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E. PAUL DURRENBERGER
February, 2005
Address:
Department Anthropology
The Pennsylvania State University
409 Carpenter Building
University Park, PA 16802-3404
Phone: 814-863-2694
Fax:
814-863-1474
E-mail: epd2@psu.edu
Residence:
1114 Outer Drive
State College, PA 16801
Phone: 814-466-2263
E-mail: pauldurren@verizon.net
Position: Professor of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University
EDUCATION
Undergraduate work at Texas A&M University from September 1961 to June 1962.
B.A. in Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, December 1964.
M.A. in Anthropology, Washington State University, June 1966. Thesis title: The Evolution of
Japanese Social Organization from the Introduction of Rice to the Gempei Wars.
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, October 1971. Dissertation Title: The
Ethnography of Lisu Curing.
EMPLOYMENT
September 1962 - January 1965 Various laboratory, research, and field jobs in archaeology in
Texas (Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas Memorial Museum), South
Dakota (Smithsonian Institution River Basin Project), and Washington State (Washington
State University).
January 1965 - January 1966 Teaching Assistant, Washington State University.
February 1966 - June 1966 Instructor of Anthropology, Eastern New Mexico University.
September 1968 - August 1970 Research Associate, University of Illinois.
July 1971 - June 1972 Assistant Professor, Antioch College.
September 1972 - April 1976 Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
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Summer 1977 Consultant to the Social Science Research Centre, University of Chiangmai,
Chiangmai, Thailand. To establish a research program on the economics of the Northern
Highlands. Funded by a Ford Foundation grant to the Centre.
May 1976 - May 1982 Associate Professor, University of Iowa
May 1982 – August 1987, Professor, University of Iowa
Sept 1987 - August 1989 Visiting Professor. University of South Alabama.
August 1995-December 1995 Acting Department Executive Officer, Department of Anthropology,
University of Iowa.
Jan 1996 - August 1997 Department Executive Officer, Department of Anthropology, University
of Iowa.
August 1997- Professor Pennsylvania State University
GRANTS
November 1968 - September 1970 Walter Reed Institute grant for ethnographic fieldwork among
Lisu in Northern Thailand.
September 1976 - August 1977 Ford Foundation Grant for fieldwork among Shan in Northern
Thailand.
April 1978 Midwestern Universities Consortium on International Activities grant for a seminar on
rural economic systems in Thailand.
Summer 1981 Sigma Xi Society for Scientific Research Grant in aid of research in Iceland.
Summer 1986 American Scandinavian Foundation Thor Thors Grant for ethnographic fieldwork in
Iceland.
Summer 1987 National Endowment For the Humanities grant for a conference, "The
Anthropology of Iceland."
Summer 1987 Fulbright Foundation grant for a conference, "The Anthropology of Iceland."
Summer 1987 National Science Foundation Grant for a conference, "The Anthropology of
Iceland."
Spring, 1988 (with Steve Thomas and Lee Maril) Alabama Department of Economic and
Community Affairs grant for fisheries research in Coastal Alabama.
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Spring 1988 (with Lee Maril and Steve Thomas) A conference entitled, "Marine Resource
Utilization: A Conference on Social Science Issues," funded by grants from the
Mississippi/Alabama Sea Grant program and the Coastal Research and Development
Institute, Mobile, Alabama 4 through 6 May, 1988.
September 1988 - May 1989 NSF Grant No. R 11-896152.Policy Formulation, Implementation
and Practice in the Coastal Alabama Fishing System.
Summer 1993 (with Gísli Pálsson) Fulbright Foundation grant for a workshop on ethnography in
Iceland.
Summer 1993 NSF grant for workshop on ethnography of modern Iceland.
1995 (with Kendall Thu) Networking Among Independent Swine Producers: Opportunities and
Barriers for the Viability of Iowa Farms. Grant from Leopold Center for Sustainable
Agriculture.
1996 Grant for the study of Service Employees International Union Local 73.
2002 National Science Foundation grant for research on centralized vs. decentralized labor union
locals in the U.S.
OTHER AWARDS
June 1966 - May 1967 University of Illinois, Anthropology Fellow.
June 1967 - May 1968 University of Illinois, NDFL Title VI Fellow.
September 1970 - May 1971 University of Illinois, Thesis Fellow.
Summer 1976 University of Iowa Summer Fellowship for research in Thailand.
Summer 1978 University of Iowa Summer Fellowship for research in Thailand.
Fall 1979 University of Iowa Faculty Development Leave.
December 1980 Midwestern Universities Consortium on International Affairs travel grant to
investigate cooperative research programs with Chiangmai University.
Summer 1981 University of Iowa Summer Fellowship for research in Iceland.
Summer 1983 Midwestern Universities Consortium on International Activities travel grant to
investigate an exchange program with the University of Iceland.
Fall 1984 Fulbright Professorship, University of Iceland.
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Spring 1985 University of Iowa Faculty Development Leave for research in Iceland.
Summer 1985 University of Iowa Summer Fellowship for research in Iceland.
Fall 1988 University of Iowa travel grant to Iceland.
Summer, 1989 University of Iowa Summer Fellowship for ethnographic fieldwork in Mississippi.
1990 Undergraduate Faculty Scholar Research Assistantship for research on medieval Iceland.
Summer 1990 Invited to participate in National Science Foundation Institute on Methodology.
University of Florida.
Summer 1990 (with Jonathan Wilcox) University of Iowa University House Interdisciplinary
Research Grant, "Laughing Matters: A Study of Humor in Old Icelandic Literature."
Fall 1990 University of Iowa Faculty Development Leave, "An Analysis of the Culture of
Commonwealth Iceland."
1990-91 (With Jonathan Wilcox) University of Iowa Interdisciplinary Research Assistantship for
research on medieval Iceland.
Summer 1991 University of Iowa summer fellowship.
Summer 1991 Invited to participate in the seminar on economy, values, and culture. Institute for
the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University.
Summer 1992 University of Iowa-University of Iceland Exchange Program travel grant.
Summer 1993 (with Gísli Pálsson) Grants from the Universities of Iceland and Iowa for a
workshop on ethnography in Iceland.
Summer 1993 Invited to participate in the NSF institute on Cross-Cultural Research.
1993-94 Undergraduate Faculty Scholar Research Assistantship for research on agricultural policy
in Iowa and the U.S.
Summer 1994 University of Iowa-University of Iceland Exchange program travel grant for travel
to Iceland.
1994
Iowa Secondary Student Training Program. Research Assistantship.
1994-5 Undergraduate Faculty Scholar Research Assistantship for research on agricultural policy in
Iowa and the U.S.
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PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY SOCIETIES AND OFFICES
Phi Kappa Phi (Honorary)
American Anthropological Association Fellow.
 Executive Board 1994-1996.
 Public Policy Committee 1999-2001
 Media committee 1997-present.
 Long Range Planning Committee 2004American Ethnological Association
Council on Thai Studies (Executive Committee, 1974-1985, President, 1978-1980)
Central States Anthropological Society (Executive Board 1997- )
Second Vice President-2000-2001. President 2001-2004.
Association of Iowa Archaeologists (Founding member and fellow until 1983)
Society for Economic Anthropology (Founding member, organizing committee, Executive Board,
1982-1985); president elect 1994. President 1995-1996.
Society for the Anthropology of Europe. Editorial Board.
Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Board of Editors, Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 1979-1989.
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Association for Asian Studies
Culture and Agriculture Group, American Anthropological Association, President Elect 1993.
President 1994-1996.
Society for Applied Anthropology. Fellow. Public Policy Committee 1997-present; co-chair 1999EDITORIAL BOARDS
Maritime Anthropological Studies
Journal of Anthropological Research
Journal of Political Ecology
Society for Economic Anthropology
Journal of the Anthropology of Work
AWARDS
1993 Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for teaching and scholarship.
University of Iowa.
1999 Robert McC. Netting Prize of the Political Ecology Society for the article in Political
Ecology judged to best advance research in that field.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern and Commonwealth (9th - 13th centuries) Iceland, highland and valley groups of
Mainland Southeast Asia, agricultural policy in the mid-western United States, Icelandic
populations in North Dakota, U.S. Gulf of Mexico fisheries and fishing policy, practices and
consequences of industrial swine production, global systems and processes and local effects,
alternative forms of agriculture and sustainable agriculture. Labor unions.
