Homer Garner Barnett (1906 in Bisbee, Arizona – May 9, 1985) was an American anthropologist and teacher.
Some research concerned diverse ethnological matters but focused primarily on the Indian Shaker religion and the potlatch.
After serving for a few years during World War II, Barnett returned to the University of Oregon and continued to study Pacific cultures.
[2] During World War II he stopped teaching to participate in the Far Eastern Language and Area Training Program of the University of California at Berkeley.
In 1944 he began working with the Ethnogeographic Board to provide scientific information about human and natural resources of world areas.