Spencer MacCallum

Spencer MacCallum
Spencer MacCallum at the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, AZ, April 8, 2006, lecturing on the origins of Mata Ortiz pottery.
Born	1931
Citizenship	American
Fields	anthropology
Alma mater	Princeton University University of Washington
Known for	work on Mata Ortiz pottery

Spencer Heath McCallum (born 1931), commonly known as Spencer MacCallum, is an American anthropologist, business consultant and author. He is especially noted for his discovery of the pottery of the town of Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico.

MacCallum graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelors in art history and received a Masters of Arts in social anthropology from the University of Washington. He specialized in studying the life, culture and stateless society of Northwest Coast Indians.

MacCallum is the grandson of Spencer Heath, inventor and dissenter from mainstream Georgism.

In 1956, MacCallum and his grandfather founded the Science of Society Foundation, which published a number of works including Heath's book Citadel, Market, and Altar. MacCallum was for many years an active researcher and lecturer for academic and business clients. He remains a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute.

MacCallum shared his grandfather's interest in multi-tenant properties where developers lease properties and are responsible for providing community services, thereby replacing the functions traditionally provided by the state. He details these ideas in his 1970 booklet The Art of Community, as well as his 2003 articles "The Enterprise of Community: Market Competition, Land, and Environment" and "Looking Back and Forward" (which describes the influence of his grandfather); and his 2005 article on stateless social organization "From Upstate New York to the Horn of Africa".

In 2005, MacCallum also edited and published The Law of the Somalis by Michael van Notten. The book deals with the foundations of the Somali customary law (Xeer).