Elvin Hatch
Biographic Data
| ID | 115679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elvin Hatch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elvin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatch |
| SIGNATURE | HATCH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 311 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Leslie A. White: Evolution and revolution in anthropology
Farmworkers in California: Narrative and Pictorial Histories
An Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life: The Gibbs Farmstead in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. Kathryn Marie Dudley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.195 pp
"Articulating Change in the "Last Unknown
A Humanistic Theory of Theory
This article argues that anthropological theory necessarily takes the form of interpretive theory, for in order to understand human affairs it is necessary to understand the cultural systems of meaning that mediate the world that people experience. Even anthropologists who eschew interpretive approaches use them, often unwittingly, and the article analyzes the work of Radcliffe-Brown and Julian Steward to make this point. It explores the nature o…
The Good Side of Relativism
The moral relativism of writers like Benedict and Herskovits was mistaken to the extent that it denied the legitimacy of ever disapproving the actions and institutions of others, yet it should not be rejected entirely. No moral theory has yet emerged that provides the theoretical basis for making cross-cultural value judgments and that enjoys widespread acceptance; hence the paradox of ethical relativism: we can't live with it, but it isn't clear…
Historicizing Malinowski: Two Views The Early Writings of Bronislaw Malinowski. Robert J. Thornton , Peter Skalnik , Ludwik Krzyzanowski
Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand
Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath the social hierarchy. Hatch describes a cultural theory of social hierarchy that defines not only the local system of social rank, but personhood as w…
Racism and Everyday DiscourseMapping the Language of Racism: Discourse and the Legitimation of Exploitation.Margaret Wetherell , Jonathan Potter
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Morality and Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress. Yi‐Fu Tuan. : Nature and Culture in Western Discourses. Stephen Horigan
Response to Zehner
Leslie White's Materialism: A Comment on Barrett
Theories of Social Honor
The approaches used in studying status systems (or systems of prestige or social honor) can be classified as either materialist or nonmaterialist, and the essential differences between them reflect differences in assumptions about human motivations. It is argued that the materialist approach is untenable. The nonmaterialist approaches also differ among themselves in motivational assumptions, and these differences in turn lead to very different vi…
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality . George W. Stocking, Jr. , ed
Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropology as Interpretive Quest [and Comments and Reply]
The Cultural Evaluation of Wealth: An Agrarian Case Study
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology. George W. Stocking, Jr. ed
The Growth of Economic, Subsistence, and Ecological Studies in American Anthropology (Abridged)
It is paradoxical that economic, subsistence and ecological factors are a major center of interest within American anthropology today, since at one time the anthropologists of this country tended to ignore material aspects and to minimize their importance for research. This paper attempts to resolve the paradox by tracing the growth of interest in material factors to certain intellectual and dynamic elements within the Boasian tradition. Whereas …
An Empirical View of the Moral Order
Raoul Naroll. The Moral Order: An Introduction to the Human Situation . Beverly Hills, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1983. 498 pp. $32.50 (cloth), $14.95 (paper
Biography of a Small Town
Anthropology toward History: Culture and Work in a 19th-Century Maine Town
A Tale of Two Towns
Biography of a Small Town
Journal Article Biography of a Small Town. By Elvin Hatch. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. 293 pp. Maps, tables, notes, references, and index. $20.00.) Get access Brian W. Beltman Brian W. Beltman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900517 Published: 01 June 1980
Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropology as Interpretive Quest [and Comments and Reply]
Theories of Man and Culture
I. IntroductionII. The Rise of the Anti-Intellectual, by E.B. Tylor and Franz BoasIII. From Irrationality to Utility in Cultural Integration, by Benedict, Kroeber, Steward, and WhiteIV. The Transcendence of Society, by Emile DurkheimV. Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Study of Human Societies, by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and E.E. Evans-PritchardVI. Culture and Man's Inborn Character, by Bronislaw Malinowski
Theories of Social Honor
The approaches used in studying status systems (or systems of prestige or social honor) can be classified as either materialist or nonmaterialist, and the essential differences between them reflect differences in assumptions about human motivations. It is argued that the materialist approach is untenable. The nonmaterialist approaches also differ among themselves in motivational assumptions, and these differences in turn lead to very different vi…
Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand
Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath the social hierarchy. Hatch describes a cultural theory of social hierarchy that defines not only the local system of social rank, but personhood as w…
The Good Side of Relativism
The moral relativism of writers like Benedict and Herskovits was mistaken to the extent that it denied the legitimacy of ever disapproving the actions and institutions of others, yet it should not be rejected entirely. No moral theory has yet emerged that provides the theoretical basis for making cross-cultural value judgments and that enjoys widespread acceptance; hence the paradox of ethical relativism: we can't live with it, but it isn't clear…
Art, Behavior, and the Anthropologists [and Comments and Reply]
Can Social activities be understood as having important and persistent social functions which are unintended by members of the society in which they are performed? In arguing that the answer is no, I draw methodological comparisons between aesthetic criticism is shown to make use of a broader sense of "intention" than many anthropologists have wished to employ in describing the functional significance of social activities. Yet the persistent func…
The Growth of Economic, Subsistence, and Ecological Studies in American Anthropology
It is paradoxical that economic, subsistence and ecological factors are a major center of interest within American anthropology today, since at one time the anthropologists of this country tended to ignore material aspects and to minimize their importance for research. This paper attempts to resolve the paradox by tracing the growth of interest in material factors to certain intellectual and dynamic elements within the Boasian tradition. Whereas …
