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Dr. James W. Lett is a member of the Honors Faculty and Professor of Anthropology and Geography at Indian River Community College in Fort Pierce, Florida, where he served as Chair of the Department of Social Sciences from 1993 to 1998. He was educated at the College of William and Mary (B.A., 1977) and the University of Florida (M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1983), and he has taught at several colleges and universities, including the University of Florida, Florida Atlantic University, the Florida Institute of Technology, and the University of Utah.
From 1983 to 1986, James Lett was a television newscaster at CBS affiliate WTVX-TV in Fort Pierce, Florida, where he worked as a reporter, producer, and anchor. Since 1998, he has written, produced, and hosted Excursions in Geography for NPR affiliate WQCS-FM located on the Main Campus of Indian River Community College.
In addition to his college textbook on world geography, Places
of the World: A Study Guide for Achieving Fundamental Geographic Literacy
(Thomson/Brooks-Cole, 2006, 5th edition), Lett is the author of two
books on anthropological theory: Science, Reason, and Anthropology:
The Principles of Rational Inquiry (Rowman and Littlefield, 1997)
and The Human Enterprise: A Critical Introduction to Anthropological
Theory (Westview Press, 1987).
Additional information about James Lett is available on his web page at http://faculty.ircc.edu/faculty/jlett.
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