Noncapitalist and capitalist economic systems, stateless societies, states, cognitive
anthropology, symbolism, religion, the relationships among political and economic forms and
ideological and cognitive systems, economic anthropology, law, political anthropology, maritime
anthropology, historical processes, applied anthropology.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Eastern New Mexico University
Introduction to Anthropology
Ethnography of Oceania
Ethnography of Africa
Ethnography of Eurasia
Assistant Professor, Antioch College
Introduction to Anthropology
Language and Culture
Ethnography of Mainland Southeast Asia
Anthropology of Religion
Assistant & Associate Professor, Professor, University of Iowa
Anthropology of Religion
Cognitive Anthropology
Ethnology of Southeast Asia
Introduction to the Study of Culture and Society
Seminar on Ethics in Anthropology
Seminar on Analogies
Marx in Anthropology
Structuralism and Symbolism
Anthropological Theory
Economic Anthropology
The Anthropological Analysis of Household Economies
The Anthropology of the Icelandic Sagas (Anthropology and Literature)
The Construction of Ethnographic Data (Methodology).
Seminar on Socio-cultural Anthropology
Maritime Anthropology
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Professor, Penn State
Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Seminar on the History of Anthropological Theory
Maritime Anthropology
Comparative Social Organization-writing intensive
Anthropology of Religion
Ethnography of the United States
Global Processes and Local Systems
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Summer 1967 Fieldwork on agriculture among the Shan of Maehongson Province, Thailand.
Funded by a grant from the University of Illinois Department of Anthropology
November 1968 - September 1970 Fieldwork among the Lisu of Northern Thailand, especially
Chiangmai Province (Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois,
funded by Walter Reed Institute Contract No. DADA-17-69-V-9026. Project entitled, "A
Socio-Medical Study of the Lisu of Northern Thailand.")
Summer 1973 Field Supervisor at the Cherokee Sewer Site Excavations, Cherokee, Iowa. Project
Director, R. Shutler, Jr.
May 1976 - August 1977 Fieldwork among Shan of Maehongson Province, Thailand. Project
entitled, "A Socio-Economic Study of a Shan Village in Maehongson Province, Thailand,"
Funded by Ford Foundation and University of Iowa fellowships. A study of peasant
farming and economics.
Summer 1981 Research on fishing in Iceland. Funded by a University of Iowa summer fellowship
and a grant in aid of research from Sigma Xi, the Society for Scientific Research.
Fall 1985 Research on Commonwealth Iceland and modern fishing in Iceland, funded by a Faculty
Development Leave from the University of Iowa
Summer 1985 Fieldwork on agriculture in Iceland. Funded by a University of Iowa summer
fellowship.
Summer 1986 Fieldwork on agriculture and ethnic identity in Iceland. American Scandinavian
Foundation grant.
l987-1988 Research on fishing industry in Alabama. Alabama Department of Economic and
Community Affairs grant.
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1988-1989 Research of fishing industry in Alabama and Mississippi. National Science Foundation
Grant.
Summer 1989 Research on fishing industry in Mississippi. University of Iowa summer fellowship.
Summer 1990 Interdisciplinary research on medieval Icelandic literature with Jonathan Wilcox.
From Summer 1993-1997 Research on industrial swine production in the U.S.
From Fall 1995-present Research on labor unions in the U.S.
Fall 2000-Research on alternative forms of agriculture and sustainable agriculture in the U.S.
Summer 2002—archaeological research in Iceland.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
1965 Anderson's Mill: A Historic Site in Travis County, Texas. Bulletin of the Texas
Archaeological Society 36:1-71.
1971 Rats, Cats, and Abandoned Fields: Shan Supernaturalism. Texas Journal of Folklore
Annual.
1974 The Regional Context of the Economy of a Lisu Village in Northern Thailand. Southeast
Asia 3:569-575.
1975 The Lisu Concept of the Soul. Journal of the Siam Society 63:63-71.
Understanding a Misunderstanding: Thai-Lisu relations in Northern Thailand.
Anthropological Quarterly 48:106-120.
Lisu Occult Roles. Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde 131:138-205.
A Soul's Journey. Asian Folklore Studies 34:35-50.
Lisu Shamans and Some General Questions. Journal of the Steward Anthropological
Society 7:1-20.
1976 Lisu Curing: a Case History. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 50:356-371.
A Program for Computing Sahlins's Social Profile of Domestic Production and Related
Statistics. Behavior Science Research 11:19-23.
The Economy of a Lisu Village. American Ethnologist 3:633-644.
Law and Authority in a Lisu Village: Two Cases. Journal of Anthropological Research
32:301-325.
A Lisu Shamanistic Seance. Journal of the Siam Society 64:151-160.
(with John Morrison) Analogies and the Split Brain. Current Anthropology 17:506-508.
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1977 Lisu Etiological Categories. Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde 113:90-99.
Of Lisu Dogs and Lisu Spirits. Folklore (London) 88:61-63.
(with John Morrison) A Theory of Analogy. Journal of Anthropological Research 33:372387.
1978 An Interpretation of a Lisu Tale. Folklore (London) 89:94-103.
1979 An Analysis of Shan Household Production Decisions. Journal of Anthropological
Research 35:447-458.
(with Nicola Tannenbaum) A Reassessment of Chayanov and his Recent Critics. Peasant
Studies 8:48-63.
Rice Production in a Lisu Village. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 10:139-145.
Misfortune and Therapy Among the Lisu of Northern Thailand. Anthropological Quarterly
52:447-458.
1980 Belief and the Logic of Lisu Spirits. Bijdragen tot de taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde 136:2140.
Annual non-Buddhist Religious Observances of Maehongson Shan. Journal of the Siam
Society 68:48-56.
Chayanov's Economic Analysis in Anthropology. Journal of Anthropological Research
36:133-148.
1981 The Economy of a Shan Village. Ethnos 46:64-79.
Opium Production and Policy in Thailand and Burma. CERES: FAO Review on
Agriculture and Development (Rome, United Nations) 14: 48-49.
The Southeast Asian Context of Theravada Buddhism. Anthropology 5:45-62.
1982 (with Nicola Tannenbaum) Una reconsideracio de Chayanov i dels seus critics recents.
Estudis d'Historia Agraria 3:7-21. (translation of A reassessment of Chayanov and His
Recent Critics).
Shan Kho: The Essence of Misfortune. Anthropos 77:16-26.
Chayanov and Marx. Peasant Studies 9:119-129.
(with Gísli Pálsson) To Dream of Fish: the Causes of Icelandic Skippers' Fishing Success.
Journal of Anthropological Research 38:227-242. (Reprinted in Manfraedi Islands
(Anthropology of Iceland), Gísli Pálsson, editor).
(with Gísli Pálsson) Policy, Processors, and Boats: Fishing in Modern Iceland. Central
Issues in Anthropology 4:31-48.
Reciprocity in Gautrek's Saga: an Anthropological Analysis. Northern Studies 19:23-37.
(Reprinted in Manfraedi Islands (Anthropology of Iceland), Gísli Pálsson, editor).
An Analysis of Lisu Symbolism, Economics, and Cognition. Pacific Viewpoint 23:127145.
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1983 (with Gísli Pálsson) Icelandic Foremen and Skippers: the Structure and Evolution of a Folk
Model. American Ethnologist 10:511-528.
(with Gísli Pálsson) Riddles of Herring and Rhetorics of Success. Journal of
Anthropological Research 39:323-335.
(with Nicola Tannenbaum) Diachronic Analysis of Shan Cropping Systems. Ethnos
48:177-194.
The Shan Rocket Festival: Buddhist and non-Buddhist Aspects of Religion. Journal of the
Siam Society 71:63-74.
1984 Icelandic Saga Heroes: the Anthropology of Existentialists. Anthropology and Humanism
Quarterly 9:3-8.
1985 Sagas, Totems, and History. Samelagstidindi 5:51-80. (Reprinted in Manfraedi Islands
(Anthropology of Iceland), Gísli Pálsson, editor).
(with Gísli Pálsson) Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Companies: The Evolution of Icelandic
Fishing. Ethnos 50:103-122.
1986 The Cultural-Historical Background to the Middlewestern Farm Crisis. Culture and
Agriculture 28:15-17.
(with Gísli Pálsson) Finding Fish: The Tactics of Icelandic Skippers. American
Ethnologist 13:213-229.
(with Dorothy Durrenberger) Translating Gunnlaug's Saga: An Anthropological Approach
to Literary Style and Cultural Structures. Translation Review 21-22:11-20.
1987 (with Bob Quinlan) The Structure of the Prose Edda. Scandinavian Yearbook of Folklore.
Vol 41:65-76.
(with Gísli Pálsson) Ownership at Sea: Fishing Territories and Access to Sea Resources.
