Thomas Crowell-Taylor "Tim" Buckley (May 28, 1942 – April 16, 2015) was an American

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and Buddhist monastic best known for his long-term ethnographic research with the

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Indians of northern California, his early work in the anthropology of reproduction, including

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and for his major reevaluation of the work of

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Biography

He received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1982 from the

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, where he studied under Raymond D. Fogelson. His decades-long fieldwork with the Yuroks, beginning in 1976 (following upon

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training in California under Shunryu Suzuki, 1965–71), culminated in his ethnographic monograph ''Standing Ground,'' published in 2002. (For this publication he had an honorable mention in the

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Prize award by the

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.) Harry Roberts (1906–81), a Yurok-trained spiritual teacher from whom Buckley learned, adopted him as his nephew in 1971. Buckley taught anthropology and American Indian studies at the

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, for many years and at other institutions as a visiting professor. On January 22, 2013 he was ordained as a

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Buddhist priest, Jōkan Zenshin, by the Rev. Peter Schneider at Beginner's Mind Zen Center in

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, and established a lay community group, Great River Zendo, in midcoast Maine. Buckley died in

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on April 16, 2015. He is survived by his wife

Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley (born Jorunn Jacobsen in 1944 in Norway) is an American religious studies scholar and historian of religion known for her work on Mandaeism and Gnosticism. She was a former Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College. She is kn ...

, Professor of Religion at

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Selected works

* (1982) "Menstruation and the power of Yurok women: Methods in cultural reconstruction." ''American Ethnologist'' 9(1): 47-60. * (1984) "Yurok speech registers and ontology." ''Language in Society'' 13(4): 467-88. * (1984) "Living in the distance." ''Parabola'' 9(3):64-79. * (1988) (ed., with Alma Gottlieb) ''Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation.'' Berkeley: University of California Press. * (1996) "The pitiful history of little events": The

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and moral contexts of Kroeber's Californian ethnology, 1900-1915. In, Stocking, George W., Jr., ed., ''History of Anthropology, Vol. 8: Volkengeist as Method and Ethics: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition''. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 257–297. * (2002) ''Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990.'' Berkeley: University of California Press.Buckley, Thomas
Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990
December 2002, California University Press. * (2003) ''Dancing with Davey, A Sailor's Tale'' (poems). Newport News, VA: Mariah Books.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Buckley, Thomas 1942 births 2015 deaths University of Chicago alumni American anthropologists