Bradd Shore

Bradd Shore (born 1945) is an American cultural anthropologist who is best known as a leading authority on Samoan culture and a foundational theorist of the cultural models school of cognitive and psychological anthropology. He is the Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Emory University and is a former Department Chair.[1] He is the former Director of the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life[2] and is also a past President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.[3]

Bradd Shore
Born	(1945-06-14) June 14, 1945
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Chicago University of California at Berkeley
Scientific career
Fields	Anthropology
Institutions	Emory University Sarah Lawrence College
Doctoral advisor	David M. Schneider

Anthropology
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Types Archaeological Biological Cultural Linguistic Social
Archaeological Aerial Aviation Battlefield Biblical Bioarchaeological Environmental Ethnoarchaeological Experiential Feminist Forensic Maritime Paleoethnobotanical Zooarchaeological
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Linguistic Anthropological Descriptive Ethnological Ethnopoetical Historical Semiotic Sociological
Research framework Anthropometry Ethnography cyber Ethnology Cross-cultural comparison Participant observation Holism Reflexivity Thick description Cultural relativism Ethnocentrism Emic and etic
Key concepts Culture Development Ethnicity Evolution sociocultural Gender Kinship and descent Meme Prehistory Race Society Value Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Key theories Actor–network theory Alliance theory Cross-cultural studies Cultural materialism Culture theory Diffusionism Feminism Historical particularism Boasian anthropology Functionalism Interpretive Performance studies Political economy Practice theory Structuralism Post-structuralism Systems theory
Lists Anthropologists by nationality Anthropology by year Bibliography Journals List of indigenous peoples Organizations

His 1996 monograph Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning was among the first studies to link multiculturalism to cognitive psychology, and was an effort to reformulate a conception of culture that could bridge the fields of anthropology and the cognitive sciences. It has become a keystone text in the field of cognitive anthropology.[4] Shore's graduate research was done in Western Samoa and was focused on the local modeling of personhood and selfhood – with an emphasis on ethics, conflict and social control. It resulted in his first book, Sala’ilua: A Samoan Mystery (1982), considered one of the earliest studies of ethnopsychology.[5] He has authored dozens of scholarly articles and chapters published in numerous Journals and edited books. He has also produced and directed a documentary film Family Revival: Salem Camp Meeting.

Shore received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Marshall Sahlins and David M. Schneider.

Books

· What Culture Means, How Culture Means (The Heinz Werner Lectures) (1998).
· Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning (1996).
· Sala’ilua: A Samoan Mystery (1982).
· New Neighbors: Pacific Islander Migration in Adaptation (1978) (Edited, with C. MacPherson and R. Franco).

Awards and Positions

Shore is the winner of the Emory Williams Teaching Award, Emory’s highest award for teaching. Before holding his current Chair, he was the first holder of the Emory College Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Sciences and Social Sciences.[6]

He is a former Fellow (1988–89) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California.[7]