The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception by Marshall H. Segall

Wenner‑Gren Foundation Travel Grant, W‑G Conference, Burg Wartenstein,Austria 1966. National Science Foundation Summer Grant, 1965. National Science Foundation Travel Grant, Moscow 1964. Social Science Research Council Grant, 1964. Honorary Research Assoc., Dept.of Anthropology, McGill Univ. Visiting Professor, University of Montreal: 1983‑84.

Visiting Scholar, Anthropology Department, School of Oriental and African Studies. Visiting Professor, Bryn Mawr College, Spring 1973.

Visiting Assistant Prof., Univ.of California‑Berkeley: 1963. M.A.: Cultural and Ecological Areas of Northern Asia (1957)ġ962‑66: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania.ġ966‑77: Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania.ġ977‑present: Professor, University of Pennsylvania. Other field research: Mbato of southern Ivory Coast (1964) and Aghem (of Wum) of western Cameroon (1969 & 1971)ī.A.: Forced Acculturation in Two Siberian Tribes (1955) field research (1957-59) among the Suku of the southwestern (then Belgian) Congo. HIGHER EDUCATION: Northwestern University (B.A./Anthropology 1955, Ph.D./Anthropology 1960) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.A./Anthropology, 1958). To British East Africa (Tanganyika and Kenya), and in 1951 to the United States (Evanston, Ill). In 1948 moved to Chile (Santiago and Chuquicamata), in 1950 Jeanne d’Arc) and English secondary school (St. Raised in Shanghai, where attended French primary school (Ste. I have done fieldwork in the Congo, Cameroon, and the Ivory With a special interest in indigenous slavery in Africa as a culture-historical I have also worked and published on slavery as a general cultural phenomenon, Organization, and religion - and the process of transformation in them. My interests, research, and publications deal with social structure, political Major Research Interests I am a general practitioner in cultural anthropology, with an ethnographicįocus on Africa and with some past research in northern Asia. Of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception by Marshall H. Segall