John Terrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Terrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Terrell |
| SIGNATURE | TERRELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology Field Museum of Natural History Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Using Web 2.0 to teach Web 2.0: A case study in aligning teaching, learning and assessment with professional practice
Web 2.0 technologies have transformed the way people in information industries engage with their clients, collaborate on projects, promote their services and gather community knowledge. In this paper, we describe the impact of industry adoption of Web 2.0 technologies on an information management course. The students in this course are either already working in or plan to be entering information professions such as librarianship, archiving, recor…
Predicting Similarity in Material Culture among New Guinea Villages from Propinquity and Language: A Log-linear Approach [and Comments and Reply]
Reply to Moore and Romney
Anthropology and Adoption
Regional Studies in Anthropology: A Melanesian Prospectus
Language and Culture on the North Coast of New Guinea
Statistical analysis of variability in assemblages of material culture obtained at different villages on the North Coast of New Guinea indicates that similarities and differences among these assemblages are most strongly associated with geographic propinquity, irrespective of linguistic affinities. When assemblage similarity is adjusted for the effect of distance, diversity in material culture appears unrelated to the linguistic relationships of …
Disneyland and the Future of Museum Anthropology
September 2, 1971, was my first day of work as a curator of anthropology at Museum of Natural History in Chicago. I was told I should always say Field Museum, not The Museum. I was also told my place of employ is the fourth-largest natural history museum in the world-ranking just behind the British Museum (Natural History) in London, the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.…
Evolutionary process and Polynesian prehistory
Kirch, Patrick Vinton. The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xii + 314 pp. including glossary, bibliography, and index. $44.50 cloth
Archeology: Archaeology of the Lapita Cultural Complex: A Critical Review. Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt , eds
Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A Study of Variation in Language, Customs, and Human Biology
Commentary: What Lapita is and what Lapita isn't
The essays in this special section on early settlement in Island Southeast Asia may be puzzling to readers of Antiquity who are uninitiated to the ways and concerns of archaeologists working in the Pacific. Some of these authors appear almost reluctant to draw conclusions from the evidence they survey. Others champion their own interpretations unequivocally. What is going on here? It may be, as some say, that academics are by nature a quarrelsome…
History as a family tree, history as an entangled bank: Constructing images and interpretations of prehistory in the South Pacific
Twenty years' debate in English and Americanist circles about the fundamental aims of archaeology, and the methods that are to achieve them, has mostly been conducted in a framework of named schools - 'new', 'processual', and now also 'postprocessual' and 'contextual' - and in terms of their philosophical good standing (or lack of it).This paper addresses the fundamentals as they declare themselves in a different region, the Pacific, and sees tha…
History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia [and Comments and Reply]
Causal pathways and causal processes: Studying the evolutionary prehistory of human diversity in language, customs, and biology
Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations. ROY Ellen
Patterns of Paradise: The Styles and Significance of Barkcloth around the World
Oceanic Tooth-Size Variation as a Reflection of Biological and Cultural Mixing [and Comments and Reply]
Tooth size in Oceania varies from a minimum equivalent to the figure for the pre-Chinese inhabitants of Taiwan to a maximum equivalent to the figure for large-toothed Australian Aborigines. The minimum figure is found among the easternmost and weternmost inhabitants, and the maximum figure occurs in the highlands of New Guinea. Elsewhere, intermediate figures are evident, and it is apparent that the populations in which they can be observed displ…
Population Genetics, Biological Models and the Prehistory of the South West Pacific
Archaeology and the Origins of Social Stratification in Southern Bougainville
One of the Lessons of modern economic geography, abstract theory of graphs, and contemporary thinking in theoretical biology appears to be that hierarchical control networks are one solution to the problem of what to do about systems that are so complex, they may be unstable, unworkable, uneconomical, or any of these in combination. The issue explored in this essay is : Had the dynamics of life in southern Bougainville Led to the evolution of a h…
Geographic systems and human diversity in the North Solomons
The remarkable diversity of the Melanesian islanders of the south‐west Pacific has been conventionally explained by attributing it to a long, involved history of migrations out of Asia. Taking the islands of Buka and Bougainville in the North Solomons as a microcosm of Melanesian variability in biology, language and culture, it is argued that problems concerning the origins, growth, maintenance and possible obliteration of patterns of diversity a…
