Jack Weatherford
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Jack Weatherford is a former professor of anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

 at Macalester College
Macalester College
Macalester College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college. Its first class entered September 15, 1885. The college is located on a campus in a historic residential neighborhood...

 in Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. He is best known for his 2004 book, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is a 2004 New York Times Best Seller book by Jack Weatherford, Dewitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. It is a narrative of the rise and impact of Genghis Khan, and of his successors...

. In 2006, he was awarded the Order of the Polar Star, Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

’s highest national honor for foreigners.

Early Life

Jack McIver Weatherford was born in Columbia, South Carolina to Anna Ruth Grooms and Alfred Greg Weatherford, the oldest of seven children. Alfred Weatherford was a sergeant in the United States Army which caused the family to move often, all six of Weatherford's younger siblings were born in different cities spreading between the South Eastern United states and South Germany. Now, Weatherford lives between Mongolia and Charleston, South Carolina where his wife's adult children live.

Academic career

Weatherford graduated from the University of South Carolina
University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with 7 surrounding satellite campuses. Its historic campus covers over in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House...

 in 1967, with a B.A in Political Science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

. In 1972, he received an M.A. in Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

 from the University of South Carolina. Soon after, he went back for an M.A in Anthropology in 1973. In 1977, he received his Ph. D in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

. He further went on to get a post-doctoral degree in Policy Studies from Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

, Institute of Policy Sciences.

Professor Weatherford has also appeared on radio and television programs, including "The Today Show", "ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings", "Geraldo's Now It Can Be Told", "Larry King
Larry King
Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards....

", "All Things Considered
All Things Considered
All Things Considered is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio. It was the first news program on NPR, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets...

", "Nightwatch", "Tony Brown's Journal", and the "Voice of America
Voice of America
Voice of America is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government. It is one of five civilian U.S. international broadcasters working under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors . VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio...

" as well as international programs from Bolivia to Mongolia. His book The History of Money (Crown Publishers), was chosen as a selection of the Conservative Book of the Month Club
Book of the Month Club
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, and Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab may refer to:*Charles M. Schwab , American steel magnate*Charles R. Schwab , founder of the eponymous brokerage*Charles Schwab Corp., an American based brokerage firm...

 wrote that "this is the book to read!" Other books include Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive? (1994) on the contemporary clash of world cultures; Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World is a 1988 non-fiction book by American author Jack Weatherford. The book explains the many ways in which the various peoples native to North and South America contributed to the modern world's culture, manufacturing, medicine,...

(1988); and Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America (1991). Jack Weatherford's books have won the Minnesota Book Award in 1989 and in 1992. He also received the 1992 Anthropology in the Media Award from the American Anthropological Association
American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association is a professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 11,000 members, the Arlington, Virginia based association includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, biological anthropologists, linguistic...

, and he received the 1994 Mass Media Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

In 2006, he was awarded the Order of the Polar Star, Mongolia’s highest national honor. In addition, he was awarded the honorary order by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia and the medal of the President of Mongolia
President of Mongolia
The President of Mongolia is the head of state of Mongolia. The Constitution of Mongolia implements a parliamentary system, so while much of the President's role is ceremonial, he or she does wield significant political power.-Election:...

 in 2010.

Interests

Weatherford has worked with contemporary groups in places such as Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

 and the Amazon
Amazon Basin
The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries that drains an area of about , or roughly 40 percent of South America. The basin is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela...

. He has also worked with historical analysis such as the impact of the American Indians
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

 on world history. In recent years, he has concentrated on the Mongols
Mongols
Mongols ) are a Central-East Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in the countries of Mongolia, China, and Russia. In China, ethnic Mongols can be found mainly in the central north region of China such as Inner Mongolia...

 by looking at their impact since the time that Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan , born Temujin and occasionally known by his temple name Taizu , was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death....

 united the Mongol tribes in 1206.

Books

  • 2010 The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
    The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
    The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire is a 2010 book by Jack Weatherford, Dewitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. It is a narrative of the impact and the legacy of Genghis Khan's daughters and his female offspring as...

    : Crown
  • 2004 Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
    Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
    Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is a 2004 New York Times Best Seller book by Jack Weatherford, Dewitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. It is a narrative of the rise and impact of Genghis Khan, and of his successors...

