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Ben Rudolph Finney (born 1933) is an American anthropologist known for his expertise in the history and cultural and social anthropology of surfing, Polynesian navigation and canoe sailing, and in the cultural and social anthropology of human space colonization. As “surfing’s premier historian and leading expert on Hawaiian surfing going back to the 17th century”〔 and “the intellectual mentor, driving force, and international public face” of the ''Hokulea'' project,〔 he has played a key role in the Hawaiian Renaissance since his construction of the ''Hokulea'' precursor ''Nalehia'' 〔 in the 1960s and his co-founding of the Polynesian Voyaging Society〔 in the 1970s. A character in ''Launch Out,'' a Philip Robert Harris science fiction novel which is set in the year 2010, is based on Dr. Finney: a University of Hawaii professor of anthropology who is also the President of the fictional Unispace Academy.〔 ==Biography== The son of a United States Navy pilot, Ben Finney grew up in San Diego, California.〔 He earned his B.A. in history, economics and anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955. In 1958, after serving in the U.S. Navy and working in the steel and aerospace industries, he went to Hawaii, where he earned his M.A. in anthropology at the University of Hawaii in 1959. His master's degree thesis, “Hawaiian Surfing: a Study of Cultural Change”,〔 became the basis for ''Surfing: The Sport of Hawaiian Kings,'' a book which Finney co-authored in 1966 with James D. Houston.〔 Finney earned his Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard University in 1964. Finney has held faculty appointments at the University of California, Santa Barbara,〔 the Australian National University, the University of French Polynesia,〔 and the International Space University.〔 From 1970 through 2000 he was a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his courses included Human Adaptation to the Sea and Human Adaptation to Living in Space. From 1994 through 2003 he was the co-chair of the department of Space and Society at the International Space University.〔 In the 1990s, Dr. Finney was a National Research Council Associate with the SETI project〔 at NASA Ames Research Center and involved in the Sandia National Laboratories planning and implementation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for the disposal of nuclear waste.〔〔 He was on the panel of experts for the 1998 PBS program ''Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey''.〔 In 2004-2006 he was a curator of the Vaka Moana canoe voyaging exhibit at New Zealand's Auckland Museum.〔 He was the featured guest speaker at the 2007 National Conference for Educational Robotics.〔 Currently an emeritus professor at UHM,〔 Finney is also a distinguished research associate of the Bishop Museum.〔 He and his wife Mila live most of the year in Hawaii. 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「Ben Finney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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