Tim Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 109891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7586-9267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The intertwined legacies at the heart of ethnographic field schools: A case from the NC State University Guatemala field school
Ethnographic field schools provide students a real-world experience in data gathering, analysis, and report writing. The field sites themselves become a key element in the learning process as students move out into the field with increasing confidence through the weeks of the program. The people and communities they encounter are both affected by and affect this interchange of local knowledge and cultures with students whose backgrounds are usual…
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector
This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu's critical sociology to explore the socio-political processes through which social resources or capital are sought and ethnic inequalities negotiated, legitimated and enforced in a postcolonial work context. Applying Bourdieusian analysis to data from interviews and vignettes in the Nigerian banking sector, the constructs 'ethnicised identity' and 'symbolic identity' are developed to show how employees across…
Investigating the factors influencing academic staff attitudes toward the formation of a technological university
The Irish institute of technology sector is undergoing a major restructuring that will culminate in mergers, to form technological universities (TU). It is essential that the perspective of key stakeholders is fully considered throughout this process, in order to facilitate a successful transition. This research investigates the factors influencing attitudes of academic staff toward their institute becoming a TU. A theoretical model was developed…
Gender, work, and tourism in the Guatemalan Highlands
While much of modern tourism research centers on the tourist as a leisure consumer, workers are frequently overlooked. Despite a recent uptick in attention to tourism work, the primary focus remains on employee’s skills and qualifications. In contrast, the key contextual factors of race, ethnicity, and gender that surround tourism work are seldom examined. This comparative study addresses the theme of traditional gender roles, particularly in pat…
Moral Relevance and Moral Conflict
In adapting our ways of dealing with these issues to unprecedented problems, and in dealing with the conflicts that arise from unprecedented juxtapositions of considerations, we alter and even reform morality.
Bridging the gaps: A Better Future for the Study of Religion
A better future for the study of religion would incorporate innovative and engaging approaches to bridge the gaps between popular and scholarly understandings of what comprises religion and why it remains relevant and significant in our world. This article calls for studying religion in a manner that emphasizes how it is thoroughly enmeshed with other ways of acting and existing in the world. The study of religion appears here as the study of how…
Assessing Residents’ Place Attachment to the Guatemalan Maya Landscape Through Mixed Methods Photo Elicitation
We developed mixed methods photo elicitation to mitigate cultural and language barriers and to acquire deeper understandings of indigenous participants’ place attachment. We define mixed methods photo elicitation to integrate quantitative rankings of photos with qualitative induction of the meanings ascribed to the photos. Multidimensional scaling is used to thematically analyze the resulting photo clusters in relation to qualitative investigatio…
Moonwalk Memories
Power, altruism and communitarian tourism: A comparative study
Residents of San Juan La Laguna and San Pedro La Laguna, neighboring towns on the shores of Lake Atitln, Guatemala, have followed very different trajectories of tourism development despite their close proximity. This study explores residents' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of tourism development under two differing economic models and addresses weaknesses in current theoretical approaches. Findings from this ethnographic comparative ca…
Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia: Comparing Mental Models and Revealing Cultural Truths
Serenari, C., M. Nils Peterson, Y.-F. Leung, P. Stowhas, T. Wallace, and E. Sills. 2015. Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia: comparing mental models and revealing cultural truths. Ecology and Society 20(3): 4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07696-200304
Rhetorics and realities of management practices in Pakistan: Colonial, post-colonial and post-9/11 influences
This study explores how colonial laws and administrative practices shaped the evolution of employment management in Pakistan. It identifies important mechanisms used by the British Raj (the period of British rule of the subcontinent) to institutionalise legal and administrative frameworks: the legacies of these structures continue to influence contemporary management practices in government sector organisations. This article investigates the lega…
Introduction to Tourism: Beyond Hosts and Guests
This special issue of Practicing Anthropology draws together an exciting and diverse set of papers and presentations on the topic of tourism written by both veteran anthropologists and graduate students. The study of tourism is no longer on the periphery of anthropology. Tourism's far-reaching connections and consequences for the tourist, the toured, and the anthropologist who studies them are clearly recognized today. The SfAA has long been a le…
Apprentice Ethnography and Service Learning Programs: Are They Compatible
