Olaf H. Prufer

 

Professor

Department of Anthropology

Kent State University

226 Lowry Hall

(330) 672-4363

oprufer@kent.edu

Jacket cover courtesy of Kent State University Press
PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT:

I have conducted prehistoric research in India, Germany, and the eastern United States, specifically the Ohio Valley. More recently I have shifted my interests in the direction of psychological anthropology, conflict theory and the problems of culture change as a result of social and intellectual revolutions. I have taught courses in all these domains, although in recent years I have been teaching only in the above areas of cultural anthropology.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
  • Prufer, O.H. 1952. Interim Report on the Excavations Carried Out at Dher Majra. Jamia Millia Islamia Historical Research Foundations, Publication 1. 31 pages. New Delhi. 
  • Kluckhohn, C.M. and O.H. Prufer. 1959. Influences During the Formative Years. American Anthropologist 61(5), Part 2 (Memoir: The Anthropology of Franz Boas): 4-28.

  • Prufer, O.H. 1965. The McGraw Site: A Study in Hopewellian Dynamics. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Scientific Publications, n.s. 4(1):1-144. 
  • Prufer, O.H. and D.H. McKenzie, 1967. Studies in Ohio Archaeology. The Press of Western Reserve University. xv + 368 pages. Cleveland. 
  • Prufer, O.H. and O.C. Shane. 1970. Blain Village and the Fort Ancient Tradition in Ohio. viii + 287 pages. Kent State University Press, Kent.
  • Prufer, O.H. 1997. How to Construct a Model: A Personal Memoir. In: Dancey, W.S. and P.J. Pacheco (Eds.) Ohio Hopewell Community Organization, pp. 105-128. Kent State University Press. Kent. 
  • Prufer, O.H., S.E. Pedde, and R.S. Meindl (Eds.). 2001 Archaic Transitions in Ohio and Kentucky Prehistory, Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio.