Haley, Shawn D. 1949-

PERSONAL:

Born August 4, 1949, in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada; son of Sydney (a chef) and Rose (a cook) Haley; married Ellie Braun (a writer), June 2, 1990; children: Joshua Adam, Jessica Erin. Education: Carleton University, B.A., 1977; Trent University, M.A., 1979; Simon Fraser University, Ph.D., 1988.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Bowden, Alberta, Canada. Office—Eagle Valley Research Ltd., 275 Glendale Blvd., Red Deer, Alberta T4P 3L3, Canada. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, head of anthropology department, 1989-2005; Eagle Valley Research Ltd., Red Deer, president, 2000—. EVR Canada, managing director of station in Santa Martha, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2004—.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with wife Ellie Braun-Haley) A Little Door, a Little Light (nonfiction), Eagle Creek Publishers (Bowden, Alberta, Canada), 1999.

Look at the Sky: Death in Cultures around the World, Eagle Creek Publishers (Bowden, Alberta, Canada), 1999.

(With Ellie Braun-Haley) War on the Homefront: An Examination of Wife Abuse, Berghahn Books (New York, NY), 2000.

(With Curt Fukuda) Day of the Dead: When Two Worlds Meet in Oaxaca, Berghahn Books (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor to periodicals.

SIDELIGHTS:

Shawn D. Haley told CA: "I have always been curious about the world around me and found that the act of writing about those things that arouse my curiosity helped me to organize and understand the phenomena. That, more than anything else, is my motivation for writing. I certainly did not get involved in it to make money, and I would strongly advise anyone in it for the money to do something else.

"As a social scientist, I realized that whatever I learn was of little value unless it was shared with others. To that end, I have spent much of my career discovering ways to communicate with others, and my books and articles are designed to do just that—communicate. I am currently working on an ethnography of the Zapotec people of the western central valley of Oaxaca, Mexico."