Gerald F. Murray
(7/10)
Department of Anthropology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
Email: murray@ ufl.edu
Web page: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/murray/
Home address
1706 N.W. 26th Way
Gainesville, FL 32605
Home phone (352) 374-4149
Cell phone: (352) 359-1927
CURRENT STATUS: Retired faculty member emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology, U. of Florida
EDUCATION: Ph.D.:
B.A.:
Columbia U. (Anthropology), 1977
Harvard, Magna Cum Laude (Soc. Rel.), 1968
UNIVERSITY FACULTY POSITIONS
1985-2010
U. of Florida/Gainesville.
1974-1985
U. of Mass./Boston.
1976-1977
Teachers College/Columbia.
1973-1974
Yale University.
(Full time, tenured)
(Full time, tenured)
(Visiting)
(Visiting)
COURSES TAUGHT
Graduate:
Anth. Theory, Computer Applications in Anth., Kinship and Social Org., the Evolution of
Culture, Creole Languages, Seminar in Caribbean Anthropology, Seminar Haiti and D.R.
Undergrad: Introductory Anthropology, Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean, Anthropology of
Religion, Anthropology of Judaism, Descriptive Linguistics, Language and Culture, Applied
Anthropology, and Peasants.
Community: Killing for God: Anthr. of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. 5 session mini-course.
NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
1974-2005 Research and/or consultation contracts in 15 countries with 28 organizations (v. below).
1982-83
Director of a USAID-funded Agroforestry Project in Haiti. I won the Anthropological Praxis
Award while Director.
1970
Taught English and H.S. equivalency to migrants in NYC
1964-66
Peace Corps Volunteer, Dominican Republic. Was subsequently hired in Puerto Rico as a
trainer of new volunteers.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Fluency:
Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Modern Hebrew, German, Italian
Familiarity:
Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Papiamentu, Malagasy, Gaelic
Ancient languages: Latin, Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic
I have taught:
English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Modern Hebrew
PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
I have published 3 books, 22 articles, and have prepared over 70 applied anthropological reports for 28
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public and private agencies based on fieldwork in 15 countries. I have presented scholarly papers at
conferences in 7 countries (U.S., Great Britain, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Panama, Kenya, Norway)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
The Caribbean is my area of major fieldwork. But I have done briefer fieldwork, most of it connected with
applied research assignments, as follows.
Regions and countries:
Caribbean:
Haiti, Dominican Republic
Meso-Amr:
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama
S. Amer.:
Peru (both Andes and eastern rain forests).
Africa:
Burundi, Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar
Middle East:
Israel, Gaza Strip, West Bank
N. Amer.:
U.S.A. (Inner-city Head-Start, migrant camps, and urban public health clinics)
Basic and applied research topics:
Agroforestry, biodiversity, deforestation, hillside agriculture
Project design and evaluation
Involuntary resettlement; human impact of dams
Peasant land tenure, land use, and market systems
Public and private educational systems
Urban microenterprise
Anthropology of religion
Traditional healing systems and their relation to modern medicine
Institutions that have given me contracts, grants, or other professional service requests:
Public:
USAID, Inter-American Foundation, Peace Corps, OAS, World Bank, Inter-American
Development Bank, UNESCO, IICA, Smithsonian, Off. of Techn. Assess. (U.S. Congress),
American Ass. for the Advancement of Science, International Development Research Corp.
(Ottawa), Helvetas (Switzerland), Embassy of Canada in Haiti.
Private:
Pan American Development Foundation , Save the Children, Royal Carib.Cruise Lines,
URS Engineering, Ilan Orly & Co. (Tel Aviv), Law Office of H. Nelson Meeks (Los
Angeles), Winrock, World Wildlife Fund, Development Alternatives Incorporated, Tropical
Research and Development, Management Systems Inc., Datex, Energy
Development/International, McKinsey and Company, Scientific Certification Systems,
Adventist Development Relief Agency, , International Inst. of Boston (Migrant advocacy),
John Snow Public Health Group, Educational Development Corporation, Westinghouse
Health Systems, Ronco.
