Interview with Anthony Oliver-Smith, February 2, 2011
Project: Society for Applied Anthropology Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Oliver-Smith was the 2013 Bronislaw Malinowski Awardee. His practice is focused on the anthropology of disasters. Now retired, he was a faculty member at the University of Florida.Interview Accession
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Peru Earthquake Relief Committee Disaster studies Disaster anthropology. Professional organizations Society for Applied Anthropology Network of Social Studies in Disaster Prevention in Latin America Technological disasters United Nations University. Institute for Environment and Human Security Brown University Indiana UniversityInterview LC Subject
Anthropology Disasters--Research. Oliver-Smith, Anthony- --Interviews. Ethnology. Spain. Peru. Latin America. Huaylas, Callejo?n de (Peru) Economic anthropology. Anthropology students Anthropology--Fieldwork. Yungay (Ancash, Peru) Anthropology--Research. Callej?n de Huaylas (Peru)Interview Rights
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Oliver-Smith, Anthony Interview by Gregory Button. 02 Feb. 2011. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Oliver-Smith, A. (2011, February 02). Interview by G. Button. Society for Applied Anthropology Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Oliver-Smith, Anthony, interview by Gregory Button. February 02, 2011, Society for Applied Anthropology Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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