Neil L. Whitehead
Neil L. Whitehead was an English anthropologist, who is best known for his work on the anthropology of violence, dark shamanism, post-human anthropology and the historical anthropology of South America and the Caribbean. From 1997 to 2007 he was the editor of Ethnohistory, Journal of [the American Society for Ethnohistory].
Awards
- James Henry Breasted Prize for "Indigenous Cartography in Lowland South America and the Caribbean" in The History of Cartography II. 3, pp. 301–326. Ed. D. Woodward and G. M. Lewis. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- The Rasputin Award for Dark Shamans. Kanaimá and the Poetics of Violent Death.