Valerio Valeri (anthropologist)
Valerio Valeri was an Italian anthropologist best known for his work in the ethnology of Polynesia and Indonesia. He is well known for his monographs “Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii”, and “The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas”.
Valeri taught at the University of Chicago from 1976 until his death. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982.