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William Jankowiak, Professor
Dr. Jankowiak
  • Office: WRI B108
  • Phone: 702 895 3610
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  • Ph. D. : University of California Santa Barbara, 1986
  • Curriculum Vitae


Interests: Urban anthropology, charismatic movements, human sexuality, family systems, complex societies; China, Inner Mongolia.

I am a relentless field ethnographer who is currently working on a variety of projects that range from doing a restudy of Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous region, People's Republic of China, to writing an ethnography of a specific Mormon polygamous community. I am also conducting research for a book tentatively titled A Case for Emotional Monogamy. It is my contention that we Homo sapiens are not sexually monogamous as a species as much as we are emotionally monogamous. The book explores the implications of this issue for understanding human sexual behavior.

Selected Publications

2005. (with Ben Wilreker and Monika Sudakov), Understanding the reasons for co-wife conflict and cooperation. Ethnology 144/1:81-98.

2004. Well Being, Family Affections, and Ethical Nationalism in Urban China. (guest editor) Special Joint Issue for The Journal of Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 33/2-4.

2004. (with Justin Rudelson). Xinjiang's ethnic destinies: Internal and external confrontations within the Chinese context. Xinjiang Today: An Introduction. Kenneth Starr, ed. M.E. Sharp.

2003. (edited with Dan Bradburd). Drugs, Trade and Colonial Expansion. Tucson: University Arizona Press.

2000. (with Monique Diderich). Sibling solidarity in a polygamous community in the USA: unpacking inclusive fitness. Evolution and Human Behavior 21/2:125-140.

1995. (edited). Romantic Passion: The Universal Experience? New York: Columbia University Press.

1994. Urban Mongols: Ethnicity in Communist China. (A short monograph). Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals Monograph Series, Mel Ember, Carol Ember & David Levinson, eds. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

1993. Sex, Death and Hierarchy in a Chinese City: An Anthropological Account. New York: Columbia University Press. (Fifth Printing).


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