Benjamin N Colby

Biographic Data

ID	101556
NAME	Benjamin N Colby
GIVEN NAMES	Benjamin N
FAMILY NAME	Colby
SIGNATURE	COLBY B N
AFFILIATIONS	University of California, Irvine
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	50
TOTAL CITATIONS	211
AUTHOR COUNT	50
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2013
H-INDEX	8

El descubrimiento del maíz en Paxil
Open AccessXhas Ko’v, Benjamin N Colby et al.ARTICLETlalocan2013
This text is an Ixll version of the discovery of can. Ayres notes that Ixil is spoken in Nebaj, Chajul and Cotzal in the north of the Department of Bl Quiché, although a significant number of speakers have had to leave the region. Xhas Ko'v is from Nebaj, and that dialect varies slightly from that of Chajul and Cotzal. An outline and analysis of the story is given by Colby.
El hombre que fue al inframundo porque se preocupó demasiado por la pobreza. Texto Ixil de Nebaj
Open AccessGlenn Ayres, Benjamin N Colby et al.ARTICLETlalocan2013
[Xhas heard this story as a boy working at the finca 'Alwees:]A man with many children was out of work. After saying that he would even go to the mountain underworld to find money for his family he finds himself transported there wearing iron shoes and with a contracted obligation to a ladino patron (underworld god) to remain under service until his iron shoes wear out. He is given the task of collecting firewood which turn out to be bones of the…
Preface to Structure and Dynamics
Robert F Manlove, Robert Garfias et al.ARTICLEStructure and Dynamics eJournal…2005
We institute here a policy of occasionally publishing noteworthy PhD dissertations that advance anthropology or related sciences. Such publications are to be copy edited by the dissertation author, nominated by the author's PhD committee, and must receive unqualified support in our review process of at least two assigned referees, as well as by the editors of Structure and Dynamics
Introduction to Structure and Dynamics
Douglas R White, Robert F Manlove et al.ARTICLEStructure and Dynamics eJournal…2005
In inaugurating the Structure and Dynamics journal, we offer a conduit for refereed electronic publication, debate, and editorial communication in the domain of anthropology and human sciences. We as editors dedicate our effort to facilitating and disseminating interdisciplinary discussion and research in anthropology and related sciences. We invite you-as a subscribed reader at no cost-to contribute and to participate in raising the aspirations …
Logical Operators and Contextual Reasoning Ethno-Logic
Benjamin N ColbyARTICLECurrent Anthropology1992
Adaptive Potential, Stress, and Natural Killer Cell Activity in Older Adults
Open AccessShiraz I Mishra, Carolyn M Aldwin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health1991References: 6
The authors examined the relationship among psychosocial vulnerability (stress) and resilience (adaptive potential) factors and three outcome measures, self-reported physical symptoms, positive and negative affect, and natural killer cell activity in 39 male and female older adults residing in a retirement community (mean age = 73.5). Although life events were directly related to physical health symptoms, both perceived stress and adaptive potent…
The Hopi-Navojo Situation Under the New Commissioner
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, David F Aberle et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1991
Content analysis, cultural grammars, and computers
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Sayuri Kennedy et al.ARTICLEQualitative Sociology1991Cited by: 3References: 5
Navajo‐Hopi
Open AccessDavid Aberle, David F Aberle et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1990
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Benjamin ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1989
Navajo Relocation
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, David F AberleARTICLEAnthropology News1989
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Benjamin ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1988Cited by: 2
A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply]
Carole H Browner, Arthur J Rubel et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1988Cited by: 42
Navajo‐Hopi Land Dispute in 1986–1987
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, David F Aberle et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1987Cited by: 1
Well-Being
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1987Cited by: 10References: 73
A theoretical program of anthropological well-being is described and a special theory linking adaptive potential to biocultural success, longevity, and physical health is tested with a multicultural sample of 133 college students born outside, the United States. Those students who scored high in adaptive potential reported fewer symptoms of physical illness. The implications of the theory for a better understanding of cultural dynamics are discus…
Update on Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, David F Aberle et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1986Cited by: 1
Adaptive potential, stress, and illness in the elderly
Benjamin N Colby, Carolyn M Aldwin et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology1985Cited by: 1References: 17
Time and the Highland Maya. Barbara Tedlock
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1983Cited by: 1
Notes on the transmission and evolution of stories
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics1982Cited by: 1References: 8
The Daykeeper
Michael Agar, Benjamin N Colby et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1982
Toward a Convergence of Cognitive and Symbolic Anthropology
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, James W Fernandez et al.ARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1981
This review describes the conditions that have established the subfields of cognitive anthropology and symbolic anthropology as major clusterings of anthropologists. It discusses the influences in anthropology as well as in related areas of cognitive science, linguistics, and literary criticism that can bring the two subfields closer together. It also looks at future directions of study and suggests some of the characteristics that might be inclu…
Growth of Western Civilization
Open AccessRein Taagepera, Benjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1979Cited by: 3References: 10
Gossip, Reputation, and Knowledge in Zinacantan
Benjamin N ColbyARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1978Cited by: 8
The Fiesta System and Economic Change
Benjamin N Colby, Waldemar R SmithARTICLEMan1978Cited by: 35
The Good Life
Benjamin N Colby

A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply]
Carole H Browner, Arthur J Rubel et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1988Cited by: 42
The Fiesta System and Economic Change
Benjamin N Colby, Waldemar R SmithARTICLEMan1978Cited by: 35
Ethnic Relations in Southeastern Mexico1
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Pierre L Van Den BergheARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1961Cited by: 29References: 10
A Partial Grammar of Eskimo Folktales1
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1973Cited by: 26References: 5
This is a partial generative grammar of covert but empirically discoverable narrative elements. The grammar is a theory which seeks to account for base narrative sequences in well-formed North Alaskan Eskimo folktales. The narrative elements are hierarchically organized into a categorial component with both context free and context sensitive rules. The theory claims some replicability and predictive power
Ethnographic Semantics
Benjamin N Colby, Olga Akhmanova et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1966Cited by: 16
Ethnographic semantics is the description of semantic characteristics that are culturally revealing. In anthropology it has come to include a number of different types of analysis which have so far been used mostly in studies of kinship and folk science. These are contrast-level mapping, componential analysis, programmed specification, and various uses of semantic rules, notably reduction analysis. Contrast-level study is the mapping of native wo…
Well-Being
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1987Cited by: 10References: 73
A theoretical program of anthropological well-being is described and a special theory linking adaptive potential to biocultural success, longevity, and physical health is tested with a multicultural sample of 133 college students born outside, the United States. Those students who scored high in adaptive potential reported fewer symptoms of physical illness. The implications of the theory for a better understanding of cultural dynamics are discus…
Gossip, Reputation, and Knowledge in Zinacantan
Benjamin N ColbyARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1978Cited by: 8
Comparison of Themes in Folktales by the General Inquirer System
Benjamin N Colby, George A Collier et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1963Cited by: 8
Rethinking Culture
Paul Bohannan, John Blacking et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1973Cited by: 6
Culture as a concept has not been fully examined by the profession for some time. This article is a challenge to carry out this examination. It begins by discussing problems in the use of the concept and then goes on to suggest a new way of looking at culture: as a cultural pool, analogous to the gene pool (both culture and genes being forms of storing and retrieving information), from which each individual, each dyad, each group draws its partic…
The Analysis of Culture Content and the Patterning of Narrative Concern in Texts1
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1966Cited by: 6References: 14
The Anomalous Ixil-Bypassed by the Postclassic
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Antiquity1976Cited by: 5References: 7
The Ixil differ from other Mesoamerican societies in their extensive ancestor worship and their absence of a belief in animal companion spirits. The historical and archaeological evidence shows Ixil continuity with the lowland Classic Maya with comparatively little change during the Postclassic. The conclusion is tentatively drawn that the lowland Classic Maya were ancestor worshipers, and that the predominant characteristic of those Postclassic …
Ixil Country
Eric Prokosch, Benjamin N Colby et al.ARTICLEMan1971Cited by: 5
Content analysis, cultural grammars, and computers
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Sayuri Kennedy et al.ARTICLEQualitative Sociology1991Cited by: 3References: 5
Growth of Western Civilization
Open AccessRein Taagepera, Benjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1979Cited by: 3References: 10
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Benjamin ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1988Cited by: 2
Reply to Goldkind's Critique of “Ethnic Relations in Southeastern Mexico
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Pierre L Van Den BergheARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1964Cited by: 2
Navajo‐Hopi Land Dispute in 1986–1987
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, David F Aberle et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1987Cited by: 1
Update on Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, David F Aberle et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1986Cited by: 1
Adaptive potential, stress, and illness in the elderly
Benjamin N Colby, Carolyn M Aldwin et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology1985Cited by: 1References: 17
Time and the Highland Maya. Barbara Tedlock
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1983Cited by: 1
Notes on the transmission and evolution of stories
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics1982Cited by: 1References: 8

