Robert Lemelson

American anthropologist and filmmaker¹

Robert Bush Lemelson is an American cultural anthropologist and film producer. He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Robert Lemelson (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1952.¹

About

Lemelson's area of specialty is transcultural psychiatry; Southeast Asian Studies, particularly Indonesia; and psychological and medical anthropology. He is a research anthropologist in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience UCLA, and an adjunct professor of anthropology at UCLA. His scholarly work has appeared in journals and books. Lemelson founded Elemental Productions in 2008, a documentary production company, and has directed and produced numerous ethnographic films.

Lemelson is involved in a number of philanthropic ventures. He is the president of The Foundation for Psychocultural Research, a research foundation that supports work integrating the social and neurosciences. He also acts a director for The Lemelson Foundation, a foundation started by his father Jerome Lemelson to support inventors, invention and innovation in the United States and the developing world. Lemelson has also funded a number of programs supporting scholarship and research in Anthropology through the Robert Lemelson Foundation, which is a separate foundation from The Lemelson Foundation. These include the Lemelson Anthropological Scholars program at UCLA, and the Lemelson-SPA conference fund and the Lemelson-SPA student fellows program administered by the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

From Wikipedia’s article on Robert Lemelson, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Elemental ProductionsFounder¹¹

Early life and education

1987University of Chicago Master of Arts^{3 4}
1999University of California, Los Angeles Doctor of Philosophy^{3 4}

Career

Occupation: anthropologist, university teacher, philanthropist, film director.⁷

Date not recordedWorked at University of California, Los Angeles^{4 5}
Date not recordedFounded Elemental Productions⁶

Known for: 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy, Afflictions: Culture & Mental Illness in Indonesia, Bitter Honey.⁸

Personal life

CitizenshipUnited States⁹

Sources

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WikidataRobert Lemelson: Founded Elemental Productions, on Wikidata
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