CURRICULUM VITA
(Revised 5/2012)
G. ALEXANDER MOORE
BIRTHPLACE:
Manila, Philippines, Citizenship USA
PARENTAGE:
Son of Rear Admiral Granville A. Moore USN-RET, b.
1905,
Lexington,
Virginia,
d.
1983,
St.
Petersburg, Florida, and of Emily Woodward Moore,
b. 1905, Lexington, Virginia, d. 1991, St.
Petersburg, Florida.
PRESENT POSITION:
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Professor (courtesy appointment)
Department of Spanish
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California 90089-0032
EDUCATION:
B.A. 1958
Harvard College, cum laude, (Major: History
and Literature of Spain, England, Russia
since 1800). Honors thesis: "Liberals of the
Spanish Republic, 1931-36"
M.A. 1963 Columbia University, Masters
Guatemalan
Plantation
System
in
Perspective," 208 pp.
essay "The
Historical
Ph.D 1966 Columbia University, Dissertation:
"Social
and Ritual Change in a Guatemalan Town," 380 pp.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 2
ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELD WORK:
Total of 22 months in Alotenango, Guatemala in four field
trips from 1960-1968, sponsored under grants no. 4. 5.
and 6 below.
San Blas District, Panama, as principal investigator of the
NSF grant listed below (no. 2).
Trip
to the Republic of Panamá. 13-29 Feb. 1996, to
videotape a Kuna female coming-of-age ceremony on the
island community of Playón Chico in San Blas district
(Kuna Yala).
Trip to Panamá, R.P., to study the urban Kuna, July-August
2000. Repeated June-July 2001; July-August 2003, JulyAugust 2005, November-December 2008.
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS:
1. Zumberge grant to study the urban Kuna of Panama, summers
2000, 2001: $14,569.
2.
Haynes Foundation Summer
Guatemala, 1984. $3,000
Grant
for
Research
in
3.
Research Grant: "Consensus as the Mechanism of SelfGovernment: A Case Study of the San Blas Cuna Indians."
National Science Foundation Grant No. BNS76-11900,
funding period: September 1976 through February 1979.
Total: $62,400
4.
Grant-in-Aid, "Program for Increasing Educational
Research at Emory University," for released time and
clerical help, 1968-69, U.S. Office of Educational
Grant No. OE 6, 2-6-062707-2127
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 3
5.
Public Health Service Research Grant MH-10151-01 (NIMH
Grant Attachment) May 1964-September 1965
6.
NIMH Career Development Fellowship, F1 MH-17, 155-03
September 1961 through September 1966
7.
U.S. Exchange Fellowship for
January 1959 to February 1961
8.
Harvard College Scholarship, 1955-1958
9.
NSF, Emerging Conflict Structures Among the Guatemalan
Indians, February 1985 (not funded).
study
in
Guatemala,
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
1.
Positions Held:
Professor
of
Anthropology,
University
California, 1978 to present
of
Southern
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida,
1969-1978
.
Assistant Professor of Educational Studies and Anthropology,
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967-1969
Consultant, Regional Curriculum Study Project, Federal and
Southeastern States, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968-69
Lecturer, NDEA Institute of Advanced Study
Teaching Disadvantaged Youth, Atlanta, Georgia,
1965-67
Instructor of Educational Studies and Anthropology, Emory
University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965-67
Curriculum Research Assistant, Project TRUE (Teaching
Resources for Urban Education), Hunter College,
New York, Summer 1964
Research Assistant, New York School of Social Work,
February-September 1961
2.
Other Professional Experiences:
Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, University of
Southern California, June 1980 to December 1986,
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 4
July 1995 to August 2001. Interim Chair September
2009-June 2010.
Acting
Chairperson,
Department
of
University of Florida, 1970-71
Anthropology,
Graduate Coordinator, Department of Anthropology,
University of Florida, 1969-70, 1971-73
TEACHING
1.
University Courses Taught:
A.
University of Florida:
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Anthropology and
Modern Life; Anthropology of Religion; Social
Organization; Peoples of Latin America; Cultural
Revitalization;
Political
Anthropology;
Applied
Anthropology;
Anthropology
and
Education;
Urban
Anthropology;
Graduate:
Seminar versions of many of these same topics, including
Directed Culture Change; Culture and Community;
National Integration in Latin America; Ritual and
Symbolic Systems; Cross-cultural Study of Law;
B.
University of Southern California:
Undergraduate:
Principles of Human Organization, Native Peoples of Mexico
and Central America, Ethnographic Film Analysis;
Exploring Culture Through Film; Family and Kinship in
Cross-cultural Perspective; Peoples and Cultures of
Latin America,
History of Anthropological Theory;
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 5
Politics,
Social
Organization
and
Law;
Symbolic
Anthropology; Urban Anthropology; Seminar on the Nature
of Maya Civilization; Seminar on Constitutions and
Social Organization. Thematic Option Honors Program,
Core 103: the Process of Change in Science; Arts and
Letters Progam, Dictators: Consent and Coercion.
Graduate:
Ethnological Theory I & II. Ethnographic Film Analysis.
Ethnographic Field Methods. Urban Anthropology.
C. University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate Honors Colloquiam, Physical Foundations for a
Unified Social Science, Richard Baum, coordinator,
Fall, 1988,(taught by an informal and ongoing Seminar
in Systems Physics and the Social Sciences, see below).
2.
Doctoral Dissertations Directed
Dougherty, Molly C., "Maturation and Motherhood:
Becoming
Woman in Rural Black Culture," University of Florida,
1973.1
Brana-Shute, Gary, "Streetcorner Winkels and Dispersed
Households: Male Adaptation to Marginality in a Lower
Class Creole Neighborhood in Paramaribo," University of
Florida, 1974.2
Johnson, Thomas Malcolm, "The New Curer: Anthropological
Perspectives
in
the
Training
of
Physician's
Assistants," University of Florida, 1975.
Werge, Robert W., "Agricultural Development in Clear Creek:
Adaptive Strategies and Economic Roles in a Domininican
Settlement," University of Florida, 1975.
1.
Published as a book:
Becoming a Woman in Rural Black
Culture, New York: Holt Rinehart, 1978
2.
Published as a book: On the Corner: Male Social Life in
a Paramaribo Creole Neighborhood. Studies in Developing
Societies Series, Amsterdam: van Gorcum, 1978, republished: Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press,
1990.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 6
Sapp, Richard W., "Suwanee River Town, Suwanee River County:
Political Moieties," University of Florida, 1976.
Ardevol, Elisenda, "La
Mirada
antropología de la Mirada,"
Barcelona. 1995.
Antropológica
o
la
Universidad Autónoma de
Lachter, Rebecca, "Distant Cousins: the Relationship between
Jews from the Former-Soviet Union and American Jewish
Voluntary Associations in Los Angeles," Department of
Anthropology,
University
of
Southern
California,
December, 1995.
Rowe, Stacy, "Practicing Policy and Making Myths: Applied
Anthropology and Homeless Service Delivery in Glendale,
California," Department of Anthropology, University of
Southern California, May, 2000.
White, C. Todd, “Out Of Many…: A Social History of The
Homosexual Rights Movements Originated And Continued in
Los Angeles, California,” Anthropology, University of
Southern California, May, 2005.3
Cuevas, Claudia, "Organizational Development and Coalition
Building
Among
Domestic
Violence
Agencies
in
California; Conflict and Compromise between Grassroots
Groups and Established Institutions," Anthropology,
University of Southern California, May, 2006.
