CURRICULUM VITA
David W. Guillet
Department of Anthropology
Catholic University
Washington D.C. 20064
703 847 8755
Education:
Loyola University - New Orleans
University of Texas
B.A. (English)
Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Teaching Appointments:
Teaching Assistant
Instructor, Pomona College
Assistant Professor/Chair, Rockford College
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Associate Professor, Catholic University of America
Chair, Catholic University of America
Professor, Catholic University of America
Research Appointments:
Research Assistant, Texas Memorial Museum
Research Assistant, Dr. Richard N. Adams
Research Associate, Universidad de San Antonio Abad, Cuzco
Research Scientist, Interamerican Institute of
Agricultural Sciences, O.A.S., Bogotá
Research Associate, Delhi University, Delhi, India
Field Research:
Mexico - Political Attitudes of Zapatista Veterans in Morelos
Bolivia - New Towns in Central Bolivia
Peru - 1969 Agrarian Reform in Cuzco
Illinois - Demographic Survey of the Latino Community in Rockford
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru - Organization of Peasant Production
India, France - Montane Adaptations in the Himalayas. Travel in
Indian Himalayas and library research in New Delhi and Centre
d'Etudes Himalennes, CNRS Paris
Peru - Communal Water Management in the Colca Valley
Peru - Cognitive and Behavioral Studies of Soil Management
in the Colca Valley
Spain - Canal Irrigation Systems in Leon
Spain - Groundwater Irrigation in Leon
1965
1974
1972-73
1973-74
1974-76
1977-78
1982-87
1987-92
1993-6
1992-
1969-70
1971
1970-71
1976-77
1980
1970
1971
1971-72
1975
1976-77
1980
1983-84
1987
1992-96
1996-
Areas of Major Interest:
Cultural Ecology
Irrigation
Historical Ecology
Spain, Andes, Himalayas
Natural Resource Management
Political Ecology
Field Experience and Consultancies:
Peace Corps Volunteer - Bolivia, Central highlands, Agricultural
Development
Trainer and Curriculum Writer - VISTA Regional Training Center
Austin, Texas and rural Oklahoma
Consultant, Agricultural Research and Development, Pará, Brazil
Consultant, Resource Management Analysis Technologies
CHEMONICS/AID. India
Consultant, Review for National Science Foundation of Anthropological
Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change
Indiana University
Consultant, Water Property Rights Policy, World Bank
Member, National Science Foundation Dissertation Review Panel
Consultant, Indonesia Water User Rights Study, World Bank
Grants and Fellowships:
E.D. Farmer Foundation Grant for Research in Mexico
N.I.M.H. Traineeship in Anthropology
University of Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies
Dissertation Research Grant - Peru
Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant-In-Aid for Research in Peru
Rockford College, Faculty Research Grant - Peru
Rockefeller Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellow
Interamerican Institute of Agricultural Sciences,
Organization of American States. Research Grant
University of Missouri-Kansas City. Faculty Research Grant
Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program Travel Grant
to attend the Xth ICAES in Delhi, India
Indo-American Fellowship Program. Grant for Research in India
University of Missouri - Kansas City. Faculty Research Grant - Peru
Title XII - A.I.D. Collaborative Research Program
in Small Ruminants. Agro-Pastoralism in Peru
Center for Latin American Studies, University of
Florida. Library Travel Grant - Peruvian Ethnohistory
National Science Foundation. Cognitive and Behavioral
Studies of Soil Management in the Colca Valley, Peru
National Science Foundation. Postdoctoral Training in Soil Science
National Science Foundation. Local Irrigation and the State:
Spain and Peru
National Science Foundation. Groundwater Irrigation and Property
Rights in Northwestern Spain
1966-68
1969
1982
1990
1997
2000
2000-01
2004
1970
1971
1971-72
1971-72
1975
1976-77
1976-77
1978
1978
1980
1982
1983-84
1985
1987-88
1990
1992-94
1996-2000
Honors
Phi Kappa Phi
Sigma Xi
University of Kansas City Faculty Fellow 1984-85 (cash award for research)
Languages:
Spanish - excellent speaking, writing, comprehension and reading
15th-18th century Spanish paleography
Quechua - basic familiarity
French - good reading knowledge
Portuguese - good reading knowledge
Courses Taught:
Ecological Anthropology (Catholic)
Environmental Degradation (Catholic)
Andean Societies and Culture (Catholic)