American Ethnologist 14:508-522.
Reflections on the Absolute. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 12: 38-41.
1988 (With Gísli Pálsson) Anthropology and Fisheries Management. American Ethnologist
15:530-534.
Shrimpers and Turtles on the Gulf Coast: The Formation of Fisheries Policy in the United
States. Maritime Anthropological Studies 1:196-214.
Stratification Without a State: The Collapse of the Icelandic Commonwealth. Ethnos
53:239-265.
(with Dorothy Durrenberger and Astradur Eysteinsson) Economic Representation and
Narrative Structure in Haensa-Thoris Saga. Saga-Book 22:143-164.
(with Nicola Tannenbaum) Control, Change, and Suffering: The Messages of Shan
Buddhist Sermons. Mankind 18 (3):121-132.
Chiefly Consumption in Commonwealth Iceland. Northern Studies 25:108-120.
1989 (with Gísli Pálsson) Icelanders and West Icelanders in the Modern Age. The World & I.
Vol 4 No. 3 March, 1989:660-667.
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(with Nicola Tannenbaum) Continuities of Highland and Lowland Religions of Thailand.
Journal of the Siam Society 77 (part 1) 83-90.
1990
(with Gísli Pálsson) Systems of Production and Social Discourse: The Skipper Effect
Revisited. American Anthropologist 92(1):130-141.
Policy, Power, and Science: The Implementation of Turtle Excluder Device Regulations in
the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Fishery. Maritime Anthropological Studies 3 (1):69-86.
A Fishing Town Survives: Biloxi, Mississippi, Faces Challenges Other Than the Physical
Perils of Fishing. The World & I. July 1990:626-635.
Text and Transactions in Commonwealth Iceland. Ethnos 55:74-91.
1991 Sitting Buddha in a Mississippi Golf Course: The Construction of Anthropology in Exotic
and Familiar Contexts. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 16 (3):88-94.
Production in Medieval Iceland. The Norse of the North Atlantic. Acta Archaeologica vol
61, pp 14-21.
1992
(with Nicola Tannenbaum) Household Economy, Political Economy, and Ideology:
Peasants and the State in Southeast Asia. American Anthropologist. 94 (1): 74-89.
Icelandic Sagas: A Window on a Medieval World. The World & I. April, 1992: 624-637.
Psychology, Unions, and The Law: Folk Models and the History of Shrimpers Unions in
Mississippi. Human Organization 51:151-154
(with Gísli Pálsson) Rhetorics of Skill and Skillful Rhetorics. American Anthropologist 92
(2):452-454.
Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland. Ethnos. 57 (1-2):31-49.
(With Gísli Pálsson) Icelandic Dialogues: Individual Differences in Indigenous Discourse.
Journal of Anthropological Research 48 (4):301-316.
1993 The Skipper Effect and Folk Models of the Skipper Effect Among Mississippi Shrimpers.
Human Organization 52 (2):194-202.
Working Efra Sel: Change on a Family Farm in Iceland. The World & I July 1993: 256265.
1994
The History of Shrimpers' Unions in Mississippi, 1915-1955. Labor's Heritage. Vol 5
(3):66-76.
Shrimpers, Processors, and Common Property in Mississippi. Human Organization. 53
(1):74-82.
(with Kendall Thu) North Carolina's Hog Industry: The Rest of the Story. Culture and
Agriculture 49 (Spring 1994):21-23.
(with Kendall Thu) Our Changing Swine Industry and Signals of Discontent. Iowa
Groundwater Quarterly. 5 (4):5-7.
(with Kendall Thu) Industrial Agricultural Development: An Anthropological Review of
Iowa's Swine Industry." National Association of Rural Mental Health 1:38-48.
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1995 Mississippi Unions Again: Facts, Figures, and Misrepresentations. Human Organization 54
(4):474-477.
(with Kendall Thu) The Subjective Versus Objective Myth: Verbal Reports and Physical
Data in Swine Odor Research. Proceedings of the International Livestock Odor Conference
1995. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University.
1996
(with Kendall Thu) The Industrialization of Swine Production in the U.S.: An Overview.
Culture and Agriculture 18 (1):19-22.
(with Kendall Thu) The Expansion of Large Scale Hog Farming in Iowa: The
Applicability of Goldschmidt's Findings Fifty Years Later. Human Organization. 55
(4):409-415.
1997 (with Suzan Erem) Getting a Raise: Organizing Workers in an Industrializing Hospital.
Journal of Anthropological Research 53(1):31-46.
Fisheries Management Models: Assumptions and Realities Or, Why Shrimpers in
Mississippi are Not Firms. Human Organization. 56(2):158-166.
(with Suzan Erem) The Dance of Power: Ritual and Agency among Unionized American
Health Care Workers. American Anthropologist 99 (3):489-495.
That'll Teach You: Cognition and Practice in a Union Local. Human Organization.
56(4):388-392.
(With Suzan Erem) The Way I see It: Perspectives on the Labor Movement from the
People in it. Anthropology and Humanism. 22(2):159-169.
(with Kendall Thu) Signals, Systems, and Environment in Industrial Food Systems.
Journal of Political Ecology 4:27-38.
1998 Cultural Anthropology in a Nutshell. Teaching Anthropology. Spring-Summer 1998 12-14.
A Shower of Rain: Marshall Sahlins’s Stone Age Economics 25 Years Later. Culture and
Agriculture 20 (2/3):102-106.
1999 (with Delamie Thompson, Ann Smith, and Terry Hallom) Power, Rhetoric, and Partnership:
Primary Health Care and Pie in the Sky. Human Organization. 58 (1):94-104.
(with Nicola Tannenbaum) Three Decades of Change: The Shan Villages of Northwestern
Thailand. The World & I. April, 1999:192-201.
(with Suzan Erem) The Abstract, the Concrete, the Political, and the Academic:
Anthropology and a Labor Union in the United States. Human Organization 58(3):305-312.
(with Suzan Erem) The Weak Suffer What They Must: A Natural Experiment in Thought
and Structure. American Anthropologist 101 (4):783-793.
2000 Let no Slight Pass: Icelandic Identity as Revealed in the Sagas. The World & I, March,2000
Vol 15 (3):187-193.
(with Suzan Erem) When Anthropology Fails: Stories from the Ethnographic Front.
Anthropology and Humanism 25 (1):50-63
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2001 Explorations of Class and Consciousness in the U.S. Journal of Anthropological Research
Vol 57(1): 41-60.
2002
Structure, Thought, and Action: Stewards in Chicago Union Locals. American
Anthropologist 104(1):93-105.
The Class of Culture and the Culture of Class: Thoughts on Marshall Sahlins, Culture in
Practice: Selected Essays. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 45 (1), January, Winter,
2002.
Community Supported Agriculture in Central Pennsylvania. Culture and Agriculture
24(2):42-51.
2003
Using Paired Comparisons to Measure Reciprocity. Field Methods 15(3):271-288.
Global Processes, Local Systems. Urban Anthropology Vol 32(3-4):253-279.
Anthropologists Doing Research With Organized Labor. Anthropology of Work Review.
Vol 24(3-4):23-26.
2005 (With Suzan Erem) Checking for Relationships Across Domains. Field Methods Vol
17(2):150-169.
(With Suzan Erem) Staff, Stewards, and Strikes: Labor’s Communication Gap. Journal of
Anthroological Research. Vol 51(2):179-200
In Press
Reciprocity and Power in Chicago Union Locals. Social Justice.
In Review
(With Suzan Erem) Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
In Preparation
(With Suzan Erem) Household Economies Meet Corporate Economies Across the
Bargaining Table
(With Suzan Erem) The Gospel of Work and the Culture of Union Members.
Book Chapters
1983 Economics of the Northern Highlands. IN Highlanders of Thailand, J. McKinnon and
Wanat Bhruksasri, editors. Selangor. Oxford University Press.
Changes in a Shan Village. IN Highlanders of Thailand, J. McKinnon and Wanat
Bhruksasri, editors. Selangor. Oxford University Press.
Lisu: Political Form, Ideology, and Economic Action. IN Highlanders of Thailand, J.
McKinnon and Wanat Bhruksasri, editors. Selangor. Oxford University Press.
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1984 Introduction. IN E. Paul Durrenberger, editor, Chayanov, Peasants, and Economic
Anthropology. San Francisco. Academic Press. Pages 1-25.
Operationalizing Chayanov. IN E. Paul Durrenberger, editor, Chayanov, Peasants, and
Economic Anthropology. San Francisco. Academic Press. Pages 39-50.
