Susan W Almy
Biographic Data
| ID | 182823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan W Almy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan W |
| FAMILY NAME | Almy |
| SIGNATURE | ALMY S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rockefeller Foundation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Confidentiality, Clandestinity and the Practice of Anthropology
Apropos of the Typological Model of Social Change
This article examines the evolution of the traditionalism-modernism model in Latin America and critically reviews several recent tests in the region that appear to suggest that the typology should be revised as a theoretical system explaining social change. With this statement as a general basis, five hypotheses are formulated, taking urbanization as the independent variable for attitude toward change, structural complexity, and social mobility. …
Our Obsolete Production Mentality
Nonmaterial aspects of social practices such as symbolic exchange, modes of destruction of wealth-in short, the broad field of "antieconomic" activities-have not been fully examined by economic anthropology. This articles is sort of challenge to carry out this examination. In the first part of the study, problems related to the "utilitarian approach," taken in a broad sense, are discussed. The following section explores the concept of the communa…
Applied Anthropology
Anthropologists and Development Agencies
Development agencies are becoming interested in anthropologists just as the latter are being forced out of academic employment by their increasing numbers. But agency work requires special skills and dedications not widely found among academic anthropologists. With rural development as a focus, the anthropologist's potential contributions, problems, personal and professional benefits, and modes of entry into agency work are explored. [applied ant…
Report on a Survey of Departments to Locate Non Academically Employed Anthropologists
Anthropologists and Development Agencies
Development agencies are becoming interested in anthropologists just as the latter are being forced out of academic employment by their increasing numbers. But agency work requires special skills and dedications not widely found among academic anthropologists. With rural development as a focus, the anthropologist's potential contributions, problems, personal and professional benefits, and modes of entry into agency work are explored. [applied ant…
Our Obsolete Production Mentality
Nonmaterial aspects of social practices such as symbolic exchange, modes of destruction of wealth-in short, the broad field of "antieconomic" activities-have not been fully examined by economic anthropology. This articles is sort of challenge to carry out this examination. In the first part of the study, problems related to the "utilitarian approach," taken in a broad sense, are discussed. The following section explores the concept of the communa…
Applied Anthropology
Report on a Survey of Departments to Locate Non Academically Employed Anthropologists
Report on a Survey of Departments to Locate Non Academically Employed Anthropologists
Anthropologists and Development Agencies
Development agencies are becoming interested in anthropologists just as the latter are being forced out of academic employment by their increasing numbers. But agency work requires special skills and dedications not widely found among academic anthropologists. With rural development as a focus, the anthropologist's potential contributions, problems, personal and professional benefits, and modes of entry into agency work are explored. [applied ant…
Applied Anthropology
Our Obsolete Production Mentality
Nonmaterial aspects of social practices such as symbolic exchange, modes of destruction of wealth-in short, the broad field of "antieconomic" activities-have not been fully examined by economic anthropology. This articles is sort of challenge to carry out this examination. In the first part of the study, problems related to the "utilitarian approach," taken in a broad sense, are discussed. The following section explores the concept of the communa…
Apropos of the Typological Model of Social Change
This article examines the evolution of the traditionalism-modernism model in Latin America and critically reviews several recent tests in the region that appear to suggest that the typology should be revised as a theoretical system explaining social change. With this statement as a general basis, five hypotheses are formulated, taking urbanization as the independent variable for attitude toward change, structural complexity, and social mobility. …
Confidentiality, Clandestinity and the Practice of Anthropology
Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)