Richard Stoffle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Stoffle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoffle |
| SIGNATURE | STOFFLE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Celestial Light Marker
Humans have been monitoring light from the solar system to tell the time and plan activities since Time Immemorial. This is an analysis regarding why Native Americans living in the upper Colorado River Basin chose to monitor light from the western sky using a light marker that is approximately 4.02 miles long and 2.07 miles wide, or approximately 12.7 square miles. The light catching is accomplished in a massive geoscape by carefully calibrated a…
Storied Rocks
Storied Rocks (Tumpituxwinap) is a term of reference used by the Numic speaking tribal elders whom we have worked with for over 60 years on an estimated 200 ethnographic studies. Key to this analysis are the protocols for approaching, interacting, and using the places where Storied Rocks have been located. Concomitant with these traditional protocols are ones established to resolve the curiosity of non-Natives about why they are in a particular p…
Timescapes in conflict
This paper contributes an analog case for assessing cumulative impacts. An American Indian solar calendar was identified in the first large-scale power line environmental impact assessment (EIA) in an isolated region of southern Utah in 1983. That study identified increased access as a potential adverse impact, but that the solar calendar would be best protected by a commitment of silence. During the next 25 years, five utility projects were plac…
Resilience at risk
This paper is about the persistent failure of social scientists to bring into the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process socially constructed environmental concerns held by potentially impacted communities. The failure to communicate perceived risks results from a two-communities divide based on both epistemological differences and obfuscation due to vernacular communication. The analysis provides robust modeling variables that can bridge …
Puchuxwavaats Uapi (To Know About Plants)
This paper is about understanding the cultural significance of plants to the Southern Paiute people, who live in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah as members of 12 organized tribes, from both qualitative and quantitative, emic and etic, perspectives. Specifically, the analysis examines patterns of variation in plant cultural significance scores and the factors that account for variations in these patterns. Findings from the analysis, based on…
Landmark and Landscape
Paitu Nanasuagaindu Pahonupi(Three Sacred Valleys)
Scientists who analyze American Indian cultures recognize the importance of plants to these peoples. Scientists have recently begun to quantify aspects of American Indian plant use to assess cultural significance. If quantification is to be useful for presenting American Indian concerns, then the model must reflect how they perceive and evaluate plants. This paper discusses a quantitative model for calculating the cultural significance of America…
Who Will Control the Blue Revolution? Economic and Social Feasibility of Caribbean Crab Mariculture
New mariculture technologies that use appropriate technology or rely on the natural productivity of the oceans to supply feed sources for seafood farming in coastal waters are being developed. These technologies may be feasible for small-scale commercial mariculture projects implemented by fishermen-farmers in developing countries. This article presents research data regarding the economic and social feasibility of the adoption of a new maricultu…
Holistic Conservation and Cultural Triage
The National Environmental Policy Act and other laws require American Indian cultural resource studies as part of the environmental impact assessment of development projects. Indian people make two general types of responses: holistic conservation (
Citations, Theories, and Applied Anthropology
It has been said that one reason the Society for Applied Anthropology and the journal Human Organization were established in 1941 was because many professional anthropologists concluded that mainline anthropological did not provide sufficient explanatory and predictive power for anthropologists involved in solving human problems. From such a position it could be argued that Rounds's (1982: 170) conclusion that articles published in Human Organiza…
Reservation-Based Tourism
Reservation-Based Industry
This article is concerned with the process of industrial decentralization as it is illustrated by an electronics factory located on the Zuni Indian reservation. Research conducted during the summer of 1973 indicates the necessity for understanding the cultural demands of a new industrial work force as well as the functional prerequisites of industry. Through direct interviews with the current Zuni and Navajo workers, analysis of industrial person…
Holistic Conservation and Cultural Triage
The National Environmental Policy Act and other laws require American Indian cultural resource studies as part of the environmental impact assessment of development projects. Indian people make two general types of responses: holistic conservation (
Resilience at risk
This paper is about the persistent failure of social scientists to bring into the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process socially constructed environmental concerns held by potentially impacted communities. The failure to communicate perceived risks results from a two-communities divide based on both epistemological differences and obfuscation due to vernacular communication. The analysis provides robust modeling variables that can bridge …
Who Will Control the Blue Revolution? Economic and Social Feasibility of Caribbean Crab Mariculture
New mariculture technologies that use appropriate technology or rely on the natural productivity of the oceans to supply feed sources for seafood farming in coastal waters are being developed. These technologies may be feasible for small-scale commercial mariculture projects implemented by fishermen-farmers in developing countries. This article presents research data regarding the economic and social feasibility of the adoption of a new maricultu…
Citations, Theories, and Applied Anthropology
