James Boon ya iku ahli antropologi saka Florida, Amérikah Sarékat, kalahiran taun 1946. Boon olèh pendhidhikan ing bidang antropologi ing Princeton University (BA) taun 1968 lan doktor (Ph.D) saka Universitas Chicago taun 1973. Boon naté nglakoni panlitian antropologis ing Jawa lan Bali (1971, 1982, 1992), Singapura, Walanda, Switserlan, Ostrali, Hong Kong, lan Yunani. Boon uga wis nulis karya-karya antropologis kayadéné "From Symbolism to Structuralism: Lévi-Strauss in a Literary Tradition" (1972), "Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions, and Texts" (1982), "Affinities and Extremes: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture, and Indo-European Allure" (1990). James Boon dadi sawiji antropolog kang wis nliti kajian Indonésia, kolonial Ero-Amérika, lan sujarah inteléktual. Clifford Geertz uga naté ndampingi Boon nalika panlitian doktoré ing Bali. Boon uga duwé jasa ngembangké téori Lévi-Strauss.