George M. Foster
Profesor of Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley
Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture
May 5, 1977 — 4:10 PMUniversity of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
About George M. Foster
George Foster, an authority on cultural and medical anthropology, was director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Institute of Social Anthropology for nine years. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1955. A graduate of Northwestern University in 1935, he earned his Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1955. Foster has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, and has served as consultant in India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Zambia, Nepal, and Indonesia. In 1969-1970, he held the highest honor in the field of American anthropologists, election as President of the American Anthropological Association.