Alexander M Ervin
Biographic Data
| ID | 664075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander M Ervin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ervin |
| SIGNATURE | ERVIN A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Culture and Agriculture In the North American Context
This paper reviews the anthropological literature relating to culture and modern capital intensive farming in North America. The author argues that there is a legitimate niche for anthropological enquiry in spite of the dominance of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. Domains of enquiry that are advocated include: holistic community studies, studies of cultural and historical developments of agricultural practices, farm unit ethnographies…
Cultural Transformations and Globalization
Change is the most significant factor of contemporary society and humanity s past. This book represents the first substantial attempt since the 1970s to synthesize and critique sociocultural change theories in anthropology and relate them to trends in the social and physical sciences. It emphasizes the most recent contributions especially complexity and emergence theory, social movements, network analysis, and globalization. Ervin presents a rich…
Solidarity with First Nation and Settler Anti-Nuclear Movements in Saskatchewan
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Katherine O'Donnell, Gretchen M. Herrmann, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Jamie San Andrés, Julie Raymond, Elizabeth F. Hall, Todd Sanders, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Michiel Köhne, Alexander Ervin, Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford, …
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Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Katherine O'Donnell, Gretchen M. Herrmann, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Jamie San Andrés, Julie Raymond, Elizabeth F. Hall, Todd Sanders, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Michiel Köhne, Alexander Ervin, Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford, …
A Green Coalition Versus Big Uranium
Applied Anthropology in Canada
Canadian domestic or on-shore applied anthropology is examined beginning with historical background from the Nineteenth through to the mid-Twentieth Century. It is only through the exponential growth of Canadian anthropology in the 1960s that its applied branches find their niches. Applied anthropology diversifies first into primary emphases on policy critiques, development, and northern and Aboriginal issues and then secondarily to resource indu…
Environmental Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies. Patricia K. Townsend. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2000.119 pp
Anthropological Visions and Mainstream Approaches to Practice
Trite as it sounds, there's truth to the maxim that "anthropology is what anthropologists do." As with culture, to make anthropology recognizable there have to be some common assumptions and sensitivity to context. Yet while uniformity may exist somewhere, anthropology is really revealed by individuals doing research, writing books, and applying knowledge. Like culture, there can be as many versions of anthropology as those practicing it. Through…
Trying the Impossible
This article discusses ingredients and processes in the design and conduct of applied social research. It underscores the usefulness of qualitative approaches for large-scale urban studies and the desirability of methodological flexibility. With very little money, a community needs assessment had to be done quickly for an urban United Way and as a basis for a major policy review. Overall, the approach taken was intermediate between rapid appraisa…
Collaborative and Participatory Research in Urban Social Planning and Restructuring
The main claim of this article is that anthropologists have advantages by maintaining generalist, non-specialist, or rover roles in applied urban research. These strengths are related to current policy contexts where public sector deficits compel many jurisdictions to restructure and integrate the components of government and non-government human service delivery at the local level. The author elaborates on these claims through discussions of ant…
Social Planning Councils, Social Indicators, and Child Well-Being
I became involved with the newly formed Saskatoon Social Planning Council in the Spring of 1992. Until then, Saskatoon had been one of two medium-to-large Canadian cities that lacked such a council. Our council was started by social activists who felt an urgent need for collaboration and planning, in the face of drastically reduced funding and a perception of rapidly growing social problems
An Overview of Applied Anthropology in Western Canada
Much is commendable about applied anthropology in Western Canada. It is beginning to show strength especially in policy analysis, participatory research, and advocacy. Yet, there are some persistent problems. One is the lack of meaningful programs for training practicing anthropologists; another is the absence of ties between academic and practicing anthropologists. Those who have discovered how to do nonacademic, anthropological practice have do…
