R Feinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 15237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Feinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Feinberg |
| SIGNATURE | FEINBERG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6588-3957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 125 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 559 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 125 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Auto-experimentation in wave piloting and celestial navigation
This report involves what I term ‘auto-experimentation’, or experimenting on myself, to learn and assess the arts of seafaring and navigation as practised in the south-eastern Solomon Islands. From 2007 to 2008, I spent nine months with people of the Polynesian island of Taumako, exploring local seafaring techniques. My objective was to study non-instrument navigation as a participant observer, combining verbal instruction with a 70-mile voyage i…
The Tongan Double Canoes, Peter Suren (2018)
Review of: The Tongan Double Canoes , Peter Suren (2018) Berlin: Peter Lang, 178 pp., ISBN 978 3 63174 552 6 (pbk), €36.10
People, Birds, Canoes, and Seafaring in the Pacific Islands
Birds around the Pacific are identified with human activities, and often with people themselves. This article explores the pervasive use of birds and avian imagery by Pacific islanders in legend, song, canoe construction, and navigation. It considers a preoccupation with birds in diverse spheres of island life, but with special attention to maritime activities
Bienvenida-Maybe
Bienvenida—Maybe:Cuba's Gradual Opening to World Markets Richard E. Feinberg (bio) since the collapse of its former patron, the soviet union, cuba has successfully diversified its international economic relations. Initially, Cuba reached out to Europe and Canada. As a consequence, today Spanish and Canadian firms manage many of the expanding hotel chains in Cuba—making tourism the economy's most dynamic sector. Over the past two decades, Cuba has…
Open for Business
"Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy examines the island's still stagnant sectors and market-driven changes under way as the country takes its early steps toward a more dynamic growth model. Richard E. Feinberg, a longtime observer who has been at the forefront of advocating for the recent diplomatic opening between the United States and Cuba, examines key issues such as the vital role of foreign investors, how Cubans will forge a p…
Principles and Power
As part of the mid-1990s normalization process, Vietnam and the United States negotiated a bilateral accord settling the outstanding property claims of U.S. citizens and corporations; Vietnam acceded to U.S. demands to fully compensate for expropriated properties owned by U.S. citizens in the pre-1975 years. In contrast, Vietnam granted no such concessions to Vietnamese immigrants, including Vietnamese-Americans. This article finds that the main …
Response to Nash on Creole Spatiality and Pitcairn Island
Conceptualizing 'Front' and 'Back
The study of navigation involves questions about the conceptualization of space and ways in which people share their spatial understandings with others. This article focuses on one aspect of spatial cognition, a phenomenon commonly known as “frames of reference” (FoRs). It explores the myriad ways in which Taumako islanders in the southeastern Solomons talk about spatial relations that English speakers term ‘front’ and ‘back.’ I examine how Tauma…
Introduction
Recent decades have seen a revival of interest in traditional voyaging equipment and techniques among Pacific Islanders. At key points, the Oceanic voyaging revival came together with anthropological interests in cognition. This special issue explores that intersection as it is expressed in cognitive models of space, both at sea and on land. These include techniques for “wave piloting” in the Marshall Islands, wind compasses and their utilization…
Multiple Models of Space and Movement on Taumako, a Polynesian Island in the Southeastern Solomons
People of Taumako, a Polynesian community in the Solomon Islands, employ a variety of spatial models, some binary and linear, others concentric or radial. The existence of multiple models means that individuals, as they confront the challenges of daily life, must choose among alternatives and draw upon whichever ones appear most helpful at the moment. But utility depends on judgment, memory, and the selective focus of attention. Consequently, spa…
Senses of Space
Foreign Investment in the New Cuban Economy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRichard FeinbergRichard Feinberg is a professor of international political economy at UC San Diego. His four decades of engagement with inter-American relations spans government service (in the Clinton administration, the State Department, and the U.S. Treasury), numerous Washington-based public policy institutes, the Peace Corps and now academia. His first NACLA publication, critical of U.S. policy towa…
