John A Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 233892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4500-3673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Because the rules out there are different…”
Pre-service teachers are required to become reflective practitioners who can adapt their skills to a range of contexts and the diverse needs of learners. Many consider the practicum experience as critical to forming values and dispositions that are essential to a professional teacher identity. This article focuses on the experiences of five White pre-service teachers who volunteered to teach in remote Indigenous communities in South Australia, sp…
Single Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: People and Forests: Yunnan Swidden Agriculture in Human–Ecological Perspective . Yin Shaoting
Applied Anthropology in China
This chapter examines the development of applied anthropology in China through the political twists and turns of history and politics during the last eight decades. Chinese anthropology has always had a strong applied emphasis. It began with a mandate to study the political-economy of ethnic groups in frontier/border regions in the 1920's and 1930's for national security reasons, and it continues today with the objective of cultural preservation …
Introduction to the Investigation of the Present Situation and Development of Ethnic Minorities in China
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Guan Jian, John Young; Introduction to the Investigation of the Present Situation and Development of Ethnic Minorities in China: A Reflection on Changes in the Last Ten Years in the Field of Anthropology in China. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 20…
Human Rights and the Right to Culture in China
As anthropologists we are often preoccupied with our own circumscribed studies of local communities. Only during World War II did we embrace the global dimensions and importance of cultural differences. Many Western anthropologists who have recently, and as a matter of conscience, become concerned with globalization have abandoned the concept of culture as an organizing principle, perhaps in part because they confuse cultural relativism with mora…
Assessing Cooperation and Change
Barbara Johnston asked me to serve as her co-editor and write this endnote commentary as a logical conclusion to our five years of collaboration. As president-elect of the Society in June of 1996, I assisted then President Jean J. Schensul, Barbara, and others in the original negotiations with Theresa Trainor and the EPA about the provisions of the Cooperative Agreement. When I became President, I had the primary responsibility for oversight of t…
Applied Ethnology in China
As applied social scientists, we need to be reminded occasionally that our theoretical and research orientations, as they focus on understanding various aspects of culture, are themselves products of culture, influenced by history, ideology and problem solving in a particular sociopolitical context. This was brought home to us at the 1989 SfAA Annual Meeting in Santa Fe when a delegation of five Chinese ethnologists presented papers at a plenary …
Advocacy and the struggle for a better science of anthropology
Spaulding, Philip, ed. Anthropology in Praxis. Calgary, Canada: Department of Anthropology, Occasional Papers in Anthropology and Primatology, 1986. iii + 253 pp. N. P. Paine, Robert, ed. Advocacy and Anthropology, First Encounters. St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985. xiii 4‐ 278 pp. including references. $15.00 paper. Agar, Michael H. Independents Declared: The Di…
Development Education and Social Stratification in Fiji
The transformation of Pacific Island societies into modern nation states necessarily involves change from a subsistence economy to an industrial mode of production. Development education will play an important role in the success or failure of efforts to industrialize in the training of an indigenous group of business managers and bureaucrats. These individuals must be given a practical understanding of western economics and organizational forms …
The Use of Culture in Applied Studies
Analogy and Mysticism and the Structure of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Examples are drawn from the cultures of China, Africa, Tibet and Japan, and the Navaho in support of a model for human cognitive processing which assumes that a major component of the rules for calculating human behavior is resident outside the individual in the symbolic artifacts of culture. An Appositional Transformation Operator (ATO) is specified that can relate semantic concepts and patterns of behavior by analogy. The ATO is shown to work w…
Productive Efficiency and the Adaptations of Small-Scale Farmers
This paper reports on a survey, conducted in five western states of the United States, of 221 small-scale farmers. Despite the current productive dominance of large farms, an argument can be made that small-scale farming is desirable both for social and ecological reasons. Discussion focuses on the tradition-oriented goals and values of small-scale farmers, special problems associated with smallness of scale, diverse sources of income, cost minim…
Capitalism and Human Obsolescence
Conservative, liberal and radical viewpoints on the world food problem
Peter G. Brown and Henry Shue, eds. Food Policy; The Responsibility of the United States in the Life and Death Choices. New York: The Free Press, 1977, viii + 344 pp. Figures, tables, notes, references and index. $14.95 cloth. Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins. Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. xi + 466 pp. Notes, references, recommended bibliography and index. $10.95, cloth
Professional Unemployment
Inequality and American institutions
Alan Howard. Ain't No Big Thing: Coping Strategies in a Hawaiian‐American Community. An East‐West Center Book. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 1974. xxv +311 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, appendices, references, and index. $10.00. Donald V. Kurtz. The Politics of a Poverty Habitat. Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1973. xxiv + 243 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, and index. $12.50
Analogy and Mysticism and the Structure of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Examples are drawn from the cultures of China, Africa, Tibet and Japan, and the Navaho in support of a model for human cognitive processing which assumes that a major component of the rules for calculating human behavior is resident outside the individual in the symbolic artifacts of culture. An Appositional Transformation Operator (ATO) is specified that can relate semantic concepts and patterns of behavior by analogy. The ATO is shown to work w…
Productive Efficiency and the Adaptations of Small-Scale Farmers
