Richard N Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 80691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard N Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard N |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8253-9840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 122 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 122 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
O acidente da plataforma de petróleo Deepwater Horizon após 12 anos: Análise Com Foco Na Dimensão Coletiva Do Trabalho E Nos Fatores Organizacionais
O acidente com a plataforma Deepwater Horizon, em 2010, é considerado o maior desastre do século no setor de óleo e gás. Esse evento teve como consequências 11 trabalhadores mortos, 17 feridos, perda total da unidade e maior desastre ambiental no Golfo do México (Estados Unidos). A literatura existente abarca seus impactos ambientais, químicos, biológicos e econômicos, concentrando-se nas causas imediatas, ou seja, situações próximas no tempo e n…
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig accident, 12 years later: Analysis Focusing on the Collective Dimension of Work and the Organizational Factors
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig accident, in 2010, is considered the biggest disaster of the 21st century in the oil and gas industry. A total of 11 workers died, 17 were injured, total loss of the unit, and the largest environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico (United States). The existing literature encompasses its environmental, chemical, biological, and economic effects, focusing on immediate causes, that is, situations close to the event in…
O acidente da plataforma de petróleo P-36 revisitado 15 anos depois: Da Gestão De Situações Incidentais E Acidentais Aos Fatores Organizacionais
O acidente com a plataforma P-36 na Bacia de Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, se configura como um dos grandes desastres internacionais da indústria do petróleo. Nosso objetivo na reflexão aqui empreendida é: (a) verificar, com base em um caso específico, a questão do papel que exerce a dimensão humana na confiabilidade de sistemas de elevada complexidade - com foco na gestão de situações incidentais e acidentais -, capazes de acarretar acidentes …
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology
Energy and Structure: A Theory of Social Power
Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures: Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences
Studies ofMestizaje
RICHARD N. ADAMS is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. He has worked for over half a century in Latin American Studies. He recently coauthored, with Santiago Bastos, Relaciones Étnicas en Guatemala, 1944–2000 (Antigua, Guatemala: Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica, 2003). In addition, he has published Etnias en Evolution Social: Estudios de Guatemala y Centroamérica (México, D.F.:…
Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis
On Causation and the Struggle for a Science of Culture
Works on Latin American Ethnicity, Emigration, and Indian Resistance and Survival
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History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992:History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992
History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992
History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992. Jonathan D. Hill. ed. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996. 277 pp
Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida
Guatemalan Ladinization and History
Recent years have seen a significant increase in the use of history by social scientists. It is less and less common that studies in anthropology, sociology, and political science evaluate variables without attention to their antecedents. There still survive, however, concepts and theories built originally on synchronic assumptions. One of these theories, ladinization , has been the subject of considerable contention. “Ladinization” derives from …
Forest Society: A Social History of Peten, Guatemala
The Role of Energy in the Surgence of Ethnicity
The only rationale the state has ever had for existing was that it could provide its members with greater security than was possible if they were to remain in fragmented societies. States have now demonstrated under a variety of regimes types - democratic, socialist, authoritarian, totalitarian, etc. - that they fall far short of meeting this demand. The current appearance of ethnic and ethnic-nationalistic movements all over the world reflect th…
Social Evolution and Social Reproduction
VER THE PAST twenty years, major headway has been made in biocultural evolution through the mapping, in varying ways, of cultural process onto a neo-Darwinian model. It is as if now, late in the twentieth century, we have completed a full loop in the spiral, taking us from the organic models made popular by Spencer, to a new level of apparently organic models, derived from the neo-Darwinian thinking.' Like many attracted to this biocultural2 area…
Introduction: Current Approaches to Classic and New Issues in Social Evolution
Concluding Observations: The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory and Mechanisms
The Eighth Day: Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy
The Conquest Tradition of Mesoamerica
To observe that events are determined by historical antecedents is hardly informative. What is difficult about history is that it is rarely equally easy to find out how the past shapes the future. Central America presents an interesting case in which indigenous cultures and Spanish conquest have succeeded in reproducing old geographical patterns while the cultures and societies therein have changed in extraordinary ways. The present paper suggest…
Colombian Conversations: The Strength of the Earth [and Comments and Replies]
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Kuna Gathering: Contemporary Village Politics in Panama. James Howe
The Eighth Day: Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy
Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that are common to all of nature. The problem in doing this, however, lies in ourselves. The major social theories have failed to treat human social evolutio…
