John H Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 79478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John H Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | John H |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mississippi State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement: A Study in Eight Societies
This collaborative study offers a look at Alcoholics Anonymous as a social movement, a belief system, a model for small group interactions and an international phenomenon. It covers what happens at an AA meeting, how members interact and how it fits into varying cultural traditions
Epilogue: Whales and Elephants as Cultural Symbols
In his commentary, Dr. Peterson focuses on two of the papers presented in this volume, those by Ris and Kalland, who analyze the evolving symbolic signijicance of whales and how this has affected coastal whaling communities in northern Norway. As a discussant of the whaling papers at the Common Property Conference, Dr. Peterson was impressed by the commonality of the problems facing sustainable management of whales and elephants and of the need f…
Tribes on the Hill: The U.S. Congress — Rituals and Realities
A Choctaw Sourcebook
A Choctaw Sourcebook
Applied Anthropology: Of Time and the Enterprise: North American Family Farm Management in a Context of Resource Marginality . John W. Bennett
La Salle and His Legacy: Frenchmen and Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
The Choctaws: Cultural Evolution of a Native American Tribe
The Mississippi Choctaws at Play: The Serious Side of Leisure
AA Editors Seek Reviews of “Grey Literature”
Anthropological Studies in the American South: Review and Directions [and Comments and Review]
Although anthropological studies in the American South have been conducted in the past few decades, we find that there is a growth of interest in this region recently. Because of the decrease in funding for anthropological research in other countries, combined with the attitudes anthropologists are more frequently encountering from peoples in other cultures, anthropological research has increasingly focused on subcultures and regions in North Ame…
Ii: Employment of Anthropologists in the Field of Education
The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
The American Isolates: Assimilation, Separation, and Out-Migration in an American Indian Group
The alternative strategies of assimilation, separation, or out-migration which face most rural minority populations are discussed in light of the Mississippi Choctaw experience. Existing in a local society dichotomized between White and Black, the Choctaw response has been similar to that of mestizo groups described by Berry. A combination of employment opportunity, White attitudes, and community size seem to determine which strategy will predomi…
Anthropological Studies in the American South: Review and Directions [and Comments and Review]
Although anthropological studies in the American South have been conducted in the past few decades, we find that there is a growth of interest in this region recently. Because of the decrease in funding for anthropological research in other countries, combined with the attitudes anthropologists are more frequently encountering from peoples in other cultures, anthropological research has increasingly focused on subcultures and regions in North Ame…
The American Isolates: Assimilation, Separation, and Out-Migration in an American Indian Group
The alternative strategies of assimilation, separation, or out-migration which face most rural minority populations are discussed in light of the Mississippi Choctaw experience. Existing in a local society dichotomized between White and Black, the Choctaw response has been similar to that of mestizo groups described by Berry. A combination of employment opportunity, White attitudes, and community size seem to determine which strategy will predomi…
The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
The American Isolates: Assimilation, Separation, and Out-Migration in an American Indian Group
The alternative strategies of assimilation, separation, or out-migration which face most rural minority populations are discussed in light of the Mississippi Choctaw experience. Existing in a local society dichotomized between White and Black, the Choctaw response has been similar to that of mestizo groups described by Berry. A combination of employment opportunity, White attitudes, and community size seem to determine which strategy will predomi…
Ii: Employment of Anthropologists in the Field of Education
Anthropological Studies in the American South: Review and Directions [and Comments and Review]
Although anthropological studies in the American South have been conducted in the past few decades, we find that there is a growth of interest in this region recently. Because of the decrease in funding for anthropological research in other countries, combined with the attitudes anthropologists are more frequently encountering from peoples in other cultures, anthropological research has increasingly focused on subcultures and regions in North Ame…
AA Editors Seek Reviews of “Grey Literature”
The Mississippi Choctaws at Play: The Serious Side of Leisure
La Salle and His Legacy: Frenchmen and Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
The Choctaws: Cultural Evolution of a Native American Tribe
Applied Anthropology: Of Time and the Enterprise: North American Family Farm Management in a Context of Resource Marginality . John W. Bennett
A Choctaw Sourcebook
A Choctaw Sourcebook
Tribes on the Hill: The U.S. Congress — Rituals and Realities
Epilogue: Whales and Elephants as Cultural Symbols
In his commentary, Dr. Peterson focuses on two of the papers presented in this volume, those by Ris and Kalland, who analyze the evolving symbolic signijicance of whales and how this has affected coastal whaling communities in northern Norway. As a discussant of the whaling papers at the Common Property Conference, Dr. Peterson was impressed by the commonality of the problems facing sustainable management of whales and elephants and of the need f…
Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement: A Study in Eight Societies
This collaborative study offers a look at Alcoholics Anonymous as a social movement, a belief system, a model for small group interactions and an international phenomenon. It covers what happens at an AA meeting, how members interact and how it fits into varying cultural traditions
History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Citation (3 works)