James Chester Faris (born November 1, 1936 in Durango, Colorado)[1] is an American cultural and ethnographic anthropologist and epistemologist.
He obtained his PhD in Cambridge in 1966 and joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1969 as associate professor of anthropology.
As an anthropologist he has published work on communities in Newfoundland, Sudan, and the Southwestern United States.
[1] Faris' papers from 1960 to 2014 are held in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
[1] Faris lives in New Mexico, and is Emeritus Professor of the University of Connecticut.