Michael W. Young (anthropologist)

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Michael W. Young (born 1937) is a British anthropologist known for his work on Papua New Guinea and the history of anthropology. He was an assistant lecturer at Cambridge University from 1970 to 1974, and later worked at the Australian National University in Canberra as a fellow (1974–1983), a senior fellow in anthropology (1983–1998), and a visiting fellow (1999). In 2004 he published Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1884–1920, a biography that was nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography and for the British Academy Book Prize.