William E. Mitchell

William E. Mitchell (1927-2022) conducted fieldwork among the Wape and Lujere peoples of Papua New Guinea as well as in American Jewish communities. He taught anthropology at the University of Vermont from 1965 to 1996 and published Kinship, Ethnicity and Voluntary Associations; The Bamboo Fire; and A Witch's Hand, which he completed shortly before his death at 95.