1987 Household Economies and Agrarian Unrest in Iowa - 1931. IN Household Economies and
Their Transformations. Morgan Maclaughlan, editor. pgs 198-211.
(with Gísli Pálsson) The "Grassroots" and the State: Resource Management in Icelandic
Fishing. IN The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal
Resources Bonnie J. McCay and James M. Acheson, editors. Tucson: University of
Arizona Press: 370-392.
1988 (with Stephen G. Weiting) Introduction to Premodern Communication Technologies. IN
Communication and Social Structure. David R. Maines and Carl J. Couch, editors. pages
133-136.
1989 (With Gísli Pálsson) Toward an Anthropology of Iceland. IN The Anthropology of Iceland.
E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson, editors. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Pages ix-xxviii.
(With Gísli Pálsson) Forms of Production and Fishing Expertise. IN The Anthropology of
Iceland.. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson, editors. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Pages 3-18.
Anthropological Perspectives on the Commonwealth Period. IN The Anthropology of
Iceland. E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson, editors. Iowa City: University of Iowa
Press. Pages 228-246.
Lisu Ritual, Economics, and Ideology. IN Ritual, Power, and Economy: Upland-Lowland
Contrasts in Mainland Southeast Asia. S. Russell, editor. DeKalb: Center for Southeast
Asian Studies. Pages103-120.
1990 (with Nicola Tannenbaum) Hidden Dimensions of the Burmese Way to Socialism. IN M.
Estellie Smith, ed. Perspectives on the Informal Economy. New York: University Press of
America. Pages 281-299.
1991 The Icelandic Family Sagas as Totemic Artifacts. IN Social Approaches to Viking Studies.
Ross Samson,editor. Glasgow: Cruithne Press. pages 11-17.
Iceland. IN The Encyclopedia of World Cultures. David Levinson, editor in chief. Vol 4,
Europe, Linda Bennett, editor. Boston: C.K. Hall. pages 146-148.
1992 (with Jonathan Wilcox) Humor as a Guide to Social Change in Bandamannasaga. IN From
Sagas to Society: Social Approaches to Medieval Iceland. Gísli Pálsson, editor. pages 111123 Middlesex: Hisarlik Press.
1993 Witchcraft, Sorcery, Fortune, and Misfortune Among Lisu Highlanders of Northern
Thailand. IN Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia. C.W. Watson and
R. Elen, editors. University of Hawaii Press. Pages 47-66.
1996 (with Gísli Pálsson) Introduction. IN Images of Contemporary Iceland, Gísli Pálsson and
E.P. Durrenberger, eds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. Pages 1-22.
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Every Icelander a Special Case. IN Images of Contemporary Iceland, Gísli Pálsson and
E.P. Durrenberger, eds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. Pages 171-190.
Ethnography. IN Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. David Levinson and Melvin
Ember, eds. Human Relations Area Files. Lakeville, CT. American Reference Publishing
Co. pages 416-422.
Economic Anthropology. IN Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. David Levinson and
Melvin Ember, eds. Human Relations Area Files. Lakeville, CT. American Reference
Publishing Co. Pages 365-371.
Fieldwork. IN Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. David Levinson and Melvin
Ember, eds. Human Relations Area Files. Lakeville, CT. American Reference Publishing
Co. Pages 496-501.
(with Laura DeLind, Cornelia Flora, Jan Flora, William Heffernan, Steve Padgitt, and
Kendall Thu) Social Issues. IN Understanding the Impacts of Large-Scale Swine
Production. Kendall Thu, editor. pages 71-116.
The Power of Culture and the Culture of States. IN State Power and Culture in Thailand:
An Historical View. E. Paul Durrenberger, Editor. Yale University Southeast Asian Series.
Pages 1-21.
Blessing in Lisu Culture and Practice. IN Merit and Blessing in Southeast Asia in
Comparative Perspective. Cornelia Ann Krammerer and Nicola Tannenbaum, editors.
Yale University Southeast Asian Studies. pages 116-133.
1997 Are Ethnographies Just So Stories? IN Research Frontiers in Anthropology, Carol and
Melvin Ember, editors. Prentice-Hall. pages 77-94.
A Local Elite and Underdevelopment in a Peripheral Economy: Iceland in the 18th-20th
Centuries. IN Economic Analysis Beyond the Local System. Monographs in Economic
Anthropology, No. 13. Richard E. Blanton, Peter N. Peregrine, Deborah Winslow, Thomas
D. Hall, editors. New York. University Press of America. Pages 71-83.
1998 Property, State and Self Destruction in Medieval Iceland. IN Problems of Property. Robert
Hunt and Antonio Gilman, eds.: 171-186. Lanham: University Press of America. Society
for Economic Anthropology Monographs in Economic Anthropology No. 14.
1999
(with Gísli Pálsson) The Importance of Friendship in the Absence of States, According to
the Icelandic Sagas. IN The Anthropology of Friendship. Edited by Sandra Bell and Simon
Coleman. Oxford and New York: Berg. Pages 59-77.
2000
(with Tom King) Introduction. IN State and Community in Fisheries Management: Power,
Policy, and Practice edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Thomas D. King. Pages 1-15.
2001 Iceland. IN Countries and their Cultures. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, Editors. New
York, Macmillan. Volume 2:1011-1018.
2002 (With Nicola Tannenbaum) Chayanov and Theory in Economic Anthropology. In Theory in
Economic Anthropology, Jean Ensminger, Ed. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira. Pages 137154.
2005 Economic Anthropology. IN Encyclolpedia of Social Measurement. Vol 1:723-732.
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Labour. IN A Handbook of Economic Anthropology.James G. Carrier, Editor. Cheltenham,
UK and Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar. 125-140.
Notes and Comments
1979 (with John Morrison) Comments on Brown's Ethnoscience. American Ethnologist 6:408409.
1984 (with Gísli Pálsson) Reply to Gatewood. American Ethnologist 11:379.
1985 (with Gísli Pálsson) Reply to Steven L. McNabb. American Ethnologist 12:544-545.
1994 (With Kendall Thu) Large-scale Hog Farming vs. Quality of Life. `. March 8, 1994.
1995 (with Kendall Thu) Whither our Subjects--and Ourselves. Anthropology Newsletter 36
(1):15-16.
Culture and Agriculture Engaging Anthropology. Anthropology Newsletter 36 (2):21-22.
1997 (with Kendall Thu) Relevant Anthropologists and Relevant Commentary. Anthropology
Newsletter 38 (9):12.
1998 (with Kendall Thu) Coming in from the Margins: a Relevant Anthropology. Anthropology
Newsletter. 39(7): pgs 60,58.
1999 The Proper Study of Anthropology Goes Beyond Agriculture. The Chronicle of Higher
Education. May 21, 1999 pgs b3 and b10.
(with Kendall Thu) Why We’re Worried About Cultural Anthropology. Society for
Applied Anthropology Newsletter. 10(3) (August 1999):3-5.
2000 Sweeter than Honey?. Research/Penn State 21(2):46.
On the Land-Owning Middle Class and the Illusion of Responsibility. Centre Daily Times.
8/4/2000
Anthropology and Environmental Policy. Anthropology News 41 (6) (September 2000):
33-34)
On Power, Anthropology, and Universities. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter.
Vol 11 (4) (November 2000):2-4.
2001 The Problem of Class. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 12(1)(February
2001):4-6.
The Opium of the Masses. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 12(2) (May,
2001):2-3.
Memorial Day/Labor Day. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 12 (3)
(August, 2001):2-4.
Daring to Suggest There is No Good and Evil. Centre Daily Times. 10-20-2001.
Intellectual Property. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 12 (4)
(November, 2001): 13-14.
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On Class. Anthropology News 42(6):5-6.
2002 On Human Rights. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 13 (1):3-4.
Single Issue Politics. Society For Applied Anthropology Newsletter Vol 13 (2):5-6.
Why the Idea of Social Capital is a Bad Idea. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter
Vol 13(3):3-4.
Why the Idea of Social Capital is a Bad Idea. Anthropology News 43 (9):5
Why Witchcraft Won’t Go Away. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter
Vol 13(4):2-3.
2003 Ethnography at Home: Teamsters Speak on War in Iraq. Society for Applied Anthropology
Newsletter Vol 14 (1): 3-4.
I Ain’t Gonna Study War No More. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 14
(2): 4-5.
Police State or Corporate State. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 14 (3):
5-6.
Invisibility. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 14(4):2-3.
