Emeritus Professor of Anthropology (PhD: Harvard, 1963)
Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 3552
(949) 824-6570
email: fcancian at uci dot edu

Comparative social inequality has been the focus of much of Professor Cancian's research. He also has worked on issues in economic anthropology, peasant studies and Mexican studies. His recent teaching has concentrated on documentary and ethnographic photography.

Orange County Housecleaners. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2006.

Review of Creencias de Nuestros Antepasados by Maruch Sántiz Gómez. American Anthropologist 101 (1999): 173-6.

"The Hamlet as Mediator." Ethnology 35.3 (1996): 215-228.

"Who is Rebelling in Chiapas?" (With Pete Brown). Cultural Survival 18 (1994): 21-24.

The Decline of Community in Zinacantan: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification, 1960-1987. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.

For photographic work, see: www.frankcancian.net