Social Theory: Structure and Agency (Catholic)
Economic Anthropology (Pomona, Rockford, Missouri, Catholic)
Perspectives in Anthropological Theory (Catholic)
Ethnographic Field Methods (Catholic)
Urban Anthropology (Rockford, Missouri, Catholic)
Anthropology of Iberia (Catholic)
Latin American Social Anthropology (Pomona, Missouri, Catholic)
Human Evolution (Pomona, Rockford, Missouri)
Professional Associations
American Anthropological Association (Fellow) (Association Operations
Committee 1999-2000; Section Assembly Member 1999-2000)
Culture and Agriculture (Steering Committee 1980-82; President 1998-2000)
Society for Applied Anthropology (Fellow)
Society for Economic Anthropology, Member, Board of Directors (1989-91)
Latin American Studies Association, Member, Working Group on Natural Resources
and the Environment (1989-91)
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
Commission of Human Ecology. Chair. Working Group on Montane
Environments (1986-89)
International Mountain Society
Editorial Boards
Culture and Agriculture (current)
Anthropological Quarterly (1987-2002)
Department Committees
Graduate Financial Aid; Graduate Admissions; Undergraduate and Graduate
Curriculum; Visiting Speakers; various ad hoc committees (Missouri, Catholic)
University Committees
Chancellor's Committee for Program Review; University Committee on Appointments
and Promotions; Arts and Sciences Rules Committee; Arts and Sciences Steering
Committee; Latin American Studies; Human Subjects Review; Faculty Research
Needs; Computer Acquisition and Policy; Director, Urban Affairs Program;
Doctoral Dissertations Directed
Symantha Slaughter, Paul Appiah, Alesandra Sartoria, Juergen Franz, Maria
Sanchez, Chris Varhola, Olga Garcia Harper, Sonia Ramagen, Ann Hobbs
Publications
Books and Monographs:
New Approaches to the Study of Migration. Houston: Rice
University Press (edited with D. Uzzell)
1976
Agrarian Reform and Peasant Economy in Southern Peru.
University of Missouri Press
1979
Convergences and Differences in Mountain Economies and
Societies: A Comparison of the Andes and the Himalayas.
Special Issue. Mountain Research and Development
(edited with B. Orlove)
1985
Expert Systems Applications in Anthropology. Special Issue.
Anthropological Quarterly (ed) Vol 62: 2, 3
1989
Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State
in the Peruvian Highlands. University of Michigan Press
1992
Irrigation at High Altitude: Social Organization of Water Control
in the Andes. Arlington, VA : American Anthropological
Association. (edited with W. Mitchell)
1995
Articles:
Integración sociopolítica de las poblaciones nuevas en Bolivia:
Un caso y una discusión. Estudios Andinos 3:3:111-128
1973
A comparative view of the fiesta complex in migrant adaptation.
Urban Anthropology 3:222-242 (with S. Whiteford)
1974a
Transformación ritual y cambio sociopolítico en una comunidad
andina. Allpanchis (Cuzco) 6:143-159
1974b
Urbanization of small towns in Latin America: A view from the Andes.
1975
Potomac Review 7:46-55
Migration, Agrarian Reform, and Structural Change in Rural Peru.
Human Organization 35:295-302
1976a
Introduction. In: D. Guillet and D. Uzzell, eds., New Approaches to
the Study of Migration. Rice University Studies Vol. 62:3:1-23
1976b
El contexto social de los sistemas de producción campesina en
Colombia. Desarrollo Rural en las Américas 9:39-41
1977a
The Supra-Household Sphere of Production in the Andean Peasant
Economy. Actes du XLIIe Congres International des Américanistes
Vol 4, pp. 89-105. Paris
1978a
Peasant Participation in a Peruvian Agrarian Reform Cooperative.
Journal of Rural Cooperation 6:1:21-34
1978b
Peruvian Rural Society and the Impact of Agrarian Reform. In:
W.P. Avery, R.E. Longsdale, and I.Volgyes (eds.) Rural Change and
Public Policy: Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Australia.
Pergamon Press pp. 212-228
1980a
Reciprocal Labor and Peripheral Capitalism in the Central Andes.
Ethnology 19:2:151-167
1980b
Risk Management among Andean Peasants. In: Andean Peasant
Economics and Pastoralism. Publication No. 1. Small
Ruminants CRSP. Columbia, MO: Department of Sociology,
University of Missouri, Columbia. pp. 19-43
1980c
Land Tenure, Agricultural Regime, and Ecological Zone in the
Central Andes. American Ethnologist 8:1:139-156
1981a
Surplus Extraction, Risk Management, and Economic Change
among Peruvian Peasants. Journal of Development Studies
18:3-24
1981b
Agrarian Ecology and Peasant Production in the Central Andes.
