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Frank Kemp Salter is an Australian academic and researcher at the former Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Andechs, Germany, best known for his writings on ethnicity and ethnic interests. He is a political ethnologist, studying political phenomena using the methods and theories of behavioural biology in addition to conventional methods. Those phenomena include hierarchy (''Emotions in Command'', 1995), indoctrination (''Ethnic Conflict and Indoctrination'', 1998, edited with I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt), ethnic altruism and conflict (''Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism'', 2002, ''Risky Transactions: Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity'', 2004 ), and genetic interests (''On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration'', 2003). == Research history == Salter's field of research can best be described as political ethology or urban anthropology, applying the concepts and methods of behavioural biology (ethology, evolutionary psychology, and evolutionary anthropology) to the analysis of sociopolitical phenomena, such as power, hierarchy, social control, ethnicity and nationalism. Frank Salter matriculated (undergraduate) at the University of Sydney (1979–1982) where he majored in government and public administration, specialising in organisation theory under the mentorship of Ross Curnow. These studies emphasised the sociological approach of Max Weber; later, Salter, dissatisfied with this purely sociological approach, became interested in integrating the conventional social sciences with human biology. Salter then studied for a master's and a doctorate, at Griffith University in Brisbane (1984–1990), focusing on biological perspectives of social and political studies. Salter's graduate school mentor was Dr. Hiram Caton, who had worked with Edward O. Wilson at Harvard and Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt at Germany's Max Planck Institute. This area of research resulted in Salter's first book, ''Emotions in Command'' (OUP, 1995), consultancies with government and business organisations, and in an invitation to conduct postdoctoral research in Eibl-Eibesfeldt's Centre for Human Ethology. Salter began his postdoctoral work under Dr. Eibl-Eibesfeldt in 1991. In the mid-1990s, Salter began applying behavioural biology to other social and political phenomena that involve interpersonal relationships and manipulative strategies, including interpersonal attractiveness, crowds and riots, indoctrination, begging, Edward Westermarck's naturalistic ethics, training suicide terrorists, the connection between class mobility and reproductive strategies, and ethnic solidarity. These diversity studies resulted in three books: Risky Transactions (2002) on the interpersonal bonds and trust that facilitate high-risk enterprises; On Genetic Interests on the implications of ethnic kinship for political theory; and Welfare, Ethnicity, & Altruism (2004) on the impact of ethnic similarity on public altruism. Salter’s most recent (unpublished) research connects the themes of hierarchy and ethnicity by developing a method for comparing ethnic group power.〔(Salter website )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Salter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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