Fitzsimmons, Jeanne Marie, “Negotiating Modernity: Power,
Gender, and Education in North India,” Anthropology,
University of Southern California, May, 2006l
Rousso-Schindler, Stephen, “Israeli and Palestinian National
Narratives: National and Individual Constructions,
Social
Suffering
Narratives,
and
Everyday
Performances,” Anthropology, Universty of Southern
California, May, 2007.
3a. Doctoral supervision, anthropology, USC
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Armida Ayala,
Manuel
Fernández,
Joseph
Hawkins,
Department
of
Anthropology.
3b. Doctoral supervision, other disciplines, USC
3 Accepted for publication as a book, University of Illinois Press, 2009 forthcoming.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 7
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Pascal B.
Ndengejeho, "An Analysis of Attitudes toward the
National Reform of Education in Rwanda." Department of
Educational Policy, Planning and Administration, USC,
October 18, 1983. (Although I was the official "outside
member" of this doctoral committee, the chair, Dr. Wm.
Rideout, was in Africa in the final round, and I
informally stood in for him.)
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Susan Silbert,
"Making it to the Top: A Study of Black Partners in
Major Law Firms," 1985, Department of Sociology, Carol
Warren, chair.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Normita Recto,
"Cultural Analysis from a Native-View Perspective: An
Ethnographic Study of Air Traffic Controllers," 1985,
School of Public Administration, Wesley Bjur, chair..
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Nancy K.
Walsack,
"Curriculum
for
the
Gifted,"
doctorate
granted, January 1987, Department of Curriculum and
Instruction, Dr. Frances Klein, Committee chair.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Nicholas
Dimmitt, "Language Choice and Language Use in the
Armenian Education System: The Impact of Indepence on
Educational Langauge Policy in the Republic of
Armenia," Department of International Education. May,
1994.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Nikkie Ama
Okuwa, "The Effectiveness of the USC Upward Bound
Program in Student Achievement: An Ethnographic Study"
College of Education, Fall 1994.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Lawrence
Powell, "Capturing the Complexity of Economic Growth in
the Ancient Past," Department of Economics, Fall 1994,
Richard Day, chair.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee, Doris Pierce,
"Infant Space, Infant Time: Development of Infant
Interactions with the Physical Environment, One to
Eighteen Months," Department of Occupational Science,
May, 1996.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee, Susan Hirsch Knox,
"Play
and
Play
Styles
of
Preschool
Children,"
Department of Occupational Science, December, 1996.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 8
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee, Linda L. Florey,
"Summer
Camp
as
a
Transformative
Experience,"
Department of Occupational Science, July, 1997.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee, Robert Richmond
Stroupe, “The Role of the Regional University in
Development: a Case Study of the Asian Institute of
Technology,” College of Education, 1997.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee, Erma Blanche,
“Play and Process: the Experience of Play in the Life
of the Adult,” Department of Occupational Science,
1998.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee, Heidi McHugh
Pendleton,”Establishment and Sustainment of Friendships
of Women with Physical Disability: the Role of
Participaition
in
Occupation,”
Department
of
Occupational Science, 1998.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee, John Timothy
Denny, “A Study of chinese-Malysian Students’ Choices
of Attend a Private College, American University
Transfer Program,” College of Education, 1999.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Glenn M. Libby,
for the School of Religion, Program in Religion and
Social Ethics. “Trinity and Sexuality: a Christian
Sexual Ethics for the Third Millennium,” defended May
9, 2001.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Sofia Ruiz,
Department
of
Spanish,
Dissertation:
“Diálogos
textuales: cine, literatura, y testimoniales en América
Latina,” defended June 7, 2001.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Claudia Soria,
Department of Spanish, Dissertation:
“Los cuerpos de
Eva Peron.” (defended Dec. 17, 2001).
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Glenn Anthony
Akers, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School
of Education, doctoral project: “The Dawning of a New
Epoch in Educational Archaeology: Can GPR (Ground
Penetrating Radar) Be Used to Detect Archaeological
Artifacts Buried Beneath a Desert Terrain Environment?"
(2002).
Doctoral
Dissertation
Advisory
Committee
for
Afef
Benessaieh, “Global Society at the Margins: Civilizing
Civil Society? Indians, Women and Aliens in Chiapas,
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 9
1988-2000;” Department of International Relations,
University of Southern California, May, 2005.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Seda Ünsar,
“The
Endurance
of
Redistributive
Institutional
Structure: The Role of the Ottoman Ulema,”Department of
Political Science”, USC, May 2008.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Donald J.
Fogelberg, “A complex systems view of habit and its
impact on pressure ulcer risk in adults with spinal
cord injury,” Divison of Occupational Science, 2008.
Doctoral
Dissertation
Advisory
Committee
for
Angela
McCracken, “Beauty
has
a
price:
the
global
political economy of beauty among youth in
Guadalajara,
Jalisco,
Mexico,”
Department
of
International
Relations,
University
of
Southern
California, May, 2009.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for David A. Leary,
“Lived Experiences of Gay Men with HIV: Intersections
of Portraiture, Narrative and Engagement,” Division of
Occupational Science, May, 2011.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisory Committee for Clarissa
Saunders-Newton,
“Spirituality
and
Well
Being:
Mechanism of Transformation for African American
Women,” Division of Occupational Science, May, 2011.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 10
4. Masters supervision at USC:
Chair, visual anthropology master's committee
Wright, video thesis, "The Toured," 1991.
for
Julie
---for Mark Hornish, video thesis, "Belmont Tunnel,"
1992.
---for Scott Sterling, film thesis, "Natives," 1992.
---for Michael Kowalski, film thesis, "The Promisted
Land," 1993.
---for Karen Stellwagen, film thesis on Hmong Refugees,
1994.
---for Brian Bartelt, “Exploring the Universe Within:
Rave
(Counter)
Culture
and
Resistance
in
the
Technopagan Underground.” 1999.
----for Gisela Fosado, “Sex, Love, and Money in Cuba,
2006.
Chair, visual anthropology master's committee for Hispano
Duran.
Member visual anthropology master's committee for Lucien
Taylor, 1992; and Jennifer Rodes, 1992, Kaaren Shalom,
1995.
5. Other University of Florida Graduate Student Committees:
Served on graduate student supervisory committees for 15-20
students
a
year
in
the
departments
of
anthropology, history, psychology, social foundations
and education,. educational administration, and Latin
American Studies at masters and doctoral levels. (24
such committees in 1975-76)
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 11
SERVICE:
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
1.
Academic Committees, University of Florida:
Chairperson,
Curriculum
Committee,
Anthropology 1969-70, 1975-76
Department
Chairperson, Graduate Admissions and Financial
Department of Anthropology, 1969-70, 1971-73
Chairperson, Examinations
Anthropology, 1971-74
Committee,
Aid,
Department
Member, Financial Aid Committee, Center
American Studies, 1969-71, 1973-74
for
of
of
Latin
Member, Research and Development Committee, Center for
Latin American Studies, 1969-71, 1973-74
Member, Undergraduate Program
Latin American Studies,
1975-76
Committee, Center for
1969-73, Chairperson,
Member, Graduate Program Committee, College of Arts and
Sciences, 1972-73
Member, Executive Committee, College
Sciences, 1969-70, 1971-72
of
Arts
and
Member, Graduate Fellowship Committee, College of Arts
and Sciences, 1969-70, 1971-72
Member, Graduate School Fellowships Committee, 1971-72
2.
