Dennis William Wiedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 78557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis William Wiedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis William |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiedman |
| SIGNATURE | WIEDMAN D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3191-6049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Identity fluidity and refusal of indigeneity by Wuankavilkas, the place-based original people of the Ecuadorian coast
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and …
Organizational Culture Theme Theory and Analysis of Strategic Planning for a New Medical School
Analyses of planning and organizational culture are understudied within the social sciences. With an applied anthropological perspective on strategic planning and organizational change, we advanced a methodology for cultural theme theory and analysis. This methodology is applied to an analysis of the evolution of a new medical school over the past twenty years. Most cultural themes formulated in 1996 are recurrent narratives in 2015, continuing t…
Anthropologists Working in Higher Education
In this chapter, the author describes some of the non-academic roles within the university structure, and talks in detail about his own administrative career. He explores how anthropological training can contribute to the administrative functions of the university. He emphasizes how the anthropological perspective of holism and the concept of “culture,” combined with ethnographic writing skills can facilitate evaluation, planning, and policy deve…
Native American Embodiment of the Chronicities of Modernity: Reservation Food, Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome among the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache
As a physical embodiment of modernity, the prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) among Native Americans reflects their body's biological response to social and cultural structures that routinize daily behaviors and contain their physical body. This article explains why Native Americans were one of the earliest populations manifesting this epidemic. Ethnohistorical methods identify the conjuncture of chronic behaviors …
Upholding Indigenous Freedoms of Religion and Medicine: Peyotists at the 1906-1908 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and First Legislature
Upholding Indigenous Freedoms of Religion and MedicinePeyotists at the 1906–1908 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and First Legislature Dennis Wiedman (bio) In February 1908 newspapers throughout Oklahoma reported that the hotel lobbies of Guthrie, the capital of the new state of Oklahoma, were crowded with Indian men, women, and children. At the thirty-sixth day of the first Oklahoma legislature, just sixty days after the state was established…
Global Marketing of Indigenous Culture: Discovering Native America with Lee Tiger and the Florida Miccosukee
Tourism is one of the world’s largest and most global industries and is a major factor in the cultural and economic sustainability of local communities. The hundred-year history of tourism among the Miccosukee of South Florida provides an example of purposeful self-generated heritage and eco-tourism in which indigenous people maintain control of the enterprise’s management and profits through their own strategic decisions. This small group of Nat…
Food Customs of Alaska Women of Childbearing Age: The Alaska WIC Healthy Moms Survey
A survey of 60 rural, 62 urban Alaska women (64% Alaska Native) indicated positive dietary and lifestyle habits. Diets were characterized by boiled meats, high intakes of omega-3 fish, sea mammals and few desserts. Food insecurity reported by 39% rural and 7% of urban. Hunger was reported by 16% of rural and 5% of urban women. Traditional activities were walking, harvesting fish and picking berries. One third of calories came from non-traditional…
Applications of Anthropology: Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century
Applications of Anthropology: Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century. Sarah Pink, ed. New York: Berghahn, 2006. 244 pp
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology: Practicing Employment Services
AAA Award Winners Are Engaged Scholars
Directing Organizational Culture Change through Strategic Planning and Leadership
Effective Strategic Planning Roles for Anthropologists
Applied and practicing anthropologists often provide program evaluations to nonprofit, governmental, corporate and community organizations. They compete well with practitioners from many other disciplines for these opportunities to design research protocols, gather and analyze data, and report their conclusions and recommendations. These evaluations are often used by organizations to justify project funding, and to make policy and planning decisi…
Effects on Academic Culture of Shifts from Oral to Written Traditions: The Case of University Accreditation
Academe's primary function in Western culture is to systematize and communicate knowledge, mainly in oral and written forms. Universities therefore would be expected to use literary skills as the main means of communication and administrative functioning. The academy would thus be expected to be one of the most articulate and literate of communities, so it is interesting to know how oral and written traditions are used within the various subcultu…