2004 The Acid Test of Democracy. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 15(1):3-5.
“It’s the Economy, Stupid,” Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 15(2):6-9.
Why I’m Nervious. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 15(3):5-7.
Global Tomatoes. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 15(4):14-16
2005 SfAA and Public Policy. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 16(1):4-5.
AAA, Unions and Hotels: What Now? Anthropology News. Vol 46(2)8,12.
Memorial Day, 2005. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. Vol 16(2):5-7.
Radio Commentaries
All Things Considered, National Public Radio
1995
Homelands 10/2
On Walking 11/13
Presidential Polling 11/20
Speedlimits Revisited 11/29
Communication Problems 12/12
Excellence 12/27
1996
Water 1/2
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The Super Bowl 1/29
Weather 2/5
Bumper Stickers 4/23
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Business Ethics? 8/6
Being Busy 8/29
On Morning Edition, WPSU—Penn State’s NPR affiliate
2000
An Economic Riddle-on health care as business—3/14
San Francisco Speaks—6/7
Aggressive Drivers—6/12
Conferences-on the National Governors’ Conference—7/26
Drug of Choice—on cars and driving—gasoline as drug of choice--8/11
Buying Votes—8/18
Primary Reasons—on why grad assistants are employees and need a union 10/9
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2001 Collegiality—organized grad students don’t end collegial relations--2/14
Ethnicity—2/23
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Inflation—on adequacy vs. rhetorics of excellence—
On Good and Evil—10/2—on the U.S. response to terrorists
On Martyrs to Business—11/8—on how Americans die for business
2003
Doctors and Lawyers in Fantasy Land 6/23
Political or Economic Repression in Iraq 7/14
Reviews
1975 Review of Kirsch, Feasting and Social Oscillation: Religion and Society in Upland
Southeast Asia. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 6:203-205.
1983 Review of "Fence in the Water" and "Live Lobster," films by Peg Dice. American
Anthropologist 85:495-496.
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1984 Review of G.H. Hickey, Sons of the Mountains: Ethnohistory of the Vietnamese Central
Highlands and Free in the Forest: Ethnohistory of the Vietnamese Highlands. Ethnohistory
31:144-145.
Review of A.Y. Dessaint. Minorities of Southwest China. Anthropos 79:278.
Review of Gunda, ed. The Fishing Culture of the World, Volumes I & II. American
Ethnologist 13:185-186.
Review of Maril, Texas Shrimpers: Community, Capitalism, and the Sea. American
Ethnologist 13:186-187.
1986 Review of Chandra Soysa, Lin Sien Chia, and William L. Collier, editors, Man, Land and
Sea. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies: 2 No. 3:149151.
1987 Life On the Third Coast. Review of Cannibals and Condos: Texas and Texans Along the
Gulf Coast by Lee Maril. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 12.
Review of The Good Life by Yi-Fu Tuan. Human Ecology 15: 113-116.
Review of The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History by Jonathan Wylie. American
Anthropologist 89: 992-993.
1988 Review of Whalsay: Symbol, Segment and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community by
Anthony P. Cohen. American Anthropologist 90:1014-1015.
Review of The Law of the Land: Two Hundred Years of American Farmland Policy by
John Opie. Human Ecology 16: 347-350.
1989 Sperber Revisited: That Darned Dorze Dragon. Review of On Anthropological Knowledge
by Dan Sperber. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 14:77-78.
1990 Review of The Penetration of Capitalism into Small-Scale Third World Fisheries: An
Investigation of Historical Processes and Organizational Forms. By J. Platteau. Maritime
Anthropological Studies 3 (1):132.
Review of Uncommon Property: The Fishing and Fish-Processing Industries in British
Columbia. Patricia Marchak, Neil Guppy and John McMullan, editors. Maritime
Anthropological Studies 3 (2):115-117.
Review of Deep Water: Development and Change in Pacific Village Fisheries. By
Margaret Critchlow Rodman. Pacific Affairs vol 63 (3):429-430.
1991 Review of Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing. C.J. Allison, S.
Jacobs, and M. A. Porter. American Anthropologist 93 (3):746.
1992 Review of Nature and Policy in Iceland, 1400--1800: An Anthropological Analysis of
History and Mentality. Kirsten Hastrup. American Anthropologist 94 (3): 721-722.
Review of Island of Anthropology: Studies in Past and Present Iceland. Kirsten Hastrup.
Man 27:427-428.
Review of Chiefdoms: Power, Economy, and Ideology. Timothy Earle, ed. Ethnos 57 (34):260-262.
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1993 Review of Anthropological Research: Process and Application. John J. Poggie, Billie
DeWalt, and William Dressler, eds. American Anthropologist 95 (3): 781-782
Review of Emptying their Nets: Small Capital and Rural Industrialization in the Nova
Scotia Fishing Industry. Richard Apostle and Gene Barrett. Maritime Anthropological
Studies 5(2): 104-106.
Review of Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. by John and Jean Comaroff.
Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly. 18 (2):87-88
Review of Will. C. van den Hoonaard, Reluctant Pioneers: Constraints and Opportunities in
an Icelandic Fishing Community. Maritime Anthropological Studies. 6 (1/2):229-231.
Review of Inge Tvedten and Bjorn Hersoug, eds. Fishing for Development: Small-Scale
Fisheries in Africa. Maritime Anthropological Studies. 6 (1/2):231-234.
Review of Antionio Carlos Sant'Ana Diegues, ed. Tradition and Social Change in the
Coastal Communities of Brazil: A Reader in Maritime Anthropology. Maritime
Anthropological Studies. 6 (1/2):234-235.
1994 Economy and Discourse in Brazil: Review of Sons of the Sea Goddess: Economic Practice
and Discursive Conflict in Brazil. Antonius C.G.M. Robben. Anthropology and
Humanism. 19 (2):178-179.
1995 Postmodern Anthropology, Science, and Humanism. Review of Anthropological Other or
Burmese Brother: Studies in Cultural analysis by Melford Spiro. Anthropology and
Humanism 20:(1):88-90.
1996 Review of Factory Ship: White and Black Workers in the U.S. Menhaden Industry by
Barbara Garrity-Blake. American Anthropologist 98 (2):454
Review of The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle.
By Ronald D. Renard. Journal of Asian Studies. 55(4):1078-1079.
1997 Review of In Place: Spatial and Social Order in a Faroe Islands Community by Dennis
Gaffin. Human Ecology.
Review of Folk Management in the World's Fisheries: Lessons for Modern Fisheries
Management. Edited by Christopher L. Dyer and Majes R. McGoodwin. Human Ecology.
Review of Any Way You Cut it: Meat Processing and Small-Town America, edited by
Donald Stull, Michael Broadway, and David Griffith. The Annals of Iowa 56 (1,2):179180.
Review of Being Kammu: My Village, My Life. By Damrong Tayanin. Pacific Affairs
70(1):156-157.
Review of Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture. By
Miriam J. Wells. American Anthropologist 99(2):454-455.
Review of Fishing for Truth: A Sociological Analysis of Northern Cod Stock Assessments
from 1977-1990 by Alan Christopher Finlayson. Human Ecology. June 1997 Vol.25,
Number 2:366-368,
Review of The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops by of Jane Rissler and Margaret
Mellon. Journal of Political Ecology. Journal of Political Ecology 4:50-52.
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1998
Review of Loggers, Monks, Students, and Entrepreneurs by Clark Neher et al. Journal of
Asian Studies 57(2):607-609.
1999 Review of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology by Lawrence A. Kuznar. Anthropology
and Humanism 24(1):86-87.
Review of New Directions in Economic Anthropology by Susana Narotzky. American
Anthropologist 101(1):213-214.
Review of Pragmatism and Development: The Prospect for Pluralist Transformation in the
Third World. Journal of Anthropological Research. 55(3):324-326.
The Cutting Edge and the History of Anthropology. Reviews of Alford: The Craft of
Inquiry; Erickson and Murphy: A History of Anthropological Theory, and Layton: An
Introduction to Theory in Anthropology. American Anthropologist 101(2):426-229.
Review of Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey by
Bonnie McCay. Anthropology of Work Review 19(4): 42
2000
Power, Culture and Knowledge: Comparative Studies of Corporate Structures: Reviews of
Envisioning Power by Eric R. Wolf and Corporate Futures by George Marcus.
Anthropology of Work Review 20(2):35-39.
Review of Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges to
Modernity in the Fisheries Richard Apostle, Gene Barrett, Peter Holm, Svein Jentoft, Leigh
Mazany, Bonnie McCay, and Knut Mikalsen. Culture and Agriculture 22 (1):45-47.