Immigrants and Refugees in Canada
Commentary
My purpose here is to consider some ethical factors that might influence a person's decision whether to accept a job opportunity as an applied anthropologist. Obviously, these are my own personal views; a similar essay written by another professional could well come to some significantly different conclusions. Discussion of such issues of professional ethics is an important step in clarifying one's own values and in establishing shared values wit…
An Error in Judgement
ON JANUARY 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, provincial and fede…
Applied Anthropology
Styles and Strategies of Leadership during the Alaskan Native Land Claims Movement
Alexander M. Ervin, Styles and Strategies of Leadership during the Alaskan Native Land Claims Movement: 1959-71, Anthropologica, Vol. 29, No. 1, Leadership in North American Native Groups and Organizations (1987), pp. 21-38
A Review of the Acculturation Approach in Anthropology with Special Reference to Recent Change in Native Alaska
The author attempts to do three things in this paper. First of all he examines and tries to answer recent criticisms of the acculturation approach to culture change. After deciding that the acculturation approach is useful for the examination of certain change domains (intergroup relations and historical trends), he introduces the term transculturation as a means of describing seemingly acculturative techniques utilized by modern subordinate ethn…
Conflicting Styles of Life in a Northern Canadian Town
Discusses observations made in Inuvik June-Oct 1966 as part of the Mackenzie Delta Research Project. The Delta natives find that the concentrated communities into which they are being relocated are transient-white oriented and dominated, lack connection with their former fishing-hunting-trapping economy. Indians, Eskimos, metis, northern-born whites and a few recently settled whites as a group have subordinate status to the transient whites who o…
Environmental Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies. Patricia K. Townsend. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2000.119 pp
A Green Coalition Versus Big Uranium
Culture and Agriculture In the North American Context
This paper reviews the anthropological literature relating to culture and modern capital intensive farming in North America. The author argues that there is a legitimate niche for anthropological enquiry in spite of the dominance of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. Domains of enquiry that are advocated include: holistic community studies, studies of cultural and historical developments of agricultural practices, farm unit ethnographies…
Applied Anthropology in Canada
Canadian domestic or on-shore applied anthropology is examined beginning with historical background from the Nineteenth through to the mid-Twentieth Century. It is only through the exponential growth of Canadian anthropology in the 1960s that its applied branches find their niches. Applied anthropology diversifies first into primary emphases on policy critiques, development, and northern and Aboriginal issues and then secondarily to resource indu…
Styles and Strategies of Leadership during the Alaskan Native Land Claims Movement
Alexander M. Ervin, Styles and Strategies of Leadership during the Alaskan Native Land Claims Movement: 1959-71, Anthropologica, Vol. 29, No. 1, Leadership in North American Native Groups and Organizations (1987), pp. 21-38
Conflicting Styles of Life in a Northern Canadian Town
Discusses observations made in Inuvik June-Oct 1966 as part of the Mackenzie Delta Research Project. The Delta natives find that the concentrated communities into which they are being relocated are transient-white oriented and dominated, lack connection with their former fishing-hunting-trapping economy. Indians, Eskimos, metis, northern-born whites and a few recently settled whites as a group have subordinate status to the transient whites who o…
A Review of the Acculturation Approach in Anthropology with Special Reference to Recent Change in Native Alaska
The author attempts to do three things in this paper. First of all he examines and tries to answer recent criticisms of the acculturation approach to culture change. After deciding that the acculturation approach is useful for the examination of certain change domains (intergroup relations and historical trends), he introduces the term transculturation as a means of describing seemingly acculturative techniques utilized by modern subordinate ethn…
Styles and Strategies of Leadership during the Alaskan Native Land Claims Movement
Alexander M. Ervin, Styles and Strategies of Leadership during the Alaskan Native Land Claims Movement: 1959-71, Anthropologica, Vol. 29, No. 1, Leadership in North American Native Groups and Organizations (1987), pp. 21-38
Applied Anthropology
An Error in Judgement
ON JANUARY 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, provincial and fede…
Commentary
My purpose here is to consider some ethical factors that might influence a person's decision whether to accept a job opportunity as an applied anthropologist. Obviously, these are my own personal views; a similar essay written by another professional could well come to some significantly different conclusions. Discussion of such issues of professional ethics is an important step in clarifying one's own values and in establishing shared values wit…
