James Peacock

James Lowe Peacock III (born 1937) is an American anthropologist.

Peacock studied psychology at Duke University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1959. Upon completing a doctorate in anthropology at Harvard University in 1965, he began teaching at Princeton University. He joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty in 1967. Peacock received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1980, and was named Kenan Professor of Anthropology in 1987.[1] He served as president of the American Anthropological Association between 1993 and 1995. Peacock retired from UNC in May 2015.[2]