2001 Review Essay: Anthropology and Globalization. Reviews of Modernity at Large: Cultural
Dimensions of Globalization. Arjun Appadurai. Transnational Connections: Culture,
People, Places. Ulf Hannerz. Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming
Desires, Contested Selves. Mary Beth Mills. American Anthropologist :103(2):531-535
Review of No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Iner City. by Katherine
Newman. American Anthropologist 103(4): 1210-1211
2002 Review Essay. Class Warfare in the United States, Part 1. Reviews of Immigration and
American Unionism by Vernon M. Briggs and The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business,
and the Politics of Health Care in the United States by Marie Gottschalk. Anthropology of
Work Review. Vol 23 (1-2):34-39.
2003 Review of Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea: A Puerto Rican Journey Through Labor and
Refuge. Buy David Griffith and Manuel Valdés Pizzini. Journal of Anthropological
Research. Vol 59: 103-104.
Review Essay. Class Warfare in the United States, Part 2. Reviews of The Working Class
Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret by Michael Zweig and Building More Effective
Unions by Paul Clark.
2004 Review of The Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities, Technology, and Environment
by Alf Hornborg. Journal of Anthropological Research.
Review of Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Communiyt. Dimitra
Doukas. Journal of Anthropological Research. 60(1):135-136.
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In Press
Book Chapters in Press
The Shrimp Industry. IN The Encyclopedia of Mississippi.
Reviews in press
Review of Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment. Journal of Political
Ecology.
Review of The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America
edited by McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston. Culture and Agriculture.
Review of Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace by Pun Ngai. Journal
of Anthropological Research.
Journal Articles in Press
(With Suzan Erem) Staff, Stewards and Strikes: Labor’s Communication Gap. Journal of
Anthropological Research.
(With Suzan Erem) Checking For Relationships Across Domains Measured by Triads and Paired
Comparisons. Field Methods.
REPORTS
1969-1970 Series title: A Socio-Medical Study of the Lisu of Northern Thailand. Chiangmai,
Tribal Research Centre.
No. 1 Some Lisu Diagnostic and Curing Ceremonies. 51 pages.
No. 2 A Case History of Lisu Curing. 51 pages.
No. 3 Theoretical Notes. Notes on Lisu Disease Categories. Notes on Relations between People
and Spirits. 26 pages.
No. 4 Notes on Oracles. Lisu Ritual, Occult, and Curing Roles. Notes on Lisu Concepts of
Naturally Caused Disease. 30 pages.
No. 5 Notes on the Historical and Sociological Context of the Lisu Political System. Notes on
Lisu Political Organization and Disputes. Notes on Lisu concepts of Offense and Justice.
47 pages.
No. 6 Lisu Rites of Passage. 57 pages.
No. 7 Further Observations on the Nei Pa Role. Notes on Lisu Kinship. 30 pages.
No. 8 Lisu New Year. 39 pages.
No. 9 When Maw Yei Moved Away. 38 pages.
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No. 10 Further Curing Ceremonies. 48 pages.
No. 11 Negotiating a Marriage. 79 pages.
No. 12 The Tiger Enters the Case: A sequel to the Marriage Negotiations. 31 pages.
No. 13 Soul Calling. 35 pages.
1997 Final Report: Anthropological Study of SEIU Local 73. 148 pages.
1998 Report to SEIU Local 1: Findings from Member, Steward, and Staff Surveys.
2000 Report on Fall 2000 membership Survey of Community Harvest CSA
2003 Report to IBT Local 705 on Volunteer Survey.
2003 Report to IBT Local 705 on Ethnographic Study.
2003 Report to 1199P Executive Baord on Survey of Delegates
2004 Report to 1199P Executive Board on Survey of Members at Negotiations.
2005 Report to 1199P Officers on membership survey.
MONOGRAPHS AND BOOKS
1970 A Socio-Medical Study of the Lisu of Northern Thailand. Chiangmai: Tribal Research
Centre.
1977 A Socio-Economic Study of a Shan Village in Maehongson Province. Chiangmai: Tribal
Research Centre.
1978 Agricultural Production and Household Budgets in a Shan Peasant Village in Northwestern
Thailand: A Quantitative Description. Athens, Ohio. Ohio Center for International
Studies. Southeast Asia Studies No. 49.
1984 Editor. Chayanov, Peasants, and Economic Anthropology. San Francisco. Academic Press.
1989 (with Gísli Pálsson) Editor. The Anthropology of Iceland. Iowa City: University of Iowa
Press.
1989 Lisu Religion. DeKalb: University of Northern Illinois Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Monograph Series.
1989 (with Lee Maril and J.S. Thomas) Editor. Marine Resource Utilization: Proceedings of a
Conference on Social Science Issues. Mobile. Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium
MASGP-88-039.
1990 (with Nicola Tannenbaum) Analytical Perspectives on Shan Agriculture and Village
Economics. New Haven. Yale University Southeast Asian Studies.
1992 (with Dorothy Durrenberger) The Saga of Gunnlaugur Snake's Tongue With an Essay on
the Structure and Translation of the Saga. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1992 It's All Politics: South Alabama's Seafood Industry. University of Illinois Press.
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1992 The Dynamics of Medieval Iceland: Political Economy and Literature. University of Iowa
Press.
1995 Icelandic Essays: Explorations in the Anthropology of a Modern Nation. Rudi Press.
1996 (with Gísli Pálsson) Images of Contemporary Iceland: Everyday Lives and Global
Contexts. University of Iowa Press.
Gulf Coast Soundings: People and Policy in the Mississippi Shrimp Industry. University
Press of Kansas.
Editor. State Power and Culture in Thailand: An Historical View. Yale University
Southeast Asian Series.
(with Dorothy Durrenberger) The Saga of Havardur of Isafjordur with an Essay on the
Political, Economic and Cultural Background of the Saga. Enfield Lock, Middlesex:
Hisarlik Press.
1997 (with Kendall Thu) Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities. State University of New York
Press.
2000 (with Tom King) State and Community in Fisheries Management: Power, Policy, and
Practice. Westport: Bergin and Garvey.
2005 (with Suzan Erem) Class Acts: An Anthropology of Urban Service Workers and Their
Union. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
In Press (with Judith Marti) The Anthropology of Labor. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira
Book in process and review
(with Suzan Erem) Basic Anthropology for the 21st Century. Under contract at Paradigm
Publishers.
PAPERS PRESENTED
1965 Evolution of Yamato Social Organization from C. B.C. 100 to C. A.D. 650. Annual
meeting of the American Ethnological Society.
1970 Lisu Curing and Cosmology. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association.
1973 Misfortune and Therapy Among the Lisu of Northern Thailand. Annual meeting of the
American Anthropological Association.
1974 The Utility of Mathematical Genealogy for Ethnographic Description. Presented at the
Mathematics in the Social Sciences Board Conference on Mathematical Genealogy
(invited).
1975 Notes on Development in the Northern Thai Highlands. Symposium on Development.
Northern Colorado University (invited).
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1977
Cropping Systems of Maehongson Shan. Council on Thai Studies. Fall, 1977.
1978 Shan Farming in Historical Perspective. Central States Anthropological Society Meeting.
Chayanov's Economics and Opium Production. Institute for the Study of Human Issues
Conference on Opium (invited).
Chayanov's Agrarian Economics and Development. Paper delivered to the Development
Studies Program, Agency for International Development (invited).
Organized Midwestern Universities Consortium on International Activities Symposium on
Rural Economic Systems in Thailand.
1979 Organized the symposium: Chayanov's Economic Theory in Anthropology for the Central
States Anthropological Society meeting (11 papers, 2 sessions).
Operationalizing Chayanov. Central States Anthropological Society Meeting.
Forms of Agrarian Economic Systems and their Analysis. Paper delivered to the
Development Studies Program, Agency for International Development (invited).
Peasant Economics: Past and Present. Iowa Academy of Science Meeting.
Reflections on the Uses of Still Photography in Anthropological Fieldwork. Conference on
Data Generation Through Visual Media. University of Iowa, March 19-21 (invited).
1980 (with Michael Calavan) Asian Peasants, Policies, and Projects: Some Thoughts on Social
Research and Rural Development. Conference on Agricultural Decision Making, Agency
for International Development, Washington, D.C., (invited).
Discussant. Alternative Forms of Development in Southeast Asia. Midwest Council on
Asian Affairs Meeting.
Discussant. The Opium Warlords. Midwest Council on Asian Affairs Meeting.
