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I was born on December 11, 1936. in Baltimore, MD, U.S.A. my father was Dr Hale Forman Shirley who was born and raised in Iowa and studied medicine at the University of Iowa. My mother, Mrs. Mildred Weaver Shirley was raised in Illinois of a farming family but studied dietetics also at the University of Iowa. My father studied child psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and when I was two, we moved to San Francisco, California, where my father had been named Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Stanford University. My family has lived in the Bay area since. My mother died in 1960 and my father in 1974. I studied biology and anthropology at Stanford University, and moved to New York to finish my doctorate at Columbia. From Columbia, influenced by Charles Wagley, I began a lifelong association and affection with the nation of Brazil, researching there, in the municipio of Cunha in São Paulo, from 1965 through 1966. In 1967 I was invited to teach at the University of Toronto, where I became a Canadian Landed Immigrant in the same year. I have been living in Toronto since with long leaves of absence in Brazil. In Toronto I have taught for more than 27 years at the undergraduate program of Scarborough Campus of the University of Toronto. I have specialized in Social Anthropology in my teaching, giving the Introductory course in Social and Cultural Anthropology (ANTB20Y) for many years but giving upper level courses as well in Economic and Political Anthropology as well as creating a course on Law and Society (ANTC49H). In addition I have continued to teach on Latin American subjects giving a course on "The Americas: an Anthropological perspective," which is mostly on Mexico and Brazil, as well as a course on Comparative Slavery (ANTB07H). I have been a member of the Graduate Faculties of the University since I started teaching. At the graduate level I have taught Legal Anthropology, but also Methodology and the History of Anthropological Thought. I have taught in four Brazilian Universities and visited most parts of the country. My research interests are summed up below, but I have taught Social Anthropology at four Brazilian Universities and gave what I believe are the first courses in Legal Anthropology in Brazil, at the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro and at the Law School of the University of São Paulo. I have always been interested in arts, literature, dance and music, especially classical music. I have what may be the largest collection of Brazilian recordings in Canada as well as one of the largest Brazilian libraries. Due to these interests I have for many years lived in the downtown sections of Toronto where for several years I have shared my home with the Brazilian Choreographer Newton Moraes.
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Public Schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mill Valley, California.B.A.-with Distinction - [Biology] 1958 Stanford University:Brazil: courses on Law taken in Rio de Janeiro [U.F.F.] and São Paulo [U.S.P.] and on anthropology in Lorena and Porto Alegre [U.F.R.G.S.], and on Criminology in Porto Alegre [by the Instituto dos Advogados do RGS] | ||||||||||||
E-Mail: rshirley@chass.utoronto.ca
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