Eric Β Ro

Biographic Data

ID3429813
NAMEEric Β Ro
GIVEN NAMESEric Β
FAMILY NAMERo
SIGNATURERO E Β
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS201
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX6

  • Vicos as Cold War Strategy

    Open AccessEric Β Ro, Eric B Ro et al.ARTICLEAnthropology in Action2005Cited by: 3

    This article examines how anthropology's emphasis on the traditional values of peasants reflected the general precepts of 'modernization theory', the dominant development discourse of the Cold War era. It explores how such ideas lent credibility to the U.S. strategy of 'community development' as a central part of its response to radical rural change. Special attention is paid to the Cornell-Peru Project at Vicos in the Peruvian highlands, which a…

  • Malthusianism, Capitalist Agriculture, and the Fate of Peasants in the Making of the Modern World Food System

    Open AccessEric Β Ro, Eric B Ross et al.ARTICLEReview of Radical Political…2003Cited by: 12References: 7

    This article describes the role of Malthusian thinking as a rationale for the commercial development of global agriculture at the expense of peasant-livelihood security. Focusing on the impact of the cold war, in an era of peasant insurgency, it explores how the Green Revolution reflected and reinforced the West's conviction that technological innovation, rather than more equitable systems of production, should resolve the problem of world food s…

  • Syphilis, Misogyny, and Witchcraft in 16th-Century Europe

    Eric Β Ro, Eric B Ross et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1995Cited by: 2

  • The Evolution of Human Societies

    Open AccessEric Β Ro, Eric B Ro et al.ARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1988

  • The "Deceptively Simple" Racism of Clark Wissler1

    Open AccessEric Β Ro, Eric B Ro et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1985Cited by: 3References: 3

  • Reductionism in Cultural Ecology

    Allen Johnson, Steve Brian Burkhalter et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1982Cited by: 18

    Cultural ecologists attempting to trace the influence of ecological scarcities on cultural development are often criticized for reductionism. In the Amazon case, critics of ecological theories have argued that resource scarcity is of minor importance as a determinant of cultural features because native communities appear to enjoy abundant land and fully nutritious diets. This paper presents data and arguments suggesting that much of this "resourc…

  • Ecological Theory and Ethnic Differentiation Among Human Populations [and Comments and Replies]

    William S Abruzzi, Judith K Brown et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1982Cited by: 20

    The formation and maintenance of distinct ethnic populations within multiethnic communities is proposed to be functionally equivalent to the process of species diversification in multispecies communities. This paper suggests that while these processes operate through different selective mechanisms-one social and the other genetic-ethnic boundaries, like species boundaries, function to regulate the behavior of potentially competing populations in …

  • Beyond the Myths of Culture

    Mary W Helms, Eric Β Ro et al.ARTICLEMan1981Cited by: 22

  • More on Amazon Cultural Ecology

    Beckerman, Stephen Beckerman et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1980Cited by: 5

  • On Food Taboos and Amazon Cultural Ecology

    Jacques Lizot, Eric Β Ro et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1979Cited by: 4References: 5

  • Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy

    Eric Β Ro, Eric Barry Ro et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1978Cited by: 82References: 14

    The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…

  • The Evolution of the Amazon Peasantry

    Open AccessEric Β Ro, Eric B Ro et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies1978Cited by: 30References: 23

    The empirical validity of traditional perspectives on poverty and under-development has been seriously challenged over the past decade. In contrast to emphasis on what were said to be disfunctional characteristics of the poor themselves, attention has been redirected towards economic and ecological factors which reveal much of the cultural repertoire of peasants and urban and rural poor to be a positive or adaptive response to limits imposed on t…

  • Changing Faces. Directed and filmed by Lisa Goldberg with the assistance of Matthew Sheppard

    Open AccessEric Β Ro, Eric B Ro et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1977