Richard Feinberg

Richard "Rick" Feinberg (born November 4, 1947) is an American anthropologist, writer, educator, and Emeritus Professor focusing on sociocultural anthropology, specifically on Polynesian societies in the Pacific Islands and Native North America. Feinberg completed his Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969, going on to obtain his Master of Arts in 1971 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1974, both from the University of Chicago.

He has authored several significant works in cultural anthropology, including "Polynesian Oral Traditions: Indigenous Texts and English Translations from Anuta, Solomon Islands", "Anuta: Polynesian Lifeways for the Twenty-First Century", and "Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation Ocean Travel in Anutan Culture and Society". He has edited numerous publications, such as "Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands: Studies in Continuity and Change" (1995) and "The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David M. Schneider" (2001).

Biography

Personal life Richard Feinberg was born in 1947 in Norfolk, Virginia. including "The Anutan Language Reconsidered: Lexicon and Grammar of a Polynesian Outlier" (1977), "Social Change in a Navajo Community" (1979), "Anuta: Social Structure of a Polynesian Island" (1981), and "Oral Traditions of Anuta: A Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands" (1998, reissued electronically in 2011). He served as the American Anthropological Association’s Section Assembly convener (2016-2019) and as a Fulbright distinguished chair of anthropology at Palacký University, Olomouc, in the Czech Republic.

Published works

Kent State University provides a complete list of publications.