Valerio Valeri (August 4, 1944 – April 24, 1998) was an Italian anthropologist best known for his work in the ethnology of

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and

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. He is well known for his monographs “Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii”, and “The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas”. Valeri taught at the

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from 1976 until his death. He was awarded a

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in 1982.

Education

Valeri received his undergraduate degree from the

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, later receiving a doctorate from both Pisa and the Sorbonne.{{cite journal , last1=Shacknove , first1=Andrew , last2=Spencer , first2=Jonathan , title=Obituary , journal=Anthropology Today , date=1998 , volume=14 , issue=3 , pages=21–23 , jstor=2783055

Bibliography

* ''Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii'', The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1985. * ''Uno spazio tra sé e sé. L'antropologia come ricerca del soggetto'', a cura di M. Feldman e J. Hoskins; traduzione italiana a cura di B. Lazzaro, Donzelli Editore, Roma, 1999. * ''The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas'', The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 2000. * ''Fragments from Forests and Libraries: A Collection of Essays'', Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC, 2001. * ''Ritual and Annals: Between Anthropology and History'', edited by R. Stasch, S.M. Dowdy and G. da Col, HAU Books/The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2014. * ''Classical Concepts in Anthropology'', edited by G. da Col and R. Stasch, HAU Books/The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2018.

References

Italian anthropologists 20th-century anthropologists 1944 births 1998 deaths Italian ethnographers