Jim Weil
Biographic Data
| ID | 75616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Weil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Weil |
| SIGNATURE | WEIL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Science Museum of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-9502-0116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Discretionary Ethnography: Eliding the Personal and the Political in Two Latin American Research Settings
Anthropological fieldwork entails unforeseen details and raises unanticipated issues. My dissertation research in the mid-1970s explored the organization of work among Quechua Andean migrants cultivating coca in the Amazonian forests of eastern Bolivia. I collected too much information to process all that was relevant (omissions) and had to avoid reporting potentially harmful data (silences), especially given the expanding cocaine traffic beyond …
Supporting and Promoting the Living History of Anthropology
Synergy across Generations
Work, Anthropology of
La herencia alfarera en la península de Nicoya: Persistencia de una tradición
La documentación de la manufactura de tres tipos de piezas cerámicas en San Vicente de Nicoya posibilita inferencias en cuanto a las continuidades y los cambios en las materias primas, las herramientas, las técnicas, la organización del trabajo, los estilos y los usos. Los hallazgos sirven a los propósitos de arqueólogos, historiadores y etnólogos en busca de elementos que revelen tradiciones artesanales antiguas y recientes, que todavía se exper…
Historical, Institutional, and Personal Dimensions of World Anthropology: World Anthropology
First Articles in the New Section
The new World Anthropology section of American Anthropologist addresses the origins and ongoing concerns of the varied configurations of the discipline of anthropology around the world. The members of the section's editorial board are pleased with the high level of interest in this initiative that has been expressed by scholars from many different regions. The first article in this issue considers the anthropological tradition of India as it has …
The World Anthropology Section: An Introduction
The Anthropology of Work and the Work of Anthropology in Latin America
Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia. By S. Ann Dunham
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Work and Anthropology in Costa Rica: An Orientation
This introduction to the study of work in Costa Rica develops a frame of reference for articles about (1) the long tradition of "pot hunting," i.e., looting and commercializing antiquities; (2) the diverse traditions of artisan work with wood; (3) ambiguities about indigenous identity in the emergence of new livelihoods in response to cultural tourism; and (4) the attainment of "professional" status in a direct-sales network of an international c…
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Artists and Aesthetics: Case Studies of Creativity in the Ethnic Arts Market
Crafts, Capitalism, and Women: The Potters of La Chamba, Colombia
Crafts, Capitalism, and Women: The Potters of La Chamba, Colombia. Ronald J. Duncan. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 253 pp
The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes
The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes. Enrique Mayer. Boulder: Wesrview Press, 2002. 390 pp
Visual Review
Bolivia. Adrian Caetano, director. Lita Stantic and Marías Mosteirín, producers. 75 min. Black and white. Argentina, 2001. Freedom: La Libertad. Lisandro Alonso, director. Hugo Alberto Alonso and R/M Films, producers. 73 min. Color. Argentina, 2001
New “Reviews” Section
Toward a Model of Changing Social Roles in a Costa Rican Ceramic Artisan Industry
Herb Applebaum: An Appreciation
Construction Workers, U.S.A. Herbert A. Applebaum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999
Books Available for Review
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mexican/Chicano/Hispano Workers and the North American Labor Market: Part 2 - Dialectics of Domination and Discourses of Resistance
The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexican Border. Devon G. Peña. Austin: CMAS Books (Center for Mexican-American Studies, University of Texas), 1997, iv. 460 pages
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mexican/Chicano/Hispano Workers and the North American Labor Market: Part 1 - History, Sociology, Geography
Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932 Juan R. Garcia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press,1996Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor Kathryn Kopinak. Tucson: University of Arizona Press,1996Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest Laura Pulido Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996
An Ecomuseo for San Vicente: Ceramic Artisans and Cultural Tourism in Costa Rica
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
Toward a Model of Changing Social Roles in a Costa Rican Ceramic Artisan Industry
An Ecomuseo for San Vicente: Ceramic Artisans and Cultural Tourism in Costa Rica
Changing Sources of Livelihood From the Earth and Sea in Northwestern Costa Rica
Coca Chewing and Diet
"Multiple Livelihoods" in contemporary Societies: Ethonagraphic Sketeches of individuals, Households, and communities
First Articles in the New Section