Mountain Research and Development 1:1: 19-28
1981c
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Andes and the
Himalayas Compared. Current Anthropology Vol. 24 No. 5.
reprinted in Mountain Research and Development
6:3:206-222 (1986)
1983
Agro-Pastoral Land Use and the Tragedy of the Commons in the
Central Andes. In: P. Beaver and B. Purrington (eds)
Contemporary Cultural Adaptations to Highland Environments.
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. Pp. 12-23
1984a
On the Cultural Ecology of Mountains: Reply to Messerschmidt and
Malengreau. Current Anthropology 25:4:535-536
1984b
Preface to the Proceedings of a Symposium on the Comparative Study
of the Andes and the Himalayas. With B. Orlove. Mountain
Research and Development 5:1-2
1985a
Theoretical and Methodological Considerations on the Study of
Mountain Peoples: Reflections on the Idea of Subsistence Type
and the Role of History in Human Ecology. With B. Orlove.
Mountain Research and Development 5: 3-18
1985b
Small Scale Agropastoral production in the Central Andes. With
S. Brush. Mountain Research and Development 5:19-30
1985c
Hacia una Historia de los Bosques en los Andes Centrales del Perú.
Boletín de Lima 38: 79-84
1985d
Microcomputers in Fieldwork and the Image of the Anthropologist
Human Organization 44:4:369-371
1985e
Comment on B. Orlove, Cash Sale and Barter in the Lake Titicaca
region: A Test of Conflicting Hypotheses. Current Anthropology
27:2:101
1986a
Paleotecnologías hidráulicas en el altiplano peruano y su potencial
económica. América Indígena XLVI:332-48
1986b
On Restoring Ancient Terrace Systems in the Central Andes. In:
Prehistoric Agricultural Fields in the Andean Region. W.
Denevan, (ed.) British Archaeological Reports, International Series
Oxford 359 pp. 193-206
1987a
Agricultural Intensification and Deintensification in Lari, Colca Valley,
Peru. Research In Economic Anthropology. JAI Press. B. Isaac
(ed.) Vol. 8 Pp. 201-224
1987b
On the Potential for Intensification of Agro-Pastoralism in the Arid
Zones of the Central Andes. In: Arid Land Use Strategies and
Risk Management in the Andes. D. Browman, (ed.) Boulder,
Colo: Westview Press Pp. 81-98
1987c
Irrigation and Terracing in the Peruvian Highlands. Current
Anthropology 28:4:409-430
1987d
Irrigation and Power in Southern Peru. In: E. Reeves and S. Smith,
eds. Human Systems Ecology: Studies in the Integration of
Political Economy, Adaptation, and Socionatural Regions.
Westview Press. pp. 41-58
1988
A knowledge-based-systems model of native soil management.
Anthropological Quarterly 62:2:59-67
1989
Andenes y riego en Lari: Valle del Colca. Arequipa: Centro de Apoyo
y Promoción al Desarrollo Agrario
1990
The Impact of Alfalfa Introduction on Common Field Agro- Pastoral
Regimes: Quechua Agro-Pastoralists in Southwestern Peru.
In: Plants, Animals, and People: Crop-Livestock Systems
Research on the SR-CRSP Sociology Project. C. McCorkle, ed.
Boulder CO: Westview Press. pp. 111-124
1992
Comparative Irrigation Studies: The Orbigo Valley of Spain and the
Colca Valley of Peru. Polígonos (León, Spain) 2:141-150
1992b
Introduction. With William Mitchell. In: William Mitchell and David
W. Guillet, eds. Irrigation at High Altitudes: The Social
Organization of Water Control Systems in the Andes.
Arlington: American Anthropological Association. Pp. 1-21
1994a
Canal irrigation and the state: The 1969 water law and irrigation
systems of the Colca Valley of southwestern Peru. In: W.
Mitchell and D. W. Guillet, eds. Irrigation at High Altitudes:
The Social Organization of Water Control Systems in the
Andes. Arlington: American Anthropological Association. Pp. 167-87
1994b
On a Methodology for Combining Cognitive and Behavioral Research:
The Lari Soils Project. (Senior Author) In: Indigenous Knowledge
Systems: The Cultural Dimensions of Development. D.M. Warren,
D. Brokensha, L.J. Slikkerveer, eds. London: Intermediate
Technology Publications. Pp. 71-81
1995a
Revisión, riego y la organización humana: Una visión desde los Andes.
In: J. A. González Alcantud and A. Malpica Cuello, coords. El agua:
mitos, ritos y realidades. Barcelona: Anthropos pp. 308-328
1995b
State intervention and water property rights in the margins of Europe:
1995f
The Orbigo valley of northwestern Spain. In: Agrarian Questions:
The Politics of Farming anno 1995: Proceedings. Wageningen,
the Netherlands. Wageningen Agricultural University. Vol II, pp.
