September 2, 2005
A Vermont Professor, Slain in the Amazon, Is Mourned by Colleagues
The chairman of the University of Vermont's department of anthropology was killed last month during a research trip to Brazil.
James B. Petersen, 51, had done anthropological and archaeological research throughout the Eastern and Midwestern United States and the Caribbean, but will be remembered particularly for his research in the Brazilian Amazon, to which he had traveled frequently since 1994, said several colleagues who collaborated with him on his research.
Mr. Petersen was
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