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Thomas R. Trautmann is an American historian, cultural anthropologist and Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Arthashastra, the ancient Hindu text on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, written in Sanskrit. Trautmann has mentored many students during his tenure at the University of Michigan. His studies focus on Ancient India, the history of anthropology and other related subjects. Trautmann's work has been credited with illuminating the underlying economic philosophy that governed ancient Indian kinship. He has also written book-length studies on kinship of both Dravidian and American Indian kinship. His most recent study concerns the use of elephants in Ancient India. Trautmann began as an assistant professor in 1968, teaching his entire career at Ann Arbor until he was awarded emeritus status. Trautmann has served as director of the University of Michigan History Department, as well as head of the Center for South Asian Studies. From 1997 - 2006 he served as the editor of Comparative Studies in Society and History. He was honored with a festschrift in 2011. He completed his undergraduate work at Beloit College in Wisconsin and holds a Ph.D. from the University of London[1] where he wrote his dissertation on the structure and composition of the Sanskrit text Arthasastra which was published in book form in 1971. WorksAmong Trautmann's many published works are: - {{cite book |title=Byzantium and the ancient east |first1=Anthony |last1=Bryer |first2=Michael |last2=Gough |first3=Thomas R. |last3=Trautmann |first4=L. K. |last4=Young |publisher=Paul Hamlyn |year=1969 |isbn=978-0-600-13943-0 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uXRQAAAACAAJ}}
- {{cite book |title=Kautilya and the Arthasastra: a statistical investigation of the authorship and evolution of the text |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |year=1971 |location=Leiden |publisher=BRILL |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=v3iDAAAAMAAJ |oclc=576363603}}
- {{cite book |title=Kinship and History in South Asia |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |year=1974 |location=Ann Arbor |publisher=Center for South and Southeastern Asian Studies, University of Michigan |isbn=978-0-88386-417-3}}
- {{cite book |title=Dravidian Kinship|first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |year=1981 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-23703-1}}
- {{cite book |title=Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |year=1987 |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-06457-7}}
- {{cite book |title=Lewis Henry Morgan and the invention of kinship : with a new introduction and appendices by the author |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |location=Lincoln |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-8032-6006-1}}
- {{cite journal |title=The revolution in ethnological time |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |journal=Man : a monthly record of anthropological science |year=1992 |issue=379 |oclc=715283212}}
- {{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FQUNAAAAIAAJ |title=The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan and Mary Elizabeth Morgan |first1=Thomas R. |last1=Trautmann | year=1994 |first2=Karl Sanford |last2=Kabelac |location=Philadelphia |publisher=The American Philosophical Society |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |volume=84 |issue=6-7 |isbn=978-0-87169-846-9}}
- {{cite book |title=Time: histories and ethnologies |editor1-first=Diane Owen |editor1-last=Hughes |editor2-first=Thomas R. |editor2-last=Trautmann |location=Ann Arbor |publisher=University of Michigan Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-472-06579-0 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vpB_rlazFJcC}}
- {{cite book |title=Aryans and British India |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jR_LPnEH3GsC |year=1997 |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-585-10445-4}}
- {{cite book |title=Transformation of Kinship |editor1-first=Maurice |editor1-last=Godelier |editor2-first=Thomas R. |editor2-last=Trautmann |editor3-first=Franklin Edmunc Tjon Sie |editor3-last=Fat |location=Washington |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-1-56098-768-0}}
- {{cite journal |title=Hullabaloo about Telugu |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |location=New Delhi |publisher=Sage Publications India |year=1999 |journal=South Asia Research |volume=19 |issue=1 |oclc=500250081}}
- {{cite book |title=Languages and Nations: Conversations in Colonial South India |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-520-93190-9}}
- {{cite book |title=The Aryan Debate |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |year=2005 |location=New Delhi |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-569200-6}}
- {{cite book |title=Languages and nations: the Dravidian proof in colonial Madras |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-520-24455-9 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0W0oVIZgyEwC}}
- {{cite book |title=Tirāviṭac cāṉṟu: Ellīsūm tirāviṭa moḻikaḷum |first1=Thomas R. |last1=Trautmann |first2=Irāma |last2=Cuntaram |location=Cennai |publisher=காலச்சுவடு பதிப்பகம் |year=2007 |isbn=978-81-89359-51-5 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-wiENwAACAAJ |language=Tamil}}
- {{cite book |title=The Madras school of Orientalism: producing knowledge in colonial South India |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |location=New Delhi |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-806314-8 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_0aJPgAACAAJ}}
- {{cite book |title=The clash of chronologies : ancient India in the modern world |first=Thomas R. |last=Trautmann |location=New Delhi |publisher=Yoda Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-81-906186-5-6}}
- {{cite book |title=India: brief history of a civilization |first1=Thomas R. |last1=Trautmann |first2=Jim |last2=Cogswell |first3=Elisabeth |last3=Paymal |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-19-973632-4 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ifGrSgAACAAJ&dq}}
- {{cite book |title=Knowing India : colonial and modern constructions of the past : essays in honour of Thomas R. Trautmann |editor1-first=Thomas R. |editor1-last=Trautmann |editor2-first=Cynthia |editor2-last=Talbot |location=New Delhi |publisher=Yoda Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-93-8040-303-8}}
- {{cite book |title=Crow-Omaha : new light on a classic problem of kinship analysis |first1=Thomas R. |last1=Trautmann |first2=Peter M. |last2=Whiteley |location=Tucson |publisher=University of Arizona Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-8165-0790-0}}
- {{cite book |title=Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History |first1=Thomas R. |last1=Trautmann |location=Chicago |publisher= University of Chicago Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-2262-6422-6}}
References1. ^[https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/emeritus/ttraut.html Faculty Profile]
Further reading- {{Cite news |first=C. A. |last=Bayly |title=What language hath joined |newspaper=The Times Literary Supplement |date=8 August 1997}} - review of 1997 work
- {{cite journal |first=S. Theordore |last=Baskaran |title=Kinship and Language |journal=Frontline |volume=26 |issue=14 |date=4–17 July 2009|url=http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2614/stories/20090717261408000.htm}} - interview
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081002043024/http://www.indolink.com/Book/book4.html Aryans and British India] — a review by the Indian historian, D. N. Jha.
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