James Lowe Peacock III (born 1937) is an American anthropologist. Peacock studied psychology at

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, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1959. After completing a doctorate in anthropology at

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in 1965, he began teaching at

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. He joined the

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faculty in 1967. Peacock received a

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in 1980, and was named Kenan Professor of Anthropology in 1987. He was president of the

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between 1993 and 1995. Peacock retired from the University of North Carolina in May 2015. In 2025, he was elected to the

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.https://www.amphilsoc.org/news/aps-elects-new-members-2025

Bibliography

* ''Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World''. University of Georgia Press. (2007). . * ''The Anthropological Lens: Harsh Light, Soft Focus''. Cambridge University Press. (2001). . * ''Pilgrims of Paradox: Calvinism and Experience Among the Primitive Baptists of the Blue Ridge''. (1989). University of North Carolina Press. . * ''Muslim Puritans: Reformist Psychology in Southeast Asian Islam''. University of California Press. (1978). . * ''Purifying the Faith: The Muhammadijah Movement in Indonesian Islam''. University of North Carolina Press. . * ''Consciousness and Change: Symbolic Anthropology in Evolutionary Perspective.'' (1975). University of North Carolina Press. . * ''Rites of Modernization: Symbolic and Social Aspects of Indonesian Proletarian Drama''. University of Chicago Press. (1968). .

References

1937 births Living people Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Presidents of the American Anthropological Association Princeton University faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty 20th-century American anthropologists 21st-century American anthropologists Members of the American Philosophical Society {{Psychologist-stub