Thomas A. Abercrombie

For other people with the same name, see Thomas Abercrombie (disambiguation).

Thomas Alan Abercrombie (January 22, 1951 – April 11, 2019) was an American writer and associate professor of anthropology at New York University. He is the author of Pathways of Memory and Power, a book which explores the ethnography and history of the Andeans. he died from liver cancer in 2019 at age 68.

Abercrombie was also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2004–2005.

Bibliography

• Abercrombie, Thomas A. (1998). Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-15310-6.
• Abercrombie, Thomas A. (2018). Passing to América: Antonio (Née Maria) Yta’s Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

External links

• NYU profile