Professional Organizations
American Anthropological Association, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, Society for
Applied Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Religion
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CONTRACT RESEARCH AND MISCELLANEOUS CONSULTATIONS
Date
Client
Task
2010
I.D.B. / PADF
Racial and Ethnic Dynamics. Carried out research on racial and ethnic
perceptions among Haitians and Dominicans.
2010
Save the Children
Post-Earthquake Needs Assessment. Studied post-earthquake
economic disruption and population displacement in three Haitian
communes near the Dominican border. Recommended transition from
humanitarian to developmental assistance.
2009
I.D.B. / PADF
Cross border conflict analysis. Examined interethnic and intraethnic
conflicts on Haitian / Dominican border.
2007
Save the Children
Rapid Rural Assessment. Gathered data on nine Haitian communes.
2006
Law Office of
Nelson Meeks
Expert Witness testimony for a Haitian refugee from Limbe seeking
to avoid deportation.
2006
PADF / Dom. Rep.
Program Evaluation. Midterm evaluation of a binational product
promoting organizational development among NGOs along the
Dominican / Haitian border.
2005
UNESCO
Proposal Evaluation. Contracted to judge a proposal to make
Dominican cocolo culture declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and
Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The proposal was accepted and the
award granted.
2004
USAID/Haiti
Identification of cross-border trafficking-in-persons. Investigated
accusations of cross-border slave trade of Haitian minors to the D.R.
Visited border towns, sugar-cane plantations, and tourist sex-trade
centers in the D.R. to detect coercion of minors.
2004
PADF / Dom. Rep.
Impact assessment of bi-national NGO border activities. Assisted
the Pan American Development Foundation, Dominican Republic, in
conceptualization of an impact assessment strategy for an ongoing
project giving institutional support to NGOs on the Dominican-Haitian
border.
2004
Law Offices, H. N.
Expert witness testimony for a Haitian refugee seeking asylum on the basis
of Meeks. Los Angeles of bipolar syndrome.
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2004
Israeli law firm.
Expert witness testimony on conditions of insurrection and civil unrest in
Haiti during 1904 for the law firm of Ilan Orly & Co., Tel Aviv, Israel
2003
Panama Canal
Authority (URS)
Assessment of impacts of projected dams. Visited rural communities
in Panama that would be affected by new dams. Identified factors that
make current options anthropologically non-viable and provided
recommendations for possible mitigation measures.
2003
Pan American Dev.
Foundation
Proposal development – Haitian Dominican border. Was contracted to
help in preparation of NGO strengthening in border area
2000
Royal Caribbean
Cruise Lines
Management analysis and village outreach. Was contracted to
identify problems in relating with Haitian employees and nearby villagers
on a site in Northern Haiti leased by RCCL.
2000
Pan American Dev.
Foundation
Proposal for Hillside Agricultural Program. Gave input into the
development of a proposal for a project in hillside agriculture.
1999
Royal Caribbean
Cruise Lines
Assistance to Villages in Northern Haiti. Cruise company requested input
on assisting villages near a beach which their passengers use.
1998
USAID/Dom.Rep.
Rapid Rural Appraisal. Was Chief of Party on a three person team doing
rapid rural appraisal of villages on the Dominican/Haitian border.
1997
Fondo Micro, D.R.
Book contract. Signed a contract to produce a book on the private schools
as a microenterprise in the Dominican Republic.
1997
USAID/Dom.Rep.
Research design. Prepared a scope of work for binational research in
Haitian and Dominican villages on the border
1996
World Bank
Quality Assurance Group. Served as outside consultant on an internal
pre-negotiation review by the World Bank of a $50 million loan to Gov.
of Honduras for Natural Resource Management Project.
1996
Fondo Micro,
Dom. Rep.
Urban Micro-enterprise Survey. Gathered survey data on businesses
in Santo Domingo, and interviewed owners on business practices..
1996
GTZ/IICA
Dom. Rep.
Watershed Management. Prepared report on farmer organizations
in watersheds of Southwest.