Biology, biogeography and man
Biogeographical thinking in archaeology and anthropology permits social scientists to consider questions about the size, distribution, ecology and population structure of human groups without succumbing to the fallacies of biological determinism or the similarly naive and deterministic presumption that man is unique and beyond scientific scrutiny. A biogeographer's approach to ancient and modern man furthers investigation of the events and enviro…
Archaeology: A Review of the Prehistoric Sequence of the Auckland Province. Roger C. GREEN
Fa'a Samoa: The Samoan Way . Filmed and produced by Lowell D. Holmes
The Prehistory of Australia
Language and Culture on the North Coast of New Guinea
Statistical analysis of variability in assemblages of material culture obtained at different villages on the North Coast of New Guinea indicates that similarities and differences among these assemblages are most strongly associated with geographic propinquity, irrespective of linguistic affinities. When assemblage similarity is adjusted for the effect of distance, diversity in material culture appears unrelated to the linguistic relationships of …
History as a family tree, history as an entangled bank: Constructing images and interpretations of prehistory in the South Pacific
Twenty years' debate in English and Americanist circles about the fundamental aims of archaeology, and the methods that are to achieve them, has mostly been conducted in a framework of named schools - 'new', 'processual', and now also 'postprocessual' and 'contextual' - and in terms of their philosophical good standing (or lack of it).This paper addresses the fundamentals as they declare themselves in a different region, the Pacific, and sees tha…
Oceanic Tooth-Size Variation as a Reflection of Biological and Cultural Mixing [and Comments and Reply]
Tooth size in Oceania varies from a minimum equivalent to the figure for the pre-Chinese inhabitants of Taiwan to a maximum equivalent to the figure for large-toothed Australian Aborigines. The minimum figure is found among the easternmost and weternmost inhabitants, and the maximum figure occurs in the highlands of New Guinea. Elsewhere, intermediate figures are evident, and it is apparent that the populations in which they can be observed displ…
Anthropology and Adoption
Disneyland and the Future of Museum Anthropology
September 2, 1971, was my first day of work as a curator of anthropology at Museum of Natural History in Chicago. I was told I should always say Field Museum, not The Museum. I was also told my place of employ is the fourth-largest natural history museum in the world-ranking just behind the British Museum (Natural History) in London, the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.…
Predicting Similarity in Material Culture among New Guinea Villages from Propinquity and Language: A Log-linear Approach [and Comments and Reply]
Commentary: What Lapita is and what Lapita isn't
The essays in this special section on early settlement in Island Southeast Asia may be puzzling to readers of Antiquity who are uninitiated to the ways and concerns of archaeologists working in the Pacific. Some of these authors appear almost reluctant to draw conclusions from the evidence they survey. Others champion their own interpretations unequivocally. What is going on here? It may be, as some say, that academics are by nature a quarrelsome…
Geographic systems and human diversity in the North Solomons
The remarkable diversity of the Melanesian islanders of the south‐west Pacific has been conventionally explained by attributing it to a long, involved history of migrations out of Asia. Taking the islands of Buka and Bougainville in the North Solomons as a microcosm of Melanesian variability in biology, language and culture, it is argued that problems concerning the origins, growth, maintenance and possible obliteration of patterns of diversity a…
Reply to Moore and Romney
Biology, biogeography and man
Biogeographical thinking in archaeology and anthropology permits social scientists to consider questions about the size, distribution, ecology and population structure of human groups without succumbing to the fallacies of biological determinism or the similarly naive and deterministic presumption that man is unique and beyond scientific scrutiny. A biogeographer's approach to ancient and modern man furthers investigation of the events and enviro…
Regional Studies in Anthropology: A Melanesian Prospectus
Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A Study of Variation in Language, Customs, and Human Biology
Population Genetics, Biological Models and the Prehistory of the South West Pacific
The Prehistory of Australia
The Prehistory of Australia
Fa'a Samoa: The Samoan Way . Filmed and produced by Lowell D. Holmes
Archaeology: A Review of the Prehistoric Sequence of the Auckland Province. Roger C. GREEN
Geographic systems and human diversity in the North Solomons
The remarkable diversity of the Melanesian islanders of the south‐west Pacific has been conventionally explained by attributing it to a long, involved history of migrations out of Asia. Taking the islands of Buka and Bougainville in the North Solomons as a microcosm of Melanesian variability in biology, language and culture, it is argued that problems concerning the origins, growth, maintenance and possible obliteration of patterns of diversity a…
