Timothy Austin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3771159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Austin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Austin |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stalking Horses
Based on multiple field ventures, this paper considers the likelihood that most ethnography, including my own, uses various secretive tactics to capture data, sometimes even unintentionally. A typology emerges reflecting how data can be stalked with some approaches being more secretive and calculated than others. The delicate issue of “informed consent” and working with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in general is considered in the same light…
Finding Your Island
Based upon multiple field visits to the same site in northwest Mindanao in the southern Philippines, the issue addressed here is how ethnographic data may differ, pro and con, as the researcher ages and changes over time. Issues of validity, reliability and even potential creativity of insights are touched upon as variables in long-term research to the same locale
Serendipitous Informants
Anthropology textbooks hearken budding ethnographers to go to the field, get the seat of their pants dirty, immerse themselves in the data, and to develop informants (Fetterman 2010; Hagan 2012; Murchison 2010; Pelto and Pelto 1970). All right, I know what is meant by going to the field and getting one's pants dirty, but who are these informants, where do they come from, and what do they do? The use of diverse types of informants is essential to …
Coping with Payola
Based upon on-site observations and field interviews in the northwest coastal region of Mindanao of the southern Philippines, this paper presents a typology of bribery and extortion. The manner in which payola is paid under-the-table in the routine life of locals is discussed along with how such activity appears to be approaching normality. Of concern is how a payola-abundant landscape affects the fieldworker. Several of Donald Black's propositio…
Tenting Amidst Terrorists
When I was in graduate school my professors told me that fieldwork could be adventurous, but forgot to tell me it could also be hazardous. Of interest here is the issue of how pitching a tent, somewhat figuratively speaking, on terror prone foreign soil can illustrate practical out-of-classroom anthropology and offer career directions that should not necessarily be discounted outright because of potential hazards. After all, one would not expect …
A Rejoinder
Reviewing feedback toward one's own research is gratifying. Criticism is, of course, at the heart of science and I was in support of seeing the reviews published. The two evaluations of my work on Filipino self-help and peacemaking (Austin 1995) offer a mixed bag of critiques. Some, if not most, of the comments by Paredes represent rather minor complaints. Others, including those by Nadeau and Suminguit are more substantive. Several points are in…
Filipino Self-Help and Peacemaking Strategies
Building upon field research, two predictably allied features of Philippine society are explored: the time-honored patterns of neighborhood or village cooperation (self-help) long associated with Filipino culture and character, and the continuing emergence of citizen volunteer security organizations. A variety of informal features of self-help are described along with variously formalized and official networks of social control. How these securit…
Coping with anomic stress
This research builds upon Merton's perspectives of a goals‐means disjunction and modes of adaptation to stress to better understand the difficulties experienced by Chinese students residing in the United States. In‐depth and multiple interviews with 25 Chinese students revealed ways they managed anxiety and frustration. The findings indicate that although the majority of Chinese students are conformists (including ritualists, retreatists, and reb…
Unexpected Dimensions of Informal Social Control
This article amplifies the finding that a number of situational variables surprisingly augment the time-honored tradition of amicable settlement among Filipinos. Earlier reports emphasized cultural and personality patterns as a foundation for a preference of informal mediation of disputes and an avoidance of government agencies of control. Contemporary features, which include distinct political boundaries, unemployment, communication disability i…
Toward a Theory on the Impact of Terrorism
By reorganizing and clarifying ethnographic accounts, this analysis builds upon an earlier project (Austin, 1989) regarding the consequences of terrorism upon the daily lives of Filipinos at the city and village levels. Particular attention is given to the arrangement of findings into theoretical propositions that deal with the repercussions of terrorism at the cultural, interactional, psychological, and situational stages. A model of behavior ca…
Human Territorial Functioning
Filipino Self-Help and Peacemaking Strategies
Building upon field research, two predictably allied features of Philippine society are explored: the time-honored patterns of neighborhood or village cooperation (self-help) long associated with Filipino culture and character, and the continuing emergence of citizen volunteer security organizations. A variety of informal features of self-help are described along with variously formalized and official networks of social control. How these securit…
Tenting Amidst Terrorists
When I was in graduate school my professors told me that fieldwork could be adventurous, but forgot to tell me it could also be hazardous. Of interest here is the issue of how pitching a tent, somewhat figuratively speaking, on terror prone foreign soil can illustrate practical out-of-classroom anthropology and offer career directions that should not necessarily be discounted outright because of potential hazards. After all, one would not expect …
Coping with anomic stress