This paper reports on a survey, conducted in five western states of the United States, of 221 small-scale farmers. Despite the current productive dominance of large farms, an argument can be made that small-scale farming is desirable both for social and ecological reasons. Discussion focuses on the tradition-oriented goals and values of small-scale farmers, special problems associated with smallness of scale, diverse sources of income, cost minim…
Applied Anthropology in China
This chapter examines the development of applied anthropology in China through the political twists and turns of history and politics during the last eight decades. Chinese anthropology has always had a strong applied emphasis. It began with a mandate to study the political-economy of ethnic groups in frontier/border regions in the 1920's and 1930's for national security reasons, and it continues today with the objective of cultural preservation …
Professional Unemployment
Inequality and American institutions
Alan Howard. Ain't No Big Thing: Coping Strategies in a Hawaiian‐American Community. An East‐West Center Book. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 1974. xxv +311 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, appendices, references, and index. $10.00. Donald V. Kurtz. The Politics of a Poverty Habitat. Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1973. xxiv + 243 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, and index. $12.50
Conservative, liberal and radical viewpoints on the world food problem
Peter G. Brown and Henry Shue, eds. Food Policy; The Responsibility of the United States in the Life and Death Choices. New York: The Free Press, 1977, viii + 344 pp. Figures, tables, notes, references and index. $14.95 cloth. Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins. Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. xi + 466 pp. Notes, references, recommended bibliography and index. $10.95, cloth
Professional Unemployment
Capitalism and Human Obsolescence
Productive Efficiency and the Adaptations of Small-Scale Farmers
This paper reports on a survey, conducted in five western states of the United States, of 221 small-scale farmers. Despite the current productive dominance of large farms, an argument can be made that small-scale farming is desirable both for social and ecological reasons. Discussion focuses on the tradition-oriented goals and values of small-scale farmers, special problems associated with smallness of scale, diverse sources of income, cost minim…
Analogy and Mysticism and the Structure of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Examples are drawn from the cultures of China, Africa, Tibet and Japan, and the Navaho in support of a model for human cognitive processing which assumes that a major component of the rules for calculating human behavior is resident outside the individual in the symbolic artifacts of culture. An Appositional Transformation Operator (ATO) is specified that can relate semantic concepts and patterns of behavior by analogy. The ATO is shown to work w…
The Use of Culture in Applied Studies
Development Education and Social Stratification in Fiji
The transformation of Pacific Island societies into modern nation states necessarily involves change from a subsistence economy to an industrial mode of production. Development education will play an important role in the success or failure of efforts to industrialize in the training of an indigenous group of business managers and bureaucrats. These individuals must be given a practical understanding of western economics and organizational forms …
Applied Ethnology in China
As applied social scientists, we need to be reminded occasionally that our theoretical and research orientations, as they focus on understanding various aspects of culture, are themselves products of culture, influenced by history, ideology and problem solving in a particular sociopolitical context. This was brought home to us at the 1989 SfAA Annual Meeting in Santa Fe when a delegation of five Chinese ethnologists presented papers at a plenary …
Advocacy and the struggle for a better science of anthropology
Spaulding, Philip, ed. Anthropology in Praxis. Calgary, Canada: Department of Anthropology, Occasional Papers in Anthropology and Primatology, 1986. iii + 253 pp. N. P. Paine, Robert, ed. Advocacy and Anthropology, First Encounters. St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985. xiii 4‐ 278 pp. including references. $15.00 paper. Agar, Michael H. Independents Declared: The Di…
Assessing Cooperation and Change
Barbara Johnston asked me to serve as her co-editor and write this endnote commentary as a logical conclusion to our five years of collaboration. As president-elect of the Society in June of 1996, I assisted then President Jean J. Schensul, Barbara, and others in the original negotiations with Theresa Trainor and the EPA about the provisions of the Cooperative Agreement. When I became President, I had the primary responsibility for oversight of t…
Introduction to the Investigation of the Present Situation and Development of Ethnic Minorities in China
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Guan Jian, John Young; Introduction to the Investigation of the Present Situation and Development of Ethnic Minorities in China: A Reflection on Changes in the Last Ten Years in the Field of Anthropology in China. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 20…
Human Rights and the Right to Culture in China
As anthropologists we are often preoccupied with our own circumscribed studies of local communities. Only during World War II did we embrace the global dimensions and importance of cultural differences. Many Western anthropologists who have recently, and as a matter of conscience, become concerned with globalization have abandoned the concept of culture as an organizing principle, perhaps in part because they confuse cultural relativism with mora…
Applied Anthropology in China
This chapter examines the development of applied anthropology in China through the political twists and turns of history and politics during the last eight decades. Chinese anthropology has always had a strong applied emphasis. It began with a mandate to study the political-economy of ethnic groups in frontier/border regions in the 1920's and 1930's for national security reasons, and it continues today with the objective of cultural preservation …
Single Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: People and Forests: Yunnan Swidden Agriculture in Human–Ecological Perspective . Yin Shaoting
“Because the rules out there are different…”
Pre-service teachers are required to become reflective practitioners who can adapt their skills to a range of contexts and the diverse needs of learners. Many consider the practicum experience as critical to forming values and dispositions that are essential to a professional teacher identity. This article focuses on the experiences of five White pre-service teachers who volunteered to teach in remote Indigenous communities in South Australia, sp…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Social science (4 works)