Jeremy Boissevain
Dutch poet
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| Intro | Dutch poet | |
| Places | Netherlands | |
| is | Anthropologist | |
| Work field | Social science | |
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| Death | 26 June 2015 |
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Biography
Jeremy Fergus Boissevain (August 5, 1928 – June 26, 2015) was Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (University of Amsterdam).
Academic background
Boissevain was awarded his PhD in 1962 from the London School of Economics. He was professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam continually from 1966 to 1993, and also taught at the Universities of Montreal, Sussex, Malta, New York (Stony Brook), Massachusetts (Amherst), Columbia University and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.