    New York: Crown Publishers
  • 1997 The History of Money. New York: Crown Publishers. Paperback edition: New York: Three Rivers Press (1998). German Edition: Zurich, Switzerland: Conzett Verlag Spanish Edition: Santiago, Chile: Andres Bello Editorial (1999) Swedish Edition: Stockholm, Sweden: Leander & Malmsten (1998). Chinese Edition: Hong Kong: Business Weekly Press. (1998) Portuguese Edition: São Paulo, Brazil: Publico-alvo (1999).
  • 1994 Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive? New York: Crown Publishers. Paperback edition: New York: Ballantine (1995).
  • 1991 Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America. New York: Crown Publishers. Paperback edition: New York: Ballantine, 1992.
  • 1988 Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas transformed the World. New York: Crown Books. Paperback edition: New York: Ballantine, 1989.
    • Gli Indiani Ci Hanno Dato Italian edition: Milan: Ugo Mursia Editore SpA., 1993.
    • Ce Que Nous Devons Aux Indiens D'Amerique French edition: Paris: Albin Michel Publishers, 1993.
    • Das Erbe der Indiander: Wie die neue Welt Europa verdndert hat. German edition: Munich: Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1995.
    • Japanese Edition: Tokyo: Papyrus Publishers, 1996.
    • Spanish Edition: Spanish edition: Santiago, Chile: Andres Bello Editorial
  • 1987 Narcoticos en Bolivia y los Estados Unidos. La Paz, Bolivia: Los Amigos del Libro.
  • 1986 Porn Row. New York: Arbor House. Japanese edition: Tokyo: Kousaido Shuppan, 1989.
  • 1981 Tribes on the Hill. New York: Rawson-Wade (Scribners). Revised editions: South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, 1985.

Articles and Chapters

  • 2010 "The Wrestler Princess", Lapham's Quarterly
    Lapham's Quarterly
    Lapham's Quarterly is a literary magazine founded in 2007 by former Harper's Magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham. Each issue examines a theme using primary source material from history. The inaugural issue "States of War" contained dozens of essays, speeches, and excerpts from historical authors...

  • 2006 "Restoring Order: Conquering Iraq in the 13th and 21st Centuries. Could Genghis Khan teach the US?" http://japanfocus.org/-Jack_Weatherford/2323 , The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, January 7, 2006. The Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2006.
  • 2005 "The Women Who Ruled the Mongol Empire", Globalist Document - Global History, June 20, 2005
  • 2000 "Peniaze a pad Rmmskej rm?e," OS: Fsrum Ob ianskej Spolo nosti, Bratislava, Slovakia, June.
  • 2000 "A Scholarly Quest to Understand Genghis Khan," The Chronicle of Higher Education
    The Chronicle of Higher Education
    The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty, staff members and administrators....

    . April 14, page B10. Also serialized in The Mongol Messenger April - 26 May 3, 2000.
  • 2000 "Blood on the Steppes: Ethnicity, Power, and Conflict in Central Asia," Conformity and Conflict, James P. Spradley & David W. McCurdy (ed.), Boston: Little, Brown.
  • 1998 "Our Money, Our Selves," Anthropology Newsletter, April.
  • 1997 "Money and Change in World Perspective," General Anthropology
    General Anthropology
    General Anthropology is edited by Dave McCurdy and Patricia C. Rice. It is published in May and November for the American Anthropological Association. It publishes information in the fields of anthropology and applied anthropology....

    , III-2, Spring.
  • 1996 "Impact of American Indian Civilizations on Europe and the World," The Encyclopedia of the American Indian, Frederick E. Hoxie (ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
  • 1994 "Cultural Chaos and the Crisis of Civilization," Anthropology Newsletter, October.
  • 1994 "Kinship and Power on Capitol Hill," Conformity and Conflict, James P. Spradley & David W. McCurdy (editors), Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
  • 1994 "Producing a Trade Book," Media Anthropology: Informing Global Citizens, Susan L. Allen (editor). Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.
  • 1993 "Cultural Castaways," Icarus
    Icarus
    -Space and astronomy:* Icarus , on the Moon* Icarus , a planetary science journal* 1566 Icarus, an asteroid* IKAROS, a interplanetary unmanned spacecraft...

    , Summer, 11.
  • 1993 "Tribal Politics in Washington," Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Vol 16, # 1.
  • 1992 "Wie die Indianer die Welt verdnderten," Entwicklung, Nr. 37, July.
  • 1991 "Indian Season in American Schools," The Social Studies.
  • 1987 "Cocaine and the economic deterioration of Bolivia," Conformity and Conflict, James P. Spradley & David W. McCurdy (editors), Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
  • 1987 "Big Men on Capitol Hill," Conformity and Conflict, James P. Spradley & David W. McCurdy (editors), Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
  • 1987 "Language in Political Anthropology," Power and Discourse, Leah Kedar (editor), Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishers.
  • 1987 "Tribes on the Hill: Kinship and Politics in the United States Congress," Cultural Anthropology, Serena Nanda, Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing.
  • 1986 "Die Zerr|ttung Boliviens durch Kokain," Freibeuter 28.
  • 1986 "The Clans on Capitol Hill," Contemporary Cultural Anthropology, Michael D. Howard, Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
  • 1982 "Kongresskultur," Freibeuter, 12. Berlin, Germany.
  • 1981 "Labor and domestic life cycles in a German community," Dimensions of an Anthropology of Aging, Christine L. Fry (editor), South Hadley, Mass: Bergin & Garvey.
  • 1980 "Life Cycle and the American Family," Public Policy and the American Family, Z.I. Giraldo. Massachusetts: Lexington Books (D.C. Heath & Co.).
  • 1980 "Age ethnicity in the American Family," with Carol Stack in Families and Older Persons, George L. Maddox, Illene C. Seigler & Dan Blazer (editors). Duke University: Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.
  • 1980 "Millennium of Modernization," Village Viability in Contemporary Society, P.C. Reining & Barbara Lenkerd (editors). AAAS Volume 31, Boulder, Colorado: Westview.
  • 1978 "Deutsche Kultur, amerikanish betrachtet," Deutschland: Das Kind mit zwei Kvpfen, Hans C. Buch (editor), Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach Verlag. Reprint: Wahre Wohnung - Ware Wohnung, Bauvk-Papiere # 40, Institut f|r Bauvkonomie, Univ. Stuttgart, 1982.
  • 1975 "Anthropology and Nannies," Man: Royal Anthropological Society. Vol 10. No. 2, June.

