Lauriston Sharp

Biographic Data

ID3589331
NAMELauriston Sharp
GIVEN NAMESLauriston
FAMILY NAMESharp
SIGNATURESHARP L
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS115
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1934
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • Steel Axes for Stone Age Australians

    Lauriston SharpCHAPTERMan in Adaptation2022

    Reprinted from Edward H. Spicer (Ed.), Human Problems in Technological Change: A Casebook (New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 1952). Lauriston Sharp is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies and Director of the Thailand Project at Cornell University. His principal field research has been in North Africa, Australia, and Southwest Asia; his major interests are political and applied anthropology, with emphasis on comparative social organiza…

  • John Frank Brohm (1923-87)

    Open AccessLauriston Sharp, Robert B TextorARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1988

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  • Bang Chan

    B L Foster, Lauriston Sharp et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1983Cited by: 1

  • Bang Chan

    Gehan Wijeyewardene, Lauriston Sharp et al.ARTICLEMan1981

  • Bang Chan

    Constance M Wilson, Lauriston Sharp et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1979

    Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the Thai capital. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book sums up the major findings of a pioneering interdisciplinary research project that began in 1948. Changes in Bang Chan's social organization, technology, economy, governance, …

  • "Appor Activities in "Social Concerns

    Lauriston Sharp, L M SharpARTICLEPublic Opinion Quarterly1974

    Journal Article APPOR Activities in “Social Concerns” Get access Laure M. Sharp Laure M. Sharp Bureau of Social Science Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 3, Fall 1974, Page 481, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/38.3.481 Published: 01 January 1974

  • Problems Seeking Contract Research With the Federal Government

    Lauriston Sharp, L M Sharp et al.ARTICLEPublic Opinion Quarterly1972

    Journal Article PROBLEMS SEEKING CONTRACT RESEARCH WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Get access Laure M. Sharp, Laure M. Sharp Bureau of Social Science ResearchWashington, D.C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Albert D. Biderman, Albert D. Biderman Bureau of Social Science ResearchWashington, D.C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ann B. Finkelstein Ann B. Finkelstein Bureau o…

  • Public Opinion and the Crisis in Public Education

    Lauriston Sharp, L M SharpARTICLEPublic Opinion Quarterly1969

    PUBLIC OPINION AND THE CRISIS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION Laure M. Sharp Laure M. Sharp Chairman Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 3, FALL 1969, Pages 472–475, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/33.3.472 Published: 01 January 1969

  • Cultural Continuities and Discontinuities in Southeast Asia

    Open AccessLauriston SharpARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1962Cited by: 7References: 2

    In 1961 our Association President, Norman Brown, discussed with us the problem of the content of cultural continuity in India. He pointed out that in spite of many variations in time and local differentiations in space, the highly developed civilization of India from the third millennium B.C. to the present offers to the student a picture of a continuing entity, a kind of moving picture in which the successive events of a plot seem to be informed…

  • Paradoxes in the Indochinese Dilemma

    Open AccessLauriston SharpARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1954

  • Steel Axes for Stone-Age Australians

    Lauriston SharpARTICLEHuman Organization1952Cited by: 80

    Like other Australian aboriginals, the Yir Yoront group which lives at the mouth of the Coleman River on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula originally had no knowledge of metals. Technologically their culture was of the old stone age or paleolithic type. They supported themselves by hunting and fishing, and obtained vegetables and other materials from the bush by simple gathering techniques. Their only domesticated animal was the dog; they had…

  • South Asia in the World Today . P hillips T albot , editor

    Open AccessLauriston SharpARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1951

  • Aspects de L'Evolution Gouvernementale de L'Indochine Francaise

    Lauriston Sharp, Roger PintoARTICLEPacific Affairs1947

  • An Apache Life-way. The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

    Lauriston SharpARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1942Cited by: 23

  • Aboriginal Australian and Tasmanian Rock Carvings and Paintings. Daniel Sutherland Davidson

    Open AccessLauriston SharpARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1938Cited by: 4

  • Semi‐moieties in North‐western Queensland

    Open AccessLauriston SharpARTICLEOceania1935

  • Ritual Life and Economics of the Yir‐yoront of Cape York Peninsula15

    Open AccessLauriston SharpARTICLEOceania1934

  • The Social Organization of the Yir‐yoront Tribe, Cape York Peninsula1

    Open AccessLauriston SharpARTICLEOceania1934