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1996
MSI/USAID
OTI
Haiti Transition Initiative. Evaluated a special high impact development
program that had been timed to correspond to Aristide's return to Haiti.
1995
Fondo Micro,
Dom. Rep.
Small Enterprise Research. Carried out qualitative research into the
business operations and credit maneuvers of Sto. Domingo food retailers.
1995
Peace Corps
1994
USAID/Haiti
& Winrock
Feasibility Study of Peace Corps in Haiti Accompanied Programming
Officer to Haiti to assess se curity situation for Volunteers and to identify
possible programming areas
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Special Environmental Task Force. Gave input into
design of high impact environmental projects proposed by USAID on return of Aristide government.
1993
Trop.Forest
Management Trust
Socioeconomic impact of forest plantations.
Evaluated impact of Stone Forest Corp. gmelina Costa Rica plantations on
the economy of the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
1993
World Wildlife
Fund, Mexico
Evaluation of milpa stabilization. Evaluated
WWF project on Mayan ejidos on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico in
periphery of Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve.
1993
ADRA/Haiti
Agroforestry workshop. Gave two-day workshop on design and
management of agroforestry activities.
1993
Datex & USAID/
Haiti
Evaluation of USAID child survival program.
Evaluated rural outreach component of vaccination and oral rehydration
activities in rural Haiti.
1992
PADF and USAID/
El Salvador
Natural resource management project design.
Social soundness analysis of USAID project to protect mangrove and
mountain forests on the southern coast of El Salvador.
1992
Catholic Charities
Data base analysis. Analysis of the client records of the Catholic Charities
Bureau of Gainesville.
1991
World Bank/
Dominican Rep.
Small-farmer response to soil conservation. Fieldwork to document
the differential impact of two approaches to promoting soil conservation.
1991
McKinsey & Co.
Evolution of the nation-state. Contracted to write an analysis of possible
alternatives to current nation-state organization in preparation for a
conference directed at Fortune 500 CEO's.
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1990
World Bank/
Wash., D.C.
Agroforestry project design. Gave a specially invited seminar
on anthropology and agroforestry, and prepared a brief report evaluating a
projected World Bank financed program in Haiti.
1990
OAS/Haiti
Watershed Management Feasibility Assessment. Assessed the relevance
of traditional land tenure for the feasibility of hillside conservation projects
in Haiti.
1990
Lasley law firm
Expert Witness. Reconstructed (for a murder trial) Afro-Caribbean
witchcraft and sorcery practices of a a migrant shot by his son, to
explore possible extenuating circumstances. West Palm Beach, Fl.
1990
USAID/Madagascar
Conservation/Development Project Design. Designed gascar (TRD)the
non-governmental implementing component of a USAID biodiversity
protection project in Madagascar.
1989
IAF/Guatemala
Evaluation of Indigenous Development Project. Evaluated an
indigenous group that had received from IAF several hundred thousand
dollars to work with the Quiché Indians of Totonicapán.
1988
USAID/Burundi
(ED/I)
Biodiversity Assessment. Identified anthro pological factors leading to
destruction of flora and fauna in Afro-montane highlands, and proposed
policies for USAID.
1988
IAF/Costa Rica
Developmental Cash Flow. Evaluated an in-country fund established by
Inter-American Foundation for rapid approval of rural projects.
1988
USAID/Costa
Buffer Zone Park Protection Strategy. Assessed feasibility of
farmer-run Rica (TRD) forest management activities planned by
USAID in Cordillera Volcánica Central.
1988
IAF/Guatemala
Credit Programs in Indian Villages. Follow-up assessment of a rural
credit program of Inter-American Foundation which I had evaluated in
1985.
1987
USAID/Peru
Andean Reforestation Project. Evaluated a village tree planting project in
Peruvian Andes.
1986
DAI/Haiti
Watershed Management. Assisted DAI in design of social component of
USAID funded watershed management.
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1986
AAAS/Honduras
Agroforestry Training. Represented American Ass'n for Advancement of
Science at cursillo in Agroforestry at Centro Universitario Litoral Atlántico
1985
Int'l Instit.
of Boston
Haitian Refugees. Gave courtroom testimony as expert witness on
Haitian political asylum case.
