Harner, Michael J(ames)
HARNER, Michael J(ames)
HARNER, Michael J(ames). American, b. 1929. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology, Novels. Career: Arizona State University, Tempe, assistant professor of anthropology, 1958-61; University of California, Berkeley, senior museum anthropologist to associate research anthropologist and assistant director of Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 1961-66; Columbia University, NYC, visiting associate professor to associate professor of anthropology, 1966-70; Yale University, New Haven, CT, visiting associate professor of anthropology, 1970; New School for Social Research, New York City, 1970-87, began as associate professor, became professor of anthropology, chairman of department, 1973-87; writer. University of California, Berkeley, visiting associate professor, 1971, 1972, visiting professor, 1975. Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Mill Valley, CA, founding president and director, 1985-. Conducted anthropological research in Western North America, 1951-53, 1959, 1965, 1976, 1978, the Upper Amazon Basin, 1956-57, 1960-61, 1964, 1969, 1973, Lapland, 1983, 1984, and Canadian Arctic, 1987. Publications: (with A.L. Kroeber) Mohave Pottery, 1955; The Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls, 1972; (ed.) Hallucinogens and Shamanism, 1973; (with A. Meyer) Cannibal (novel), 1979; The Way of the Shaman, 1980. Address: Foundation for Shamanic Studies, PO Box 1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, U.S.A.