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Levon Abrahamyan (Armenia)
Born in 1947 in Yerevan, Armenia, was educated at the Yerevan State University (Dept. Physics, M.Sc., 1970) and the Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in Moscow (Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, 1978).
Since 1978 works at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, as a researcher; since 2005 heads the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies at the same Institute. Corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (2006).
Since 1990 has taught different courses of Anthropology at the Yerevan State University, at the Departments of Archaeology and Ethnography, Theology, and Cultural Studies. He has taught also at the University of Pittsburgh (1994), Columbia University (2001), University of California at Los Angeles (2008), and University of California at Berkeley (William Saroyan Professor of Armenian Studies, 1997, and Varnum Paul Visiting Professor of Anthropology, (2015).
He is author of about 200 publications including four books on various aspects of sociocultural anthropology, comparative mythology and art criticism.