Immigrants and Refugees in Canada
Collaborative and Participatory Research in Urban Social Planning and Restructuring
The main claim of this article is that anthropologists have advantages by maintaining generalist, non-specialist, or rover roles in applied urban research. These strengths are related to current policy contexts where public sector deficits compel many jurisdictions to restructure and integrate the components of government and non-government human service delivery at the local level. The author elaborates on these claims through discussions of ant…
Social Planning Councils, Social Indicators, and Child Well-Being
I became involved with the newly formed Saskatoon Social Planning Council in the Spring of 1992. Until then, Saskatoon had been one of two medium-to-large Canadian cities that lacked such a council. Our council was started by social activists who felt an urgent need for collaboration and planning, in the face of drastically reduced funding and a perception of rapidly growing social problems
An Overview of Applied Anthropology in Western Canada
Much is commendable about applied anthropology in Western Canada. It is beginning to show strength especially in policy analysis, participatory research, and advocacy. Yet, there are some persistent problems. One is the lack of meaningful programs for training practicing anthropologists; another is the absence of ties between academic and practicing anthropologists. Those who have discovered how to do nonacademic, anthropological practice have do…
Trying the Impossible
This article discusses ingredients and processes in the design and conduct of applied social research. It underscores the usefulness of qualitative approaches for large-scale urban studies and the desirability of methodological flexibility. With very little money, a community needs assessment had to be done quickly for an urban United Way and as a basis for a major policy review. Overall, the approach taken was intermediate between rapid appraisa…
Anthropological Visions and Mainstream Approaches to Practice
Trite as it sounds, there's truth to the maxim that "anthropology is what anthropologists do." As with culture, to make anthropology recognizable there have to be some common assumptions and sensitivity to context. Yet while uniformity may exist somewhere, anthropology is really revealed by individuals doing research, writing books, and applying knowledge. Like culture, there can be as many versions of anthropology as those practicing it. Through…
Environmental Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies. Patricia K. Townsend. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2000.119 pp
Applied Anthropology in Canada
Canadian domestic or on-shore applied anthropology is examined beginning with historical background from the Nineteenth through to the mid-Twentieth Century. It is only through the exponential growth of Canadian anthropology in the 1960s that its applied branches find their niches. Applied anthropology diversifies first into primary emphases on policy critiques, development, and northern and Aboriginal issues and then secondarily to resource indu…
A Green Coalition Versus Big Uranium
Cultural Transformations and Globalization
Change is the most significant factor of contemporary society and humanity s past. This book represents the first substantial attempt since the 1970s to synthesize and critique sociocultural change theories in anthropology and relate them to trends in the social and physical sciences. It emphasizes the most recent contributions especially complexity and emergence theory, social movements, network analysis, and globalization. Ervin presents a rich…
Solidarity with First Nation and Settler Anti-Nuclear Movements in Saskatchewan
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Katherine O'Donnell, Gretchen M. Herrmann, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Jamie San Andrés, Julie Raymond, Elizabeth F. Hall, Todd Sanders, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Michiel Köhne, Alexander Ervin, Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford, …
Action
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Katherine O'Donnell, Gretchen M. Herrmann, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Jamie San Andrés, Julie Raymond, Elizabeth F. Hall, Todd Sanders, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Michiel Köhne, Alexander Ervin, Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford, …
Culture and Agriculture In the North American Context
This paper reviews the anthropological literature relating to culture and modern capital intensive farming in North America. The author argues that there is a legitimate niche for anthropological enquiry in spite of the dominance of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. Domains of enquiry that are advocated include: holistic community studies, studies of cultural and historical developments of agricultural practices, farm unit ethnographies…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (6 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)