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Irven DeVore
Department of Anthropology 33 Hurlbut Street
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Peabody Museum (617) 868-4784
11 Divinity Avenue
(617) 495-3854, fax (617) 496-8041
devore@fas.harvard.edu
born October 7, 1934; married to Nancy Skiles DeVore
B.A. 1956 University of Texas Philosophy and Anthropology
M.A. 1959 University of Chicago Anthropology
Ph.D. 1962 University of Chicago Anthropology
M.A. 1963 Harvard University Honorary
President, Section H (Anthropology), American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1988-89
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1968
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 1967
Fellow, American Anthropological Association, elected 1962
The Walker Prize for Science, Museum of Science, Boston, 1970
Lifetime Achievement Award, Institute of Human Origins, New York, 1990
Teaching and Fellowships:
Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 1987-1992
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, since 1991
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1992
Professor of Anthropology and Biology, Harvard University, since 1969
Visiting Lecturer, Human Biology, Stanford University, 1964 and 1966
Lecturer in Anthropology, Harvard University, 1963
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1962-63
Fellow, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Berkeley, 1961
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-61
Offices in Professional Organizations (selected):
Director, 1996-97, and Acting Director, 1994, Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology, Harvard University
Trustee, 1974-present, Co-Chair, Science & Grants Committee, 1980-present,
L. S. B. Leakey Foundation, San Francisco, California
Board of Advisors, 1976-94, The Center for Field Research ("Earthwatch"),
Belmont, Massachusetts
Co-Founder and President, 1986-present, Dolphins of Shark Bay Research
Foundation, Western Australia
Board of Directors, 1973-94, Cultural Survival, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Advisory Council, Section H (Anthropology), 1987-90, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.
Advisory Council, 1979-83, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, New York
Co-Founder, Kalahari Peoples Fund, 1970
Executive Board, 1970-73, American Anthropological Association, Washington,
D. C.
Board of Directors, 1972-75, Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry,
New Haven
Advisory Committee on Primate Research Centers, 1964-67, National
Institutes of Health
Board of Directors, 1968-72, Education Development Center, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Advisor, 1968-72, The Danforth Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
Board of Directors, 1971-73, Ninth International Congress of
Anthropological and Ethological Sciences, Inc., Chicago
Committee on Conservation of Nonhuman Primates, 1972-73, National Research
Council, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Editorial (selected):
Associate Editor, "Human Biology and Primatology". In: Current
Anthropology: A World Journal of the Sciences of Man, 1985-87.
Editorial Board, Ethology and Sociobiology, 1979-present
Consulting Editor, "Physical Anthropology". In: Random House Unabridged
Dictionary of the English Language , second edition
Field Research:
Mesquakie Indian Settlement, "Action Anthropology" project, 1957
Kenya, 1959-60, 1963, 1964, 1972, 1977; behavior and ecology of baboons
"Harvard Kalahari Project", Co-Director, Botswana, 1963-80; long-term study
of !Kung San (Bushmen) life. More than 25 graduate students and
professionals have documented all aspects of !Kung life, including
demography, ecology, archaeology, ethology, health and nutrition,
child-rearing practices, social organization, personality, myth, religion
and trance phenomenon. To date, some 20 books and monographs and 200
scientific articles have been based on this project.
"Ituri Project", Co-Director, Zaire, 1980-present; long-term intensive
study of the Efe ("Pygmy hunter-gatherers") and Lese (horticultural
villagers) in the northeastern Ituri Forest of Zaire. At present, 17
specialists and graduate students are involved in the study documentation
of all aspects of the behavior, ecology, belief system, etc., of these two
populations. The first of several projected books and some 20 articles have
appeared to date.
"Cross-cultural Study of Adolescence", Co-Director, 1980-87. Nine
post-doctoral fellows studied adolescent behavior and development at field
sites in Nigeria, Thailand, Morocco, northern Canada (Copper Eskimos),
Australia (Arnhem Land Aborigines) and Kenya. The first four books of the
projected six-volume series have appeared.
"Baboon Socioecology," Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. July-November 1992.
Coordinated four teams of graduate and undergraduate students in a study of
the demography, ecology and behavior of baboons, in part to assist the park
authorities in developing management guidelines.
Brief research visits, usually to direct graduate student research, to
sites in Borneo (orangutans), India (langur monkeys), Tanzania (chimpanzee
and baboon studies; Bushmen cave art), Japan (macaque monkeys), Morocco
(macaque monkeys), Arnhem Land, Australia (Aborigine settlements), Papua
New Guinea (Highland New Guinea horticulturalists), Shark Bay, western
Australia (dolphin social behavior), Brazil (South American primates) and
Uganda (chimpanzee studies).
Books:
1965 Primate Behavior: Field Studies of Monkeys and Apes, ed., Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, New York.
