Barry Hewlett

Barry Hewlett is a professor of anthropology at Washington State University, Vancouver. He received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987 and has had appointments at Tulane University, Kyoto University, Hawassa University, Southern Oregon University, and Oregon State University. Hewlett has conducted research with Congo Basin hunter-gatherers since 1973 and is author of Intimate Fathers: The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care (University of Michigan Press, 1993); Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods (Aldine Transaction, 2005), edited with Michael Lamb; Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease (Cengage Learning, 2007), with Bonnie Hewlett; Father-Child Relations: Cultural and Biosocial Contexts (Transaction Publishers, 1992); and, Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin: Cultures, Histories and Biology of African Pygmies (Transaction Publishers, 2014).