The new World Anthropology section of American Anthropologist addresses the origins and ongoing concerns of the varied configurations of the discipline of anthropology around the world. The members of the section's editorial board are pleased with the high level of interest in this initiative that has been expressed by scholars from many different regions. The first article in this issue considers the anthropological tradition of India as it has …
Work and Anthropology in Costa Rica: An Orientation
This introduction to the study of work in Costa Rica develops a frame of reference for articles about (1) the long tradition of "pot hunting," i.e., looting and commercializing antiquities; (2) the diverse traditions of artisan work with wood; (3) ambiguities about indigenous identity in the emergence of new livelihoods in response to cultural tourism; and (4) the attainment of "professional" status in a direct-sales network of an international c…
Discretionary Ethnography: Eliding the Personal and the Political in Two Latin American Research Settings
Anthropological fieldwork entails unforeseen details and raises unanticipated issues. My dissertation research in the mid-1970s explored the organization of work among Quechua Andean migrants cultivating coca in the Amazonian forests of eastern Bolivia. I collected too much information to process all that was relevant (omissions) and had to avoid reporting potentially harmful data (silences), especially given the expanding cocaine traffic beyond …
Historical, Institutional, and Personal Dimensions of World Anthropology: World Anthropology
The World Anthropology Section: An Introduction
Artists and Aesthetics: Case Studies of Creativity in the Ethnic Arts Market
Europe and the People Without History
Eric R. Wolf Europe and the People Without History 1982 Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press
Spirits, Shamans, and Stars: Perspectives from South America . David L. Browman and Ronald A. Schwartz , eds
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia 1858-1930. Rolf Knight
Europe and the People Without History
Eric R. Wolf Europe and the People Without History 1982 Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press
Applied Anthropology: Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia. Lesley Gill
Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru
Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru. Edmundo Morales. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989. 228 pp., appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN 0‐8165‐1066‐0
Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru:Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru
The Myth of Meritocracy: Career Failure in the U.S
Falling From Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class. Katherine S. Newman. (The Free Press: New York, 1988
Mining and Agriculture in Highland Bolivia: Ecology, History, and Commerce among the Jukumanis . Ricardo A. Godoy
Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes
Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes. William P. Mitchell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. xii + 264 pp., photographs, figures, tables. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN 0–292–77637–3
Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes:Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes
Coca Chewing and Diet
Changing Sources of Livelihood From the Earth and Sea in Northwestern Costa Rica
"Multiple Livelihoods" in contemporary Societies: Ethonagraphic Sketeches of individuals, Households, and communities
The Logic of the Latifundio: The Large Estates of Northwestern Costa Rica since the Late Nineteenth Century. Marc Edelman
Lives Together-Worlds Apart: Quechua Colonization in Jungle and City. Sarah Lund Skar
An Ecomuseo for San Vicente: Ceramic Artisans and Cultural Tourism in Costa Rica
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mexican/Chicano/Hispano Workers and the North American Labor Market: Part 2 - Dialectics of Domination and Discourses of Resistance
The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexican Border. Devon G. Peña. Austin: CMAS Books (Center for Mexican-American Studies, University of Texas), 1997, iv. 460 pages
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mexican/Chicano/Hispano Workers and the North American Labor Market: Part 1 - History, Sociology, Geography
Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932 Juan R. Garcia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press,1996Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor Kathryn Kopinak. Tucson: University of Arizona Press,1996Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest Laura Pulido Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996
Books Available for Review
New “Reviews” Section
Toward a Model of Changing Social Roles in a Costa Rican Ceramic Artisan Industry
Herb Applebaum: An Appreciation
Construction Workers, U.S.A. Herbert A. Applebaum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999
Visual Review
Bolivia. Adrian Caetano, director. Lita Stantic and Marías Mosteirín, producers. 75 min. Black and white. Argentina, 2001. Freedom: La Libertad. Lisandro Alonso, director. Hugo Alberto Alonso and R/M Films, producers. 73 min. Color. Argentina, 2001
The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes
The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes. Enrique Mayer. Boulder: Wesrview Press, 2002. 390 pp
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