Jack Weatherford
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| Occupation | professor, ethnographer, anthropologist |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works |
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World; The History of Money; Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World |
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Jack McIver Weatherford is the former DeWitt Wallace Professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is best known for his 2004 book, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. In 2006, he was awarded the Order of the Polar Star, Mongolia’s highest national honor for foreigners.
His books in the late 20th century on the influence of Native American cultures have been translated into numerous languages. In addition to publishing chapters and reviews in academic books and journals, Weatherford has published numerous articles in national newspapers to popularize his historic and anthropological coverage of Native American cultures, as well as the American political culture in Congress in the 20th century. He has become a frequent commentator on TV and radio.
Weatherford was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Anna Ruth Grooms and Alfred Greg Weatherford, as the oldest of seven children. Their father was a sergeant in the United States Army, which caused the family to move often. Now, Weatherford lives in Mongolia and Charleston, South Carolina. One of the professor Weatherford's distant ancestors is William Weatherford, a Creek leader of mixed race in the nineteenth century.
He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1967, with a B.A in Political Science. In 1972, he received an M.A. in Sociology from the University of South Carolina, and an M.A in Anthropology in 1973. In 1977, he received his Ph. D in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. He earned a post-doctoral degree in Policy Studies from Duke University, Institute of Policy Sciences.
He became a professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He has written extensively on indigenous cultures in North American and in other countries. His books include Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World (1988), which was translated into numerous languages; Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America (1991), and Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive? (1994) on the contemporary clash of world cultures. Weatherford's early books on Native Americans won the Minnesota Book Award in 1989 and in 1992. He also received the 1992 Anthropology in the Media Award from the American Anthropological Association, and the 1994 Mass Media Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
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