Academic Committees, University of Southern California
Council on Latin American Studies, 1978-1984
Letters, Arts and Sciences Committee on
Education, alternate delegate, 1978-79
General
Letters,
Arts
and
Sciences
General
Education
Subcommittee on Empirical Approaches, 1978-79,
1979-80
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 12
President's Advisory Committee on Culture Exchange with
Mexico, 1978-79
Search
Committee,
Department
of
Curriculum
Instruction, College of Education, 1979-80
and
Advisory Board, Joint Educational Project, Fall 1979
Wilderness
Semester
Steering
Committee,
College of Continuing Education, 1978-1979, 197980
Letters,
Arts
and
Sciences
Committee, Spring 1980
University Commencement
1979-80
Chair, Department
Spring 1980
Joint
of
Teaching
Marshall,
Anthropology
June
Excellence
Commencement,
Search
Committee,
Curriculum Committee, College of Continuing
Education and Letters, Arts and Sciences, 1979-80
Consultant,
Center
for
the
Humanities'
"Voluntarism in America," 1979-80
Project,
Faculty Salary Grievance Committee, Division of Social
Sciences and Communication, Spring 1981, Spring
1982; Chair, Spring 1990, Spring & Fall 1991.
Ad Hoc Committee on Bilingual Education, College of
Education, Fall 1980
Ad
Hoc Commission on an M.A. in American
Proposal, Graduate School, 1980-81
Culture
FASTEN (Faculty and Student Enrichment Conference)
Steering Committee, University Religious Life
Office, Spring 1982, Fall 1982 participant,
October 9, 1982
Advisory Board, Ethnic Studies Program, Letters, Arts
and Sciences, 1982
Advisory Board, Center for Hispanic Media, Letters,
Arts and Sciences, 1982
Graduate School NEH Faculty Grant Selection Committee,
1982
Program for Study of Women and Men in Society (SWIMS)
Personnel Committee, Spring and Fall 1982
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 13
Food for Thought Program, Office of Student Residential
Life, hosted seven freshmen for dinner, Fall
Semester, 1982, 1983, 1984
University Committee on Extended Education, Spring 1982
Search Committee, Study of Women and Men in Society
(SWIMS), (recruited Carol Jacklin to head Study of
Men and Women in Society [SWIMS], and Lois Banner
as Professor of History), Spring 1983
Search Committee, SWIMS, to fill a senior position in
Men's Studies, Fall 1983 (recruited
Walter
Williams)
Council of Deans, Academic Administration Workshop, to
study university governance, Fall 1983
Promotions and Tenure Committee, Division of Social
Sciences and Communications, 1983-1984
Ad Hoc Committee, Division of Humanities to Evaluate
the Associate Professors
of
the
Spanish
Department, Fall 1983
Ramón
Sender
and
Joaquín
Casalduero
Selection Committee,
Division
of
Spring 1984
Scholarship
Humanities,
Chair, Division of Social Sciences Promotion and Tenure
Committee, 1984-85
Co-director,
Institute
for
Urban
and
Applied
Anthropology, Department of Anthropology. 1980-84.
Member, Board of Directors, Faculty Center Association,
Spring 1986
Member, Selection Committee, Haynes Summer Faculty
Fellowships, USC Graduate School, Spring semester
1986
Member, Fulbright Foreign Area Fellowships Selection
Committee, USC Graduate School, Spring semester
1986
Member, Search Committee, for LAS Dean of
Sciences and Communications, Fall and
semesters 1986
Social
Spring
Chair, LAS Ad Hoc Committee to Review and Evaluate the
History Media Institute, Summer 1986
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 14
Member, Division of Humanities, Del Amo Funds Award
Committee, 1986-92.
Member,
University
Committee
Quincentennial, 1986
on
the
Colombian
Member, University Library Committee, Spring and Fall
1989.
Member, Boeckman Center Advisory Committee,
American Collections, 1986-present.
Department
of
Anthropology,
Center
for
Anthropology Committee, 1980- present
Latin
Visual
Chair, Department ad hoc committee on Promotions to
Professorial rank, 1989, 1990
Chair, Departmental committee
promotions, 1980-89.
on
evaluations
and
Member, Departmental search committee for a position in
primatology, 1990-91.
Member, Committee on USC's liaison with
Professor Jane Goodall, 1989-present.
Adjunct
Chair, Departmental Committee on the Doctoral Program,
1989-1990.
Member, University Committee on Appointment, Promotion,
and Tenure, Social Sciences/Professional Schools
Panel 1989-90.
Fellow,
Senior
Common
College, 1990-94..
Room,
Embassy
Residential
Chair, Division of Social Sciences and Communications,
Faculty Merit Review Appeals Committee, 1990-91.
Member, Division of Social Sciences and Communications,
Faculty Salary Grievance Committee, 1991-92.
Member, Division of Social Sciences and Communications,
Dean's Emergency Budget Advisory Committee, 1991-92.
Chair, Department Graduate Admissions Committee 1992present.
Co-chair, Academic Senate Committee on Internationalization of USC, 1993-95.
Member,
University
Education, 1994-96.
Committee
Member, Provost's Distinguished
Committee, 1996-present.
on
International
Visitor's
Selection
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 15
Member, USC
2005-06.
College
Humanities
Personnel
Committee,
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 16
ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE---TALKS AND LECTURES:
Guest speaker:
"Regional Planning and Indian Policy in
Panama,"
Multi-disciplinary Seminar on Development,
Professor Jeff Nugent, Instructor, November 9, 1978.
Department of Anthropological Seminar (Last Thursday Rites).
"Life in a Hammock: Doing Fieldwork Among the San Blas
Cuna," October 26, 1978.
Guest lecture, Anthropology
political anthropology.
201,
March
30,
1979,
on
Guest lecture, Anthropology
political anthropology.
363,
March,
27,
1979,
on
Lecture "Casting out and Controlling Evil Spirits and
Westerners:
Cuna
Indian
Diplomacy
and
Ritual
Exorcism," in the series, "The Modern Age: Historical
and Social Perspectives" sponsored by the Division of
Social Sciences and Communications, LAS, March 12, 1979
Anthropology departmental seminar, "The Cuna Indian Informe:
Celebrating the reincorporation of the traveler,"
cultural performance at USC, April 1979.
"Urban Villagers: Latin American Rural-Urban Migration and
Urban Squatments," UCLA Honors Collegium, "The City in
Historical Perspective", Winter Quarter, 1980 (February
21, 1980).
"The
Urban Villagers, Latin American Urbanization," a
lecture in the Honors Collegium, "The City in
Historical Perspective," UCLA Undergraduate Honors
Program, February 21, 1980.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 17
"Cuna Indian Admonitions in Social Drama," Roundtable in
honor of Victor Turner, Anthropology of Performance,
USC, February 29, 1980.
"Latin American Peasants, Revitalization Movements, and the
Maya Cruzob," MDA 428, Latin American Senior Seminar,
March 26, 1980.
"Ethics and Working with Cuna Indian Culture:
Cultural
autonomy vs. the benefits of modernization," Roundtable
Conversations, USC Faculty Center,April 23, 1980.
"Urban anthropology and education," EDCI 538, Curricula for
Cultural Pluralism,USC School of Education, April 28,
1980.
