Lloyd Fallers

Lloyd Ashton "Tom" Fallers Jr. (August 29, 1925 – July 4, 1974) was an American social and cultural anthropologist who was the A. A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of anthropology and sociology at the University of Chicago. Fallers' work in social and cultural anthropology focused on social stratification and the development of new states in East Africa (especially Buganda) and Turkey.