Richard P Werbner was born on August 11,1937 and is an American anthropologist who specializes in the Zimbabwe and Botswana region, including ritual, personal and historical narrative, politics, law, regional analysis.
11 Facts About Richard Werbner
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Richard Werbner has taught at the University of Manchester since 1961.
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Professor Richard Werbner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 11 August 1937.
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Richard Werbner studied at Brandeis University, conducting fieldwork among the Winnebago of Nebraska in 1958 and graduating with a BA in 1959.
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Richard Werbner obtained a Fulbright Scholarship in 1959, through which he was able to go to the United Kingdom to study at Manchester University.
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Richard Werbner began field studies in southern Africa in 1960 among the Kalanga people, first in Zimbabwe and later in Botswana, and then among the Tswapong people in Botswana.
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Richard Werbner married and is the father of two children.
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Richard Werbner's wife Pnina Werbner, a professor of anthropology, was the niece of Max Gluckman, a South African anthropologist who did important work in Barotseland and was a leading figure at the Manchester school.
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Richard Werbner won the Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute for his 1991 book Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family.
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Richard Werbner composes a powerful narrative, rich in documentation and insight developed from more than forty years of commitment to Botswana.
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Richard Werbner directed a series of documentary films under the overall title The Well Being Quest in Botswana, which were published by the University of Manchester.