Big and Little Moon Peyotism as health care delivery systems
Big Moon Peyotism was introduced in the 1880s to the Delaware, Osage and Quapaw of Northeast Oklahoma by John Wilson, a Delaware-Caddo from Southwest Oklahoma. This form of Peyotism and the Little Moon ritual developed by the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche of Southwest Oklahoma formed the basis of the two major variations of this religion as practiced by Native Americans throughout North America. An ethnographic and historic comparison of these reli…
Adiposity or longevity: Which factor accounts for the increase in type II diabetes mellitus when populations acculturate to an industrial technology
Directing Geriatric Health Care: Some Practical Issues
In fifteen month's experience as Director of a geriatrics community mental health unit I have seen my anthropologist role changing from teacher and researcher to applied clinical anthropologist/gerontologist, from non-judgemental objective scientist to objective decision maker and modifier of human behavior. This article details some of the advantages and disadvantages of a Ph.D. in anthropology for such a clinical position. While particular appl…
Native American Embodiment of the Chronicities of Modernity: Reservation Food, Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome among the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache
As a physical embodiment of modernity, the prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) among Native Americans reflects their body's biological response to social and cultural structures that routinize daily behaviors and contain their physical body. This article explains why Native Americans were one of the earliest populations manifesting this epidemic. Ethnohistorical methods identify the conjuncture of chronic behaviors …
Big and Little Moon Peyotism as health care delivery systems
Big Moon Peyotism was introduced in the 1880s to the Delaware, Osage and Quapaw of Northeast Oklahoma by John Wilson, a Delaware-Caddo from Southwest Oklahoma. This form of Peyotism and the Little Moon ritual developed by the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche of Southwest Oklahoma formed the basis of the two major variations of this religion as practiced by Native Americans throughout North America. An ethnographic and historic comparison of these reli…
Adiposity or longevity: Which factor accounts for the increase in type II diabetes mellitus when populations acculturate to an industrial technology
Identity fluidity and refusal of indigeneity by Wuankavilkas, the place-based original people of the Ecuadorian coast
Upholding Indigenous Freedoms of Religion and Medicine: Peyotists at the 1906-1908 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and First Legislature
Upholding Indigenous Freedoms of Religion and MedicinePeyotists at the 1906–1908 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and First Legislature Dennis Wiedman (bio) In February 1908 newspapers throughout Oklahoma reported that the hotel lobbies of Guthrie, the capital of the new state of Oklahoma, were crowded with Indian men, women, and children. At the thirty-sixth day of the first Oklahoma legislature, just sixty days after the state was established…
Effective Strategic Planning Roles for Anthropologists
Applied and practicing anthropologists often provide program evaluations to nonprofit, governmental, corporate and community organizations. They compete well with practitioners from many other disciplines for these opportunities to design research protocols, gather and analyze data, and report their conclusions and recommendations. These evaluations are often used by organizations to justify project funding, and to make policy and planning decisi…
Effects on Academic Culture of Shifts from Oral to Written Traditions: The Case of University Accreditation
Academe's primary function in Western culture is to systematize and communicate knowledge, mainly in oral and written forms. Universities therefore would be expected to use literary skills as the main means of communication and administrative functioning. The academy would thus be expected to be one of the most articulate and literate of communities, so it is interesting to know how oral and written traditions are used within the various subcultu…
Directing Geriatric Health Care: Some Practical Issues
In fifteen month's experience as Director of a geriatrics community mental health unit I have seen my anthropologist role changing from teacher and researcher to applied clinical anthropologist/gerontologist, from non-judgemental objective scientist to objective decision maker and modifier of human behavior. This article details some of the advantages and disadvantages of a Ph.D. in anthropology for such a clinical position. While particular appl…
Adiposity or longevity: Which factor accounts for the increase in type II diabetes mellitus when populations acculturate to an industrial technology
Big and Little Moon Peyotism as health care delivery systems
Big Moon Peyotism was introduced in the 1880s to the Delaware, Osage and Quapaw of Northeast Oklahoma by John Wilson, a Delaware-Caddo from Southwest Oklahoma. This form of Peyotism and the Little Moon ritual developed by the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche of Southwest Oklahoma formed the basis of the two major variations of this religion as practiced by Native Americans throughout North America. An ethnographic and historic comparison of these reli…
