Gifford S Nickerson
Biographic Data
| ID | 125610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gifford S Nickerson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gifford S |
| FAMILY NAME | Nickerson |
| SIGNATURE | NICKERSON G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Melville Herskovits Remembered
Obituary
Darwinian Selection, Symbolic Variation, and the Evolution of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Most contemporary models of cultural change are derived from pre-Darwinian, especially Spencerian, sources and are conditioned by such unstated assumptions as typological thinking and a belief in directed, adaptive variation. This paper defends a Darwinian selectionist approach to cultural evolution. Darwinian selectionism requires undirected, heritable variation. Selection acts upon variants that are not preferentially oriented to or generated w…
A World of Faces
The creation, use, and meaning of the masks created by the native Americans of the Northwest Coast are brought to life by an author who knows and loves the art, craft, and lore behind the masks. It is the first book devoted to a thorough explication of the techniques of mask-making and the role of the artist and his masks in the society. The reader will see the masks not in the cold light of a glass museum case, but as their people did - in the m…
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Indian Fishing
Do Applied Anthropologists Apply Anthropology?Michael V. Angrosino
Indians and Chiefs . A Film by Judith Macdougall, Photographed by David Macdougall
The Way of Our Fathers. A film by various northern California Indians; filmmaker, BRADLEY WRIGHT
The Implications of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in American Archaeology
The future of American archaeology continues to be threatened by the destruction of sites by pot-hunters. Furthermore, there is no clear indication that relief is in sight, either by way of a reduction of pot-hunting or a concerted attack on the problem by archaeologists. Since a fatalistic attitude toward pot-hunters appears to have been, up to now, a self-fulfilling prophecy, McGimsey's recent comments on the necessity of influencing public opi…
The Future of America's Past
Factors affecting non-participation in a county-wide tuberculin testing program in southern Appalachia
Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies
Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America
The Assiniboines. From the Accounts of the Old Ones Told to First Boy (James Larpenteur Long)
The Size and Nature of Children's Peer Groups among Nonliterate Peoples
Gifford S. Nickerson, The Size and Nature of Children's Peer Groups among Nonliterate Peoples: A Significant Gap in Ethnographic Literature, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan., 1963), pp. 18-26
The Provenience, Reinterpretation, and Persistence of an American Archaeological Derogation
The designation pot-hunter, as used by American archaeologists, is examined with respect to both its provenience in England and its relatively recent reinterpretation in the New World. Rather than being coined in American archaeology to designate 'a hunter of pots,' this appellation, with its explicit derogatory connotation, clearly has its roots in various sporting events of 16th-century England. The essence of its meaning, then, does not relate…
Status and Role in Archaeology
Three categories of individuals currently interested in the recovery of prehistoric archaeological material on the Plains as well as in the United States generally, may be distinguished: the professional archaeologist, the amateur, and the pot-hunter, or vandal. Each of these types is placed in perspective in relation to the others and to the field of prehistoric archaeology, with special emphasis on the status and roles of different types of pot…
Darwinian Selection, Symbolic Variation, and the Evolution of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Most contemporary models of cultural change are derived from pre-Darwinian, especially Spencerian, sources and are conditioned by such unstated assumptions as typological thinking and a belief in directed, adaptive variation. This paper defends a Darwinian selectionist approach to cultural evolution. Darwinian selectionism requires undirected, heritable variation. Selection acts upon variants that are not preferentially oriented to or generated w…
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Factors affecting non-participation in a county-wide tuberculin testing program in southern Appalachia
Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies
The Future of America's Past
Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America
The Provenience, Reinterpretation, and Persistence of an American Archaeological Derogation
The designation pot-hunter, as used by American archaeologists, is examined with respect to both its provenience in England and its relatively recent reinterpretation in the New World. Rather than being coined in American archaeology to designate 'a hunter of pots,' this appellation, with its explicit derogatory connotation, clearly has its roots in various sporting events of 16th-century England. The essence of its meaning, then, does not relate…
Status and Role in Archaeology
Three categories of individuals currently interested in the recovery of prehistoric archaeological material on the Plains as well as in the United States generally, may be distinguished: the professional archaeologist, the amateur, and the pot-hunter, or vandal. Each of these types is placed in perspective in relation to the others and to the field of prehistoric archaeology, with special emphasis on the status and roles of different types of pot…
The Assiniboines. From the Accounts of the Old Ones Told to First Boy (James Larpenteur Long)
The Size and Nature of Children's Peer Groups among Nonliterate Peoples
Gifford S. Nickerson, The Size and Nature of Children's Peer Groups among Nonliterate Peoples: A Significant Gap in Ethnographic Literature, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan., 1963), pp. 18-26
The Provenience, Reinterpretation, and Persistence of an American Archaeological Derogation
The designation pot-hunter, as used by American archaeologists, is examined with respect to both its provenience in England and its relatively recent reinterpretation in the New World. Rather than being coined in American archaeology to designate 'a hunter of pots,' this appellation, with its explicit derogatory connotation, clearly has its roots in various sporting events of 16th-century England. The essence of its meaning, then, does not relate…
Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America
Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies
Factors affecting non-participation in a county-wide tuberculin testing program in southern Appalachia
The Implications of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in American Archaeology
The future of American archaeology continues to be threatened by the destruction of sites by pot-hunters. Furthermore, there is no clear indication that relief is in sight, either by way of a reduction of pot-hunting or a concerted attack on the problem by archaeologists. Since a fatalistic attitude toward pot-hunters appears to have been, up to now, a self-fulfilling prophecy, McGimsey's recent comments on the necessity of influencing public opi…
The Future of America's Past
Indians and Chiefs . A Film by Judith Macdougall, Photographed by David Macdougall
The Way of Our Fathers. A film by various northern California Indians; filmmaker, BRADLEY WRIGHT
Do Applied Anthropologists Apply Anthropology?Michael V. Angrosino
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Indian Fishing
A World of Faces
The creation, use, and meaning of the masks created by the native Americans of the Northwest Coast are brought to life by an author who knows and loves the art, craft, and lore behind the masks. It is the first book devoted to a thorough explication of the techniques of mask-making and the role of the artist and his masks in the society. The reader will see the masks not in the cold light of a glass museum case, but as their people did - in the m…
Darwinian Selection, Symbolic Variation, and the Evolution of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Most contemporary models of cultural change are derived from pre-Darwinian, especially Spencerian, sources and are conditioned by such unstated assumptions as typological thinking and a belief in directed, adaptive variation. This paper defends a Darwinian selectionist approach to cultural evolution. Darwinian selectionism requires undirected, heritable variation. Selection acts upon variants that are not preferentially oriented to or generated w…
Obituary
Melville Herskovits Remembered
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