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. Kathryn Marie Dudley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.195 pp
The Cultural Evaluation of Wealth: An Agrarian Case Study
Home Remedies Mexican Style
Farmworkers in California: Narrative and Pictorial Histories
An Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life: The Gibbs Farmstead in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920
Racism and Everyday DiscourseMapping the Language of Racism: Discourse and the Legitimation of Exploitation.Margaret Wetherell , Jonathan Potter
Social Drinking and Factional Alignment in a Rural California Community
Starkey2 is a small, fully industrialized farm community made up primarily of White Protestant Americans. It is located in the Coast Ranges between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Compared with much of California, this is a region characterized by a low population density and little urbanization. Starkey. itself has retained a definite selfidentity and a distinct community life, and in this sense it is still a community and not a mere cluster of h…
Home Remedies Mexican Style
The Growth of Economic, Subsistence, and Ecological Studies in American Anthropology
It is paradoxical that economic, subsistence and ecological factors are a major center of interest within American anthropology today, since at one time the anthropologists of this country tended to ignore material aspects and to minimize their importance for research. This paper attempts to resolve the paradox by tracing the growth of interest in material factors to certain intellectual and dynamic elements within the Boasian tradition. Whereas …
Social Drinking and Factional Alignment in a Rural California Community
Starkey2 is a small, fully industrialized farm community made up primarily of White Protestant Americans. It is located in the Coast Ranges between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Compared with much of California, this is a region characterized by a low population density and little urbanization. Starkey. itself has retained a definite selfidentity and a distinct community life, and in this sense it is still a community and not a mere cluster of h…
Communications
Melville J. Herskovits . George Eaton Simpson
Theories of Man and Culture
I. IntroductionII. The Rise of the Anti-Intellectual, by E.B. Tylor and Franz BoasIII. From Irrationality to Utility in Cultural Integration, by Benedict, Kroeber, Steward, and WhiteIV. The Transcendence of Society, by Emile DurkheimV. Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Study of Human Societies, by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and E.E. Evans-PritchardVI. Culture and Man's Inborn Character, by Bronislaw Malinowski
Theories of Man and Culture
This article reviews four books that offer different theoretical perspectives on the relationship between man and culture. The authors critique the approaches taken in each book, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. They discuss the concepts of culture, social structure, and human nature as presented in the works, and analyze the methodologies employed by the authors. The review emphasizes the importance of considering both biological and…
Leaders of modern anthropology: An essay review
Art, Behavior, and the Anthropologists [and Comments and Reply]
Can Social activities be understood as having important and persistent social functions which are unintended by members of the society in which they are performed? In arguing that the answer is no, I draw methodological comparisons between aesthetic criticism is shown to make use of a broader sense of "intention" than many anthropologists have wished to employ in describing the functional significance of social activities. Yet the persistent func…
Biography of a Small Town
A social history of a small town in California, focusing on it as a community as opposed to a grouping of households, and on how this feature of community has changed from the town's founding in the late nineteenth century to the mid-1960s. The first section discusses the nature of the community hub and its role in the local social system, the agricultural patterns and system of social stratification, the community life and factional divisions, a…
A Tale of Two Towns
Biography of a Small Town
Journal Article Biography of a Small Town. By Elvin Hatch. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. 293 pp. Maps, tables, notes, references, and index. $20.00.) Get access Brian W. Beltman Brian W. Beltman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900517 Published: 01 June 1980
Biography of a Small Town
Journal Article Biography of a Small Town Get access Biography of a Small Town. By Hatch Elvin. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. ix + 293 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. $20.00.) Janice L. Reiff Janice L. Reiff Newberry Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 11, Issue 4, October 1980, Pages 451–452, https://doi.org/10.2307/968306 Published: 01 October 1980
Biography of a Small Town
Anthropology toward History: Culture and Work in a 19th-Century Maine Town
An Empirical View of the Moral Order
Raoul Naroll. The Moral Order: An Introduction to the Human Situation . Beverly Hills, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1983. 498 pp. $32.50 (cloth), $14.95 (paper
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology. George W. Stocking, Jr. ed
The Growth of Economic, Subsistence, and Ecological Studies in American Anthropology (Abridged)
It is paradoxical that economic, subsistence and ecological factors are a major center of interest within American anthropology today, since at one time the anthropologists of this country tended to ignore material aspects and to minimize their importance for research. This paper attempts to resolve the paradox by tracing the growth of interest in material factors to certain intellectual and dynamic elements within the Boasian tradition. Whereas …
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality . George W. Stocking, Jr. , ed
Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropology as Interpretive Quest [and Comments and Reply]
The Cultural Evaluation of Wealth: An Agrarian Case Study
Theories of Social Honor
The approaches used in studying status systems (or systems of prestige or social honor) can be classified as either materialist or nonmaterialist, and the essential differences between them reflect differences in assumptions about human motivations. It is argued that the materialist approach is untenable. The nonmaterialist approaches also differ among themselves in motivational assumptions, and these differences in turn lead to very different vi…
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Morality and Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress. Yi‐Fu Tuan. : Nature and Culture in Western Discourses. Stephen Horigan
Response to Zehner
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