Institutionalized Summitry
This article focuses on the newer yet increasingly common form of summitry that emerged only in the second half of the twentieth century: ‘institutionalized multilateral summitry’ or, in abbreviated form, simply institutionalized summitry. Institutionalized multilateral summitry is characterized by official meetings of heads of state and government, attended by at least several leaders and generally many more, which convene repeatedly (as opposed…
We, the Taumako
Raymond Firth’s We, The Tikopia, first published in 1936, still sets the standard for detailed, nuanced, sensitive ethnography. As Malinowski’s student, Firth-who died in 2002 at the age of 100-was a hard-headed functionalist, whose forte was careful examination of cultural “institutions” and their effects on individuals as well as on other institutions. Suspicious of abstruse theoretical pronouncements, he presented his analyses in plain languag…
Much Ado About Very Little
(2011). Much Ado About Very Little. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 511-519
China, Latin America, and the United States
China, Latin America, and the United States:Congruent Interests or Tectonic Turbulence? Richard Feinberg (bio) China in Latin America: The Whats and Wherefores. By Robert Evan Ellis . Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. Pp. xiii + 329. $24.50 paper. $65.00 cloth. The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century. By Stefan Halper . New York: Basic Books, 2010. Pp. 312. $28.95 cloth. China's and…
Latin America's Cold War by Hal Brands
National Competitiveness in Comparative Perspective
The term competitiveness is widely applied as a catch-all for investor-friendly policies and institutions. This article argues that sloppy applications of the term ignore the possibilities of policy tradeoffs and varieties of institutional choices. Popular conceptualizations of the term describe three discernible clusters of economic policies and institutions. One cluster captures openness to international trade; a second gauges regulatory impedi…
Marine resource conservation and prospects for environmental sustainability in Anuta, Solomon Islands
It has been argued that atolls have abundant, varied and dependable marine resources and that atoll‐dwellers' exploitation of marine fauna has remained essentially constant since prehistoric times. According to that line of argument, modern technology, in and of itself, has had little effect on the relationship between human populations and the natural environment. A countervailing view contends that the market economy and reliance upon money hav…
Bridging Science and Humanism
Competitiveness and Democracy
After reviewing progress in Latin America's economic stabilization and international competitiveness in the last two decades, this essay discusses the current post-Washington Consensus "social democratic convergence" agenda, which aims to sharpen market efficiency, improve the quality of democratic governance, and advance equity goals by attacking the social deficit. Two illustrative examples, at opposite ends of the development spectrum, are Nic…
Dialectics of Culture
Dialectics of Culture:Relativism in Popular and Anthropological Discourse Richard Feinberg For well over a century, cultural relativism has been among anthropology's most cherished tenets.1 In recent decades, however, it has come under increasing attack from multiple quarters. Critics on the religious right blame moral relativism for the alleged breakdown of marriage and family values, challenges to the Ten Commandments, and tolerance of sin. Cri…
Early European-Polynesian contact reenacted
This article recounts an incident in which many of the dynamics of early contact between European sailors and Pacific Islanders appear to have played out. The event occurred in 1973 on Anuta, a remote Polynesian enclave in the eastern Solomon Islands. Over a three-day period, islanders acquired highly valued commodities from a Taiwanese fishing boat through a combination of extortion and some very tough negotiations. This incident, I argue, helps…
Aids in Latin America
Polynesian Outliers
New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus
Charles C. Mann's book, *1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus*, challenges conventional wisdom about pre-Columbian America. Mann synthesizes recent archaeological and anthropological research to argue that the Americas were far more densely populated and technologically advanced than previously thought. He explores evidence of sophisticated agriculture, complex social structures, and extensive environmental management, suggesting…
Andean Diaspora
Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America
When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of the ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion throughout the Andes. The dead influenced politics, protected the living, symbolized the past, and legitimized claims over the land their descendants occupied, while the living honored the presence of the dead in numerous aspects of daily life. A central purpose of the Spanish missionary endeavor was to suppress the Andea…
