Loring M. Danforth (born 1949) is an American professor of anthropology and an author who's a professor emeritus of Bates College. His research has focused on the interpretation of a wide variety of symbolic or expressive forms in a range of cultures.
Education and career
Danforth received a B.A. from Amherst College in 1971 and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 and 1978. He completed a doctoral dissertation titled "The anastenaria: a study in Greek ritual therapy."[1]