Joel Martin Halpern
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Martin Halpern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Halpern |
| SIGNATURE | HALPERN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Letters From Macedonia
Field notes that Joel M. Halpern and Barbara Kerewski - Halpern have made during their field research and trips in Macedonian in the ’50ties of the XX century are published. Today they are accompanied by their comments, as well as photographs that illustrate their interest and the time in which they worked
Commentary
Offerings of an Itinerant Peddler
What happens to historical Anthropological photo documentation beyond the use one's field investigation. A history of anthropology
The Porous Boundary between Researcher and Subject
Neighbors at War
William Smalley 1923-1997
Obituary| May 01 1999 William Smalley 1923–1997 Joel M. Halpern Joel M. Halpern Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 594–595. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800143979 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Joel M. Halpern; William Smalley 1923–1997. Journal of Asian Studies 1 May 1999; 58 (2): 594–595. do…
Aging in the Past
Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age. David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiv. 408 pp., contributors, figures, tables, notes, references, index
Patriarchy in the Balkans
The article deals with the history, distribution and ideology of Balkan patriarchy; the Balkan agnatic kinship system; and with the most significant patriarchal family structures. The demographic analyses are based primarily on the Serbian state census of 1863 (the first available census listing women) and the Federal Yugoslav census data for 1948, 1953, and 1961, coupled with archival and field data for the central Serbian village of Oras̆ac for…
The Politics of Time . Henry J. Rutz
Clio and Kali Challenge Anthropology
Income, race, and surgery in Maryland
BACKGROUND. We describe common surgical and medical hospital admission rates for Maryland residents, exploring systematic effects of race and income. METHODS. The data comprise Maryland hospital discharges and population estimates for 1985 to 1987. Patient income is the race-specific median family income of residence zip code. Logistic regression is used to measure incidence by race, income, and residence for surgical and medical reasons for admi…
Temporal constructs and inuit mental health
The Far East Comes Near
Listen to the voices of these new Americans. Their stories are chilling, poignant but full of hope. Vietnamese, Laotian, or Cambodian, they share many of the same ancient Asian values: discipline, reverence of family, and a deep respect for education. These values seem peculiarly compatible with the Protestant work ethic. Like their predecessors, these latest Southeast Asian immigrants feel an enormous pressure to excel, which is coupled with an …
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Among the People
Urban Life in Mediterranean Europe
Time and Social Structure
Cyclical and linear time perspectives on family household structures are defined. They are utilized in a case study of the father-son dyad in a central Ser bian village over the past 150 years. This relationship is critical to understanding the transitions in the South Slav extended family household, the zadruga. Data are based on oral recall and on vital, tax, and census records. Linear time measures include vital rates such as declining fertili…
Population Dispersal
Oral Genealogies and Official Records
How do individuals structure recall of their collective pasts? Is the transmitted information affected by the form of recall? How do the values of the narrator condition the data being presented? Does oral recall match archival and other written records? To what extent are the attempts of the field investigator limited by the communicative competence and reference frame of the informant? The following discussion, integrated from three academic pe…
Anthropology of Eastern Europe
This essay presents an overview of East Europeanist sociocultural anthropological research concentrating on the work of American anthropogists. Given the relatively late maturation of this field, most work has been published during the past decade. In recent years, the field has been marked by a great diversity in theoretical and methodological approaches. This survey concentrates on research by Americans and, with few exceptions, materials publi…
Peasants in 19th-Century Asante [and Comments and Reply]
As a result of the rise and growth of the Asante state and the development of a complex administration of leisured officials based in Kumasi, the urbanized capital of the Asante empire, there developed, in the 19th century, a "peasantry" in the area surrounding Kumasi with economic, political, and cultural characteristics comparable with those of peasantries elsewhere
"On "The Series Phenomenon
An Observation on Soviet Sociology [and Comments and Reply]
Ethnology
Income, race, and surgery in Maryland
BACKGROUND. We describe common surgical and medical hospital admission rates for Maryland residents, exploring systematic effects of race and income. METHODS. The data comprise Maryland hospital discharges and population estimates for 1985 to 1987. Patient income is the race-specific median family income of residence zip code. Logistic regression is used to measure incidence by race, income, and residence for surgical and medical reasons for admi…
