Christopher Boehm


Christopher Boehm is an American cultural anthropologist with a subspecialty in primatology, who researches conflict resolution, altruism, moral origins, and feuding and warfare. He is also the Director of the Jane Goodall Research Center at University of Southern California, a multi-media interactive database focusing on the social and moral behavior of world hunter gatherers.

Education

Boehm received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1972, and was later trained in ethological field techniques.

Field work

Boehm has done field work with Navajos, Montenegrin Serbs, and wild chimpanzees, focusing on questions of morality and evolution.

Awards

Boehm has won the Stirling Prize in Psychological Anthropology, and has been the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Publications

Books