Neil L. Whitehead facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Neil L. Whitehead
Born	19 March 1956 U.K.
Died	22 March 2012(2012-03-22) (aged 56) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Known for	Anthropology of violence, dark shamanism, kanaimá, post-human anthropology, historical anthropology and archaeology of South America and the Caribbean
Scientific career
Fields	Anthropology (Guyana, South America, Caribbean)
Institutions	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thesis	The conquest of the Caribs of the Orinoco basin (1984)

Neil L. Whitehead (19 March 1956 – 22 March 2012) was an English anthropologist, who is best known for his work on the anthropology of violence, dark shamanism (and Guyanese kanaimà in particular), post-human anthropology and the historical anthropology of South America and the Caribbean. From 1997 to 2007 he was the editor of Ethnohistory, Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory.

Awards

• James Henry Breasted Prize (American Historical Association) for "Indigenous Cartography in Lowland South America and the Caribbean" in The History of Cartography II. 3, pp. 301–326. Ed. D. Woodward and G. M. Lewis. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
• The Rasputin Award (University of Wisconsin-Madison) for Dark Shamans. Kanaimá and the Poetics of Violent Death.