John Van Willigen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Van Willigen |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Willigen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN WILLIGEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 253 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Making Our Research Useful
Disciplinary History and the Struggle for Legitimacy and Effectiveness
This is a commentary on the articles of Marietta Baba and Erve Chambers. In it, I address elements of their arguments that resonant with concerns that I have had concerning application in anthropology. An important theme in both essays is the idea that the discipline is colored by the struggle of anthropologists in various career paths for legitimacy and effectiveness. In order to contextualize my comments, I will briefly comment on the experienc…
Applied Anthropology Oral History Project
Margaret L. Lantis (1906–2006)
Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950
Death Notices
Applied Anthropology
Reclaiming Applied Anthropology
Growing concerns about anthropology's impact in both academia and the broader social arena have led to calls for more "public" and more relevant anthropology. In this article, we expand on these exhortations, by calling for systematic joining of critical social theory with application and pragmatic engagement with contemporary problems. We argue for the repositioning of applied anthropology as a vital component of the broader discipline and sugge…
Older Asian Indians Resettled in America
Applied Anthropology
Applied Anthropology: An Introduction(3rd edition) is a text focused on the use of the methods and theories of anthropology to solve the practical problems of human communities. It addresses a wide range of problem-solving practices in two large categories: development and research. The development-focused chapters include action research/participatory action research, cultural action, collaborative research, cultural brokerage, and social market…
Culture and aging
An attempt is made to integrate the two diverse concepts viz., ‘culture’ and aging based on different theoretical perspectives. During the course of life, individual learns to imbibe cultural ‘norms’ and ‘experiences’. Thus ‘chronological’ age and ‘cultural’ age are related yet distinct entity. Age stratification leads to formation of a ‘age-based subculture’, which brings with it varied negative implications
No Aging in India
No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Lawrence Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxv. 367 pp
The Cultural Context of Aging
The Cultural Context of Aging: Woridwide Perspectives. 2nd edition. Jay Sokolovsky. ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1997 (cloth and paper), xxxi. 576 pp
Sources
Sources documents the work of applied and practicing anthropologists through publication of PROJECT PROFILES. These are based on materials submitted to the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The project, since its inception in 1978, collects the so-called fugitive literature produced by anthropologists. The collection includes technical reports, research monographs, conference papers, practicum and internshi…
Sources
Sources documents the work of applied and practicing anthropologists through publication of PROJECT PROFILES. These are based on materials submitted to the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The project, since its inception in 1978, collects the so-called fugitive literature produced by anthropologists. The collection includes technical reports, research monographs, conference papers, practicum and internshi…
Sources
Sources documents the work of applied and practicing anthropologists through publication of PROJECT PROFILES. These are based on materials submitted to the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The project, since its inception in 1978, collects the so-called fugitive literature produced by anthropologists. The collection includes technical reports, research monographs, conference papers, practicum and internshi…
Sources
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sources: An Archive Collection of Applied Anthropology Materials Edited by John van Willigen. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 1996; 18 (1): 35–36. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.18.1.g9lv6l6203t1ut63 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference …
Sources
Sources documents the work of applied and practicing anthropologists through publication of Project Profiles. These are based on materials submitted to the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. Since its inception in 1978, the project has collected the so-called fugitive literature produced by anthropologists. The collection includes technical reports, research monographs, conference papers, practicum and inter…
Sources
Sources documents the work of applied and practicing anthropologists through publication of Project Profiles. These are based on materials submitted to the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. Since its inception in 1978, the project has collected the so-called fugitive literature produced by anthropologists: technical reports, research monographs, conference papers, practicum and internship reports, legal bri…
Sources
Sources documents the work of applied and practicing anthropologists through publication of Project Profiles. These are based on materials submitted to the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. Since its inception in 1978, the project has collected the so-called fugitive literature produced by anthropologists. The collection includes technical reports, research monographs, conference papers, practicum and inter…
Personal networks and sacred texts
Sources
Sources documents the work of applied and practicing anthropologists through publication of Project Profiles. These are based on materials submitted to the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. Since its inception in 1978, the project has collected the so-called fugitive literature produced by anthropologists. The collection includes technical reports, research monographs, conference papers, practicum and inter…
Sources
Sources documents the work of applied and practicing anthropologists through publication of Project Profiles. These are based on materials submitted to the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. Since its inception in 1978, the project has collected the so-called fugitive literature produced by anthropologists during their problem-solving work. The collection includes technical reports, research monographs, conf…
Sorces
Sources documents the work of applied and practicing anthropologists through publication of Project Profiles. These are based on materials submitted to the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. Since its inception in 1978, the project has collected the so-called fugitive literature produced by anthropologists during their problem-solving work. The collection has a wide range of different types of materials: tec…
Applied Anthropology
Reclaiming Applied Anthropology
Growing concerns about anthropology's impact in both academia and the broader social arena have led to calls for more "public" and more relevant anthropology. In this article, we expand on these exhortations, by calling for systematic joining of critical social theory with application and pragmatic engagement with contemporary problems. We argue for the repositioning of applied anthropology as a vital component of the broader discipline and sugge…
Applied Anthropology
Applied Anthropology: An Introduction(3rd edition) is a text focused on the use of the methods and theories of anthropology to solve the practical problems of human communities. It addresses a wide range of problem-solving practices in two large categories: development and research. The development-focused chapters include action research/participatory action research, cultural action, collaborative research, cultural brokerage, and social market…
No Aging in India
No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Lawrence Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxv. 367 pp
Older Asian Indians Resettled in America
Law, Custom, and Crimes against Women
The cultural institution of dowry as practiced in India engenders substantial violence toward women. This takes the form of interfamilial harassment for additional payments of goods and money which can culminate in the murder or suicide of the bride. Reduction of this abuse of women is attempted through law and education. The primary means of controlling these abuses, Dowry Prohibition Act is widely regarded as having failed. Based on comparative…
Truth and Effectiveness