520-536.
South America, Highland. In: Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology.
Vol 4. Pp. 1232-1236Human Relations Area Files/ Henry Holt
1996
Water demand management and farmer managed irrigation systems
Culture and Agriculture 19: 1-5
1997
The politics of sustainable agriculture: The case of water-demand
management in Spain. South European Society and Politics
2:1:97-117
1997
Groundwater irrigation and property rights in northwestern Spain.
Political and Legal Anthropology Review 20:2: 144-163
1997
Rethinking legal pluralism: Local law and state law in the evolution of
water property rights in northwestern Spain. Comparative
Studies in Society and History 40:1: 42-70
1998
Water Demand Management and Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems
in the Colca Valley of Southwestern Peru. In: Globalization and
the rural poor in Latin America: Crisis and response in campesino
communities. Edited by W. Loker. Boulder: Lynn Rienner Publishers
State Intervention and Water Property Rights in the Margins of Europe:
The Orbigo Valley of Northwestern Spain. In: Bryan Bruns and
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, eds. Negotiating Water Rights. New Delhi:
Sage Pp. 222-244
1999
2000
Retos y Respuestas en el Manejo de las Aguas: Los Sistemas de
Riego por Aspersión en el Nordeste de España. Polígonos
(León, Spain) 9: 117-144
2000
Reconsidering Institutional Change: Property Rights in Northern
Spain. American Anthropologist 102(4):713-725
2001
Spanish Water Law. In: Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia
2 vols. New York: Routledge Publishers
2001
Co-Management of Natural Resources: The Long View from Northwestern
Spain. Environment and History 8:2:217-236
2002
Spain and Portugal. Entry in the Encyclopedia of World
2004
Environmental History. Great Barrington MA: Berkshire Publishing
Group. Pp. 1149-1153
Repenser le concept de "configuration": autonomie locale en Espagne
In: S.Chevalier et J.M.Privat, ed. Elias anthropologue. Paris:
Presses du CNRS Pp. 116-125
2004
Customary Law and the Nationalist Project in Spain and Peru
Hispanic American Historical Review 85:1: 81-114
2005
Irrigation, Food Security and Globalization: The Spanish
Experience. L. Whiteford and S. Whiteford, eds. Globalization
Water and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity
Santa Fe: School for American Research. Pp. 195-208
2005
Social Analysis. Chapter Six of Indonesia: Water Use Rights Study Stage
2. Final Report. World Bank/Sanyu Consultants Vol. 1 pp. 60-78
2005
Rethinking Irrigation Efficiency: Chain Irrigation in Northwestern Spain
Human Ecology 34:3:305-329
2006
Ethnographic Models and Ancient Water Systems: Hohokam Irrigation.
with Robert C. Hunt, David Abbott, James Bayman, Paul Fish,
Suzanne Fish, Keith Kintigh, James Neely. American Antiquity 70:3
2006
Boundary Practice and Historical Consciousness in Spain and Peru.
In: Kay Pacha: Materialisations of Earth, Land, and Water
in the Andes. Oxford: Archaeopress. Pp. 63-69
2006
Irrigation. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. William A.
Darity, Jr., ed. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA,
Vol. 4 Pp 152-154.
2008
Book Reviews:
Latin American Peasant Economics and Politics. A review essay.
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 15: 494-499.
(with R.P.Schaedel)
1973
Internal Migration Systems in the Developing World: With Special
Reference to Latin America. R.N. Thomas and J. Hunter (eds).
Journal of Developing Areas 16: 475-476
1982
Economía agraria de la sierra peruana antes de la reforma agraria
de 1969. by J.M. Caballero. Hispanic American Historical Review.
May pp. 308-309
1982
Change and Transformation in Highland Peru. A review essay.
Peasant Studies 1: 40-53
1982
Peasants, Primitives, and Proletarians. edited by D. Browman
and R. Schwartz. American Anthropologist 84: 231-232
1982
The Individual and the Collectivity in Andean Studies. A review essay
Latin American Research Review 18:2:240-251
1983
The Peasant Potters of Los Pueblos, by Dick A. Papousek. Journal
of Development Studies 19: 423-424
1983
Montane Culture Ecology and Forest History. A review essay.
Journal of Forest History 33:44-45
1989
The Question of the Commons, edited by Bonnie M. McCay and
James Acheson. American Ethnologist 17:2:384-385
1989
State, Capital, and Rural Society edited by B.S. Orlove, M.W. Foley,
and T.F. Love. American Anthropologist 12:3:776
1989
Societes rurales des Andes et de l'Himalaya. by J. Bourliaud et. al.
