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Gilbert Herdt

American anthropologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1949 · age 77

Gilbert H. Herdt is Emeritus Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology and a Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies and National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University. He founded the Summer Institute on Sexuality and Society at the University of Amsterdam (1996).

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Guggenheim Fellowship1997
Ruth Benedict Prize1987
Fulbright Scholarship

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He founded the PhD Program in Human Sexuality at the California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco (2013). He conducted long term field work among the Sambia people of Papua New Guinea, and has written widely on the nature and variation in human sexual expression in Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, and across culture.

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Born 1949 · age 77

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