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John van Willigen; Truth and Effectiveness: An Essay on the Relationships Between Information, Policy and Action in Applied Anthropology. Human Organization 1 September 1984; 43 (3): 277–282. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.43.3.m03211…
Personal networks and sacred texts
Tobacco Men and Factory Hands
John van Willigen is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky. Thomas A. Arcury is Research Associate, Center for Developmental Change, and member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Robert G. Cromley is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Connecticut. The research upon which this paper is based was supported by grant no. 1 POlAG01358-2 from the National Inst…
Research priorities for medical anthropologists in the 1980s
Contemporary Pima House Construction Practices
A description of contemporary Gila River Pima house construction techniques with particular reference to the structure and recruitment of cooperative work groups
The Pursuit of Social Knowledge
Applied Anthropology
Work and Income Patterns in a Transitional Population
Precise data on occupational and economic changes among American Indian populations are of vital importance to all concerned with their welfare, as well as to theorists interested in social change; but to date, valid statistics generally have been lacking. This is due in part to the difficulty of defining these populations in a way that does not exclude members who are becoming assimilated into the national society. We contend that some of the si…
Work and Income Patterns in a Transitional Population
Precise data on occupational and economic changes among American Indian populations are of vital importance to all concerned with their welfare, as well as to theorists interested in social change; but to date, valid statistics generally have been lacking. This is due in part to the difficulty of defining these populations in a way that does not exclude members who are becoming assimilated into the national society. We contend that some of the si…
Contemporary Pima House Construction Practices
A description of contemporary Gila River Pima house construction techniques with particular reference to the structure and recruitment of cooperative work groups
Development and Change
Although some of the ideas suggested by Lowe and Thomas are worthy of expansion and refinement through systematic field research in countries of all degrees of development, most of the generalizations in the volume are rough and ambiguous (if not simply dubious
Concrete Means and Abstract Goals
Institutions providing resources for development goal attainment in Papago-Indian communities are evaluated in terms of their consistency with the abstract goals of community development. Specifically resources are analysed in terms of their location, focus of application, goal orientation, duration, linkage with community organization, and propensity to encourage the creation of new social structures. It is concluded that generally the resources…
Development and Change
Ethnology
Recommendations for Training and Education for Careers in Applied Anthropology
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John Van Willigen; Recommendations for Training and Education for Careers in Applied Anthropology: A Literature Review. Human Organization 1 December 1979; 38 (4): 411–416. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.38.4.x0250l6242134305 Download…
PA Comments
When I reentered academic life in 1970, after working for the Papago Tribe as a community development administrator, I was struck by what little knowledge academically employed, anthropologists had about those few of us who were practicing anthropology. As a community development administrator I had little contact with anthropologists beyond a small group of persons who had studied community development with Ned Spicer at the University of Arizon…
Anthropology in Use
The Craft of Community Study . Solon T. Kimball and William L. Partridge
Sources
Sources is a regular feature of Practicing Anthropology designed to inform the readership about the activities of the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The Project, sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology, Society of Professional Anthropologists and the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists, is an archive collection of materials produced by applied anthropologists and other social…
Sources
Sources is a regular feature of Practicing Anthropology designed to inform the readership about the activities of the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The Project, sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology, Society of Professional Anthropologists and the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists, is an archive collection of materials produced by applied anthropologists and other social…
Training Programs in Applied Anthropology
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Gwen Stern, John van Willigen; Training Programs in Applied Anthropology. Practicing Anthropology 1 July 1982; 4 (3-4): 5. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.4.3-4.v6l6251818vk8645 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends …
The Great Transformation? Applied Training and Disciplinary Change
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John van Willigen; The Great Transformation? Applied Training and Disciplinary Change. Practicing Anthropology 1 July 1982; 4 (3-4): 16–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.4.3-4.t372474pq28510g7 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager …
Tracking Down the Nonacademically Employed
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Sources
Sources is a regular feature of Practicing Anthropology designed to inform the readership about the activities of the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The Project, sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Society of Professional Anthropologists and the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists, is an archive collection of materials produced by applied anthropologists and other so…
Sources
Sources is a regular feature of Practicing Anthropology designed to inform the readership about the activities of the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The Project, sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Society of Professional Anthropologists and the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists, is an archive collection of materials produced by applied anthropologists and other so…
Research priorities for medical anthropologists in the 1980s
Truth and Effectiveness
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John van Willigen; Truth and Effectiveness: An Essay on the Relationships Between Information, Policy and Action in Applied Anthropology. Human Organization 1 September 1984; 43 (3): 277–282. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.43.3.m03211…
Sources
Sources is a regular feature of Practicing Anthropology designed to inform the readership about the activities of the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The Project, sponsored by. the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Society of Professional Anthropologists and the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists, is an archive collection of materials produced by applied anthropologists and other s…
Tobacco Men and Factory Hands
John van Willigen is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky. Thomas A. Arcury is Research Associate, Center for Developmental Change, and member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Robert G. Cromley is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Connecticut. The research upon which this paper is based was supported by grant no. 1 POlAG01358-2 from the National Inst…
Sources
Sources is a regular feature of Practicing Anthropology designed to inform the readership about anthropological practice. This is an activity of the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The Project, sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists and the Society for Applied Anthropology in Canada, is an archive collection of materials produced by ap…
Sources
Sources is a regular feature of Practicing Anthropology designed to inform the readership about anthropological practice. This is an activity of the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The Project, sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists and the Society for Applied Anthropology in Canada, is an archive collection of materials produced by ap…
Applied Anthropolog
Industrial Transition in Rural India
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