Harold C. Conklin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Harold Colyer Conklin April 27, 1926 Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | February 18, 2016 (aged 89) |
| Occupation | Educator |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Yale University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropologist |
| Institutions | Columbia University Yale University |
| Doctoral students | Alfred W. McCoy (1977) |
Harold Colyer Conklin (April 27, 1926 – February 18, 2016) was an American anthropologist who conducted extensive ethnoecological and linguistic field research in Southeast Asia (particularly the Philippines) and was a pioneer of ethnoscience, documenting indigenous ways of understanding and knowing the world.[1]