Brian Foster

Biographic Data

ID3776936
NAMEBrian Foster
GIVEN NAMESBrian
FAMILY NAMEFoster
SIGNATUREFOSTER B
AFFILIATIONSSOUTHAMPTON
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1955
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • I Love Working for Uncle Sam, Lets Me Know Just Who I Am”: Culture, the Human Terrain System, and the Inquiry of World War I

    B L Foster, Brian FosterARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2014References: 26

    In 2006, twenty-five teams of cultural anthropologists were deployed by the US military as part of the Human Terrain System (HTS). The backlash against the use of academics and the “militarization of culture” was immediate. The American Anthropology Association published a series of works admonishing HTS participants and, in a related move, lifted an almost century-old censure of Franz Boas’s 1919 work, “Scientists as Spies.” Boas’s once-marginal…

  • Ethnic Identity and Perceived Distance between Ethnic Categories

    B L Foster, Brian Foster et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization1982Cited by: 3References: 10

    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 Brian Foster, Geoffrey White; Ethnic Identity and Perceived Distance between Ethnic Categories. Human Organization 1 June 1982; 41 (2): 121–130. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.41.2.24xpnu1187574543 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero)…

  • Labor Groups in Thai Rice and Fishing Villages

    B L Foster, Brian FosterARTICLEHuman Organization1975Cited by: 1References: 2

    The paper analyzes technical imperatives and constraints for recruitment and reward of extra-household work groups for commercial rice cultivation and for commercial fishing. On the basis of this analysis, a characterization of these respective kinds of groupings is derived using a modified version of Eric Wolf's scheme for classifying peasant coalitions. This procedure allows direct comparison of the two types of groups and facilitates an explor…

  • Pascal's Ab ̊tir: A Postscript

    B L Foster, Brian FosterARTICLEFrench Studies1964

    Journal Article PASCAL'S AB ̊TIR: A POSTSCRIPT Get access BRIAN FOSTER BRIAN FOSTER SOUTHAMPTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XVIII, Issue 3, July 1964, Pages 244–246, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XVIII.3.244 Published: 01 July 1964

  • The Local Port Book of Southampton for 1435-36

    Olive Coleman, B L Foster et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1964

  • Pascal's Use of Abeêtir

    B L Foster, Brian FosterARTICLEFrench Studies1963

    PASCAL'S USE OF ABEÊTIR Get access BRIAN FOSTER BRIAN FOSTER SOUTHAMPTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XVII, Issue 1, January 1963, Pages 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XVII.1.1 Published: 01 January 1963

  • The Roman De Toute Chevalerie: Its Date and Author

    B L Foster, Brian FosterARTICLEFrench Studies1955

    THE ROMAN DE TOUTE CHEVALERIE: ITS DATE AND AUTHOR Get access BRIAN FOSTER BRIAN FOSTER SOUTHAMPTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume IX, Issue 2, April 1955, Pages 154–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/IX.2.154 Published: 01 April 1955