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Wallace Zane is a writer and producer.
An anthropologist, he teaches at California State
University, Northridge; Santa Monica College; and Art Center College
of Design. For his Ph.D. dissertation, he conducted long-term fieldwork
on an unusual Afro-Caribbean religion, the "Converted," who live
on the small Caribbean island of St. Vincent. The discoveries about
their altered states of consciousness were published by
Oxford University Press as Journeys to the Spiritual Lands: the
Natural History of a West Indian Religion. His other major studies
are "Surfers of Southern California," an ethnography of California
surfers and their relation to the national media; and "The Process
of Identity in an Art Community," an ethnography of rich and famous
artists in Los Angeles. His most recent fieldwork studied the culture
of deceit amongst taxicab drivers in Los Angeles.
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