Manning Nash (March 4, 1924 – December 12, 2001) was an anthropologist and ethnographer, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago until his retirement in 1994, and a specialist in the study of the modernization of developing nations in Latin America and Asia.
Nash conducted the first anthropological study of a factory in a Third World country, and his expertise in modernization of developing nations led to his fieldwork in Guatemala, Mexico, Burma, Iran, and Malaysia.
[1] In 1951, he married June C. Bousley, a fellow graduate student in anthropology at the University of Chicago.
After completing her master's degree in 1953, she joined him in Guatemala for fieldwork.
In 1960 and 1961, Manning and June Nash conducted fieldwork in Burma, collaborating on research relating to marriage, family, and population growth.