Empires of the Atlantic World
Argentine Democracy
Mixed Signals
Drugs and Democracy in Latin America
The U.S. War on Drugs: Its Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean - the Editors. The U.S. Military and the War on Drugs - A. Isacson. U.S. Law Enforcement and the War on Drugs - R. Neild. Bolivia - K. Ledebur. The Caribbean - J. Rodriguez Beruff. Central America - R. Rockwell. Colombia - M.C. Ramirez. Ecuador - F. Rivera Velez. Mexico - J.L. Sierra. Peru - I. Rojas. The Southern Cone - R. Diamint. Conclusions and Recommendations - the Editors
Regimes of Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere
The 1994 Summit of the Americas marked a high point in hemispherism-our label for the active attempt by the nations of the Western Hemisphere to form regimes of cooperation with one another. To explain why hemispherism has not been a more powerful trend in the last 200 years, structural, interest, and cultural variables are relevant but insufficient factors. An important and often overlooked obstacle to hemispherism has been contrarian ideas. Spe…
The changing relationship between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have been bedeviled since their common creation over how to define their areas of specialized competence and how to interact in areas of overlapping jurisdiction. The multiple shocks that have destabilized the global economy over the last two decades have stimulated the Bank and Fund to alter fundamentally their programs and approaches, often without fully taking into account their relation to th…
Adjustment Crisis in the Third World
And the Money Kept Rolling in (And out)
This dramatic, definitive account of the most spectacular economic meltdown of modern times exposes the dangerous flaws of the global financial system In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations. Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World Bank and Wall Street. But the club has a disturbing propensity to turn its back on arrivistes and cast them out.…
Margaret Mead and Samoa
Derek Freeman's 1983 critique of Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa has prompted one of the most heated debates in recent anthropological memory. Yet even Mead's defenders have generally accepted the view that she saw Samoa as a romantic paradise. Here I argue that a careful reading of Coming of Age shows quite a different picture. In my reanalysis, Mead's work emerges as complex and somewhat enigmatic, with facile conclusions standing in con…
Anuta
Nafta Revisited
NAFTA entered into force in 1994 after a bitter Congressional debate. But NAFTA in operation has proved no less controversial than NAFTA before ratification, for both supporters and opponents of trade liberalization have cited experience with the agreement to justify their positions. To provide a factual basis for this ongoing debate, the authors evaluate NAFTA's performance over the first seven years, comparing actual experience with both the ob…
Democracy in Latin America
From Silver to Cocaine
Transnational Engagement, Remittances, and Their Relationship to Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Finance for Development
Access to finance is critical in setting the course for development in emerging market economies. In this innovative study, which provides the first book-length analysis of the Latin American financial sector, Barbara Stallings and Rogerio Studart examine the dramatic changes resulting from financial liberalization in the region. The authors begin by discussing the critical transformations taking place in Latin America since 1990 --a period marke…
Caribbean Rum
The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela
The United States and Brazil
Introduction 1. Historical Background 2. New Complexities in U.S.-Brazil Economic Relations 3. U.S.-Brazil Political Relations 4. Balance and Perspectives 5. The United States and Brazil: Comparative Reflections, An Essay by Andrew Hurrell
Integrating the Americas
Mexico's New Politics
Introduction: Mexico s Political Transformation. The Democratization of Mexican Politics. The Origins and Development of the PAN. The Rise of the PAN. Fox and Friends: The 2000 Presidential Elections. The PAN in Power: The Challenges of Governance. Mexico s New Politics and the Prospects for Democracy
Between Two Worlds
The global debt and adjustment crisis has challenged the World Bank to become the leading agency in North-South finance and development. The many dimensions of this challenge--which must be comprehensively addressed by the Bank's new president--are the subject of this important volume in the Overseas Development Council's U.S.-Third World Policy Perspectives series. The Bank's ability to design and implement a comprehensive response to global eco…
History and Structure