Social Relations and Directed Culture Change among the Zinacantan
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEPractical Anthropology1960
Why did Zinacantan Indians of Chiapas, Mexico, resist efforts to teach girls to speak Spanish and to learn to read? Since, after a very few years of education, an Indian leaves school and books forever, leaving very little place in adult life for a literate person, what kind of books could full this vacuum? These and similar problems were the concern of part of the research reflected in this paper, and they are discussed from the standpoint of th…
The Protestant Ethic and Latin America
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEPractical Anthropology1960
Indian Attitudes towards Education and Inter-Ethnic Contact in Mexico
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEPractical Anthropology1961
In an earlier article in Practical Anthropology, the author discussed the significance of values, attitude, and social relationship for the part which they play in influencing social change, centering the discussion on resistance of Indians to girls' learning Spanish and learning to read. Now, in the present article. Dr. Colby presents more data on Indian attitudes toward education and toward contact with Ladinos. No educational system operates i…
Ladino-Indian Relations in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
Pierre L Van Den Berghe, Benjamin N ColbyARTICLESocial Forces1961
Journal Article Ladino-Indian Relations in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico Get access Pierre L. Van Den Berghe, Pierre L. Van Den Berghe Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Benjamin N. Colby Benjamin N. Colby Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 40, Issue 1, October 1961, Pages 63–71, https://doi.org/10.2307/257347…
Ethnic Relations in Southeastern Mexico1
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Pierre L Van Den BergheARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1961Cited by: 29References: 10
Comparison of Themes in Folktales by the General Inquirer System
Benjamin N Colby, George A Collier et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1963Cited by: 8
Reply to Goldkind's Critique of “Ethnic Relations in Southeastern Mexico
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Pierre L Van Den BergheARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1964Cited by: 2
R eply to S tavenhagen C ritique of E thnic R elations in S outheastern M exico
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Pierre L Van Den BergheARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1965References: 3
Ethnographic Semantics
Benjamin N Colby, Olga Akhmanova et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1966Cited by: 16
Ethnographic semantics is the description of semantic characteristics that are culturally revealing. In anthropology it has come to include a number of different types of analysis which have so far been used mostly in studies of kinship and folk science. These are contrast-level mapping, componential analysis, programmed specification, and various uses of semantic rules, notably reduction analysis. Contrast-level study is the mapping of native wo…
The Analysis of Culture Content and the Patterning of Narrative Concern in Texts1
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1966Cited by: 6References: 14
Ixil Country
Frank Cancian, Benjamin N Colby et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1970
Oral Literature
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1970
Ixil Country
Alain Y Dessaint, Benjamin N Colby et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1971
Ixil Country
Eric Prokosch, Benjamin N Colby et al.ARTICLEMan1971Cited by: 5
In the Eyes of the Ancestors
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Benjamin ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1971
General and Theoretical
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1973
Rethinking Culture
Paul Bohannan, John Blacking et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1973Cited by: 6
Culture as a concept has not been fully examined by the profession for some time. This article is a challenge to carry out this examination. It begins by discussing problems in the use of the concept and then goes on to suggest a new way of looking at culture: as a cultural pool, analogous to the gene pool (both culture and genes being forms of storing and retrieving information), from which each individual, each dyad, each group draws its partic…
Analytical Procedures in Eidochronic Study
Benjamin N ColbyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1973
THE TERMINOLOGY OF LOGIC and of some of the more rigorous analytical disciplines has begun to appear in studies of myth and folktale. Such terms as empirical deduction, logical procedures, propositions, correlation, inverse correlative, function, and value occur with increasing frequency in structuralist writings. In view of the popularity of these writings, one can only conclude that many students of myth and folktale are attracted to a scientif…
A Partial Grammar of Eskimo Folktales1
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1973Cited by: 26References: 5
This is a partial generative grammar of covert but empirically discoverable narrative elements. The grammar is a theory which seeks to account for base narrative sequences in well-formed North Alaskan Eskimo folktales. The narrative elements are hierarchically organized into a categorial component with both context free and context sensitive rules. The theory claims some replicability and predictive power
Linguistics
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Benjamin ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1974
Linguistics
Open AccessBenjamin N Colby, Benjamin ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1975
Ethnology
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1976
The Anomalous Ixil-Bypassed by the Postclassic
Open AccessBenjamin N ColbyARTICLEAmerican Antiquity1976Cited by: 5References: 7
The Ixil differ from other Mesoamerican societies in their extensive ancestor worship and their absence of a belief in animal companion spirits. The historical and archaeological evidence shows Ixil continuity with the lowland Classic Maya with comparatively little change during the Postclassic. The conclusion is tentatively drawn that the lowland Classic Maya were ancestor worshipers, and that the predominant characteristic of those Postclassic …
The Winds of Tomorrow
Benjamin N ColbyARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1977
Principles and Practice of Textual Analysis
Benjamin N Colby, Benjamin Colby et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1977