1981 (with Gísli Pálsson) To Dream of Fish: The Causes of Icelandic Skippers' Success. Paper
presented to the XI Congress of the Nordic Sociological and Anthropological Association,
Reykjavik (invited).
1982 (with Gísli Pálsson) The History of Entrepreneurial Fishing in Iceland. The Society for
Economic Anthropology
Also presented at the XII Congress of the Nordic Sociological and Anthropological
Association, Copenhagen
1983 (with Nicola Tannenbaum) Changes in Shan Agriculture (1976-1981). Council on Thai
Studies.
Household Economies and Agrarian Unrest in Iowa--1931. Meeting of the Society for
Economic Anthropology.
(with Gísli Pálsson) Common Resource Management in Icelandic Fishing. XIth
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
(with Gísli Pálsson) Social Relations and Ideologies of Production in the Evolution of
Icelandic Fishing. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago.
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1984
Discussant at Capturing the Commons: Symposium on Common Property Resources
organized by Bonnie McCay and James Acheson. University of Maine.
1986 Chiefly Consumption in Commonwealth Iceland. Annual Meeting of the Society for
Economic Anthropology, Champaign-Urbana.
Respondent, "Premodern Communication Technologies," session of the Annual Symposium
of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, May, 1986, Iowa City.
Lisu Ritual, Economics, and Ideology. Paper presented at the Southeast Asian Studies
Summer Institute conference, DeKalb.
(with Nicola Tannenbaum) Continuities in Highland and Lowland Religions in Thailand.
Council on Thai Studies.
1987 Text and Transactions in Commonwealth Iceland. Paper presented to the Society for
American Archaeology. Toronto.
Anthropological Perspectives on the Commonwealth Period. Paper presented at the
conference, The Anthropology of Iceland, Iowa City.
(With Gísli Pálsson) The Anthropology of Iceland. Paper presented at the conference, The
Anthropology of Iceland, Iowa City.
(With Gísli Pálsson) Forms of Production and Fishing Expertise. Paper presented at the
conference, The Anthropology of Iceland, Iowa City.
(with Nicola Tannenbaum) Control, Change, and Suffering: The Messages of Shan
Buddhist Sermons. Paper presented at the Summer Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
DeKalb.
1988 (with Nicola Tannenbaum) Hidden dimensions of the
Society for Economic Anthropology.
Burmese Way to Socialism.
Production in Medieval Iceland. North Atlantic Archaeology Conference.
(with Steve Thomas and Lee Maril) I organized the conference, Marine Resource
Utilization: A Conference on Social Science Issues.
(invited) The Icelandic Family Sagas as Totemic Artifacts. paper presented to the
conference on new approaches to the Icelandic Sagas. University of Glasgow.
1989 (invited) Witchcraft, Sorcery, Fortune, and Misfortune Among Lisu Highlanders of
Northern Thailand. Canterbury International Symposium on South-East Asian Studies.
(invited) On Translating Medieval Icelandic Sagas. Panelist for "Cultural Factors in
Translation," Rainer Schulte, Moderator. Twelfth Annual Conference of the American
Literary Translators Association. University of Iowa, Iowa City.
1990 (invited) Comments on papers by Byock, Miller, Andersson, and Karras on theory and Old
Norse Studies. 81st meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.
Madison, Wisconsin.
(invited) (With Gísli Pálsson) Individual Differences in Indigenous Discourse: Icelandic
Reactions to Anthropological Analyses. American Anthropological Association Meeting.
New Orleans.
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Policy, Power, and Science. Lecture presented to the Environmental Studies and Social
Relations Colloquium. Lehigh University.
1991 The State as Regulator of the Economy: How Policy Determines the Economics of the U.S.
Gulf Coast Shrimping Industry. Society for Economic Anthropology Meeting.
Bloomington.
Psychology, Unions, and The Law: Folk Models and the History of Shrimpers Unions in
Mississippi. Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Charleston.
Hegemony and Resistance in Icelandic Family Sagas. Central States Anthropological
Society Meeting. Ames.
(with Jon Wilcox) (invited) Humor in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Society.
Conference, from Sagas to Society. Reykjavik.
Perspectives on Politics, Economy and Ideology in Thailand: A. Minorities. Panel
organized for the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs.
Perspectives on Politics, Economy and Ideology in Thailand: B. Majorities. Panel
organized for the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs.
State Power and Culture in Thailand: An Historical View. Panel organized for the
American Anthropological Association Meeting, Chicago.
Discussant: Approaching 1992 Along Europe's Northern Rim: Assimilated and
Assimilating. Panel of the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Chicago.
(With Gísli Pálsson) Inventing Iceland: Individualism and Independence in Iceland.
American Anthropological Association Meeting, Chicago.
1992 Hierarchy, Domination, and Resistance: The Dangerous Classes in Medieval Iceland.
Paper presented at the American Ethnological Society meeting. Memphis.
Environmentalism, Regulation, and Fishing: Regional and International Perspectives.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Memphis.
The Literary Representation of Slavery and Dependency in Medieval Iceland. Paper
presented at the meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies,
Minneapolis.
Caught in the System: Mississippi Shrimpers, Processors, and the Commons. Paper
presented at the 1992 meeting of the International Association for the Study of Common
Property, Washington, D.C.
Medieval Icelandic Identity Inside and Out. Paper prepared for the American
Anthropological Association Meeting, San Francisco.
1993 A Local Elite and Underdevelopment in a Peripheral Economy: Iceland in the 18th-20th
Centuries. Society for Economic Anthropology.
Ghosts, Slaves, and Resistance in Medieval Iceland: Literary Images and Social Realities.
Central States Anthropological Society.
Anthropological Approaches to Icelandic Sagas: Some Recent Directions. International
Congress on Medieval Studies.
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Blessing in Lisu Worldview. Association for Asian Studies.
Every Icelander a Special Case. Paper presented at the conference on the Anthropology of
Modern Iceland. Iowa City.
With Gísli Pálsson, organized conference, Anthropology of Modern Iceland, Iowa City.
Slaves and Dependents: Marginality and Danger in Medieval Iceland. Center for Medieval
and Early Renaissance Studies Conference, "On the Margins" Binghampton, NY.
Language, Purity, and Technology in Iceland. American Anthropological Association
Meeting, Washington D.C.
1994 Property, State, and Self-Destruction in Medieval Iceland. Society for Economic
Anthropology.
With Kendall Thu, organized the session, Policy, Culture, and Practice in Industrial
Agriculture for the Central States Anthropological Society Meeting.
Corporate and Farmer Models of Agriculture in Iowa and Missouri. Central States
Anthropological Society Meeting.
Anthropology and Medieval Iceland. Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.
(with Kendall Thu) Industrial Agricultural Development: Overt and Covert Community
Health Consequences. 20th Annual Conference of the National Association for Rural
Mental Health.
(with Kendall Thu) Organized session, Human Dimensions of Public Policy in U.S.
Industrial Agriculture, American Anthropological Association.
(with Kendall Thu) A Role for Anthropology. Human Dimensions of Public Policy in
U.S. Industrial Agriculture, American Anthropological Association.
(with Thomas Hakanson) Organized session, Dynamics of The Viking Age and Early
Medieval Scandinavia: A New Look at Sources and Societies. American Anthropological
Association.
Discussant. Dynamics of The Viking Age and Early Medieval Scandinavia: A New Look
at Sources and Societies. American Anthropological Association.
1995 Rural Stratification and Swine Production in Iowa: A Comparative Perspective. Society for
Applied Anthropology.
(With Kendall Thu) Contested Commoditization: Power, Policy, Rhetoric, and Forms of
Swine Production in the United States. Society for Economic Anthropology.
(With Kendall Thu and others) Organized, planned, got funding for, and participated in the
Scientific Workshop on Understanding the Impacts of Large-Scale Swine Production. June
29-30. Des Moines, IA.
Social Consequences of Large Scale Swine Production. Scientific Swine Workshop June
29-30, Des Moines.
(With Kendall Thu, Randy Ziegenhorn, John McNutt, Grant Allison, and Steve Padgitt)
Networking Among Independent Swine Producers: Practical Applications of Social
Science Research. Panel for The Association for Farming Systems Research-Extension.
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Class, Policy, and Culture: Signal Distortion and Culture Formation in State Agricultural
Policy. American Anthropological Association.
1996 Presentation and discussant for the Democratic Policy Council on issues of Industrialization
of Agriculture in Iowa. Iowa City.