Apprentice Ethnography and Service Learning Programs:Are They Compatible? Tim Wallace (bio) A Response to the Gitxaała Nation Program Led by Charles Menzies and Caroline Butler Charles Menzies and Caroline Butler title their contribution to this journal "Collaborative Service Learning and Anthropology with the Gitxaała Nation," yet they make a reference to "early ethnographic field schools [using] indigenous communities as a laboratory," seeming …
Gluesing, Mobile Work, Mobile Lives: Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences
Careers in 21st Century Applied Anthropology: Perspectives from Academics and Practitioners
The Soccer Wars: Hispanic Immigrants in Conflict and Adaptation at the Soccer Borderzone
Soccer is a worldwide sport with fervent fans across the United States, Mexico, and Central America. Recent Hispanic arrivals in the United States find common ground with U.S. American soccer fans, but social and cultural issues are still barriers to better relationships among Hispanics and non-Hispanic residents. Using the concept of "soccer borderzone," I relate the ways in which futból (soccer) is a mechanism by which immigrants from Latin Ame…
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Tourism, Tourists, and Anthropologists at Work
The anthropology of tourism is a relatively recent topic area within both academic and applied anthropology, having gotten its start in the 1960s and 1970s. Valene Smith's edited work Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism (1977) marks the beginning of the field as a serious academic concern. Since then it has grown rapidly. Anthropologists were (and some continue to be) ambivalent about studying tourists, but initially they were concerned…
Keeping the People in the Parks: A Case Study From Guatemala
Ecotourism is seen as a mechanism by which environmental conservation can be promoted and attained. Nevertheless, nature conservation NGOs do not really understand that ecotourism has unforeseen consequences. Anthropologists can be good mediators between the conservation NGOs and the communities that are the targets of their ecotourism projects. This paper describes a case study in which the authors were indirectly consultants for The Nature Cons…
Mentorship and the Field School Experience
This chapter discusses the benefits to both students and faculty program directors who participate in ethnographic field schools. Mentoring is a productive way to teach students that enables them to learn by doing. Although there are many stresses and strains in conducting mentor-structured programs, the payoffs are great as the directors gently lead their students into developing deeper understanding of anthropology and ethnography. This approac…
Apprentice Ethnographers and the Anthropology of Tourism in Costa Rica
This chapter discusses the structure of North Carolina State University ethnographic field school program held in Costa Rica from 1995-2001 (and now in Guatemala since 2002), in addition to explaining how the program is run and its focus on the anthropology of tourism. It is argued that not all field schools are ethnographic but that ethnographic field schools are essential for apprentice anthropologists who want to understand what anthropology i…
Brokering Playing Fields: Latinos and La Liga De Fútbol in Raleigh, NC
The 2000 US Census confirmed that North Carolina has been the recipient of a rapid increase in Latino residents since 1990. The explosion in Latino migrants (primarily from Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras) has been so sudden and rapid that many communities have not been able to respond fast enough to handle the needs and special problems presented by this new, young, ethnic population. Local institutions such as police departments, courts, schoo…
Ethical Norms, Particular Cases
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Ethical Norms, Particular Cases
James D. Wallace treats moral considerations as beliefs about the right and wrong ways of doing things—beliefs whose source and authority are the same as any other kind of practical knowledge. Principles, rules, and norms arise from people's cumulative experience in pursuing their purposes and struggling with the problems they encounter. Moral knowledge, he contends, is excerpted from the bodies of information we have developed so that we will be…
Assessing Residents’ Place Attachment to the Guatemalan Maya Landscape Through Mixed Methods Photo Elicitation
We developed mixed methods photo elicitation to mitigate cultural and language barriers and to acquire deeper understandings of indigenous participants’ place attachment. We define mixed methods photo elicitation to integrate quantitative rankings of photos with qualitative induction of the meanings ascribed to the photos. Multidimensional scaling is used to thematically analyze the resulting photo clusters in relation to qualitative investigatio…
Keeping the People in the Parks: A Case Study From Guatemala
Ecotourism is seen as a mechanism by which environmental conservation can be promoted and attained. Nevertheless, nature conservation NGOs do not really understand that ecotourism has unforeseen consequences. Anthropologists can be good mediators between the conservation NGOs and the communities that are the targets of their ecotourism projects. This paper describes a case study in which the authors were indirectly consultants for The Nature Cons…
Tourism, Tourists, and Anthropologists at Work
The anthropology of tourism is a relatively recent topic area within both academic and applied anthropology, having gotten its start in the 1960s and 1970s. Valene Smith's edited work Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism (1977) marks the beginning of the field as a serious academic concern. Since then it has grown rapidly. Anthropologists were (and some continue to be) ambivalent about studying tourists, but initially they were concerned…
Mentorship and the Field School Experience