Book Reviews

  • 1998 New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America By Colin G. Calloway. The William and Mary Quarterly.
  • 1997 Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt by John Steele Gordon. Civilization, February, 1997.
  • 1996 O Brave new Words! Native American Loanwords in Current English, by Charles L. Cutler. Plains Anthropologist, May.
  • 1992 In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time by Calvin Martin Luther. Hungry Mind Review, Winter.
  • 1991 Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis, by Renato Rosaldo. Native American Quarterly.
  • 1991 District Leaders by Rachel Sady. American Anthropologist
    American Anthropologist
    American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association . It is known for publishing a wide range of work in anthropology, including articles on cultural, biological and linguistic anthropology and archeology...

    , Vol 93, #3, September.
  • 1989 The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community by Catherine Allen. Anthropological Quarterly
    Anthropological Quarterly
    Anthropological Quarterly is a widely read peer-reviewed journal covering topics in social and cultural anthropology.Anthropological Quarterly was founded in 1921 by The Catholic University of America and was published by The Catholic University of America Press from 1921 to 1953 under the name...

    .
  • 1989 Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru by Edmundo Morales. Anthropologica 31:1.
  • 1986 "Political birds of Guatemala," Hungry Mind Review, I.

Newspapers, Magazines, and other Publications

  • 1999 "Mongolerna ? svker sin plats i vdrldsekonomin," Dolly, April.
  • 1999 "The Mongols from the Silk Route to Cyberspace," Udriin Sonin. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, May 4.
  • 1998 "Cash in a Cul-De-Sac," Discover. October, 19, 10.
  • 1998 "Euron redan gammalmodig ndr pengarna blir digitala,". (The Euro will already be out dated when cash goes digital.) Stockholm, Sweden: Dolly. August I, 1.
  • 1998 "Let Common Cents Prevail on Wall Street," The Wall Street Journal, March 26.
  • 1998 "Money Talks. Here's What It Says About Us," Washington Post. January 4.
  • 1997 "How Rome built a new ballpark," Star Tribune. Feb 9. "The Plastic curtain," The Washington Post, Feb 18. "Dump Bronze Age bucks for electronic money,: USA Today, April 24.
  • 1994 "Tribal people could teach us civilization," St. Paul Pioneer Press. Mar 17.
  • 1994 "US policy on rights hypocritical," Boston Herald, Feb 15.
  • 1994 "Captain Cook's Legacy," Los Angeles Times, January 18.
  • 1994 "What a year for the Natives," Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 21.
  • 1992 "The Grand Exchange Map," (Senior Consultant), National Geographic, February.
  • 1992 "Among the Gifts of Native America," Native Peoples, Fall.
  • 1992 "A Veterans Day salute to dreams deferred, San Francisco Examiner, November 9.
  • 1992 "Religious Freedom still eludes Native Americans," Star Tribune, Feb 20.
  • 1991 "Preserving our nation's past to protect its future," The Miami Herald, Sunday April 14.
  • 1990 "Image and Idea in Nonfiction," A View from the Loft, Vol 13, #2. September.
  • 1989 "Thanksgiving Menu Subject to Change," Detroit News, November 23, 1989.
  • 1989 "Honoring Columbus honors legacy of slave-trading, genocide," St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, Oct. 10; Baltimore Sun, Oct. 6, Toronto Sun, Oct 12.
  • 1989 "The real drug war is in the U.S.," Atlanta Constitution, Sept. 27.
  • 1989 "Indians and the 4th." The Evening Sun, Baltimore , July 4.
  • 1988 "The World Owes a Debt to the Indian Givers," Detroit News Nov. 24. Also published as "American Indians were the World's Greatest Farmers," In Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 24, 1988.
  • 1981 "Capitol Hill Clans," The New York Times, Sunday, December 13.
  • 1981 "Playing tribal politics in Congress," Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado. Dec 6.

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