1985
IAF/Guatemala
Credit Programs in Indian Villages. Evaluated the impact of political
violence on a rural credit program of the Inter-American Foundation.
1985
USAID/Peru
Jungle Resource Management. Visited tropical forest Amuesha
Indian communities in rain forest of Peru. Recommended project
redesign.
1985
Save the
Children
Base Communities and Resource Management. Drafted an OPG
proposal for a small-group model of natural resource management in
Haiti.
1984
John Snow Inst.
Puerto Rican and Haitian Health Practices. Assisted in the design of
focus group research to increase migrant use of public health services in
Northeast cities.
1984
Jamaica Plain
Expert Witness. Gave testimony for support of political refugee status
Legal Servcs. claims of Haitians in Boston.
1984
IAF/Costa Rica
Agroforestry and Cattle Raising. Visited a mountain village of Costa
Rica to advise on the organization of projected tree planting activities.
1983
IICA/Dom. Rep.
Agroforestry Feasibility Research. Designed rapid rural appraisal
instrument to test feasibility of peasant-based commercial agroforestry in
two Dominican villages.
1982
OTA/U.S.
Appropriate Technology Transfer. Provided input to the Office of
Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress on issue of tropical
deforestation.
1982
USAID/Haiti
Haitian Peasant Organization. Evaluated a project designed to test
small-group model of peasant organization
1981
USAID/Haiti
Child Feeding Practices and Beliefs. Carried out fieldwork on child
feeding behaviors and beliefs in a Haitian village.
1981
USAID/Honduras
Forestry Management. Gathered ethnographic data in a mountain pine
forest to assist in the design of a forestry management project.
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1981
USAID/Haiti
Agroforestry Outreach Project. Prepared the social soundness
analysis for an agroforestry project implemented in rural Haiti.
1981
Educational
Development Corp.
Infant Feeding Practices. Visited villages in Cameroon to design
observational research on the determinants of weanling nutritional status.
1981
Indiana U.
Creole-French Bilingualism. Assisted in the design of sociolinguistic
research in rural Haiti.
1980
USAID/Guatemala
Agricultural Diversification. Did fieldwork in a mixed
indigenous/ladino village to assist in the design of an ag. diversification
project.
1980
USAID/Haiti
Agricultural Feeder Roads. Design of survey instrument for feeder
roads project.
1980
IICA/Dominican
Republic
Institutional Analysis and Regional Planning. Advised IICA
technicians in data gathering procedures for systematizing agricultural
planning in the Ministry of Agriculture.
1980
IICA/Dominican
Agricultural Marketing Systems. Directed design and field testing of
Republic
diagnostic instrument for identifying types of support
needed by rural market organizations.
1979
NYC Supreme
Court
Caribbean Migrants. Testimony as expert witness in court case
involving Caribbean migrants.
1979
USAID/Haiti
Reforestation and Soil Conservation. Analyzed determinants of
success and failure in forestry and erosion control projects in rural Haiti.
1978
Canadian
Traditional Healers Project. Computerized analysis of traditional
Government
and modern health care behaviors in rural Haiti.
Designed model for integrating healers in modern health care system.
1978
USAID/Haiti
Land Tenure and Rural Organization. Prepared an analysis of
Haitian land tenure patterns and proposed appropriate rural organization
models.
1977
Columbia U.
Bilingual Language Acquisition. Designed interaction analysis
instrument and computer program for researching bilingualism among
preschool migrants in NYC.
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1977
Westinghouse
Health Systems
Institutional Strengthening. Input into designing assistance
package for strengthening Haitian Ministry of Public Health.
1977
USAID/El Salvador
Health Sector Analysis. Gathered village health fertility data for
health assistance project in rural areas. Worked with Rural Health
Aides.
1976
IICA/Dominican
Republic
Agricultural Marketing Systems. Analyzed the
flow of agricultural produce through Dominican markets.
1975
IICA/Haiti
Agricultural Marketing Systems. Analyzed the flow of agricultural
produce through Haitian markets.