This chapter discusses the benefits to both students and faculty program directors who participate in ethnographic field schools. Mentoring is a productive way to teach students that enables them to learn by doing. Although there are many stresses and strains in conducting mentor-structured programs, the payoffs are great as the directors gently lead their students into developing deeper understanding of anthropology and ethnography. This approac…
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector
This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu's critical sociology to explore the socio-political processes through which social resources or capital are sought and ethnic inequalities negotiated, legitimated and enforced in a postcolonial work context. Applying Bourdieusian analysis to data from interviews and vignettes in the Nigerian banking sector, the constructs 'ethnicised identity' and 'symbolic identity' are developed to show how employees across…
Rhetorics and realities of management practices in Pakistan: Colonial, post-colonial and post-9/11 influences
This study explores how colonial laws and administrative practices shaped the evolution of employment management in Pakistan. It identifies important mechanisms used by the British Raj (the period of British rule of the subcontinent) to institutionalise legal and administrative frameworks: the legacies of these structures continue to influence contemporary management practices in government sector organisations. This article investigates the lega…
Full-Time Schooling in Life-Cycle Models of Human Capital Accumulation
A reduced-form equation relating length of "formal schooling" to market, endowment, and ability parameters was derived for a life-cycle human capital accumulation model with alternative assumptions: (a) equal borrowing and lending rates and (b) no loans for human capital investment. Length of "formal schooling" increases when loans are unavailable. For both cases, length of "formal schooling" varies directly with length of work life, a Hicks-neut…
Investigating the factors influencing academic staff attitudes toward the formation of a technological university
The Irish institute of technology sector is undergoing a major restructuring that will culminate in mergers, to form technological universities (TU). It is essential that the perspective of key stakeholders is fully considered throughout this process, in order to facilitate a successful transition. This research investigates the factors influencing attitudes of academic staff toward their institute becoming a TU. A theoretical model was developed…
Apprentice Ethnography and Service Learning Programs: Are They Compatible
Apprentice Ethnography and Service Learning Programs:Are They Compatible? Tim Wallace (bio) A Response to the Gitxaała Nation Program Led by Charles Menzies and Caroline Butler Charles Menzies and Caroline Butler title their contribution to this journal "Collaborative Service Learning and Anthropology with the Gitxaała Nation," yet they make a reference to "early ethnographic field schools [using] indigenous communities as a laboratory," seeming …
Apprentice Ethnographers and the Anthropology of Tourism in Costa Rica
This chapter discusses the structure of North Carolina State University ethnographic field school program held in Costa Rica from 1995-2001 (and now in Guatemala since 2002), in addition to explaining how the program is run and its focus on the anthropology of tourism. It is argued that not all field schools are ethnographic but that ethnographic field schools are essential for apprentice anthropologists who want to understand what anthropology i…
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Peter Shirlow of the School of Geosciences, the Queen's University of Belfast, critically examines the economic development policies of the Irish Republic based upon the attraction of foreign direct investors. It is argued that Ireland's G D P has been grossly exaggerated because of transfer price fixing by transnational corporations and that the strategy of attracting T N Cs has failed to benefit indig…
Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia: Comparing Mental Models and Revealing Cultural Truths
Serenari, C., M. Nils Peterson, Y.-F. Leung, P. Stowhas, T. Wallace, and E. Sills. 2015. Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia: comparing mental models and revealing cultural truths. Ecology and Society 20(3): 4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07696-200304
The Soccer Wars: Hispanic Immigrants in Conflict and Adaptation at the Soccer Borderzone
Soccer is a worldwide sport with fervent fans across the United States, Mexico, and Central America. Recent Hispanic arrivals in the United States find common ground with U.S. American soccer fans, but social and cultural issues are still barriers to better relationships among Hispanics and non-Hispanic residents. Using the concept of "soccer borderzone," I relate the ways in which futból (soccer) is a mechanism by which immigrants from Latin Ame…
Hawthorne and the Scribbling Women Reconsidered
IN the fall of I854 Nathaniel Hawthorne-already well established as the famous American author of The Scarlet Letter and serving as the American consul at Liverpool-wrote to his publisher and friend, William D. Ticknor, with an unusual request. The Englishman Richard Monckton Milnes had been introduced to Hawthorne as very kind patron of literary men and as someone who did great deal of good among young and neglected people of that class.' It was…
The Commonwealth Fund Activities in Austria
The Commonwealth Fund Activities in Austria James Wallace CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.20.3.337-c Published Online: August 29, 2011
The Beginning of the World