Mountain Research and Development 12:1:98-99
1992
Las chacras de Coporaque: Andenería y riego en el valle del Colca.
by J. Treacy. Latin American Antiquity 7:3: 284-285
1996
A new era for irrigation. National Research Council, Culture and
Agriculture
1997
Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the
Peruvian Andes. By: K. S. Zimmerer. University of California Press
American Scientist 86: 90-91
1998
Water Resource Management: A Comparative Perspective. by D. I.
Vajpeyi,ed. Praeger Press. Journal of Political Ecology
1999
Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca, by
Ben Orlove. American Ethnologist
2004
Unpublished Reports and Working Papers
A Comparative Study of Production Organization among Peasants in
Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Final Report. Rockefeller Foundation
and the Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences. Bogotá
1977
Cognitive and Behavioral Studies of Soil Management in Peru.
Final Report to the National Science Foundation
1989
Knowledge and Practice of Local Level Irrigation in the Brantas Basin
of Eastern Java and the Citarum Basin of Western Java. In:
Indonesia: Water Use Rights Study Stage II. Final Report.
Sanyu Consultants/ World Bank
2004
International Congresses and Symposia
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. New Delhi, 1978
International Conference on Attitudinal and Behavioral Changes in Rural Life,
Lincoln, Nebraska, 1978
International Symposium on Andean Peasant Economics and Pastoralism.
Columbia Mo. 1980
National Seminar on Hydrology, Lima, 1983
International Congress of Americanists, 1985; 1988 (Symposium organized)
Symposium on History of African Agricultural Technology and Field Systems.
Oxford University, 1988 (Invited commentator)
Conference on Drug Trafficking in the Americas. George Washington University
and Woodrow Wilson Center, 1988 (Invited participant)
Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Agriculture and Rural
Development. Academy for Educational Development, Washington 1988
International Colloquium on Water, Myths, Rites, and Realities, Granada 1992
International Congress on Indigenous Knowledge and Contemporary Social Issues.
Tampa, 1994
International Congress on the Agrarian Question. Wageningen, the Netherlands.
1995
International Conference on the Social Development of the Altiplano. Puno, Peru
1997
Kay Pacha: Earth, Land, Water and Culture in the Andes. Symposium. University
of Wales, Lampeter. 1998
III International Symposium, “Os Estados Americanos: Relaçðes Continentais e
Intercontinentais, 500 anos de História, Departamento de História, Universidade
de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil May 20-22 1999
International Society for New Institutional Economics. Washington, DC Sept. 17-18,
1999
International conference on Nature, Society and History. Vienna, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2,
1999
International Conference: Norbert Elias and Social Anthropology. Metz, France
Sept. 20-22 2000
World Bank Water Week. Washington D.C. March 1-3, 2005
Papers Presented at U.S. Meetings
American Anthropological Association 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1986,
1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2009
Dumbarton Oaks Precolumbian Program, Washington 1991, 1993 (panelist)
Society for Economic Anthropology, 1982
Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory.
1986
Farming Systems Research and Extension Symposium 1986
Andean Seminar, George Washington University, 1987, 1993
Symposium on the Sierra in Peru. Brookings Institute, 1988 (panelist)
Conference on Appropriate and Paleo-Technologies in the Andes. University of
Texas, 1986
American Association for the Advancement of Science 1989
Conference on Urban America, Kansas City, 1978 (panelist)
Society for Applied Anthropology, 1985
Conference on Environment, Resources, and Sustainability: Policy Issues for the
21st Century. Athens GA, Sept. 2002
Globalization, Water and Health: Resource Management in a Time of Scarcity.
Advanced Seminar. School for American Research. Santa Fe, Feb. 2003
Social Dimensions of Hohokam Irrigation: Perspectives Across Time and Cultures.
Tempe AZ Feb 2003
Invited Lectures Presented At:
Columbia University; Indiana University; University of Minnesota; Washington
University; Pitzer College; University of South Carolina; University of Missouri;
Washington College; University of Brasilia; Development Alternatives Inc.;
Universidad Católica, Lima; St. Louis Anthropological Society; American University;
Intermediate Technology Development Group, Lima; International Potato Center,
Lima; World Bank; Beloit College; University of León, León, Spain; India
International Center, New Delhi; Anthropological Survey of India, Mysore;
Anthropological Survey of India, Dehra Dun; University of Florida; University of San
Agustín, Arequipa, Peru; U.S. Agency for International Development, Lima;
Washington Office on Latin America; Smithsonian