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BOOKS, ARTICLES, TECHNICAL REPORTS, PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, THESES
2010
La Frontera Dominico-haitiana. (Book co-edited with Haroldo Dilla et. al.) Santo
Domingo: edited volume published by Inter-American Development Bank and Pan
American Development Foundation.
2010
Lenguaje y raza en la frontera dominico-haitiana: Apuntes antropológicos. In Haroldo
Dilla et. al eds. La Frontera Dominico-haitiana. Santo Domingo: book published by
Inter-American Development Bank and Pan American Develop. Foundation. Pp. 241-281.
2010
Haitian and Dominican relations: An anthropological exploration of racial and ethnic
perceptions and sentiments. Report submitted to Inter-American Development Bank and
Pan American Development Foundation, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. May 2010.
42 pages
2010
Ethnic relations on the Haitian / Dominican border: Patterns of peaceful coexistence and
conflicts. Report submitted to Inter-American Development Bank and Pan American
Development Foundation, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. February 2010. 55 pages.
2010
Bondye, the earthquake, and the Haitian Catholic Church. In the Bulletin of Hortus
Conclusus, No. 16, May 2010. Artas, Palestine (West Bank). (A 2 page summary of
religious dimensions of the Haitian earthquake.)
2010
Border communes of the eastern Cul-de-Sac: A needs assessment and a program proposal.
Report submitted to Save the Children in Haiti, March 2010. 86 pages.
2010
“Haiti, Agroforestry and the Earthquake” Invited paper presented at the conference The
Ecology and Ecosystem Services of Native Trees: Implications for Reforestation and Land
Restoration in Mesoamerica. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City,
Panama. January 21-22, 2010.
2010
The role of trees in post-earthquake Haiti. Invited paper at the “Seminar on Haiti after the
Earthquake” organized by the Oslo Peace-Building Center and the Norwegian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. Oslo, May 12, 2010
2010
Water, trees, and credit: A plan of action in post-earthquake Haiti. Invited presentation at a
Conference on Watershed Management and the Reconstruction of Haiti. The conference
was organized by the Clinton Foundation, the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture, the Yale
University School of Forestry, and World Vision. New Haven, May 19, 20, 21.
2009
“La crisis de Rio Limpio: Informe sobre la la destrucción económica de una comunidad
campesina de la frontera dominicana.” Report on human rights abuses perpetrated by the
Dominican State against Dominican farmers and Haitian laborers in a border community.
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The report was shared with government officials and community members.
2007
Communes of the Haitian Cul-de-Sac: A rapid rural assessment of Thomazeau, Cornillon,
Ganthier, and Fond Verrettes. Report prepared for Save the Children / Haiti. 84 pp.
2006
Fwontyè nou / Nuestra Frontera: Haitian and Dominican NGOs. Midterm evaluation of a
binational product along the Dominican / Haitian border. Report prepared for the Pan
American Development Foundation and USAID. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2006
Book Review of The Rebirth of Hasidism: 1945 to the Present Day. Jacques Gutwirth.
London: Free Association Books. 198 pp. Anthropos: International Review of
Anthropology and Linguistics 101:2, pp. 615-7.
2005
El Colegio y La Escuela: Antropología de la Educación en la República Dominicana.
Santo Domingo: Fondo Micro. 398 pp.
2005
Book Review of The Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and
Modernity in Dominican History. Richard Lee Turits. Stanford University Press, 2003. 384
pp. American Anthropologist 107:1, pp. 170-1.
2005
Cocolo dancing tradition – Dominican Republic: an Evaluation Report. Report prepared
for International Council of Social Sciences and UNESCO for the Second Proclamation of
Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
2004
(With M. Bannister) Peasants, agroforesters, and anthropologists: A 20-year venture in
income-generating trees and hedgerows in Haiti. Agroforestry Systems 61:383-397.
2004
(With G. Smucker). The uses of children: A study of trafficking in Haitian children.
Report prepared for USAID / Haiti. 175 pp.
2004
La niñez en peligro: Un estudio sobre la trata de niños haitianos. Translation from the
English of the preceding report. Translated by Gerald Murray and Maria Alvarez.
2003
Pautas para una consulta pública sobre la construcción de represas en Panamá.
Report prepared for the Panama Canal Authority under contract with URS/Daines.
25 pp.
2003
Elementos de una metodología para evaluar los impactos de un embalse sobre la
calidad de vida en las comunidades afectadas. Report prepared for the Panama Canal
Authority under contract with URS/Daines. 33 pp.
2003
Los próximos pasos en las cuencas occidentales de Panamá. Report prepared for the
Panama Canal Authority under contract with URS/Daines. 14 pp.
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2002
Book review of When the Hands are Many: Community Organization and Social
Change in Rural Haiti, by Jennie M. Smith. American Ethnologist
1999
Philo-Semitism or Anti-Haitianism: Trujillo and Jewish Holocaust Refugees. The
Latinamericanist. Dec. 1999
1998
The fading frontier: An anthropological analysis of the economy and social organization of
the Haitian-Dominican border. Report prepared for USAID, Dominican Republic, coauthored with Matthew McPherson and Tim Schwartz. 85 pp.
1997
El Taller: Un Estudio Antropológico del Uso y Reparación de Automóbiles en la
República Dominicana. Santo Domingo:Fondo para el Financiamiento de la
Microempresa. 325 pp.
1996
El Colmado: Una Investigacion Antropologica del Negocio de Comidas y Bebidas en la
República Dominicana. Santo Domingo: Fondo para el Financiamiento de la
Microempresa. 375 pp.
1996
Campesinos de la cuenca sureña: Antecedentes antropológicos y pautas para intervenciones
institucionales. Report prepared for GTZ and IICA, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. 22 pp.
1995
Peasants, projects, and anthropological models: Fragile causal chains and crooked causal
arrows. In Science, Materialism, and the Study of Culture, M. F. Murphy and M. L.
Margolis, eds. U. of Florida Press, pp. 159-184.
1995
The volunteer niche in post-embargo Haiti. Report prepared for Peace Corps, Washington,
D.C.
1994
The Tree Project: Guidelines for reincorporation of high volume wood tree planting in rural
Haiti. Report prepared as a member of USAID's Environmental Task Force. Port-auPrince: Pan American Development Foundation
1994
Desde Africa hasta Haiti: Fases evolutivas en la relación entre ser humano y bosque. In
Humanidad y Naturaleza, Jose Serrulle Ramia, ed. Santo Domingo: Fundacion Ciencia y
Arte. Pp. 23-56
1994
Technoeconomic, organizational, and ideational factors as determinants of soil conservation
in the Dominican Republic. In Economic and Institutional Analyses of Soil Conservation
Projects in Central America and the Caribbean, Ernst Lutz, Stefano Pagiola, and Carlos
Reiche, eds. (World Bank Environment Paper Number 8). Washington, D.C.: World Bank,
pp. 131-149.
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1993
The organization of rural development projects under conditions of political repression: The
case of Haiti. Invited paper presented at the Caribbean Conference on Alternative
Production, Work, Management, and Organization. Havana, Cuba, Dec.5 -- Dec. 11, 1993.
1993
Transformations in Cuba: The dismantling of State Farms. Unpublished report submitted to
the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology, U. of Florida.
1993
The socioeconomic impact of wood tree plantations on the southern Pacific coast of Costa
Rica: An evaluation of the Stone Forestry gmelina project. Gainesville, Fl: Tropical Forest
Management Trust and Scientific Certification Systems. 42 pp.
1993
The Maya of Quintana Roo: evaluation of a program on the periphery of a biosphere reserve.
NYC and Cancun, Mexico: World Wildlife Fund and Amigos de Sian Ka'an. 55 pp.
1993
Peasants, trees, and the domestic mode of production: Competing program models. Paper
presented at the meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, San Antonio, Texas, and
March 10 -- March 15, 1993.
1993
Institutional systems and community systems: Observations on child survival activities in
Haiti. Port-au-Prince: USAID/Haiti and Datex. 22 pp.