The Soviet and the Savage [and Comments and Replies]
Social anthropology, in the West and in Russia, sprang in part from an interest in the evolution of mankind: "primitive" society was relevant as a kind of surrogate time-machine, as evidence about the earlier "stages" in the development of human society. But the British and Russian traditions went in markedly different directions in the 20th century. Under the impact of the Malinowskian revolution, social anthropology in Britain acquired a marked…
Anthropology of Eastern Europe
This essay presents an overview of East Europeanist sociocultural anthropological research concentrating on the work of American anthropogists. Given the relatively late maturation of this field, most work has been published during the past decade. In recent years, the field has been marked by a great diversity in theoretical and methodological approaches. This survey concentrates on research by Americans and, with few exceptions, materials publi…
Peasants in 19th-Century Asante [and Comments and Reply]
As a result of the rise and growth of the Asante state and the development of a complex administration of leisured officials based in Kumasi, the urbanized capital of the Asante empire, there developed, in the 19th century, a "peasantry" in the area surrounding Kumasi with economic, political, and cultural characteristics comparable with those of peasantries elsewhere
Observations on the Intellectual History of Ethnology and other Social Sciences in Yugoslavia
As anthropologists turn increasingly to the study of complex societies, they are led to reflect on the role that social science plays in national ideologies and the ways in which the current state and development of social science reflect other cultural states and processes. Indeed, such reflections can usefully be turned on our own society. One sees that it is much more appropriate to discard old notions of the distinction between 'science' and …
Patriarchy in the Balkans
The article deals with the history, distribution and ideology of Balkan patriarchy; the Balkan agnatic kinship system; and with the most significant patriarchal family structures. The demographic analyses are based primarily on the Serbian state census of 1863 (the first available census listing women) and the Federal Yugoslav census data for 1948, 1953, and 1961, coupled with archival and field data for the central Serbian village of Oras̆ac for…
The Zadruga, a Century of Change
Temporal constructs and inuit mental health
Time and Social Structure
Cyclical and linear time perspectives on family household structures are defined. They are utilized in a case study of the father-son dyad in a central Ser bian village over the past 150 years. This relationship is critical to understanding the transitions in the South Slav extended family household, the zadruga. Data are based on oral recall and on vital, tax, and census records. Linear time measures include vital rates such as declining fertili…
The Changing Village Community
Peasant Culture and Urbanization in Yugoslavia
This abstract is from the introductory portion of a longer article entitled "Peasant Culture and Urbanization in Yugoslavia" in Human Organization, Vol. 24, No. 2, Summer 1965, pp 162-174
The Changing Village Community
Yugoslav Peasant Society in Transition-Stability in Change
In order to place Yugoslav peasant culture in broad perspective it is necessary to formulate a conceptual evolutionary scheme for the analysis of recent change. Peasant may be defined as a subculture of which the essential feature is a territorial based relationship between familial units either nuclear or extended and the land they cultivate mainly with their own labor. This relationship has continuity through time. The term peasant also implies…
The Economies of Lao and Serb Peasants
This article contrasts the economic behaviors and values of Lao and Serb peasants, arguing that cultural values significantly influence economic decision-making. Halpern observes that Lao peasants prioritize social harmony and reciprocity, leading to economic practices focused on subsistence and mutual support within the village. In contrast, Serb peasants, influenced by a history of conflict and insecurity, emphasize individual gain and competit…
A Serbian Village
Aging in the Past
Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age. David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiv. 408 pp., contributors, figures, tables, notes, references, index
The Panajachel Symposium [and Comments and Replies]
This is the report of a "Schriftfest" for Sol Tax. More than 20 former students and colleagues met in Panajachel, Guatemala, to discuss his contributions to their own growth and to that of the discipline. The papers presented focused on studies of North American Indians, Middle American Indians, and "Middle America." Discussion centered on Tax's distinction between the bow and the hoe, i.e., the differences between North American tribal peoples a…
Milenko S. Filipovic 1902-1969
Filipovic's contributions to Balkan ethnology were unusual in their number and importance. His bibliography contains about 380 items, including a number of papers in languages other than Serbo-Croatian. His death came suddenly on April 22, 1969, in a period of great scholarly productivity and during the completion of his magnum opus on the ethnology of Serbia.