1965 The Primates, with S. Eimerl. Life Natural Library, Time, New York.
1968 Man the Hunter, with Richard B. Lee, eds. Aldine Publ., Chicago.
1976 Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers, with Richard B. Lee, eds., Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1982 Field Guide for the Study of Adolescence, with Beatrice Whiting, John
Whiting, et al. A 200-page field manual prepared by the staff and
post-doctoral trainees for use at the field sites in our cross-cultural
study of adolescence; revision for publication as a general field guide is
under consideration.
Selected Publications:
1961 "Social behavior of baboons and early man", with S. L. Washburn. In:
The Social Life of Early Man, S. L. Washburn, ed., Viking Fd. Publ. in
Anth., 31:91-105 (and Aldine Publ.).
1961 "The social life of baboons", with S. L. Washburn. In: Scientific
American, 204: 62-72.
1962 "The social behavior and organization of baboon troops", unpublished
doctoral thesis, University of Chicago, 192 pages.
1963 "Comparative ecology and behavior of monkeys and apes". In:
Classification and Human Evolution, S. L. Washburn, ed., Viking Fd. Publ.
in Anth., 37: 301-319 (and Aldine Publ.).
1963 "Mother-infant relations in free-ranging baboons". In: Maternal
Behavior in Mammals, H. Rheingold, ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp.
305-355.
1963 "Baboon ecology and human evolution", with S. L. Washburn. In:
African Ecology and Human Evolution, F. C. Howell and F. Bourliere, eds.,
Viking Fd. Publ. in Anth., 36:335-367 (and Aldine Publ.).
1963 "Recent and current field studies of primates", with R. B. Lee. In:
Folia Primat., 1(1):66-72.
1964 "The Evolution of Social Life". In: Horizons of Anthropology, Sol
Tax, ed., Aldine Publ., Chicago, pp. 25-36.
1965 "Male dominance and mating behavior in baboons". In: Sex and
Behavior, Frank Beach, ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 266-289.
1965 "Baboon Ecology", with K. R. L. Hall. In: Primate Behavior, pp. 20-52.
1965 "Baboon Social Behavior", with K. R. L. Hall. In: Primate Behavior,
pp. 53-110.
1968 "Social Behavior, animal: Primate behavior". In: International
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, MacMillan, New York, pp. 351-360.
1970 "The ways of the primates". In: Science Year 1971, Field Enterprises,
Chicago, pp. 64-79.
1971 "The evolution of human society". In: Man and Beast: Comparative
Social Behavior, J. F. Eisenberg and W. S. Dillon, eds., Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington, pp. 298-311.
1972 "Quest for the roots of society", In: The Marvels of Animal Behavior,
Peter Marler, ed., National Geographic Society, Washington, pp. 393-408.
1974 "Infancy in hunter-gatherer life: An ethological perspective," with M.
J. Konner. In: Ethology and Psychiatry, Norman F. White, ed., University of
Toronto Press, Toronto, pp. 113-141.
1976 "The Biology of Human Evolution," In: Human Diversity: Its Causes and
Social Significance, B. D. Davis and P. Flaherty, eds., Ballinger Publ.,
Cambridge, Massachusetts pp. 21-36.
1979 "Aggressive competition and social dominance theory," with J. L. Popp.
In: The Great Apes, D. A. Hamburg and E. R. McCown, eds., W. A.Benjamin,
Menlo Park, California, pp. 317-338.
1985 "The Natural Superiority of Women", with C. Owen Lovejoy. In: The
Physical and Mental Health of Aged Women, M. R. Haug, A. B. Ford, and M.
Sheafor, eds., Springer Publ., New York, pp. 27-38.
1987 "The Reconstruction of Hominid Behavioral Evolution through Strategic
Modeling", with J. Tooby. In: Primate Models of Hominid Behavior, W.
Kinzey, ed., Plenum Press.
1988 "Prospects for a synthesis in the human behavioral sciences". In:
Emerging Syntheses in Science: Proceedings of the Foundation Workshops of
the Santa Fe Institute. D. Pines, ed., The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, pp. 85-105.
1989 "Research on the Efe and Lese Populations of the Ituri Forest, Zaire",
with Robert C. Bailey. In: American Journal of Primatology, 78(4):459-471.
1990 "Introduction: Current Studies on Primate Socioecology and Evolution".
In: International Journal of Primatology, 11(1):1-5.
1992 Reports submitted to the Chief Warden, Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve:
"Socioecology of baboons in the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, 1958-92"
"Demographic assessment of the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) in the Cape"
"The ecological imapct of foraging patterns on baboons (Papio ursinus) in
various vegetation communities of the Cape Point Nature Reserve"
"Ranging behavior, sleeping sites and inter-group competition in Cape
baboons (Papio ursinus)"
1996 Introduction to Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative. Kodansha
America, New York, New York, pp. ix-xviii.
