James W. VanStone (October 3, 1925 – February 28, 2001)[1] was an American cultural anthropologist specializing in the group of peoples then known as Eskimos (now Inuit, Iñupiat, and Yup'ik).
He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and was a student of Frank Speck and Alfred Irving Hallowell.
In 1951, following completion of graduate studies, he joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
Beginning in the summer of 1960, he started field work among Chipewyan Indians (First Nations), living along the east shore of Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories among eastern Athapaskans for a period of eleven months over three years.
[1] Many of the following are available on-line from Archive.org: VanStone wrote, edited, and contributed to several monographs published by the Field Museum in the Fieldiana: Anthropology series:[2]