Christopher Robert Hallpike

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Christopher Robert Hallpike
Born1938 (age 85–86)
EducationUniversity of Oxford (BLitt, MA, PhD, D.Litt)[1]
Scientific career
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Christopher Robert Hallpike (born 1938) is an English-Canadian anthropologist and an emeritus professor of anthropology at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. He is known for his extensive study of the Konso of Ethiopia[2][3] and Tauade of New Guinea.

Early life and education

Hallpike was educated at

PPE. After graduation he studied at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Oxford, under E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Rodney Needham
. Fieldwork among the Konso in Ethiopia 1965–1967 was followed by a D.Phil. in 1968.

Career

After graduation, Hallpike was appointed a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and in 1970–1972 carried out fieldwork among the Tauade of Papua New Guinea. He returned to Dalhousie as a research associate in 1972–1973, and after four years in England as a private researcher, in 1978 was appointed professor of anthropology at McMaster University, Ontario, until retiring in 1998 as professor emeritus. He became a Canadian citizen in 1982. Hallpike was a Bye Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, in 1984–1985, 1988–1989, and 1992, and was awarded a D.Litt. by Oxford University in 1989.

Research

Hallpike has researched and published on a wide range of subjects, including

hair style;[4] sociocultural evolution; cultural materialism; Piaget, developmental psychology and primitive thought;[5][6] the evolution of morality;[7] the relevance of Darwinism and sociobiology in anthropology (especially the weaknesses of adaptationism); and the history of science. His photographs of 1960s Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea have recently been added to the Pitt Rivers Museum online photographic collection
.

Hallpike is critical of "journalists, science writers, historians, linguists, biologists, and especially evolutionary psychologists" who write about primitive societies with ignorance or even ideologically driven falsifications espousing theories that are "nonsense".

William Arens about his denial of human cannibalism, and Noam Chomsky about universal grammar in language acquisition
.

Publications

  • The Konso of Ethiopia (Oxford: Clarendon Press,1972)[9]
  • Bloodshed and Vengeance in the Papuan Mountains (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977)[10]
  • The Foundations of Primitive Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979)[11][12][13][14]
  • The Principles of Social Evolution (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)
  • The Evolution of Moral Understanding (Prometheus Research Group, 2004).
  • How We Got Here: from bows and arrows to the space age (AuthorHouse UK, 2008)
  • On Primitive Society, and Other Forbidden Topics (Bloomington,Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2011)
  • Do We Need God to Be Good? (Kouvola, Finland: Castalia House, 2016)[15]
  • Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies (Lexington Books, 2017)
  • Ship of Fools: An anthology of learned nonsense about primitive society (Castalia House, 2018)
  • Darwinism, Dogma, and Cultural Evolution (Castalia House, May 2020)
  • On The Wilder Shores Of Life: Living With Primitive Tribes (Ellie White, 2021)[16]
  • Savagery and Civilisation[17] (Ellie White, 2022)

Fiction

Two satirical novels under the pen name of “Owen Stanley"

  • The Missionaries (Castalia House. 2016)
  • The Promethean (Castalia House. 2017)

References

  1. ^ "Hallpike Christopher, Professor Emeritus — Faculty of Social Sciences". McMaster.
  2. ^ "Homosexuality in Subsharan Africa(Ethiopia Excerpt)".Scribd
  3. ISBN 978-0-226-47561-5
    .
  4. ISBN 978-0-674-03977-3
    .
  5. ISBN 978-0-8061-3132-0
    .
  6. ^ Anthropological Society of Oxford (1980). Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. Oxford University Anthropological Society.
  7. ^ "Book Review: The Evolution of Moral Understanding" Winther, Rasmus Grønfeldt; McManus, Fabrizzio Guerrero. Evolution, Volume 68 (3) – Mar 1, 2014
  8. Castalia House
    . p. Preface.
  9. ISBN 978-0-8108-6566-2
    .
  10. ISBN 978-0-19-535083-8
    .
  11. ^ "Books". The New York Times
  12. ISBN 978-0-567-07190-3
    .
  13. ISBN 978-1-84127-150-7
    .
  14. ISBN 978-3-8423-4288-0
    .
  15. ^ "Do We Need God to be Good?". 2 February 2017.
  16. ISBN 978-1-909972-15-5
    .
  17. ISBN 978-1-909972-20-9
    .

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