# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-tainter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:51:31.334Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-tainter"
name: "Joseph Tainter"
slug: "joseph-tainter"
description: "Joseph Anthony Tainter is an American anthropologist and historian."
tagline: "American anthropologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.470524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2816643/"
    handle:    "nm2816643"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چوزيف تينتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter"
    title: "Joseph Tainter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter"
    title: "Joseph Tainter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter"
    title: "Joseph Tainter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter"
    title: "Joseph Tainter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جوزف تینتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter"
    title: "Joseph Tainter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter"
    title: "Joseph Tainter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter"
    title: "Joseph Tainter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Тейнтер, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter"
    title: "Joseph Tainter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3134839"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4514671"
    title: "Joseph Tainter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump