The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness

Contributors

— 305 — douglas bolender teaches, does research about, and publishes on the topics of property and social inequality, households and agricultural production , Scandinavian and North Atlantic archaeology and history, geochemistry , landscape archaeology, and geographic information systems. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Field Museum in Chicago. His latest book is Eventful Archaeologies: New Approaches to Social Transformation in The Archaeological Record from the SUNY press at Albany, 2010. barbara J. dilly teaches cultural anthropology at Creighton University. Her research focuses primarily on rural issues. She is currently writing a book on the social and cultural transformation of the farmer’s daughter iconic image in American agriculture. dimitra doukas is a semiretired anthropologist who continues to study and write about class cultures, politics, local economies, and the impact of corporate capitalism in the United States. She has taught at New York University, Cornell University, Dalhousie University, and the University of Contributors — 306 — C o n t r i b u t o r s Denver. Her latest book is Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community from Cornell University Press at Ithaca, NY, 2003 Paul durrenberger is a professor of anthropology at Penn State University. He has been working with his wife, Suzan Erem, on various ethnographic projects with the labor movement in the United States. Together they have published several books and numerous papers. Their latest book is the second edition of their introductory anthropology textbook aimed at workingclass students that sells for about a fourth of the price of most, Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century, and an accompanying reader, Paradigms in Anthropology, both from Paradigm Publishers, 2010. kate goltermann is an instructor in the anthropology department at Seattle Central Community College. She earned her BA from New College in Sarasota, Florida, and her MA from the University of Florida in Gainesville , Florida. David Griffith is a senior scientist and professor of anthropology at East Carolina University. He combines work on local knowledge and local history with work on international labor migration in Veracruz, Mexico, and Olancho, Honduras; research on Latino settlement and entrepreneurship in North Carolina; the study of Iñupiaq seal hunters of Kotzebue Sound, Alaska; and ethnographic profiles of South Atlantic fishing communities. His most recent book is American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the United States from Penn State University Press, 2006. Josiah Heyman is a professor of anthropology and chair of sociology and anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has written many scholarly articles, book chapters, and books on engaged anthropology, class, power, migration, and border society. Ann Maxwell Hill teaches anthropology at Dickinson College and does ethnohistorical fieldwork in southwestern China. She recently coedited a book on China’s affirmative action policies in minority education. William Honeychurch is an assistant professor at Yale University and specializes in the archaeology of Inner Asia, complex societies, and interregional interaction. He has worked in Mongolia since 1991 and focuses on nomadic states and empires. His projects in northern Mongolia and — 307 — C o n t r i b u t o r s most recently in the Gobi Desert have emphasized regional survey, seasonal campsite excavation, and mortuary archaeology to better understand the local foundations of steppe politics. Sharryn Kasmir is a professor of anthropology at Hofstra University. She has carried out research on issues of work, class, and politics in the Basque region of Spain and in the southern United States. Paul Trawick is a senior lecturer in environmental anthropology at Cranfield University in England. Most of his research to date has focused on the comparative study of farmer-managed irrigation systems in different parts of the world (the Andes, Spain) and, more generally, the study of successful forms of collective action at the community level. He has a strong interest in exploring the role that worldview can play in making people willing to exercise self-restraint in their consumption of goods and services and to move toward more sustainable lifestyles. ...