Jack M. Potter

Jack M. Potter is an American anthropologist. He was an anthropology professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his ethnographies of peasants in Chiang Mai, Thailand and in Guangdong, China, both of which he had undertaken with his wife, Sulamith Heins Potter, also an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley. Quotes The people of Chiangmai are open, friendly, and sunny on the surface but deep, self-contained, and unfathomable beneath. The contradictions in their personalities are like the contrasts in their religious culture between the lovely, if somewhat garish, temple, with its delightful ceremonies, and their witches, with heads of horses, mouths frothing with blood, who are believed to canter through the village at night. Superficially Chiangmai villagers are charming, colorful, and carefree people, but underneath they have dark and brooding natures, with abiding hates, jealousies, and fears that pass from one generation to another. Jack M. Potter Thai Peasant Social Structure Chicago The University of Chicago Press 1976 23 External links UC Berkeley faculty page Category:Academics from the United States Category:Anthropologists from the United States Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty Category:Living people