James Lowe Peacock III (born 1937) is an American anthropologist. Peacock studied psychology at Duke University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1959. After 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. He was president of the American Anthropological Association between 1993 and 1995. Peacock retired from the University of North Carolina in May 2015. In 2025, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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