1993
Tree planting by Ghanaian villagers: An evaluation of ADRA/Ghana and Peace Corps tree
planting initiatives. Silver Spring, MD: Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA).
(78 pp.)
1992
Emergency aid to the poor of Gainesville: An analysis of the database of the Catholic
Charities Bureau. Gainesville, FL: Catholic Charities. (44 pp.)
1992
Natural resource use by farmers and fishers of southern El Salvador: A USAID Project
Paper social soundness analysis. San Salvador: USAID (48 pp).
1991
The tree gardens of Haiti: From extraction to domestication. In D. Challinor & M. Hardt
Frondorf (Eds.), Social forestry: Communal and private management strategies compared
(pp. 35-44). Washington, D.C.: School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns
Hopkins University.
1991
The phantom child in Haitian Voodoo: A folk-religious model of uterine life. In K. Davis &
E. Farajaje-Jones (Eds.), African Creative Expressions of the Divine. Washington, D.C.:
Howard U. Press, pp. 4-26.
1991
The determinants of soil conservation in the Dominican Republic: Operationalizing the
concept of "culture". Washington, D.C.: World Bank
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1991
Campesino, árbol, e Iglesia: Un proyecto de reforestacion intermediado por la Iglesia.
Estudios Sociales (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) 84: 73-85.
1991
Response to comments by David Weiss on my review article "Rethinking the Wings of the
Dove." Tradition 25(3):106-107 (A journal of the Orthodox Rabbinic Council of America)
1991
Globalization and the nation state: An anthropological perspective on the evolution of
political structures. Washington, D.C.: McKinsey & Co.
1990
Anthropology, evangelization, and abortion: Applications of emics and etics. In T.
Headland, K. Pike, & M. Harris (Eds.), Emics and etics: The insider/outsider debate
(pp.144-163). Sage.
1990
Anthropology, evolution, and Judaism: Rethinking the wings of the dove". Tradition
25(1):81-90. (A journal of the Orthodox Rabbinic Council of America.)
1990
'Bon-dieu' e os ritos de passagem no Haiti rural: determinantes estruturais da teologia e dos
rituais pos-coloniais. Estudos Afro-Asiaticos (Brazil) 19:5-28. Translation of 1985.
1990
Land tenure and trees in the Central Plateau: Anthropological guidelines for project design
in Haiti. Port-au-Prince and Wash. D.C.: Organization of American States. (160 pp.)
1990
Post-mortem reconstruction of witchcraft: Anthropological background to a shooting
incident. Expert witness report submitted to the law firm of Wm. Lasley, West Palm Beach
Florida. (40 pp.)
1990
Protected area grant management: A strategy for linking conservation & development.
Antananarivo: USAID/Madagascar. (50 pp.)
1990
Slide shows, T-groups, or cash flows: Competing theoretical scaffolds for applying
Anthropology. Paper presented at the 89th annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. (30 pp.)
1990
The protection of trees or the production of trees?: The World Bank's Haiti portfolio.
Wash., D.C.: World Bank. (17 pp.)
1989
The artisans of Totonicapan: An indigenous development model in Western Guatemala.
Rosslyn, Va.: Inter-American Foundation.
1989
The domestication of wood in Haiti: A case study in applied evolution. In A. Podolefsky &
P.J. Brown (Eds.), Applying anthropology: An introductory reader (pp. 148-156). Mountain
View, CA: Mayfield. (Reprinted from 1987).
1989
Programming tree flows in Haiti: A case study. Cambridge, MA: Case Study #1 of the
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Coolidge Center for Environmental Leadership. 17 pp.
1989
Anthropology and the tree planting transition in Haiti. Paper presented at the Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. November 19, 1989.
1988
Technology without literacy: Agrarian innovation in rural Haiti. Bulletin of Science,
Technology, and Society 7 (5-6): 615-20.
1988
Accelerating rural credit flows: A case study of project evolution in the Western Highlands
of Guatemala. Rosslyn, Va.: Inter-American Foundation. (72 pp.)
1988
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