Pertti J. Pelto

Pertti J. Pelto is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, where he founded the program medical anthropology. He is author of the foundational book Anthropological Research: The Structure of Inquiry (1970), and wrote or edited many other key publications, including mostra altro Technology and Social Change (ed., with H. R. Bernard, 1983), Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology (with G. Pelto and E. Messer 1989), and Sexuality in the Time of AIDS (ed., with R. Verma, S. Schensul, and A. Joshi, 2004). Dr. Pelto has spent much of the past two decades in India training and advising research groups and working with HIV/AIDS projects and other applied programs. mostra meno