This research builds upon Merton's perspectives of a goals‐means disjunction and modes of adaptation to stress to better understand the difficulties experienced by Chinese students residing in the United States. In‐depth and multiple interviews with 25 Chinese students revealed ways they managed anxiety and frustration. The findings indicate that although the majority of Chinese students are conformists (including ritualists, retreatists, and reb…
Unexpected Dimensions of Informal Social Control
This article amplifies the finding that a number of situational variables surprisingly augment the time-honored tradition of amicable settlement among Filipinos. Earlier reports emphasized cultural and personality patterns as a foundation for a preference of informal mediation of disputes and an avoidance of government agencies of control. Contemporary features, which include distinct political boundaries, unemployment, communication disability i…
Toward a Theory on the Impact of Terrorism
By reorganizing and clarifying ethnographic accounts, this analysis builds upon an earlier project (Austin, 1989) regarding the consequences of terrorism upon the daily lives of Filipinos at the city and village levels. Particular attention is given to the arrangement of findings into theoretical propositions that deal with the repercussions of terrorism at the cultural, interactional, psychological, and situational stages. A model of behavior ca…
Human Territorial Functioning
Toward a Theory on the Impact of Terrorism
By reorganizing and clarifying ethnographic accounts, this analysis builds upon an earlier project (Austin, 1989) regarding the consequences of terrorism upon the daily lives of Filipinos at the city and village levels. Particular attention is given to the arrangement of findings into theoretical propositions that deal with the repercussions of terrorism at the cultural, interactional, psychological, and situational stages. A model of behavior ca…
Unexpected Dimensions of Informal Social Control
This article amplifies the finding that a number of situational variables surprisingly augment the time-honored tradition of amicable settlement among Filipinos. Earlier reports emphasized cultural and personality patterns as a foundation for a preference of informal mediation of disputes and an avoidance of government agencies of control. Contemporary features, which include distinct political boundaries, unemployment, communication disability i…
Filipino Self-Help and Peacemaking Strategies
Building upon field research, two predictably allied features of Philippine society are explored: the time-honored patterns of neighborhood or village cooperation (self-help) long associated with Filipino culture and character, and the continuing emergence of citizen volunteer security organizations. A variety of informal features of self-help are described along with variously formalized and official networks of social control. How these securit…
Coping with anomic stress
This research builds upon Merton's perspectives of a goals‐means disjunction and modes of adaptation to stress to better understand the difficulties experienced by Chinese students residing in the United States. In‐depth and multiple interviews with 25 Chinese students revealed ways they managed anxiety and frustration. The findings indicate that although the majority of Chinese students are conformists (including ritualists, retreatists, and reb…
A Rejoinder
Reviewing feedback toward one's own research is gratifying. Criticism is, of course, at the heart of science and I was in support of seeing the reviews published. The two evaluations of my work on Filipino self-help and peacemaking (Austin 1995) offer a mixed bag of critiques. Some, if not most, of the comments by Paredes represent rather minor complaints. Others, including those by Nadeau and Suminguit are more substantive. Several points are in…
Tenting Amidst Terrorists
When I was in graduate school my professors told me that fieldwork could be adventurous, but forgot to tell me it could also be hazardous. Of interest here is the issue of how pitching a tent, somewhat figuratively speaking, on terror prone foreign soil can illustrate practical out-of-classroom anthropology and offer career directions that should not necessarily be discounted outright because of potential hazards. After all, one would not expect …
Coping with Payola
Based upon on-site observations and field interviews in the northwest coastal region of Mindanao of the southern Philippines, this paper presents a typology of bribery and extortion. The manner in which payola is paid under-the-table in the routine life of locals is discussed along with how such activity appears to be approaching normality. Of concern is how a payola-abundant landscape affects the fieldworker. Several of Donald Black's propositio…
Serendipitous Informants
Anthropology textbooks hearken budding ethnographers to go to the field, get the seat of their pants dirty, immerse themselves in the data, and to develop informants (Fetterman 2010; Hagan 2012; Murchison 2010; Pelto and Pelto 1970). All right, I know what is meant by going to the field and getting one's pants dirty, but who are these informants, where do they come from, and what do they do? The use of diverse types of informants is essential to …
Finding Your Island
Based upon multiple field visits to the same site in northwest Mindanao in the southern Philippines, the issue addressed here is how ethnographic data may differ, pro and con, as the researcher ages and changes over time. Issues of validity, reliability and even potential creativity of insights are touched upon as variables in long-term research to the same locale
Stalking Horses
Based on multiple field ventures, this paper considers the likelihood that most ethnography, including my own, uses various secretive tactics to capture data, sometimes even unintentionally. A typology emerges reflecting how data can be stalked with some approaches being more secretive and calculated than others. The delicate issue of “informed consent” and working with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in general is considered in the same light…
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