Facts:   - residence: united states of america    - prizes: stirling award for contributions to psychological anthropology    - known for: anthropology sri lanka of tamils and muslims of south india and    - field: anthropology      - work institution: university of colorado at boulder    - birth date: 1943    - name: dennis b. mcgilvray    - citizenship: united states    - alma mater: reed cambridge college harvard university university of chicago university of   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of dennis b. mcgilvray .
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dennis b. mcgilvray is a professor in the department of anthropology in university of colorado at boulder .dennis 's research interest are focused on the tamils and muslims of south india and sri lanka .his research examines matrilineal hindu and muslim kinship , caste structure , religious ritual , and ethnic identities in the tamil-speaking region of eastern sri lanka .it is also important to note that this region is deeply affected by the island 's civil war .he is also interested in visual anthropology and alternative modes of cultural representation .at university of colorado he teaches on tamil culture ; upper division courses on symbolic anthropology , foundations of theory , and south asian ethnography and a graduate seminar on ethnography and cultural theory .