TALKS AND LECTURES, continued:
"Urban anthropology and the Regional Shopping Mall," Urban
Studies Consortium, Hobart and Wm. Smith Colleges,
Geneva, N.Y., May 22, 1980.
"Anthropology and a multi-cultural curriculum," Graduate
Workshop on Multi-Cultural Curricula, USC School of
Education, June 27, 1980.
"Interaction theory, behavioral anthropology, and film,"
Anthropology 475, Ethnographic Film Analysis, November
24, 1980.
"The Emergence and Burgeoning of a New Urban Institution:
The Shopping Mall in America," talk for senior
developers and bankers, sponsored by the Executive
Vice-President, First Interstate Bank, in the corporate
board diningroom, July 7, 1981.
"Social and psychological effects of violence: the Mayan
Indians
of
Guatemala,"
Quarterly
Staff
Meeting,
Alhambra Psychiatric Hospital, Azusa, CA, September 13,
1984.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 18
"The Aftermath of Insurgency, the Search for Reconciliation
and Guatemala's Indians," community seminar, Sierra
Royal Psychiatric Hospital, Azusa, CA, September 13,
1984.
"On occupation among primates" (illustrated, with Florence
Clark), In a symposium welcoming Jane Goodall to USC's
faculty, Jan 16, 1990.
"Parallels in Meaning and Orchestration of Occupation of
Human and Nonhuman Primates: Springboard to the
Aesthetic
World,"
(with
Florence
Clark),
In
a
Colloquium, "Celebrating the Familiar through Art and
Science," USC Dept. of O.T, March 9, 1990.
"Consensual Tribal Democracy and the Nation-state in
Panama," In a seminar on the problematic of democracy
in Latin America, Nora Hamilton, organizer, Southern
California Consortium on International Studies, March
13, 1990.
Series of lectures on Maya Civilization, USC Alumni
Association Tour: Yucatán--Land of the Ancient Maya,
March 23-April 5, 1990. I also wrote an extended
memorandum for the alumni tourists, "Identification of
the Sites We Visited by Period," April 8, 1990.
"Introduction" to "Occupation in Sculpture" by J. Seward
Johnson, Jr. (Sculptor in Bronze), Occupational Science
Symposium III: Ecology and Occupation, June 4, 1990.
"Aggression and Leadership as Occupations," USC Embassy
Residential College Fall Lecture Series, Florence Clark
organizer, October 5, 1990.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 19
"Occupational
Florence
Therapy,
November
A
Science: An Emerging Social Science" (with
Clark), Public Lecture, School of Occupational
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
5, 1992.
Workshop, "Occupational Science: the New Frontier for
Ocuppational Therapy Practice," with Florence Clark,
School of Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 6-7, 1992.
Talks here were:
"Symbolic Meaning of Occupation," Nov. 6, 1992,
"Cultural Variations in Occupation," Nov 6, 1992,
and, with Florence Clark:
"A Systems View of Occupaton:
Foundations and Values," and
Philosophical
"Narrative as a Practice and Research Practice,"
Nov 7, 1992.
"The
Maya Textiles of Guatemala: History, Function, and
Artistry in the Continuing Craft of Rafaela Godínez," a
benefit for Ms. Godínez at the home of Professor Rich
Sundeen and Rosie Sundeen, August, 1994, Repeat,
November 10, 1994, May 3, 1996.
"Internationalization at USC," a presentation
Academic Senate Retreat, August 26, 1994.
to
the
”Kunas A La Ciudad: procesos de urbanización,” talk and
Powerpoint presentation to the graduate faculty of the
Universidad de Santa María la Antigua, Panama, R. P.
July 7, 2001.
“Organización Social Kuna,” illustrated lecture to the
students of the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales,
Universidad de Santa María la Antigua, Panama, R. P.,
August 5, 2006.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 20
Co-founder
and
board
member,
Silverlake
Alliance
(neighborhood group concerned with planning, zoning,
housing and other issues)
Member,
Advisory
Committee,
Friends
of
Don
(candidate--an urban anthropologist--for Los
City Council, 13th Councilmanic District
Amador
Angeles
Small
group
discussion
leader,
Bilingual
education
workshops, Language Communication Institute at USC, for
LA Unified School District teachers, April 24 and May
22, 1982
Member of the Vestry, Congregation of St. Athanasius,
Cathedral of St. Paul (Episcopal), Echo Park, Los
Angeles, California, 1997-2003.
Member, Board, Canterbury, USC, Episcopal student group,
1997 to date.
NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Appointed to Malinowski Award Committee, Fall 1979
Chair, Malinowski Award Committee, Society
Anthropology, Fall 1980 to Fall 1984
for
Applied
Manuscript reviewer:
numerous manuscripts for American Anthropologist, American
Ethnologist, Current Anthropology, Human Organization,
Anthropology
and
Educational
Quarterly,
Urban
Anthropology, Annals of Tourism Research;
book length manuscripts for University of Florida
Press, University of Illinois Press, Gordon & Breach,
Routledge, SUNY Press, University of Pennsylvania
Press, Wesleyan University Press, and Free Press
Grant reviewer:
Foundation,
Foundation,
numerous proposals to National Science
NEH,
Canada
Council,
Guggenheim
MacArthur Fellowships Program.
Referee for academic appointments, promotions, and tenure:
Brigham Young University, UCLA, UCSD, University of
Florida, University of British Columbia, Syracuse
University, and others.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 21
National Panelist: NEH Review Panel, "Youth Grants" Program,
Washington, D.C., August 5, 1986.
Conference evaluator: "Constitutionalism and the Social
Imagination," A Conference sponsored by the Departments
of English, History, and Political Science and the
School of Law, UCLA, November 6 & 7, 1987. (I was the
official evaluator for the California Council of the
Humanities.)
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
Co-chairman and founder, Committee of Anthropologists for
Guatemalan Relief, following the disastrous February
4, 1976 earthquake, to channel relief funds through the
American Friends Service Committee with advice from
anthropologists and other social scientists. Total
raised by the committee as of September 1976: $25,000
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 22
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS, Sole Author
1964 Urban School Days: Observation in Elementary Schools.
Experimental edition.
New York:
Project True,
Hunter College
1967 Realities of the Urban Classroom:
Observations in
Elementary Schools. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books.
Hardcover, Praeger, 1967. 188 pp.
1973 Life Cycles in Atchalán:
The Diverse Careers of
Certain Guatemalans.
New York and London:
Teachers
College Press. Cloth and paper, 220 pp.
1978a Cultural Anthropology. New York: Harper and Row, 384
pp.
1978b
Instructor's
Manual
to
Accompany
Cultural
Anthropology. New York: Harper and Row, 89 pp.
1992a Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human
Beings, San Diego, California: Collegiate Press, 560 +
xv pp.
1992b Instructor's Manual to Accompany Cultural
Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings, San
Diego, California: Collegiate Press, 64 + vii pp.
1998 Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human
Beings, revised 2nd ed., San Diego, California:
Collegiate Press, 560 +
xvi pp.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 23
1999 Life Cycles in Alotenango: The Diverse Careers of
Certain Guatemalans, Ethnographics Monograph series,
12, Gary Seaman, ed., Ethnographics Press, University
of Southern California
(2nd revised version of 1973
book above, with a new preface, extensive updates in
footnotes and the text, and substitution of pseudonyms
with real names of persons and places).