Biology, biogeography and man
Biogeographical thinking in archaeology and anthropology permits social scientists to consider questions about the size, distribution, ecology and population structure of human groups without succumbing to the fallacies of biological determinism or the similarly naive and deterministic presumption that man is unique and beyond scientific scrutiny. A biogeographer's approach to ancient and modern man furthers investigation of the events and enviro…
Archaeology and the Origins of Social Stratification in Southern Bougainville
One of the Lessons of modern economic geography, abstract theory of graphs, and contemporary thinking in theoretical biology appears to be that hierarchical control networks are one solution to the problem of what to do about systems that are so complex, they may be unstable, unworkable, uneconomical, or any of these in combination. The issue explored in this essay is : Had the dynamics of life in southern Bougainville Led to the evolution of a h…
Oceanic Tooth-Size Variation as a Reflection of Biological and Cultural Mixing [and Comments and Reply]
Tooth size in Oceania varies from a minimum equivalent to the figure for the pre-Chinese inhabitants of Taiwan to a maximum equivalent to the figure for large-toothed Australian Aborigines. The minimum figure is found among the easternmost and weternmost inhabitants, and the maximum figure occurs in the highlands of New Guinea. Elsewhere, intermediate figures are evident, and it is apparent that the populations in which they can be observed displ…
Population Genetics, Biological Models and the Prehistory of the South West Pacific
Patterns of Paradise: The Styles and Significance of Barkcloth around the World
Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations. ROY Ellen
Causal pathways and causal processes: Studying the evolutionary prehistory of human diversity in language, customs, and biology
History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia [and Comments and Reply]
History as a family tree, history as an entangled bank: Constructing images and interpretations of prehistory in the South Pacific
Twenty years' debate in English and Americanist circles about the fundamental aims of archaeology, and the methods that are to achieve them, has mostly been conducted in a framework of named schools - 'new', 'processual', and now also 'postprocessual' and 'contextual' - and in terms of their philosophical good standing (or lack of it).This paper addresses the fundamentals as they declare themselves in a different region, the Pacific, and sees tha…
Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A Study of Variation in Language, Customs, and Human Biology
Commentary: What Lapita is and what Lapita isn't
The essays in this special section on early settlement in Island Southeast Asia may be puzzling to readers of Antiquity who are uninitiated to the ways and concerns of archaeologists working in the Pacific. Some of these authors appear almost reluctant to draw conclusions from the evidence they survey. Others champion their own interpretations unequivocally. What is going on here? It may be, as some say, that academics are by nature a quarrelsome…
Evolutionary process and Polynesian prehistory
Kirch, Patrick Vinton. The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xii + 314 pp. including glossary, bibliography, and index. $44.50 cloth
Archeology: Archaeology of the Lapita Cultural Complex: A Critical Review. Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt , eds
Disneyland and the Future of Museum Anthropology
September 2, 1971, was my first day of work as a curator of anthropology at Museum of Natural History in Chicago. I was told I should always say Field Museum, not The Museum. I was also told my place of employ is the fourth-largest natural history museum in the world-ranking just behind the British Museum (Natural History) in London, the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.…
Language and Culture on the North Coast of New Guinea
Statistical analysis of variability in assemblages of material culture obtained at different villages on the North Coast of New Guinea indicates that similarities and differences among these assemblages are most strongly associated with geographic propinquity, irrespective of linguistic affinities. When assemblage similarity is adjusted for the effect of distance, diversity in material culture appears unrelated to the linguistic relationships of …
Regional Studies in Anthropology: A Melanesian Prospectus
Reply to Moore and Romney
Anthropology and Adoption
Predicting Similarity in Material Culture among New Guinea Villages from Propinquity and Language: A Log-linear Approach [and Comments and Reply]
Using Web 2.0 to teach Web 2.0: A case study in aligning teaching, learning and assessment with professional practice
Web 2.0 technologies have transformed the way people in information industries engage with their clients, collaborate on projects, promote their services and gather community knowledge. In this paper, we describe the impact of industry adoption of Web 2.0 technologies on an information management course. The students in this course are either already working in or plan to be entering information professions such as librarianship, archiving, recor…
History (20 works) · History (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (14 works) · Anthropology (13 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Biology (10 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works)