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He received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1982 from the University Of Chicago , where he studied under Raymond D. Fogelson .

His decades-long fieldwork with the Yurok, beginning in 1976 (following upon Buddhist training in San Francisco under Sunryu Suzuki), culminated in his ethnographic monograph ''Standing Ground,'' published in 2002.

Harry Roberts, a Yurok elder from whom Buckley learned, adopted him as his nephew and grandson in 1971.

Buckley taught anthropology and American Indian studies at the University Of Massachusetts, Boston . He is currently an independent scholar living in Maine .


WORKS


  • (1988) (ed., with Alma Gottlieb) ''Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation.'' Berkeley: University of California Press.


  • (2001) "Adopting Outsiders on the Lower Klamath River." In: ''Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America,'' pp. 159-174. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.


  • (2002) ''Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990.'' Berkeley: University of California Press.


  • (2006) "Native Authorship in Northwestern California." In: ''New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations,'' ed. by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, pp. 211-238. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.