Neil L. Whitehead, English anthropologist and author (b. 1956)
Neil L. Whitehead (19 March 1956 – 22 March 2012) was an English anthropologist, who is best known for his work on the anthropology of violence, dark shamanism (and Guyanese kanaimà in particular), post-human anthropology and the historical anthropology of South America and the Caribbean. From 1997 – 2007 he was the editor of Ethnohistory, Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory.