M Chibnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 3534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Chibnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Chibnik |
| SIGNATURE | CHIBNIK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7856-3944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Fieldwork Locations
Historians of anthropology have observed how the locations where sociocultural anthropologists conduct fieldwork have influenced their methods and theories. This paper provides information about (1) where sociocultural anthropologists publishing in selected well-known journals in recent years have been conducting fieldwork; and (2) how contemporary fieldwork locations resemble and differ from those in the past. The geographical distribution of fi…
Counting
Predatory Economies; The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia
Bolivia in the Age of Gas. BretGustafson. Durham, NC
Practical and Ethical Complications of Participatory Research
Ethnography at its edges
Publishing Translations
Analyzing economic regeneration
Artisan
Anthropologists often use the term “artisan” to describe skilled makers of crafts. The work of artisans is ordinarily distinguished from both the creations of “artists” and the production of objects in factories. Archaeologists have conducted detailed studies of the evolution of craft specialization and the techniques associated with the creation of diverse material objects used in daily activities and rituals. Before the mid‐1970s, most anthropo…
Risk and Uncertainty
Economists, cognitive psychologists, and anthropologists have analyzed many situations where decision makers must consider the chances of future events occurring. Such probabilities are often called “risks” and “uncertainties.” Some anthropologists have attempted to use the theoretical models of economists and the findings of the laboratory experiments of cognitive psychologists in their efforts to understand the effects of risk and uncertainty o…
Anthropology and Economy . By Stephen Gudeman. New York
Images of Public Wealth or The Anatomy of Well-being in Indigenous Amazonia
The Reliability and Influence of Peer Reviews
Thanks
World Anthropologies andAA
Assessing the Quality of Scholarly Journals
Open Access
In recent years, increasing numbers of scholarly journals have become "gold open access," in which all content past and present is freely available online. Tom Boellstorff, my predecessor as AA editor-in-chief, advocated in one of his last from-the-editor columns (Boellstorff 2012:389) that the American Anthropological Association (AAA) should "work creatively to make ... [their] journals gold open access in a sustainable manner that provides suf…
Goodbye to Print
Decision Letters
The Changing Niche of American Anthropologist
Gender and Citations inAmerican Anthropologist
The Year in Anthropology
Sociocultural Anthropology in American Anthropologist (1901-2011)
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Continuity and Change at American Anthropologist
New Sections in American Anthropologist
Quasi-Ethnic Groups in Amazonia
Dans un premier temps, l'A. tente de distinguer les frontieres qui existent entre les ethnies et/ou les classes, puis il s'interesse aux Amazoniens qui n'appatiennent pas a une tribu amerindienne et qui ne se sont pas recemment installes. Analysant les termes « caboclo » (Bresil), « ribereno » et « cholo » (Perou) et « camba » (Bolivie) et leur emploi, il montre les caracteristiques de ces groupes ethniques qui ont cependant de fortes connotation…
Sociocultural Anthropology in American Anthropologist (1901-2011)
Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article
Working Out or Working In
Convinced that economic choices in real life seldom approximate optimality, an increasing number of anthropologists have been studying the cognitive processes of individuals making decisions. This paper discusses and illustrates the advantages of an alternative "statistical behavior" approach to the investigation of economic decision making. Statistical analysis of how men in two Belizean villages allocate their labor-time between wage labor and …
The Value of Subsistence Production
Most anthropologists and economists examining peasant agriculture have either not attempted to place a monetary value on crops consumed at home or have valued such production at market (selling) price. This article argues that this can lead to incomplete or erroneous analyses of agricultural behavior, since a sensible farmer should often value subsistence production near retail (buying) price. Theoretical problems associated with assigning moneta…
The Evolution of Cultural Rules
Increased attention to how individuals and groups collect and evaluate information in changing environmental and sociopolitical situations can greatly improve our understanding of the evolution of cultural rules. Ethnographic evidence suggests that when people first confront an unfamiliar environmental or sociopolitical problem, they conduct a variety of low-cost experiments designed to gather information about the probable consequences of altern…
Experimental economics in anthropology
In recent years, well-funded cross-cultural economic experiments have received considerable publicity in science journals. The anthropologists conducting these experiments have made ambitious claims about the value of their research, saying that their findings "illuminate the nature of human nature" and the "appropriateness of the assumption of self-interest that underpins much of social science." The publication of a new book, Foundations of Hum…
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Chayanov's Theory
Gender and Citations inAmerican Anthropologist
Oaxacan Wood Carvings in the World of Fine Art
In recent years, certain ethnic and tourist arts have become highly valued by collectors, gallery owners, and museum curators in the United States, Canada, and Europe. This paper examines the extent to which economically successful woodcarvers in the Mexican state of Oaxaca have been able to gain the attention of the gatekeepers and tastemakers of the art world. The woodcarvers confront formidable obstacles in their efforts to have their work acc…
The Use of Statistics in Sociocultural Anthropology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Quantification and Statistics in Six Anthropology Journals
The prominence of interpretive, literary, self-reflexive, and hermeneutic approaches in sociocultural anthropology in recent years has led some commentators to argue that the field has taken a humanistic turn. This article examines quantification and statistics in articles about sociocultural anthropology over the past several decades in six U.S. journals, assuming that the proportion of articles using these methods at any given time is a rough i…
Cultural Materialism
In its specific theories Harris's cultural materialism has often proven illuminating. As a model of and method for studying culture, however, it is seriously flawed. One of the dilemmas it faces is the conflict between its epistemology and the assumption of infrastructural determinism: if empirical science is a superstructural concomitant of a particular infrastructure, then it can be neither more valid than any other view norcausally or practica…
Publishing Translations
Open Access
In recent years, increasing numbers of scholarly journals have become "gold open access," in which all content past and present is freely available online. Tom Boellstorff, my predecessor as AA editor-in-chief, advocated in one of his last from-the-editor columns (Boellstorff 2012:389) that the American Anthropological Association (AAA) should "work creatively to make ... [their] journals gold open access in a sustainable manner that provides suf…
Continuity and Change at American Anthropologist
The Evolution of Market Niches in Oaxacan Woodcarving
Economic anthropologists studying craft commercialization have typically focused on changes in work organization associated with new international commodity chains linking artisans, development organizations, wholesalers, and store owners. Few researchers, however, have carefully examined the product differentiation that ordinarily accompanies increased craft sales. Artisans in such circumstances typically innovate and develop specialties in an a…
Agricultural Labor Organization in Ribereno Communities of the Peruvian Amazon
Assessing the Quality of Scholarly Journals
Goodbye to Print
Decision Letters
The Changing Niche of American Anthropologist
Manuscript Paths and Acceptance Rates at American Anthropologist
Changing Fortunes
Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes. Karl S. Zimmerer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 308 pp
Small Farmer Risk Aversion
Anthropological Research for a Computer Manufacturing Company
This paper discusses a corporation‐financed anthropological study of office work carried out by a university‐based research team. Two aspects of this project were unusual: carrying out ethnographic studies in the offices of a major American corporation and conducting applied ethnographic research for a profitmaking manufacturer. Adapting anthropological methods for use in a business setting proved not to be overly difficult and researchers were a…
Facial Foliage Among Male American Anthropologists
The Value of Subsistence Production
Most anthropologists and economists examining peasant agriculture have either not attempted to place a monetary value on crops consumed at home or have valued such production at market (selling) price. This article argues that this can lead to incomplete or erroneous analyses of agricultural behavior, since a sensible farmer should often value subsistence production near retail (buying) price. Theoretical problems associated with assigning moneta…
Anthropologists and Industry
An important function anthropologists can serve in industry is to provide planners with information to which they do not otherwise have access. Trained to "explain" social phenomena, our tendency is to provide "holistic" interpretations of the relations between different components of the institutions we observe. From the pragmatic perspective of the industrial specialist; however, such theorizing may be of considerably less interest than hard da…
Anthropological Research for a Computer Manufacturing Company
This paper discusses a corporation‐financed anthropological study of office work carried out by a university‐based research team. Two aspects of this project were unusual: carrying out ethnographic studies in the offices of a major American corporation and conducting applied ethnographic research for a profitmaking manufacturer. Adapting anthropological methods for use in a business setting proved not to be overly difficult and researchers were a…
Working Out or Working In
Convinced that economic choices in real life seldom approximate optimality, an increasing number of anthropologists have been studying the cognitive processes of individuals making decisions. This paper discusses and illustrates the advantages of an alternative "statistical behavior" approach to the investigation of economic decision making. Statistical analysis of how men in two Belizean villages allocate their labor-time between wage labor and …
Small Farmer Risk Aversion
The Evolution of Cultural Rules
Increased attention to how individuals and groups collect and evaluate information in changing environmental and sociopolitical situations can greatly improve our understanding of the evolution of cultural rules. Ethnographic evidence suggests that when people first confront an unfamiliar environmental or sociopolitical problem, they conduct a variety of low-cost experiments designed to gather information about the probable consequences of altern…
Small Farmer Risk Aversion
Bovine Sex and Species Ratios in India [and Comments and Reply]
Despite religious sanctions against the slaughter of cattle, bovine age, sex, and species ratios in all India and Kerala are systematically adjusted to demographic, technological, economic, and environmental conditions. While it is not denied that the apotheosis of cattle has influenced the management of India's bovine stocks, religious beliefs cannot account for the most important regional and local variations in the utilization of these animals
Cultural Materialism
In its specific theories Harris's cultural materialism has often proven illuminating. As a model of and method for studying culture, however, it is seriously flawed. One of the dilemmas it faces is the conflict between its epistemology and the assumption of infrastructural determinism: if empirical science is a superstructural concomitant of a particular infrastructure, then it can be neither more valid than any other view norcausally or practica…
General/Theoretical
Applied
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Chayanov's Theory
The Use of Statistics in Sociocultural Anthropology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Farm Work and Fieldwork
Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change
Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Fronteir Development In Lowland Bolivia. Lesley Gill. Boulder: Westvlew, 1987. 210 pp. $26.50 (paper). ISBN 0‐8133‐7339‐5
In the Rainforest
In the Rainforest: Report from. Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World. Catherine Caufield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xlv. 306 pp. $11.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐226‐09785‐2
In the Rainforest
Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change
Agricultural Labor Organization in Ribereno Communities of the Peruvian Amazon
The Social Implications of Agrarian Change in Northern and Eastern Finland. TIM Ingold
Applied Anthropology
Quasi-Ethnic Groups in Amazonia
Dans un premier temps, l'A. tente de distinguer les frontieres qui existent entre les ethnies et/ou les classes, puis il s'interesse aux Amazoniens qui n'appatiennent pas a une tribu amerindienne et qui ne se sont pas recemment installes. Analysant les termes « caboclo » (Bresil), « ribereno » et « cholo » (Perou) et « camba » (Bolivie) et leur emploi, il montre les caracteristiques de ces groupes ethniques qui ont cependant de fortes connotation…
Amazon Conservation in the Age of Development
Amazon Conservation in the Age of Development. Ronald Foresta. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1991. x + 366pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–8130–1092–6
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Sociology (49 works) · History (35 works) · Computer Science (30 works) · Citation (28 works) · Library science (28 works) · Anthropology (27 works) · Geography (25 works) · History (22 works) · Political science (20 works) · Ecology (18 works)