In draft Jungle Book: Viewing the Yanomami in Print and
through the Camera, a study of the ethnographies of the
Yanomami Indians as seen in film contrasted with the
written portraits. ms. of 300 pp. completed to date.
In draft Flesh, Learning, and Power: A Chronicle of Some
Academic Friends (tentative title). A novel, completed
at 252 single spaced pp., being circulated to agents.
ARTICLES:
1969a
An Anthropological View of Urban Education.
Education and Urban Society 1(4):423-429.
(Reprinted
in: Educational Patterns and Cultural Configurations:
The Anthropology of Education.
Joan I. Roberts and
Sherrie K. Akinsaya, eds. New York: David McKay, 1976;
reprinted
in:
Readings in Educational Foundations.
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and reprinted in:
Faculty in Social and Philosophic Foundations in
Education.
School and Society:
Readings in Social
Foundations of Education.
Minneapolis:
College of
Education, University of Minnesota, 1976).
1969b
Las motivaciones de los maestros campesinos
voluntarios en un pueblo quatemalteco.
Anuario
Indigenista 29:225-239. México, D.F.
1973
The
Careers
Burnett,
American
Seattle:
Validation of the Ascribed Status: Gentry
in Guatemala. In S. T. Kimball and J. H.
eds., Learning and Culture: Proceedings of the
Ethnological Society, Spring 1972. pp. 97-114.
University of Washington Press.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 24
1978
Mayas y Cunas:
Ensayo Comparativo.
Revista
Patrimonio Histórico (Panamá) 2(1):73-114. (diciembre
1978).
Note: this publication actually appeared in
1980.
Reprinted:
Katunob.
A
Newsletter
Bulletin
on
Mesoamerican Anthropology 11(3):9-57.
(August 1979)
Museum of Anthropology, University of North Colorado,
Greeley, Colorado
1979
Initiation Rites in a Mesoamerican Cargo System:
Men and Boys, Judas and the Bull.
Journal of Latin
American Lore 5(1):55-81.
Translated and reprinted
"Ritos de Iniciación: de Cargos, Hombres y Muchachos,
Judás y el Toro," Suplemento Cultural de La Opinión,
(Los Angeles) 30 de marzo de 1980, 4-5
1980a
Planners,
Tourists,
and
Indians:
National
Planning, Regional Development Projects and the San
Blas Cuna. Practicing Anthropology. pp. 5,6, 19-20
1980b
Walt Disney World: Bounded Ritual Space and the
Playful Pilgrimage Center.
Anthropological Quarterly
53(4):207-218
1981
Basilicas and King Posts: A Proxemic and Symbolic
Event Analysis of Competing Architecture Among the San
Blas Cuna. American Ethnologist 8(2):259-277
1983a
Anthropology and Education in Mesoamerica Today.
In Heritage of Conquest Thirty Years Later.
Carl
Kendall, John Hawkins, and Laurel Bossen, eds., pp 135158. Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press.
Translated and reprinted: Antropología y educación en
Mesoamérica en la actualidad, En Carl Kendall, John
Hawkins, y Laurel Bossen, compiladores, La Herencia de
la Conquista: Treinta años después.
México, D.F.,
Fondo de Cultura Económico, 1986, pp. 148-71.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 25
1983b
Lore and Life: Cuna Indian Pageants, Exorcism and
Diplomacy in the 20th Century. Ethnohistory, 30(2):93106.
1984a
From
Council
to
Legislature:
Parliamentarianism, and the San Blas Cuna.
Anthropologist, 86(1):28-42.
Democracy
American
1984b
Peoples of the Old World Revisited: The Cultures
and Communities of Spain. In Culture and Community in
Europe: essays in honor of Conrad Arensberg, pp. 36-58.
Owen M. Lynch, ed.
Delhi:
Hindustan Publishing
Corporation;
and New York: Academic Press.
1984c
Obituary:
Solon Toothaker Kimball,
American Anthropologist, 86(2):386-393.
1909-1982.
1985a
The Form and Context of the Kuna General Congress,
In The Botany and Natural History of Panama:
la
Botánica e Historia Natural de Panamá, Wm. G. D'Arcy &
Mireya D. Correa, eds. St. Louis, Missouri: Missouri
Botanical Garden, pp. 333-343.
1985b
Rosanzerusu is Los Angeles: an Anthropological
Inquiry of Japanese Tourists.
Annals of Tourism
Research, 12:619-643.
1986a
(with Ronald D. LeBaron) The Case for a Haitian
Origin of the AIDS Epidemic. In The Social Dimensions
of AIDS: Method and Theory. Feldman, Douglas A. and
Thomas M. Johnson, eds. pp. 77-93. New York: Praeger.
1986b
Antropología y educación en Mesoamérica en la
actualidad, En Carl Kendall, John Hawkins, y Laurel
Bossen, compiladores, La Herencia de la Conquista:
Treinta años después. México, D.F., Fondo de Cultura
Económico, pp. 148-71. (Spanish edition of 1983
article.)
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 26
1987a
The Civilizing of San Pedro Sacatepequez: Further
Adventures in Dichotomous Thinking. Reviews in
Anthropology 14(2):123-126 (Spring).
1987b
Cuna Religion, In Mircea Eliade et. al eds.,
Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: The Free Press.
Vol. 4, pp. 179-181.
1988
The Limitations of Imagist Documentary: A Review
of Robert Gardner's "Forest of Bliss", Society for
Visual Anthropology Newsletter 4(2):1-3 (Fall).
1989
Symbolic Imperatives for a Democratic Peace in
Guatemala. In Conflict, Migration, and Expression of
Ethnicity.
Gonzalez, Nancie and Carolyn B. McCommon,
eds.
Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, pp.
28-48
1990a
Discipline or Profession:
Anthropology and its
Guilds. Reviews in Anthropology, 18:115-25.
1990b
Performance Battles: Progress and Mis-steps of a
Woman Warrior. Society for Visual Anthropology Review.
6(2):73-79.
1991
Reflexivity, the Big Man, and the Organization of
Productive Systems, In, Holmberg, Stig C. and Kjell
Samuelson, eds., Systems Science in the 21st Century:
Integrating the New Sciences of Complexity in Service
of Humans and their Environment, Vol. III, Proceedings,
International Society for Systems Science, Ostersund,
Sweden, June 14-20, 1991, pp. 143-9.
1994
A Maverick at Work IN Special Issue in Honor of
Conrad Arensberg, eds. Henderson, Carol & Brian
Ferguson. AnthroWatch 2(2):7-8. (Publication of the
Columbia Graduate Anthropology Alumni Association.)
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 27
1995
1995
La palabra y la imagen en cine documental y
etnográfico. In Imagen y Cultura: Perspectivas del Cine
Etnográfico Elisenda Ardevol y Luis Pérez Tolón, eds.
Granada (España): Diputación Provincial de Granada,
Biblioteca de Etnología, pp. 301-24.
Understanding Event Analysis Using the Films of
Timothy Asch, Visual Anthropology Review, 99(1):38-52.
1996
Feasting as Occupation: The Emergence of Ritual
from
Every-Day
Activities, Occupational
Science:
Australia 3(1):5-15 (April).
1997
The Fiesta de San José de Narganá: Symbolic
Syncretism And Persistence Among the San Blas
Kuna, IN Salvador, Mari Lyn, ed. The Art of Being
Kuna: Layers of Meaning among the Kuna of
Panama,Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Culture
History, pp. 278-85.
2001
"Panama," IN Countries and Cultures, Carol and
Melvin Ember, eds., New York: Macmillan Co. pp.
1719-26.
2006
"Human Activity and a Theory of Schooling: an
Assessment
of
Solon
Kimball's
Anthropology
of
Education," IN Jill Cherneff and Eve Hochwald, eds.,
Visionary Observers: Foundations of Anthropology and
Education. University of Nebraska Press, pp. 167-194.
2008 “Foreword,” In, Normita G. Recto and Nanette G. Dunog,
eds. Discourse, Symbols, and Meanings in Organizational
Culture, Asian Studies Center, University of the
Philippines, Manila. pp.x-xv.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 28
In draft “Happily Ever After? Reflections on Maurice,” an
18 pp. single-spaced essay on the problematics of gay
marriage as seen through the pioneering lens of E.M
Forster’s novel Maurice, written in 1912-13, but
published posthumously in 1971. The essay considers the
book in the light of the Merchant-Ivory film version
(1987). Upon th
EXCERPTS FROM PUBLISHED BOOKS PRINTED IN EDITED VOLUMES:
1976a
Alternative Attempts at Instruction in Atchalán.
In Schooling in the Cultural Context: Anthropological
Studies in Education. Joan I. Roberts and Sherrie K.
Akinsaya, ed., New York: David McKay.
1976b
Realities of the Urban Classroom. In Schooling in
the Cultural Context:
Anthropological Studies of
Education.
Joan I. Roberts and Sherrie K. Akinsaya,
eds., New York: David McKay.
1996
The Band Community: Synchronizing Human Activity
Cycles for Group Cooperation, In Occupational Science:
the Evolving Discipline, Ruth Zemke and Florence Clark,
eds. pp. 95-106 (edited version of Chapter 5,Cultural
Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings,1992).
MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS:
1978a
"Preface", On the Corner: Male Social Life in a
Paramaribo Creole Neighborhood. Studies in Developing
Societies Series, Amsterdam: van Gorcum, 1978, republished: Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press,
1990, pp. vii-viii.
1978b
Commentary (with Paul Doughty) In Social Science
Education for Development, William T. Vickers and Glenn
R. Howze, eds., pp. 95-116.
Tuskegee Institute,
Alabama:
Center for Rural Development, Tuskegee
Institute.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 29
1980
"Holiday on Parade,"
Angeles), December, p. 16.
The
USC
1987
Perspective:
The Modern Marketplace:
The
contemporary shopping mall's beginnings--and in some
respects, its future--can be traced to the ancient
plazas of Latin America.
South West Airlines Spirit,
February, pp. 14, 16.
1994a
Internationalization and Latin
Academic Senate Forum.May, pp.
Chronicle
America
at
(Los
USC.
1994b
Internationalization at USC: a White Paper.
Academic Senate Forum.September/October, pp. 1, 4-8.
VIDEO:
1981
"The Shopping Mall as Marketplace," directed a 15minute video tape on one farmer's market and two
regional and specialty shopping malls in Southern
California.
1992
"Ruinas
y
Vidas:
Sitios
Mayas
y
Turismo
Universitario," Spanish language rough cut shown at the
Primera Muestra Internacional, Cine Etnológico de
América y Andalucía, Granada, Centro de Investigaciones
"Angel Ganivet," October 6, 1992.
1992
"Ruins and Lives: Mayan Sites and Trojan Tourism,"
longer English language version of work shown above.
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT:
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 30
1997
"The Inna Suid, Photographs from a Girls' Coming
of Age, Community Feast and Drinking Bout among the
Kuna of Panama," Doheny Memorial Library Treasury Room,
Dec. 1997-January 1998, Exhibit organized by Alexander
Moore, photographs by Levon Mardikyan. Sponsored by the
Center for Visual Anthropology and the Boeckmann Center
for Iberian and Latin American Studies, USC. REPEATED,
Field Museum of Natural History, spring 2000.
BOOK REVIEWS:
1968
The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism
Birth of the Self, by Bruno Bettleheim.
World.
1974
193.
and the
Catholic
Greek Burial Customs, by Donna C. Kurtz and
John Boardman. American Anthropologist 76(1):192-
1977
Echalar and Murélaga: Opportunity and Rural
Exodus in Two Spanish Basque Villages, by William A
Douglass. American Anthropologist 79(1):155-156.
1978
Enculturation in Latin America: An Anthology by
Johannes Wilbert, ed. American Anthropologist.
1981a
Ananda Cooperative Village:
A Study in the
Beliefs, Values and Attitudes of a New Religious
Community by Ted A. Nordquist. American Anthropologist
83(3):1981.
1981b
The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical
Communities in 20th Century America by Lawrence
Veysey, American Anthropologist 83(4):981.
1983
Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology, George
Gmelch and Walter P. Zenner, eds., and Urban Place and
Process:
Readings in the Anthropology of
Cities,
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 31
Irwin Press and M. Estellie Smith, eds., Urban
Anthropology.
1987
Edward Muybridge in Guatemala, 1875:
The
Photographer as Social Recorder, E. Bradford Burns,
Berkeley:
University of California Press (1986).
Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter, 3(1&2):1012 (Summer).
1988
Mirror
and
Metaphor:
Material
and
Social
Constructions of Reality. Daniel W. Ingersoll, Jr. and
Gordon Bronitsky, eds.
Lanham,
MD:
University
Presses of America, 1987, 432 pp. American
Anthropologist 90(4):996.
1990
"Quandaries on the Field of Honor: a review of
Image Ethics: the Moral Rights of Subjects in
Photographs, Film, and Television," Larry Gross, John
S. Katz, and Jay Ruby, eds., New York: Oxford
University Press. 382 pp., Anthropology and Humanism
Quarterly.
1992
Kilowatts and Crisis: Hydroelectric Power and
Social Dislocation in Eastern Panama. by Alaka Wali,
Boulder: Westview Press, 1989, 205 pp. American
Ethnologist.
1992 The Circle of Life: Rituals from the Human Family
Album. David Cohen, ed. San Francisco, CA: Harper,
1991. 248 pp. American Anthropologist
2005 Stories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians.
Edited and translated by Joel Scherzer, illustrated by
Olokwagdi of Akwanusudup. Austin: University of Texas
Press,
248
pp.
IN
Journal
of
Latin
American
Anthropology 10:1,pp.252-4 (April 2005).
2011 Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers: Kuna Culture from
Inside and Out. James Howe. Austin, TX: University of
Texas Press, 2009. 312 pp. American Anthropologist •
Vol. 113, No. 4 • December 2011, 678-9
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 32
FILM REVIEWS:
1979
The Children of Sanchez, in Savicom Newsletter
(Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication)
7:3, p. 21, Spring-Fall
1987
Señor Turista: Encounters at Lake Titicaca (Señor
Turista:
Begegnungen Am Titicacasee), Gerlinda Bohm,
West Germany, 86 min.
Catalogue Anthropos '87, The
Barbara Myerhoff Film Festival, p. 48,
1987
1988
1988
Exilio, Luis Perez Tolon, USA, 29 min. Ibid.p.40.
Carnaval de Pueblo, IN Anthropos 88: International
Festival of Documentary Film, December 1-8, Los Angeles
(Catalogue), p. 21.
The Miracle of the Holy Blood.
Ibid. p. 24
1990
Powerhouse for God, 1989, produced
Dornfeld, Tom Rankin, and Jeff Titon.
Anthropologist.
1991
Byline: Not in Front of the Tourists, by Robert
Chesshyre, Bristol, BBC Enterprises, 1988, 50 min.,
Annals of tourism Research, 18:682-686.
1993
Gathering Up Again:
Fiesta in Santa Fe. 1992.
46:35 minutes, color. A film by Jeanette DeBouzek and
Diane Reyna.
Island of Saints and Souls.
color. A film by Neil Alexander.
1991.
by Barry
American
29
minutes
Saturday Market: A New American Town Square.
1991. 30 minutes, color. A video by Bill Goldsmith. AMERICAN
ANTHROPOLOGIST.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 33
2009 Huele de Noche---Night Blooming Jasmine: Santa Clara
del Cobre, Michoacán, México. Directed by Michele
Feder-Nadoff, 2005, 33 minutes,
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
REVIEW, 2009.
ACADEMIC PAPERS:
1.
"An
anthropological
view
of
urban
education,"
Conference on Urbanization, Work and Education, NDEA
Institute for Advanced Study in Teaching Disadvantaged
Youth, Chicago, April 15, 1967
2.
"Old and New Patterns of Leadership in a Guatemalan
Town," Annual Meeting,
American
Anthropological
Association, Washington, D.C., December 3, 1967
3.
"Formal Education in a Guatemalan Peasant Community:
An Example of Acculturation
in
Reverse,"
Carnegie
Seminar, Department of Government, University
of
Indiana, May 6, 1968
4.
"The Case for Anthropological Popularization:
Timely
Points and Enduring Ethnography in Mead's Growing Up in
New Guinea,"
Southern Anthropological Society, Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, March 15, 1969
5.
"Las
motivaciones
de
los
maestros
campesinos
voluntarios en un pueblo guatemalteco,"
Society
for
Applied Anthropology, plenary session, Mexico,
D.F.,
April 1969
6.
"The Aztec 'Empire' as a Federative Monarchy," American
Society for Ethnohistory, October 25, 1971
7.
"Ritual as a Symbolic Replication of Politics:
A
Guatemalan Case,"
Annual
Meeting,
American
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 34
Anthropological Association, New York
21, 1971
City,
November
8.
"The Validation of Ascribed Status: Gentry Careers in
Guatemala," American Ethnological Society, plenary
session, Montreal, Quebec, April 1972 (Invited paper)
9.
"The Form of Rational Pilgrimage Center:
Passage, Symbolism, and Land Use at Disney
Southern Anthropology Society, April 1, 1976
10.
"Analisis Comparativo de la estructura de la comunidad
Maya-Cakchiquel
con
la
comunidad
Cuna,"
Serie,
"Investigadores en Panamá," Museo del Hombre Panameño,
Patrimonio Histórico de Panamá,
Panamá,
R.P.,
25
octubre, 1977
11.
"The Natural History and Theoretical Implications of a
Short-lived Phenomenon: Anthropologists for Guatemalan
Relief," Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida,
Yucatan, April 1978
12.
"Planificación
y
política
acostumbrada
para
el
desarrollo de la comarca de San Blas," Society for
Applied Anthropology, Mérida, Yucatán, April 1978.
13.
"The
Cuna
Congress
House:
Its
Proxemics
and
Symbolism," American Anthropological Association, 77th
Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, November 1978.
14.
"The Cargo System and its Relation to Extra-Community
Changes," Colloquium on Religious Change in Latin
America Today, Center for Latin American Studies,
California State University at Long Beach, November 14,
1978.
Ritual
World,"
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 35
15.
"Anthropology and Education in Mesoamerica Today,"
XLIII International Congress
of
Americanists,
Vancouver, B.C., August 16, 1979.
16.
"National Planning and Development among the San Blas
Cuna," 25th Annual Meeting, Pacific Coast Council on
Latin American Studies, October
18,
1979,
Chico,
California.
17.
"The Modern Metropolitan Shopping Mall: Rebirth of the
Archaic
Marketplace," 78th Annual Meeting, American
Anthropological Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, November
30, 1979.
18.
"The Natural History of the Cuna General Congress of
San Blas: Its Patterned Form and Comparative Context,"
A symposium "Botany and Natural History in Panama,"
sponsored by the Missouri Botanical Garden, the
Universidad de Panamá, and NSF, April 15, 1980, Panama
(Invited paper).
19.
"Metropolitan Shopping Malls:
Positive Nodes in the
Conurbation," Annual Meeting, American Anthropological
Association, Washington, D.C., December 4, 1980.
20.
"Cuna Indian Rules of Order and Robert's Rules of
Order."
Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied
Anthropology, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 13, 1981.
21.
"Metropolitan Shopping Malls and Archaic Marketplaces
Compared as Regional Systems." Annual Meeting American
Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, December 6,
1981.
22.
"Cycles of Time Among the Ancient and Modern Maya," In
Chronos and Menmosyne:
Time in Literature and the
Arts, A Symposium Sponsored by the Comparative
Literature Program, the Department of English, and the
Center for the Humanities, University of Southern
California, April 2, 1982 (Invited paper).
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 36
23.
"From Council to Legislature: the Formalization of the
San Blas Cuna General
Congress."
Symposium
"Indigenous Responses to Development and Change:
the
Kuna of Panama," 44th International Congress of
Americanists, Manchester, England, September 10, 1982.
24.
"Dreams and National Agency Plan in San Blas: A Utopian
Scenario." Symposium on Development and Panamanian
Indians, Philip Young
organizer.
Latin American
Studies Association, Mexico, D.F., September 30, 1983.
25.
"The Task Force as a Model for Academic Departments:
Explorations in the thought of Solon T. Kimball,"
Symposium, Culture, Community and Learning:
Contributions of Solon T. Kimball to Anthropological
Theory and Practice. Elizabeth M. Eddy, organizer,
Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association.
Chicago, Illinois, November 30, 1983.
26.
"The Code of a Coup:
U. S. Miscalculations in
Guatemala in 1954,"
Annual Meeting, Society for
Applied Anthropology, Washington, D. C., March 15,
1985.
27.
"Peace-making among Guatemalan Indians," In a symposium
"Anthropological
Perspectives
on
Peace
in
Guatemala and Peru," Paul L. Doughty, organizer,
sponsored by the I.U.A.E.S. Commission on
Peace,
Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association,
Washington, D.C., December 8, 1985.
28.
"Symbolic Imperatives for a Democratic Peace in
Guatemala", In a seminar, "The Symbolism of Conflict:
Central American and the Middle East," Center for
International Development and Conflict Management,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 21,
1986.
29.
"Social Time and Market Time:
Culture as a Social
Clocking
System,"
Annual
meeting,
Southern
Anthropological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, March 26,
1987.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 37
30.
"Native Bureaucrats as Cultural Missionaries:
Agency Agendas among the San Blas Cuna,"
Meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology,
Mexico, April 12, 1987.
Utopian
Annual
Oaxaca,
31.
"Harems
and
Bachelor
Groups:
an
Evolutionary
Perspective,"
Southwestern
Lecture
Series,
Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas, September
21, 1987.
32.
"Seminole and Cuna: a Controlled Comparison of Survival
and
Syncretism,
"Annual
Meeting,
Southern
Anthropological Association, Tampa, Florida, April 21,
1988.
33.
"A Theory of the Social Clock: Human activity spectrum
as process time,"
Second Occupational Science
Symposium, USC, April 28, 1989.
34.
"Narration in Ethnographic Film: The state of the art,"
"Eyes Across the Water," a conference of ethnographic
film, Amsterdam University, Netherlands, June 24, 1989.
35. "Magic Kingdom as Movieland Shrine," In a symposium,
"Magic Kingdoms: the Reality of an Illusion," Maria
Lidia Spinelli, organizer, Annual Meeting, American
Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November
16, 1989.
36. "Robert Altman's A Wedding as an ethnographic document."
A conference on visual anthropology at Manchester,
England, September 24, 1990.
37.
"Reflexivity, an Imperative in Productive Systems," In
a symposium "Homeokinetic (Self-organizing) Systems
Perspectives on Human Values and Activities." Annual
Meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology. Charleston,
S.C., March 13, 1991.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 38
38.
"Reflexivity, the Big Man, and the Organization of
Productive Systems," 35th Annual Meeting of the
International Society for Systems Science, Ostersund,
Sweden, June 14-20, 1991.
39.
"Dimensiones de analysis de un evento turístico: el
espacio,
el
tiempo,
y
vidas
de
turistas
universitarios," Primera Muestra Internacional, Cine
Etnológico de América y Andalucía, Granada, Centro de
Investigaciones "Angel Ganivet," October 6, 1992.
40.
"Event Analysis in the Films of Timothy Asch."
Filmforum:
Ethnologie
&
Dritte
Welt,
German
Anthropological Assoication, Freiburg, May 22, 1993.
41.
"The Implications of Event Analysis for the Documentary
Genre: The Films of Timothy Asch," IN The Works of
Timothy Asch: A Symposium, Gary Seaman, organizer and
Chair, Margaret Mead Film Festival and Timothy Asch
Retrospective, USC, March 18, 1993.
42.
"From Profane to Sacred Activities: an Analysis of The
Feast,"paper read before the Occupational Science
Symposium VIII: Toward a Philosophy of Occupation,
University of Southern California, March 31, 1995.
43.
"A Recurrent Pattern of Hotel-Land Crises among The San
Blas Kuna," IN a symposium "Confronting Capital:
Reaction and Re-identification," Buechler, Hans, and
Judith-Maria Buechler, organizers, Annual Meeting,
American Ethnological Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
April 20, 1996.
44.
"On Dyadic
Eulogy for
Arensberg,
York City,
Ties in the Education of Anthropologists:
a Mentor," Memorial Service for Conrad M.
St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, New
May 7, 1997.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 39
45.
"Visual Research and the Analysis of Visual Events: the
Inna Suid of the Kuna of Panama," sponsored by the
Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Latin
American Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA),
Pretoria, RSA, MAY 12, 1997.
46.
New Perspectives on the Emergence of Economics and of
the Superorganic, IN a symposium, "Culture as Emergent:
in Honor of Conrad Arensberg, Buechler, Hans, and
Judith-Maria Buechler, organizers, Annual Meeting,
American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.,
Nov. 22, 1998.
47.
Homeokinetics and the Emergence of the Superoganic:
Implications for the Emergence of Human Ecosystems. IN
1998
Homeokinetics
Conference,
University
of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT, July 25, 1998.
48.
Patterns of Urbanization among the Kuna of Panama.
Annual Meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology,
Atlanta, GA, March 2002.
49.
Jane Jacobs: Assessing a Policy Prophetess,” paper
delivered at the 65th annual meeting of the Society for
Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 6,
2005.
50.
“Kuna Participation in Panama City’s Historic Center,”
104th
annual
meeting,
American
Anthropological
Association, Dec. 1, 2005,Washington, DC.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 40
51.
“Jane Jacobs: Can Systems Theory Really Take on
Development Economics?,” paper delivered at the 66th
annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology,
Vancouver, British Columbia, March 31, 2006.
52.
“Whither the Inna Suid?: The Prospects of a Woman’s
Coming of Age Ceremony in Times of Change,” 13th Latin
American Symposium, Panama: Defending Indigenous Lands,
Language, and Culture, Museum of Man, San Diego, CA,
April 2, 2006.
53.
“Ethnographic Film and the Academy: Pioneers and One
Anthropological Film Program, a Reflexive Account,”
105th
Annual
Meeting,
American
Anthropological
Association, November 18, 2006.
LONGTERM INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR:
Invited participant in the Systems Physics and Social
Sciences Seminar, group of natural scientists and
social scientists, meeting periodically for all day
sessions on Saturdays; participants are drawn from USC,
UCLA, University of San Diego, and UC Irvine; seminar
organizer is Arthur Iberall of UCLA's
Department of Oral Biology:
1983-2000.
In Fall 1988 we taught a course in UCLA's Honors Colloquiam,
HC74, "A Unified Theory for the Social Sciences,"
Richard Baum, director.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 41
In Spring 1992, we presented a monthly seminar for the
doctoral
program
in
Occupational
Science,
USC,
"Activities and Complexity," under my direction.
SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED:
1.
"Symbols and Rituals as Determinants of Urban Settlement
Patterns," Southern Anthropological Society, Atlanta,
Georgia, April 1976.
2.
"Desarrollo y el Estado Actual de los grupos indígenas
del Este de Panamá," Society for Applied Anthropology,
Merida, Yucatan, April 1978
3.
"Organizing the Cosmos, Architectural Spaces and Ethnic
Territories
among
the
Southern
Circum-Caribbean
Tribes," Annual Meeting, American
Anthropological
Association, Los Angeles, November 1978.
4.
"The Urban System" (with William Schwab), Annual
Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Los
Angeles, December 6, 1981.
5.
"High Context Cultures and Implicit Codes: Differences
Hidden from Anglo-Americans," Annual Meeting, Society
for Applied Anthropology, Washington, D.C., March 15,
1986.
6.
"Homeokinetic (Self-organizing) Systems Perspectives on
Human Values and Activities." Annual Meeting, Society
for Applied Anthropology. Charleston, S.C., March 1317, 1991.
PAPERS AND SYMPOSIA DISCUSSANT (other than those organized):
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 42
"Social Science Education for Development." Annual Meeting,
Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Yucatan,
April 1978
"Anthropological Approaches to Life-Long Learning." Annual
Meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology, sponsored
jointly with the Council on Anthropology and Education,
November 17, 1978.
"New Approaches to the Analysis of Myth," Annual Meeting,
American Anthropological Association, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Dec. 1, 1980
"Symbolic Expression of Religious Time," Annual Meeting,
International
Society
for
Comparative
Study
of
Civilizations, Syracuse University, May 24, 1980.
"Architecture, symbolism and material culture," Annual
Meeting,
American
Anthropological
Association,
Washington, D.C., December 7, 1982.
G. Alexander Moore,C.V. rev. 3/2008, 43
LISTINGS:
American Men and Women of Science, 13th ed., New York:
Jacques Cattell
National Directory of Latin Americanists, 2nd ed., U. S.
Library of Congress
American Men and Women of Science. New York: Jacques
Cattell, 1977
Who's Who in America, 1986-present.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Anthropological Association (Fellow)
American Ethnological Society
Society for Applied Anthropology
Society for Visual Anthropology
Society for Urban Anthropology
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY:
English:
native speaker.
Spanish: speaking, reading,
educated native speaker.
Portuguese:
French:
and
writing
skills
reading, excellent; speaking, fair.
reading, excellent; speaking, good.
Catalan: reading, good.
Turkish: reading, fair, speaking, fair.
of
the