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Visual Anthropology |
| Institutions | Kansas State University |
| Alma mater | Radboud University, Netherlands; New School for Social Research, New York |
| Doctoral advisors | Eric R. Wolf, Michael J. Harner, Anton Blok |
| Known for | Native American tribal status recognition, hunting and fishing rights, land claims; visual anthropology; cultural anthropology textbook |
| Notable awards | Kansas Professor of the year ’06, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Presidential Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching ’99; John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology ‘04, Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology, American Anthropological Association ’10. |
Harald E. L. Prins (born 1951) is a Dutch anthropologist, ethnohistorian, filmmaker, and human rights activist specialized in North and South America's indigenous peoples and cultures.
Harald Prins was born in the Netherlands and is a University Distinguished Professor of anthropology at Kansas State University.
Academically trained at various universities in the Netherlands, where he studied prehistoric archaeology, history, and cultural anthropology, among others under Anton Weiler, Albert Trouwborst, Anton Blok, and Ton Lemaire, he completed his doctoraal at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1976). After two years as an assistant professor in theoretical history at its graduate program, he came to New York City under the auspices of the Netherlands-America Institute in 1978. As a Vera List Fellow at the Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Science, the New School for Social Research (1978–1979), he studied anthropology under Eric Wolf, Michael Harner, Edmund Snow Carpenter and others. In addition, he received formal training in advanced 16mm film-making in NYC (1979–1980).
Although he has also done research among half a dozen other indigenous nations in North and South America, he is primarily known for his ethnographic and historic research on Wabanaki Indian peoples and cultures, in particular the Mi'kmaq (or Micmac). After ethnographic fieldwork in La Pampa Province, Argentina (1980–1981), he merged the theoretical perspectives of cultural ecology and political economy into a concept of political ecology. During a decade of advocacy anthropology among Maine Indians as Director of Research and Development for the Association of Aroostook Indians (1981–1982), and as tribal anthropologist for the Aroostook Band of Micmacs (1982–1990), he was instrumental in helping this impoverished and landless indigenous community win federal recognition of its tribal status and a 5,000-acre (20 km2) landbase in northern Maine. He also served as Expert Witness on native rights in the US Senate (1989) and in several Canadian courts (1996, 2000), and was an international observer in the presidential elections of Paraguay (1993).
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