Paul Hockings was born on February 23,1935 and is an anthropologist whose prime areas of focus are the Dravidian languages, social, visual and medical anthropology.
15 Facts About Paul Hockings
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Paul Hockings studied archaeology and anthropology at the University of Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, and at the universities in Chicago, Stanford and Toronto.
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Paul Hockings taught anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and he has been the dean of United International College's Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Paul Hockings's father Arthur Hockings, a Londoner, was a cricketer and an engineer, who worked as a personal assistant for Henry Royce.
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Paul Hockings studied Near-Eastern archaeology at the University of Sydney, and completed two majors in the subjects of archaeology and anthropology at that university.
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Paul Hockings studied anthropology at the universities of Chicago, Stanford, Toronto, and at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Paul Hockings made the first film in the style of Observational Cinema, named, The Village.
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Paul Hockings was then working as a research director for MGM Documentary Dept.
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Paul Hockings was the editor-in-chief of Visual Anthropology for a third of a century; and the University of Oslo has described him as "a pioneer in the fields of ethnographic film and visual anthropology".
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Paul Hockings is a professor emeritus of anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Paul Hockings worked at the University of California, Berkeley as a research assistant for David G Mandelbaum, while studying with Aldous Huxley and others; and then taught anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, before moving to Chicago.
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Paul Hockings served in China as the dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the United International College in Zhuhai, and in Chicago as a Field Museum of Natural History's adjunct curator of anthropology.
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Paul Hockings has studied the cultures of South India, and has been working with the Badagas for more than 50 years.
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Paul Hockings has researched their medical anthropology, culture and language.
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Paul Hockings made several documentaries and published about 20 books and more than 200 papers.