Television:
Have participated in more than 30 network and public television programs as
"expert", script consultant or host/narrator. The most recent such
participation was in the PBS "Nova" program "The Private Life of Dolphins,"
which centered on our research with dolphins in Shark Bay ("Monkey Mia"),
western Australia.
Exhibit:
Curator/director for the (Harvard University) Peabody Museum exhibit
"Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari," on view since December 1991. A year in
preparation, the exhibit includes several hundred ethnographic and
archaeological artifacts and features 96 photographs (many of them
life-size), five video programs (including a campfire setting that
recreates the healing "trance dance") and a naturalistic Bushmen campsite.
The almost continuous docmentation of this population since 1950 made it
possible to blend photography with artifacts, and depict the changes in
Bushman life from prehistory to early contact to their turbulent lives
today.
Teaching films (16mm, sound and color):
University of California, Berkeley, series (1960-63):
"Baboon Behavior", with S. L. Washburn, awarded first prize by the
Educational Film Library Association, 1963
"Baboon Ecology "
"Baboon Social Organization"
Educational Development Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, series (1966-67):
"Animals in Amboseli"
"The Baboon Troop"
"Dynamics of Male Dominance in a Baboon Troop"
"Field Study Sequence: Evening Activity"
"Baboon Development: The Young Infant: Birth to Four Months"
"Baboon Development: The Older Infant: Four Months to One Year"
Educational Development Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, series (1974-75):
"Chimpanzees of the Gombe National Park", with Jane Goodall
"A Chimpanzee Family ", with Jane Goodall
Curriculum Materials:
"Man: A Course of Study " (MACOS) (1964-68), with Jerome Bruner and Asen
Baliki. An upper elementary school course combining biology, animal
behavior and the ethnography of the Netsilik Eskimo. "MACOS"
includes 16 films, 22 booklets, games, murals, etc. It is available in 4
languages and taught in more than 16 countries.
"Exploring Human Nature" (1972-75), a series of four high school/community
college course units based on different periods in the life cycle: "Origins
of Human Behavior" (infancy), "Childhood and the Community", "Managing
Transitions: Coming of Age" (adolescence), "The Individual in Society"
(adulthood). The course combines methods and perspectives of anthropology,
sociology, psychology and biology.
Letter from Boyd Evison - 13 December, 1998
From pick@pick.uga.edu Mon Dec 14 12:19 EST 1998
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:27:00 -0400
To: Qboyd@aol.com
From: pick@pick.uga.edu (John Pickering)
Subject: Re: Rain check?
Cc: bogartg01@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us, QBoyd@aol.com, wfharris@utk.edu,
Johnson.2@osu.edu, tkiernan@npca.org, mlane@ukans.edu,
lowe@opie.bgsu.edu, grsm_friends_of_grsm_np@nps.gov,
jmorse@clemson.edu, pick@pick.uga.edu, sriecher@utk.edu,
jltabor@sacam.oren.ortn.edu, msharkey@byron.ca.uky.edu,
skillen@pick.uga.edu, pswhite@unc.edu, mjwillia@tricon.net,
Karen_Ballentine@nps.gov, Phil_Francis@nps.gov, keith_langdon@nps.gov,
terry@smokiesnha.org, becky_nichols@nps.gov, chuck_parker@nbs.gov,
Dana_Soehn@nps.gov, GRSM_Superintendent@nps.gov, jody@discoverlife.org
Boyd,
Thanks for your support. I'm sure that we can come to some accord to keep
you involved. I'll forward this to the Board today and ask them to
consider giving you a "rain check" on Friday.
Happy Holidays.
Cheers,
Pick
P.S. Jody, please make 30 hard copies for the Board meeting and FAX to
Bruce Briggs and Bruce Stewart.
From: Qboyd@aol.com
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 01:05:31 EST
To: pick@pick.uga.edu
Subject: Re: Rain check?
Pick -
Thank you for the kind words, especially considering how little other than
talking it up for DLIA, here and there, I've done.
I talked to Karen in Tucson, and she said much the same as you did, about
finding some way to keep me involved - and, I guess, visible. I'd really like
to do it, somehow, but really don't want to be in a position where I have to
keep letting people down.
Show me as anything you want to, as long as doing it well doesn't depend on my
being able to get to the Smokies often - and doesn't get so time-consuming,
even from afar, that my Board of Directors begins to wonder who I'm working
for.
I continue to be awed by what you've already accomplished, by the
extraordinary quality of the people you have involved, and by the momentum
you've maintained. It's an honor to have been included, at all.
I'd appreciate being sent anything you produce, in the way of announcements,
minutes, mileposts, players, partnerships, or whatever. Don't want to lose
touch,. now matter what else happens.
Don't ever let up - but don't let it grind you down, either. Get breaks. And
if you can ever break to Grand Teton, stay with us.
Best,
Boyd