Laos, Future Prospects and Their Limitations
This article attempts to outline briefly some of the most critical factors which will play an important role in shaping the countries future. Laos is a small landlocked country between three large state; Vietnam, China and Thailand. These countries contain large amount of people ethnically similar to Laos. They are both very similar in language and culture and boundaries are essentially political and in no sense do they constitute ethnic or cultu…
Observations on the Social Structure of the Lao Elite
Published as "Observations on the Social Structure of the Lao Elite," Asian Survey, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 25-32. © 1961 by the Regents of the University of California. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the Regents of the University of Califo…
A Serbian Village
A Serbian Village
Land Without Justice
Observations on the Social Structure of the Lao Elite
Published as "Observations on the Social Structure of the Lao Elite," Asian Survey, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 25-32. © 1961 by the Regents of the University of California. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the Regents of the University of Califo…
Culture Change in Laos and Serbia
My objectives here are to attempt to identify some of the pertinent factors which may influence the extent to which similar types of institutions are emerging to serve shared goals in planned programs of economic and social development. Specifically I intend to limit my discussion to one major institutional category and a sub-culture in each of the two geographic areas under consideration: namely, the relationship between the villager and the sta…
The Economies of Lao and Serb Peasants
This article contrasts the economic behaviors and values of Lao and Serb peasants, arguing that cultural values significantly influence economic decision-making. Halpern observes that Lao peasants prioritize social harmony and reciprocity, leading to economic practices focused on subsistence and mutual support within the village. In contrast, Serb peasants, influenced by a history of conflict and insecurity, emphasize individual gain and competit…
Yugoslav Peasant Society in Transition-Stability in Change
In order to place Yugoslav peasant culture in broad perspective it is necessary to formulate a conceptual evolutionary scheme for the analysis of recent change. Peasant may be defined as a subculture of which the essential feature is a territorial based relationship between familial units either nuclear or extended and the land they cultivate mainly with their own labor. This relationship has continuity through time. The term peasant also implies…
Laos and America-A Retrospective View
The farmers in a certain section of the U.S. seemed implicitly to divide human beings into three categories: scenery, machinery, and people.In the first category they grouped Indians on the nearby reservation, who could be seen on a Sunday drive and from whom souvenirs could be bought.In the second category were migrant farm laborers who had to be maintained-fed, housed, and supervised.In the people category they placed neighbors, relatives, and …
Culture Change, Applied Anthropology and Economic Development
Peasant Culture and Urbanization in Yugoslavia
This abstract is from the introductory portion of a longer article entitled "Peasant Culture and Urbanization in Yugoslavia" in Human Organization, Vol. 24, No. 2, Summer 1965, pp 162-174
Laos, Future Prospects and Their Limitations
This article attempts to outline briefly some of the most critical factors which will play an important role in shaping the countries future. Laos is a small landlocked country between three large state; Vietnam, China and Thailand. These countries contain large amount of people ethnically similar to Laos. They are both very similar in language and culture and boundaries are essentially political and in no sense do they constitute ethnic or cultu…
Family in Transition
The Changing Village Community
The Changing Village Community
Contemporary Yugoslavia
Observations on the Intellectual History of Ethnology and other Social Sciences in Yugoslavia
As anthropologists turn increasingly to the study of complex societies, they are led to reflect on the role that social science plays in national ideologies and the ways in which the current state and development of social science reflect other cultural states and processes. Indeed, such reflections can usefully be turned on our own society. One sees that it is much more appropriate to discard old notions of the distinction between 'science' and …
C arsten's review of The Changing Village Community
The Zadruga, a Century of Change
Milenko S. Filipovic 1902-1969
Filipovic's contributions to Balkan ethnology were unusual in their number and importance. His bibliography contains about 380 items, including a number of papers in languages other than Serbo-Croatian. His death came suddenly on April 22, 1969, in a period of great scholarly productivity and during the completion of his magnum opus on the ethnology of Serbia.
"The "Thailand Case
Resolutions Reconsidered
Ethnology
The Panajachel Symposium [and Comments and Replies]
This is the report of a "Schriftfest" for Sol Tax. More than 20 former students and colleagues met in Panajachel, Guatemala, to discuss his contributions to their own growth and to that of the discipline. The papers presented focused on studies of North American Indians, Middle American Indians, and "Middle America." Discussion centered on Tax's distinction between the bow and the hoe, i.e., the differences between North American tribal peoples a…
The Soviet and the Savage [and Comments and Replies]
Social anthropology, in the West and in Russia, sprang in part from an interest in the evolution of mankind: "primitive" society was relevant as a kind of surrogate time-machine, as evidence about the earlier "stages" in the development of human society. But the British and Russian traditions went in markedly different directions in the 20th century. Under the impact of the Malinowskian revolution, social anthropology in Britain acquired a marked…
The dynamics of anthropologizing‐some excursions in villages and towns
Review of Anthropological papers relating to Villages across the world by various Anthropologists. Anthropological studies relating to peasant societies and the process of urbanization
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