Editing Adam Kuper (section)

==Background==

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Kuper was the son of [[Simon Meyer Kuper]] and Gertrude Hesselson.<ref name=niehaus>{{cite book|last=Niehaus |first=Isak|title=Culture Wars: Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts|chapter=Adam Kuper: an Anthroplogist's Account|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sDQETNMtWsMC&pg=PA170|pages=170–188|year=2010|publisher= Berghan Books|isbn= 9780857456625 |editor1=Deborah James|editor2=Evelyn Plaice|editor3=Christina Toren}}</ref> Born in [[Johannesburg]],<ref name=niehaus /> he attended [[Parktown Boys' High School]] and took his first degree at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]] in [[Johannesburg]]. His doctorate, from the [[University of Cambridge]], was based on field research in the [[Kalahari Desert]] in what is now [[Botswana]]. After graduation Kuper did further field studies in Botswana, and Jamaica, and taught at Universities in Uganda, Britain, Holland, Sweden and the United States. The sociologist [[Leo Kuper]] and anthropologist [[Hilda Kuper]] were his uncle and aunt.<ref name=niehaus/>

He married Jessica Cohen (1944-2013) of Johannesburg in 1966 and taught from 1967 to 1970 at [[Makerere University]] in [[Kampala]].<ref name=niehaus/> From 1970 to 1976 he taught at [[University College London]]. From 1976 to 1985 he was professor of African anthropology at [[Leiden University]] in the [[Netherlands]]. From 1985 to 2008 he was a professor at [[Brunel University]], where he was the first head of the Department of Human Sciences, and latterly head of the Anthropology Department. In 2000 and in 2007 he was, respectively, awarded the [[Rivers Memorial Medal]] and the [[Huxley Memorial Medal]] of the [[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|Royal Anthropological Institute]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.therai.org.uk/awards/honours-prior-recipients/rivers-memorial-medal-prior-recipients/|title=Rivers Memorial Medal Prior Recipients|website=www.therai.org.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.therai.org.uk/awards/honours-prior-recipients/huxley-memorial-medal-and-lecture-prior-recipients/|title=Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture Prior Recipients|website=www.therai.org.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-11-14}}</ref> Kuper was the first president of the European Association of Social Anthropology. He was a visiting professor at [[Boston University]], 2011–14, and a Centennial Professor, [[London School of Economics]], from 2013-14 where he still holds a visiting appointment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/people/faculty/a-kuper/|title=Adam Kuper » Anthropology » Boston University|website=www.bu.edu|access-date=2017-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people/kuper.aspx|title=Professor Adam Kuper|work=London School of Economics and Political Science|access-date=2017-11-14|language=en-gb}}</ref><ref>Personal correspondence</ref>

He has lived in [[Muswell Hill]] for over 40 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesouthafrican.com/business/sa-power-100-2012-adam-kuper.htm |title=SA Power 100 - 2013: Adam Kuper &#124; the South African |accessdate=2013-06-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117173204/http://www.thesouthafrican.com/business/sa-power-100-2012-adam-kuper.htm |archivedate=17 January 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref>