Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Current Position
Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, UCLA
Previous Positions
1971-1984 Assistant to Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCLA Dept. of Psych.
Education
1965 B. A., Reed College, Portland Oregon, Anthropology
1969 M. A., Harvard University, Department of Social Relations, Cambridge, MA, Anthropology
1973 Ph. D., Harvard University, Department of Anthropology
Professional Activities/Honors (selected)
1998-1999 American Anthropological Association Committee on Family Research
1996-1997 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
1990 Visiting Professor, Catholic University Leurven
1995 Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
1989-present Editorial Board, Ethos
1987-1992 Member, Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences
Fellow American Anthropological Association, Society for Research in Child Development, Society for Psychological Anthropology
Foreign Languages
Swahili, German
Related Publications (selected)
Weisner, T. S., Bradley, C., & Kilbride, P. (1997). African families and the crisis of social change. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press/Bergin & Garvey.
Weisner, T. S. (1996). Why ethnography should be the most important method in the study of human development. In R. Jessor, A. Colby, and R. Shweder (Eds.), Ethnography and human development. Context and meaning in social inquiry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 305-324.
Weisner, T. S. (1989). Comparing sibling relationships across cultures. In P. Zukow (Ed.), Sibling interactions across cultures. Theoretical and methodological issues. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 11-25.
Weisner, T. S., Gallimore, R., & Jordan, C. (1988). Unpackaging cultural effects on classroom learning: Hawaiian peer assistance and child-generated activity. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 19: 327-353.
Weisner, T. S. (1976). Consequences of rural-urban migration for families and children in Kenya: Some results and suggested research orientations. Kenya Education Review, 3: 108-115.
Significant Publications (selected)
Weisner, T. S. (1997). The ecocultural project of human development: Why ethnography and its findings matter. Ethos, 25(2): 177-190.
Weisner, T. S. (1987). Socialization for parenthood in sibling caretaking societies. In J. Lancaster, A . Rossi, J. Altmann, & L. Sherrod, (Eds.), Parenting across the life span. New York: Aldine Press. pp. 237-270.
Weisner, T. S. (1981). Cities, stress, and children: A review of some cross-cultural questions. In R. Munroe, R. Munroe, & B. Whiting, (Eds.), Handbook of cross-cultural human development. NY: Garland. Pp. 783-808.
Weisner, T. S. & Gallimore, R. (1977). My brother’s keeper: Child and sibling caretaking. Current Anthropology, 18: 169-190.
Weisner, T. S. (1976). Urban-rural differences in African children’s performances on cognitive and memory tasks. Ethos, 4: 223-250.
Current Research Support
1997-1999 5% MacArthur Foundation/University of Michigan $14,979. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Pathways in Middle Childhood. (PI)
1995-2000 NICHD, $125,000, Fieldwork and Qualitative Data Laboratory. MRRC Center Grant Core Facilities (Co-PI)
1994-1999 NICHD, $3,159,053. The Community Adaptation of Mildly Retarded Persons (Co-PI with Robert Edgerton, component on “The Cultural Context of Psycho-Social Competence.”)