Despite the absence of exogamous moieties normally associated with "dual organization," suggestions of dual symbolic classification arise repeatedly in discussions of Polynesian cultures. More recently, the idea of dualism has been called into question both in Polynesia (e.g., Firth 1979) and elsewhere (e.g., Beattie 1968, Lévi-Strauss 1967, Sahlins 1976). Here I suggest that the people of Anuta, a small Polynesian outlier in the eastern Solomon …
Dependency and the Defeat of Allende
Dependency refers to an historically concrete relation between geographical areas in which the dynamic forces emanate from one region-the Center -and strike up on the secondary-or Periphery-region. Undoubtably a feedback occurs, and the process exhibits a dialectical interaction, but this paper will concentrate on the dominant direction-from the Center outwards. The imposition of forms may evolve in numerous fashions, varying from armed impositio…
Schneider's Symbolic Culture Theory
Two traditions have been vying for supremacy in the area of cultural analysis. The first sees culture as encompassing the totality of socially learned human phenomena; the second restricts the term to shared mental-primarily cognitive-properties. David Schneider has achieved a dominant positon in the latter school. In this paper I examine critically Schneider's approach to culture, with special attention to the problems raised by his perspective …
Shifting residential and subsistence patterns in a Navajo community
Supernatural sanctions and the social order on a Polynesian outlier
History and Structure
Despite the absence of exogamous moieties normally associated with "dual organization," suggestions of dual symbolic classification arise repeatedly in discussions of Polynesian cultures. More recently, the idea of dualism has been called into question both in Polynesia (e.g., Firth 1979) and elsewhere (e.g., Beattie 1968, Lévi-Strauss 1967, Sahlins 1976). Here I suggest that the people of Anuta, a small Polynesian outlier in the eastern Solomon …
What Is Polynesian Kinship All about
The existence of extragenealogical considerations in cultural definition of and descent has been discussed at length by anthropologists in recent years. The possibility that residence and co-operation may be as much factor as descent in determining group membership in Melanesia has been taken seriously at least since Barnes (I962) first broached issue for New Guinea Highlands. Since then, Langness (I964: I70) has contended that among Bena Bena, a…
Central America
Central America
(1982). Central America: The View from Moscow. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 171-175
A Bilateralist Gamble
Subsidizing Success
First published in 1982, this book was the first comprehensive study of the US Export-Import Bank, a US government export promotion agency with worldwide loans and insurance of $30 billion. By using analytical tools from several disciplines, the author examines many different sides of the operations and effectiveness of the Eximbank. A historical section explains the political and economic forces behind Exim's creation in the 1930s and details th…
The Intemperate Zone
With the polarization of pronuke and profreeze groups in the U.S. and Europe, this balanced information and analysis approach spreads light in stead of heat. It is a most welcome contribution to the current discussion. The authors write out of considerable firsthand experience with things nu clear and political. Carnesale has worked with SALT and International Nu clear Fuel Cycle Evaluation. Paul Doty worked on the Manhattan Project and served on…
What's in a Name? Personal Identity and Naming on Anuta
Names and the messages that they communicate have been a subject of general and anthropological interest. Here data are presented from Anuta, a Polynesian island in the eastern Solomons, showing that one's sense of identification with one's name is as intimate as in the west, and that social bonds are frequently established through the naming process, but without the permanence and exclusivity that we associate with names. Suggestions are offered…
Social Change in a Navajo Community
The Kissinger commission report
Adjustment Crisis in the Third World
Anuta
One Man Cannot Rule a Thousand
On Individual and Culture in American Anthropology
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Third World
A Note on Data Presentation in Ethnographic Reports
On Sibling Classification in Island Oceania
On “Anomalous Westerlies, El Niño, and the Colonization of Polynesia” by Ben R. Finney
Market Economy and Changing Sex-Roles on a Polynesian Atoll
The World Bank and structural adjustment in Latin America
Between Two Worlds
The global debt and adjustment crisis has challenged the World Bank to become the leading agency in North-South finance and development. The many dimensions of this challenge--which must be comprehensively addressed by the Bank's new president--are the subject of this important volume in the Overseas Development Council's U.S.-Third World Policy Perspectives series. The Bank's ability to design and implement a comprehensive response to global eco…
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