Discussant for the session Managing the European Commons: The Environment. Tenth
International Conference of Europeanists. Council for European Studies (invited).
Organized the session, Institutional Contexts for the Production of Knowledge: A Role for
Applied Anthropology. Society for Applied Anthropology.
(with Kendall Thu) Damned If You Do; Damned If You Don't. Society for Applied
Anthropology.
Pigs and Politics: The Industrialization of the Swine Industry in Iowa. University of Iowa
Geography Colloquium.
Testimony before Illinois legislative hearing on Livestock Waste Management Facilities
Act. August 2, 1996.
Current Directions in Cultural Anthropology. (invited) American Anthropological
Association.
Performance, Politics, and Literature in Medieval Iceland. American Anthropological
Association.
Discussant for the session Folk Management and Local Knowledge: Policy and Practice in
Sustainable Resource Use and Management. American Anthropological Association.
(with Randy Ziegenhorn and Kendall Thu) The Politicized Pig: Politics and Progress in
Iowa Agriculture. American Anthropological Association.
(with Kendall Thu) The Politics of Swine Research: Examples from Iowa. 59th Annual
Meeting of the Rural Sociology Society.
1997 On the Importance of Ethnography--Snagged in the System: Models and Realities of
Shrimping in Mississippi. Invited Lecture. Anthropology Colloquium. Pennsylvania State
University.
Organized session for Society for Applied Anthropology: Viewpoints on the Anthropology
of Unions in the U.S.
Viewpoints in a Union Local. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology.
(with Kendall Thu) Policy Models and Practical Matters in Industrial Swine Production in
Iowa. Invited for Modeling the world: Policy Ramifications for Fishers, Farmers, and
Scientists. Society for Political Ecology.
Views of a Union: Stewards, Staff, and Members. Paper presented at the meeting of the
Central States Anthropological Society.
Presentation to the Iowa City Sierra Club on Industrial Swine Production.
Since 1993 Kendall Thu and I have made a number of presentations before the County
Zoning Commissioners, Association of County Officials, Association of County Health
Officials, and other government, private, and environmental groups.
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How Households are Different from Firms and Why it is Important. Society for Rural
Sociology.
How Staff, Stewards, and Members see Their Union Local. Presented to the Labor Studies
Colloquium, Penn State University.
A Shower of Rain: Marshall Sahlins’s Stone Age Economics Twenty-Five Years Later.
American Anthropological Association.
1998 Meritocratic Individualism Among Middle and Working Class Union Members. Paper
presented at the Central States Anthropological Society.
Organized the session: Anthropologists and Activists for Society for Applied Anthropology.
Anthropology and Labor Unions. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Convener of session, Anthropology and Policy. Society for Applied Anthropology.
The Abstract, The Concrete, The Political and the Academic: Anthropology And a Labor
Union in the U.S. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
Organized the session: Anthropology and Policy for the American Anthropological
Association.
Discussant for panel: The Dual Roles of Labor Union Activist and Anthropologist:
Challenges and Contradictions. American Anthropological Association.
1999 Organized the session: Changing Relations among Workers, Unions, and Management for
the Society for Applied Anthropology
Structure and Cognition: Workers’ Models of their Union. Paper presented at the meeting of
the Society for Applied Anthropology
Organized the session: Anthropology of Unions: Local, National, International. For the
Central States Anthropological Society.
Reciprocity and Power in a US Union Local. Paper presented at the meeting of the Central
States Anthropological Society.
Organized the session: Ethnography in the Central States for the American Anthropological
Association meetings.
2000 Hog Calling. Presentation to the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Association for
Sustainable Agriculture
Testimony before Maryland Legislature on Industrial Swine Issues—3/9/2000
Organized Session: Anthropology and Unions: Images and Realities for Society for
Applied Anthropology
Views of Membership and Leadership in a Chicago Union Local. Paper presented to
Society for Applied Anthropology.
Discussant: Fishing for Success: The Search for Community-Based Solutions to Fisheries
Crises. Society for Applied Anthropology.
Discussant: Workshop on Anthropology and Policy. Society for Applied Anthropology.
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Organized Session: Anthropology and Unions for Central States Anthropological Society
meetings.
Anthropology and Unions. Paper presented at the Central States Anthropological Society
meetings.
2001 Community Supported Agriculture in Central Pennsylvania. Society for Applied
Anthropology.
Program organizer (with Judith Marti) of meeting of Society for Economic Anthropology,
Milwaukee on labor.
Ethnography: The Global and the Local. American Anthropological Association.
Comments on Work, Class, Anthropology and Anthropologists—Discussion of Session in
Memory of Herb Applebaum at the American Anthropological Association.
2002 Consumption/Globalization. Culture and Agriculture/Culture and Environment Meeting on
Public Policy. Athens, GA. September.
Obligation, Power, and Programs in Union Locals. American Anthropological Association.
Discussant for session on fisheries. American Anthropological Association.
(with Suzan Erem) Anthropology and Unions. Chicago Association of Practicing
Anthropologists. December 15.
2003 (with Suzan Erem) Roundtable on Labor Studies. Central States Anthropological Society
Discussant. Session on Global Processes. Society for Applied Anthropology
Organized-Double session on New Approaches to Class for AAA meeting for General
Anthropology Division.
Program Chair. 2003 meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society.
2004 (with Suzan Erem) Roundtable on Labor Studies. Central States Anthropological Society.
Organized session on Anthropology and Labor for AAA meeting in San Francisco
(Canceled because of the Hilton’s lockout of Unite Here Local 2)
Points of View and the Importance of Striking. Society for Applied Anthropology.
Organized session on labor unions for Society for Applied Anthropology.
2005 Organized double session on anthropology and labor unions for Society for Applied
Anthropology.
Organized a session on the anthropology of labor unions for Central States Anthropological
Society.
Organized a round-table on anthropology and labor union research for Central States
Anthropological Society.
Discussant for Society for Cultural Anthropology’s Labor Forum in Atlanta
Discussant in policy forum on labor at meeting of Society for Applied Anthropology.
Discussant for the film, Salt of the Earth, Society for Applied Anthropology (by invitation).
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REVIEWING
I have reviewed proposals and manuscripts for Environmental Health Perspectives, Journal of
Environmental Economics and Management, American Ethnologist, Current Anthropology,
American Anthropologist, Journal of Anthropological Research, Arctic Anthropology,
Quantitative Anthropology, Science Magazine, Human Organization, Human Ecology,
Scandinavian Studies, Culture and Agriculture, Peasant Studies, Journal of Asian Studies,
International Regional Science Review, University of Northern Illinois Southeast Asia
Studies Center, National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada, National Endowment for the Humanities, Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research, Social Problems, American Sign Language Quarterly, Ohio
University International Studies Center, State University of New York, National
Geographic Foundation, American Scandinavian Foundation, Pelagic Fisheries Research
Program of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Georgia Sea Grant Program, National
Marine Fisheries Service, Plains Anthropologist, Mayfield, Holt, Rinehart and Winston;
University of Iowa Press, University of Hawai’i Press, University of Oklahoma Press,
McGill-Queen’s University Press, Taylor and Francis Books Ltd., Science, Mc-Graw Hill,
National Academy of Science, and several commercial publishing houses.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE
With Steve Wieting, I wrote a proposal in 1983 for a University of Iowa-University of Iceland
exchange program, which was accepted, funded, and has been implemented.
Department Service, University of Iowa
Summer, 1994, 1995 Acting Chair
Fall, 1994 Acting Chair
Colloquium Organizer 1991-1996
Undergraduate advisor 1973-1976; 1977-1984; 1985-1987; 1990-1996.
PhD program revision committee, chair. 1995-96.
MA program revision committee. 1995-96
Computer committee. 1990-1994.
University Service, University of Iowa
Faculty Senate. 2 terms.
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Assembly.
Research Council. 2 terms.
Committee C (human subjects review). 2 terms.
Ad hoc committee to review Faculty Development Leave Proposals.
International Student Committee.
Committee to review International Studies.
Committee to review Rhetoric Program.
Public Information Committee.
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Faculty Welfare Committee.
Bylaws Committee.
Ad hoc committee to review Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer Proposals.
Coordinating Committee of the Iowa Center for Agricultural Safety and Health. Two terms.
Board of fellows of the School of Religion.
Executive Board, Visual Scholars Program, College of Education.
Department Service, Penn State
Chair, Sociocultural Recruitment Committee
Member, Archaeology Recruitment Committee
Promotion and Tenure Committee
Graduate Affairs Committee
University Service, Penn State
Faculty Senate Alternate