LYNN WALTER
Professor

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Lynn Walter specializes in cultural anthropology and women's studies.  She teaches Family, Kin and Community and Varieties of World Culture in anthropology; Women, Race and Culture in women’s studies and the SCD area course on Denmark.  She is editor of Women’s Rights: A Global View (2000) and author of Ethnicity, Economy and the State in Ecuador  (1981).  She is also the authory of articles on indigenous communities in Ecuador, women’s concerns in Denmark, and feminist anthropology. (Click here to see a selection of field photos from Ecuador.) Professor Walter is currently editing a series on Women’s Issues Worldwide, as well as writing and publishing articles about  women and welfare and the implied contradictions between being a culturally relativistic anthropologist and a politically concerned feminist.  She has significant international experiences in Denmark and Ecuador.

E-mail: walterl@uwgb.edu

Office: Mary Ann Cofrin Hall B308

Phone: 465-2474/465-2355