It has been said that one reason the Society for Applied Anthropology and the journal Human Organization were established in 1941 was because many professional anthropologists concluded that mainline anthropological did not provide sufficient explanatory and predictive power for anthropologists involved in solving human problems. From such a position it could be argued that Rounds's (1982: 170) conclusion that articles published in Human Organiza…
Reservation-Based Industry
This article is concerned with the process of industrial decentralization as it is illustrated by an electronics factory located on the Zuni Indian reservation. Research conducted during the summer of 1973 indicates the necessity for understanding the cultural demands of a new industrial work force as well as the functional prerequisites of industry. Through direct interviews with the current Zuni and Navajo workers, analysis of industrial person…
Reservation-Based Tourism
Paitu Nanasuagaindu Pahonupi(Three Sacred Valleys)
Scientists who analyze American Indian cultures recognize the importance of plants to these peoples. Scientists have recently begun to quantify aspects of American Indian plant use to assess cultural significance. If quantification is to be useful for presenting American Indian concerns, then the model must reflect how they perceive and evaluate plants. This paper discusses a quantitative model for calculating the cultural significance of America…
Reservation-Based Industry
This article is concerned with the process of industrial decentralization as it is illustrated by an electronics factory located on the Zuni Indian reservation. Research conducted during the summer of 1973 indicates the necessity for understanding the cultural demands of a new industrial work force as well as the functional prerequisites of industry. Through direct interviews with the current Zuni and Navajo workers, analysis of industrial person…
Reservation-Based Tourism
Citations, Theories, and Applied Anthropology
It has been said that one reason the Society for Applied Anthropology and the journal Human Organization were established in 1941 was because many professional anthropologists concluded that mainline anthropological did not provide sufficient explanatory and predictive power for anthropologists involved in solving human problems. From such a position it could be argued that Rounds's (1982: 170) conclusion that articles published in Human Organiza…
Who Will Control the Blue Revolution? Economic and Social Feasibility of Caribbean Crab Mariculture
New mariculture technologies that use appropriate technology or rely on the natural productivity of the oceans to supply feed sources for seafood farming in coastal waters are being developed. These technologies may be feasible for small-scale commercial mariculture projects implemented by fishermen-farmers in developing countries. This article presents research data regarding the economic and social feasibility of the adoption of a new maricultu…
Holistic Conservation and Cultural Triage
The National Environmental Policy Act and other laws require American Indian cultural resource studies as part of the environmental impact assessment of development projects. Indian people make two general types of responses: holistic conservation (
Paitu Nanasuagaindu Pahonupi(Three Sacred Valleys)
Scientists who analyze American Indian cultures recognize the importance of plants to these peoples. Scientists have recently begun to quantify aspects of American Indian plant use to assess cultural significance. If quantification is to be useful for presenting American Indian concerns, then the model must reflect how they perceive and evaluate plants. This paper discusses a quantitative model for calculating the cultural significance of America…
Landmark and Landscape
Puchuxwavaats Uapi (To Know About Plants)
This paper is about understanding the cultural significance of plants to the Southern Paiute people, who live in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah as members of 12 organized tribes, from both qualitative and quantitative, emic and etic, perspectives. Specifically, the analysis examines patterns of variation in plant cultural significance scores and the factors that account for variations in these patterns. Findings from the analysis, based on…
Timescapes in conflict
This paper contributes an analog case for assessing cumulative impacts. An American Indian solar calendar was identified in the first large-scale power line environmental impact assessment (EIA) in an isolated region of southern Utah in 1983. That study identified increased access as a potential adverse impact, but that the solar calendar would be best protected by a commitment of silence. During the next 25 years, five utility projects were plac…
Resilience at risk
This paper is about the persistent failure of social scientists to bring into the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process socially constructed environmental concerns held by potentially impacted communities. The failure to communicate perceived risks results from a two-communities divide based on both epistemological differences and obfuscation due to vernacular communication. The analysis provides robust modeling variables that can bridge …
Storied Rocks
Storied Rocks (Tumpituxwinap) is a term of reference used by the Numic speaking tribal elders whom we have worked with for over 60 years on an estimated 200 ethnographic studies. Key to this analysis are the protocols for approaching, interacting, and using the places where Storied Rocks have been located. Concomitant with these traditional protocols are ones established to resolve the curiosity of non-Natives about why they are in a particular p…
Celestial Light Marker
Humans have been monitoring light from the solar system to tell the time and plan activities since Time Immemorial. This is an analysis regarding why Native Americans living in the upper Colorado River Basin chose to monitor light from the western sky using a light marker that is approximately 4.02 miles long and 2.07 miles wide, or approximately 12.7 square miles. The light catching is accomplished in a massive geoscape by carefully calibrated a…
Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works) · Environmental resource management (2 works) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (2 works)