David Beck

Biographic Data

ID169954
NAMEDavid Beck
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEBeck
SIGNATUREBECK D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alberta
ORCID0000-0001-8422-7728
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS55
TOTAL CITATIONS42
AUTHOR COUNT53
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Beata Lakeberg / Hans-Christian Pust (Hrsg.), Atom. Strom. Protest. 50 Jahre Wyhl und anderswo. Ostfildern, Thorbecke 2023

    Open AccessDavid BeckARTICLEHistorische Zeitschrift2024

  • Austerity alive and well in Wales and UBI in intensive care

    Open AccessHefin Gwilym, David BeckARTICLECritical Social Policy2024References: 1

    There have been many Universal Basic Income (UBI) pilots worldwide and a large literature has emerged outlining mostly positive findings but also acknowledging that no government has implemented the policy. In June 2022 the Welsh Government launched the UK's most important UBI pilot to date with young adults who have been looked after by the statutory care system (referred to as ‘care leavers’). The pilot would be appraised by an ongoing rigorous…

  • Morphological diffusion and the internal subgrouping of Central Totonac

    Open AccessDavid BeckARTICLELanguage Dynamics and Change2023

    The Totonac branch of the Totonacan (also known as Totonac-Tepehua) family is traditionally broken down into four divisions—Misantla, Northern, Sierra, and Lowland. Misantla is an obvious outlier, but the relationship among the remaining three, which comprise the Central Totonac division, is uncertain due to competing lines of evidence: lexical isoglosses group Sierra and Lowland against Northern while morphological changes appear to set Sierra o…

  • “Sometimes My People Get Mad When the Blackfeet Kill Us”

    Open AccessDavid Beck, David R M BeckARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…2023

  • D ouglas K. M iller . Indians on the Move

    Open AccessDavid Beck, David R M BeckARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

    American Indian experiences in the years following the Second World War differed significantly from those of any other groups of people in the United States. Both Congress and the Department of the Interior initiated a harsh assault on the very existence of Indigenous nations within the US polity and, on an individual level, on tribal cultural identity. The latter initiative was carried out through a federal program that moved Indian individuals …

  • Beneath the Backbone of the World

    Open AccessDavid Beck, David R M BeckARTICLEJournal of American History2022

  • Los Cargos

    Open AccessDavid Beck, Yvonne Lam et al.ARTICLETlalocan2020

    In this article, we present a text in Upper Necaxa Totonac describing the annual ceremonial cycle of the assignment and renewal of municipal offices, or cargos. This text provides a rare first-person account of the festivals and rituals surrounding the system of cargos, breathing some life into earlier academic accounts of the Mesoamerican cargo system and painting a clear and detailed picture of the system as it was practiced in the mid-twentiet…

  • Los Cargos

    Open AccessDavid Beck, Yvonne Lam et al.ARTICLETlalocan2020

    En este artículo se presenta un texto del totonaco del Río Necaxa en el cual se describe el ciclo ceremonial anual para asignar y renovar los puestos municipales, o sea, los cargos. El texto ofrece un relato de un género muy poco documentado: la descripción de primera mano de los festivales y los rituales en torno al sistema decargos. Les infunde vida a los trabajos académicos anteriores acerca del sistema mesoamericano de cargos al describir una…

  • The moral maze of food bank use

    David Beck, Hefin GwilymARTICLEJournal of Poverty and Social…2020Cited by: 7References: 5

    The foodbank symbolises a changing landscape of social insecurity and welfare conditionality. Attending to decision making within the foodbank system, this article argues that foodbanks, and their referral-system creates a bureaucratic ‘moral maze’ identifying people as ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’ of help. Maintaining a moral distance, organised religious foodbanks are reliant upon a complex outsourcing of moral decisions and walk a fine balance…

  • Webs of Kinship

    David Beck, David R M BeckARTICLEPlains Anthropologist2019

    "Webs of Kinship: Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood." Plains Anthropologist, 64(250), pp. 209–210

  • A Changing of the Guard at Ijal

    David BeckARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2019

    Previous articleNext article FreeA Changing of the Guard at IJALDavid BeckDavid BeckUniversity of Alberta Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThis month sees the departure of my co-editor, Donna Gerdts. It has been a genuine pleasure and honor to work with Donna over the past five years, and I…

  • Monuments to Absence

    David Beck, David R M BeckARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    This ambitious study analyzes the memorialization of the Cherokee Trail of Tears from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma, spanning the period from the 1930s into the twenty-first century. Andrew Denson tells the story of how memory was created and how Cherokee history was remade into southern white history. Monuments to Absence adds to the growing literature on commemoration in service to tourism. Denson argues convincingly that commemora…

  • Sovereignty for Survival

    David Beck, David R M BeckARTICLESocial History2017

    In this well-researched and written book, James Robert Allison III provides an even-handed analysis of the response of the Northern Cheyenne tribe to the proposed exploitation of the vast coal bed

  • The Contribution of a Century of Americanist Studies to Historical Linguistics

    David BeckARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2017References: 163

    Since the launch of IJAL 100 years ago, historical linguistics has been a central concern of researchers working on the languages of the Americas, and diachronic studies of New World language families have contributed substantially both to our knowledge of the development and dispersal of languages over time and to the refinement of the methods we use to study language history. This article surveys some of the most important developments over the…

  • The Mexicano (Nahuatl) Dialect of Pochutla, Oaxaca

    Franz Boas, David BeckARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2017Cited by: 1

  • The Contribution of Research on the Languages of the Americas to the Field of Linguistics

    David Beck, Donna B GerdtsARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2017Cited by: 1References: 43

    Over the past 100 years, research on the indigenous languages of the Americas, much of it published in the pages of the International Journal of American Linguistics, has had a profound influence on every aspect of the field of linguistics. In this special centenary issue of IJAL, we begin with a brief survey of the impact Americanist studies have had on linguistics, with an emphasis on work published in our Journal, followed by five invited cont…

  • Farewell to the Old and Hello to the New Managing Editor

    David Beck, Donna B GerdtsARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2017

  • Celebrating 100 Years of Ijal

    David Beck, Donna B GerdtsARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2017

    The study of American languages in Voegelin’s time continued to straddle the fields of anthropology and linguistics, and IJAL was produced under the auspices of both the Linguistic Society of America and the American Anthropological Association, with the cooperation of the Conference on American Indian Languages, which met annually with the AAA. Although the focus of IJAL remained on studies of the languages of the Americas, there was a brief per…

  • Introduction from Series Editors

    David Beck, Donna B Gerdts et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2017

  • Language

    Igor Mel’čuk, David BeckBOOKLanguage2016

  • Relative Clauses in Upper Necaxa Totonac

    Open AccessDavid BeckARTICLELinguistic Discovery2016

    Relativization strategies in the Totonacan family are largely undescribed, but detailed examination of one of the languages in the group, Upper Necaxa Totonac, reveals the presence of both externally-and internally-headed relative constructions. Also of note is the presence of relativizers that mark the animacy (human/non-human) of the head of the relative construction. This paper will show that, while phylogenetic evidence clearly demonstrates t…

  • Uniqueness and grammatical relations in Upper Necaxa Totonac

    Open AccessDavid BeckARTICLELinguistics2016Cited by: 2

    The Principle of the Uniqueness of Grammatical Relations, which requires that all grammatical relations be distinguishable on morphological and/or syntactic grounds and non-repeatable in a clause, is often assumed to be a universal requirement of language and is a central tenet, explicit or implicit, of many theories of grammar. Upper Necaxa Totonac offers an apparent exception to this principle in that it has clauses with multiple objects that s…

  • People Before the Park

    David BeckARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2016Cited by: 1

    People Before the Park was written under a contract from Glacier National Park to provide park visitors with insights into the histories and cultures of the two tribes who have called its mountains home for centuries-the Kootenai on the west and the Pikunni, or Blackfeet, on the east. The authors hope to overturn long-standing stereotypes regarding the relationship of Indians to the park. The book consists of four brief overview chapters by Sally…

  • City Indian

    David Beck, Rosalyn R LaPier et al.BOOKCity Indian2015

  • Patterns and predictors of workplace health promotion

    Open AccessDavid Beck, Uwe Lenhardt et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    WHP still shows great potential for improvement both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Especially required are additional efforts in developing and implementing WHP practice models and dissemination strategies which are tailored to the particular conditions and needs of small companies. However, findings suggest that the chances for achieving progress in WHP also depend on developments in adjacent policy areas such as labour relations or occ…