Dane Kennedy

Jul 5, 2024 | magazine.gwu.edu | Karen Outen |GW Law |Dane Kennedy |Caroline Smith

An Anthropologist Looks Back at an Unorthodox LifeIn a new book, alumnus Edward C. Green chronicles his more-than-a half-century quest to improve public health across the globe. In 1971, Edward C. Green, B.A. ’67, was living among the descendants of a runaway slave society in the Amazon. Tempted by a travel poster, Green had traveled to Suriname for the first time the year before. He was then a graduate student in anthropology and quickly became fascinated with the then Dutch colony.