Miriam Lee Kaprow
Biographic Data
| ID | 119161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Lee Kaprow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaprow |
| SIGNATURE | KAPROW M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Last, Best Work
Gendered Fields
Gendered Fields: Women, Men, and Ethnography. Diane Bell. Pat Caplan, and Wazir Jahan Karim, eds., London: Routledge, 1993. xvi + 260 pp., contributors, photos, notes, references, indexes
Pitfalls of Republication
Magical Work
Firefighting in New York City has been an occupation resistant to proletarianization, the situation in which workers lose control over their work and are left with nothing to sell but their labor. Hazards intrinsic to firefighting have made it difficult to supplant firefighters with unskilled workers. The social organization of the firehouse has similarly protected their autonomy. In addition, their beliefs about belonging to an elite profession …
L'addomesticamento dei "Gitanos" e delle alter classi pericolose
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Manufacturing Danger
Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers . Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. x + 221 pp. $14.95 (cloth), $7.95 (paper
The Hypoglycemia-Aggression Hypothesis
In a critical evaluation of work by Ralph Bolton on the relationship between hypoglycemia and aggression among the Qolla of Peru, Ted Lewellen has argued that the Qolla are not highly aggressive, that they have been the victims of pseudoscientific stereotyping and prejudice, that they are not especially prone to problems in glucose homeostasis, and that whatever aggression they display can be explained in large part by their consumption of alcoho…
Metaphors of Masculinity
The Politics of Environmental Health Hazards
Rene Dubos once remarked that every civilization suffers from a characteristic set of diseases. In the Third World, infectious diseases still remain a constant threat. In industrial societies, on the other hand, these diseases have been largely controlled and are no longer a leading cause of death and disability. The diseases now approaching epidemic proportions in industrialized soceties are the exogenously caused diseases—the diseases associate…
Ethnology
Ethnology
The Politics of Environmental Health Hazards
Rhetoric and Reality
Manufacturing Danger
Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers . Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. x + 221 pp. $14.95 (cloth), $7.95 (paper
The Hypoglycemia-Aggression Hypothesis
In a critical evaluation of work by Ralph Bolton on the relationship between hypoglycemia and aggression among the Qolla of Peru, Ted Lewellen has argued that the Qolla are not highly aggressive, that they have been the victims of pseudoscientific stereotyping and prejudice, that they are not especially prone to problems in glucose homeostasis, and that whatever aggression they display can be explained in large part by their consumption of alcoho…
Magical Work
Firefighting in New York City has been an occupation resistant to proletarianization, the situation in which workers lose control over their work and are left with nothing to sell but their labor. Hazards intrinsic to firefighting have made it difficult to supplant firefighters with unskilled workers. The social organization of the firehouse has similarly protected their autonomy. In addition, their beliefs about belonging to an elite profession …
Gendered Fields
Gendered Fields: Women, Men, and Ethnography. Diane Bell. Pat Caplan, and Wazir Jahan Karim, eds., London: Routledge, 1993. xvi + 260 pp., contributors, photos, notes, references, indexes
The Last, Best Work
Ethnology
Rhetoric and Reality
Ethnology
The Politics of Environmental Health Hazards
The Politics of Environmental Health Hazards
Rene Dubos once remarked that every civilization suffers from a characteristic set of diseases. In the Third World, infectious diseases still remain a constant threat. In industrial societies, on the other hand, these diseases have been largely controlled and are no longer a leading cause of death and disability. The diseases now approaching epidemic proportions in industrialized soceties are the exogenously caused diseases—the diseases associate…
Ethnology
Metaphors of Masculinity
The Hypoglycemia-Aggression Hypothesis
In a critical evaluation of work by Ralph Bolton on the relationship between hypoglycemia and aggression among the Qolla of Peru, Ted Lewellen has argued that the Qolla are not highly aggressive, that they have been the victims of pseudoscientific stereotyping and prejudice, that they are not especially prone to problems in glucose homeostasis, and that whatever aggression they display can be explained in large part by their consumption of alcoho…
Manufacturing Danger
Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers . Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. x + 221 pp. $14.95 (cloth), $7.95 (paper
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Social/Cultural Anthropology
L'addomesticamento dei "Gitanos" e delle alter classi pericolose
Magical Work
Firefighting in New York City has been an occupation resistant to proletarianization, the situation in which workers lose control over their work and are left with nothing to sell but their labor. Hazards intrinsic to firefighting have made it difficult to supplant firefighters with unskilled workers. The social organization of the firehouse has similarly protected their autonomy. In addition, their beliefs about belonging to an elite profession …
Pitfalls of Republication
Gendered Fields
Gendered Fields: Women, Men, and Ethnography. Diane Bell. Pat Caplan, and Wazir Jahan Karim, eds., London: Routledge, 1993. xvi + 260 pp., contributors, photos, notes, references, indexes
The Last, Best Work
Sociology (9 works) · Citation (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Library science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)