Kant offered the following proof for the thesis that the world has a beginning in time: If we assume that the world has no beginning in time, then up to every given moment an eternity has elapsed, and there has passed away in the world an infinite series of successive states of things. Now the infinity of a series consists in the fact that it can never be completed through successive synthesis. It thus follows that it is impossible for an infinit…
Knowledge of Actions
Practical Inquiry
Values and Conduct
Full-Time Schooling in Life-Cycle Models of Human Capital Accumulation
A reduced-form equation relating length of "formal schooling" to market, endowment, and ability parameters was derived for a life-cycle human capital accumulation model with alternative assumptions: (a) equal borrowing and lending rates and (b) no loans for human capital investment. Length of "formal schooling" increases when loans are unavailable. For both cases, length of "formal schooling" varies directly with length of work life, a Hicks-neut…
Virtues and Vices
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Virtues and Vices. By James D. Wallace. ( Cornell University Press. 1978. Pp. 170. Price £9.50) B. A. Duff B. A. Duff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 118, January 1980, Pages 86–88, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219392 Published: 01 January 1980
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" and American Culture
Early Cooper and His Audience
Early Cooper and his Audience
Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865
Hawthorne and the Scribbling Women Reconsidered
IN the fall of I854 Nathaniel Hawthorne-already well established as the famous American author of The Scarlet Letter and serving as the American consul at Liverpool-wrote to his publisher and friend, William D. Ticknor, with an unusual request. The Englishman Richard Monckton Milnes had been introduced to Hawthorne as very kind patron of literary men and as someone who did great deal of good among young and neglected people of that class.' It was…
Moral Relevance and Moral Conflict
Moral Relevance and Moral Conflict
Contexts for Hawthorne: "The Marble Faun" and the Politics of Openness and Closure in American Literature
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Peter Shirlow of the School of Geosciences, the Queen's University of Belfast, critically examines the economic development policies of the Irish Republic based upon the attraction of foreign direct investors. It is argued that Ireland's G D P has been grossly exaggerated because of transfer price fixing by transnational corporations and that the strategy of attracting T N Cs has failed to benefit indig…
Ethical Norms, Particular Cases
James D. Wallace treats moral considerations as beliefs about the right and wrong ways of doing things—beliefs whose source and authority are the same as any other kind of practical knowledge. Principles, rules, and norms arise from people's cumulative experience in pursuing their purposes and struggling with the problems they encounter. Moral knowledge, he contends, is excerpted from the bodies of information we have developed so that we will be…
Ethical Norms, Particular Cases
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Brokering Playing Fields: Latinos and La Liga De Fútbol in Raleigh, NC
The 2000 US Census confirmed that North Carolina has been the recipient of a rapid increase in Latino residents since 1990. The explosion in Latino migrants (primarily from Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras) has been so sudden and rapid that many communities have not been able to respond fast enough to handle the needs and special problems presented by this new, young, ethnic population. Local institutions such as police departments, courts, schoo…
Mentorship and the Field School Experience
This chapter discusses the benefits to both students and faculty program directors who participate in ethnographic field schools. Mentoring is a productive way to teach students that enables them to learn by doing. Although there are many stresses and strains in conducting mentor-structured programs, the payoffs are great as the directors gently lead their students into developing deeper understanding of anthropology and ethnography. This approac…
Apprentice Ethnographers and the Anthropology of Tourism in Costa Rica
This chapter discusses the structure of North Carolina State University ethnographic field school program held in Costa Rica from 1995-2001 (and now in Guatemala since 2002), in addition to explaining how the program is run and its focus on the anthropology of tourism. It is argued that not all field schools are ethnographic but that ethnographic field schools are essential for apprentice anthropologists who want to understand what anthropology i…
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Tourism, Tourists, and Anthropologists at Work
The anthropology of tourism is a relatively recent topic area within both academic and applied anthropology, having gotten its start in the 1960s and 1970s. Valene Smith's edited work Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism (1977) marks the beginning of the field as a serious academic concern. Since then it has grown rapidly. Anthropologists were (and some continue to be) ambivalent about studying tourists, but initially they were concerned…
Keeping the People in the Parks: A Case Study From Guatemala
Ecotourism is seen as a mechanism by which environmental conservation can be promoted and attained. Nevertheless, nature conservation NGOs do not really understand that ecotourism has unforeseen consequences. Anthropologists can be good mediators between the conservation NGOs and the communities that are the targets of their ecotourism projects. This paper describes a case study in which the authors were indirectly consultants for The Nature Cons…
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