Effects on Academic Culture of Shifts from Oral to Written Traditions: The Case of University Accreditation
Academe's primary function in Western culture is to systematize and communicate knowledge, mainly in oral and written forms. Universities therefore would be expected to use literary skills as the main means of communication and administrative functioning. The academy would thus be expected to be one of the most articulate and literate of communities, so it is interesting to know how oral and written traditions are used within the various subcultu…
Effective Strategic Planning Roles for Anthropologists
Applied and practicing anthropologists often provide program evaluations to nonprofit, governmental, corporate and community organizations. They compete well with practitioners from many other disciplines for these opportunities to design research protocols, gather and analyze data, and report their conclusions and recommendations. These evaluations are often used by organizations to justify project funding, and to make policy and planning decisi…
Directing Organizational Culture Change through Strategic Planning and Leadership
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology: Practicing Employment Services
AAA Award Winners Are Engaged Scholars
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Applications of Anthropology: Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century
Applications of Anthropology: Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century. Sarah Pink, ed. New York: Berghahn, 2006. 244 pp
Food Customs of Alaska Women of Childbearing Age: The Alaska WIC Healthy Moms Survey
A survey of 60 rural, 62 urban Alaska women (64% Alaska Native) indicated positive dietary and lifestyle habits. Diets were characterized by boiled meats, high intakes of omega-3 fish, sea mammals and few desserts. Food insecurity reported by 39% rural and 7% of urban. Hunger was reported by 16% of rural and 5% of urban women. Traditional activities were walking, harvesting fish and picking berries. One third of calories came from non-traditional…
Global Marketing of Indigenous Culture: Discovering Native America with Lee Tiger and the Florida Miccosukee
Tourism is one of the world’s largest and most global industries and is a major factor in the cultural and economic sustainability of local communities. The hundred-year history of tourism among the Miccosukee of South Florida provides an example of purposeful self-generated heritage and eco-tourism in which indigenous people maintain control of the enterprise’s management and profits through their own strategic decisions. This small group of Nat…
Native American Embodiment of the Chronicities of Modernity: Reservation Food, Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome among the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache
As a physical embodiment of modernity, the prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) among Native Americans reflects their body's biological response to social and cultural structures that routinize daily behaviors and contain their physical body. This article explains why Native Americans were one of the earliest populations manifesting this epidemic. Ethnohistorical methods identify the conjuncture of chronic behaviors …
Upholding Indigenous Freedoms of Religion and Medicine: Peyotists at the 1906-1908 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and First Legislature
Upholding Indigenous Freedoms of Religion and MedicinePeyotists at the 1906–1908 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and First Legislature Dennis Wiedman (bio) In February 1908 newspapers throughout Oklahoma reported that the hotel lobbies of Guthrie, the capital of the new state of Oklahoma, were crowded with Indian men, women, and children. At the thirty-sixth day of the first Oklahoma legislature, just sixty days after the state was established…
Anthropologists Working in Higher Education
In this chapter, the author describes some of the non-academic roles within the university structure, and talks in detail about his own administrative career. He explores how anthropological training can contribute to the administrative functions of the university. He emphasizes how the anthropological perspective of holism and the concept of “culture,” combined with ethnographic writing skills can facilitate evaluation, planning, and policy deve…
Organizational Culture Theme Theory and Analysis of Strategic Planning for a New Medical School
Analyses of planning and organizational culture are understudied within the social sciences. With an applied anthropological perspective on strategic planning and organizational change, we advanced a methodology for cultural theme theory and analysis. This methodology is applied to an analysis of the evolution of a new medical school over the past twenty years. Most cultural themes formulated in 1996 are recurrent narratives in 2015, continuing t…
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and …
Identity fluidity and refusal of indigeneity by Wuankavilkas, the place-based original people of the Ecuadorian coast
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