Energy and the Regulation of Nation States
Complex industrial nation-states organize themselves through social hierarchies, identified here as the regulatory (REG) sector, that include both public and private sectors. A comparison of some sixty countries over the past century shows their REG sector evolution to be constrained by regional-cultural antecedents and by major historical events. Overriding these constraints, however, is the consumption of nonhuman, or "commercial", energy, as R…
History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992
History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992. Jonathan D. Hill. ed. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996. 277 pp
The Anthropology of Power: Ethnographic Studies from Asia, Oceania and the New World
Brokers and Career Mobility Systems in the Structure of Complex Societies
Two means of gaining access to power in complex societies are through the mobility of individuals or groups and through the use of power brokers. Based on a study of the national social structure of Guatemala, this paper presents the argument that the two forms tend to appear under different circumstances. Power brokers are in evidence where power domains are strong and levels of articulation are rigid; brokers disappear and mobility systems come…
The Law of the Saints: A Pokomam Pueblo and Its Community Culture
Human Organization Research: Field Relations and Techniques
Organization Theory: An Elephantine Problem
Man, Energy, and Anthropology: I Can Feel the Heat, But Where's the Light
Anthropology should deal with man holistically, but has failed to do so. The field is unfortunately split between mentalistic and materialistic schools and has not developed a theory to cope with the complexity of large contemporary societies. Energy similarly has been little studied by anthropology because there has been no theory sufficient for the purpose. The thermodynamics of structures far from equilibrium and the dissipative structure mode…
Cultural Components of Central America
The Dynamics of Societal Diversity: Notes from Nicaragua for a sociology of survival
At a more profound level than political economy, cultures and social structures are constantly generating new forms. Since this genesis has not been adequately conceptualized, a preliminary model for emergent phenomena in complex societies is suggested, analyzing the history and contemporary revolutionary situation of the Nicaraguan Atlantic region Indians. [complex societies, Nicaragua, Indians, survival vehicles, revolution, cultural emergence
Guatemalan Ladinization and History
Recent years have seen a significant increase in the use of history by social scientists. It is less and less common that studies in anthropology, sociology, and political science evaluate variables without attention to their antecedents. There still survive, however, concepts and theories built originally on synchronic assumptions. One of these theories, ladinization , has been the subject of considerable contention. “Ladinization” derives from …
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 …
Guatemala: The Land and the People
A Community in the Andes: Problems and Progress in Muquiyauyo
O acidente da plataforma de petróleo P-36 revisitado 15 anos depois: Da Gestão De Situações Incidentais E Acidentais Aos Fatores Organizacionais
O acidente com a plataforma P-36 na Bacia de Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, se configura como um dos grandes desastres internacionais da indústria do petróleo. Nosso objetivo na reflexão aqui empreendida é: (a) verificar, com base em um caso específico, a questão do papel que exerce a dimensão humana na confiabilidade de sistemas de elevada complexidade - com foco na gestão de situações incidentais e acidentais -, capazes de acarretar acidentes …
Colombian Conversations: The Strength of the Earth [and Comments and Replies]
Responsibilities of the Foreign Scholar to the Local Scholarly Community
The purpose of this paper is to suggest guidelines for the conduct of scholars that will make it possible for the scholarly community as a whole to benefit more fully from the efforts of its members. It reviews some aspects of the evolution of the problem and then presents a set of recommendations, based on research by a team of social scientists in three Latin American countries, that may come to serve as a statement of common understanding conc…
The Conquest Tradition of Mesoamerica
To observe that events are determined by historical antecedents is hardly informative. What is difficult about history is that it is rarely equally easy to find out how the past shapes the future. Central America presents an interesting case in which indigenous cultures and Spanish conquest have succeeded in reproducing old geographical patterns while the cultures and societies therein have changed in extraordinary ways. The present paper suggest…
The development of the Guatemalan military
Technical Co-operation in Latin-American Agriculture
Un análisis de las creencias y prácticas médicas en un pueblo indígena de Guatemala
Crucifixion by Power. Essays on Guatemalan National Social Structure, 1944-1966
Richard N. Adams reviews "Crucifixion by Power", by Richard Adams. He discusses the book's analysis of Guatemalan national social structure from 1944-1966, focusing on the interplay of power, violence, and social change. Adams highlights the book's exploration of how power operates within Guatemalan society, shaping political and economic structures and impacting various social groups. The review emphasizes the significance of the work in underst…
On the Effective Use of Anthropology in Public Health Programs
In July of 1951 George Foster published a mimeographed report based on the work carried on by the four anthropologists of the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution. (The report, entitled "A Cross-Cultural Anthropological Analysis of a Technical Aid Program," was translated into Spanish and issued by the National Indian Institute of Mexico in 1952, and an article-length summary of it appeared in the same year in the Bolet…
Ethnocentbism and Ingroup Consciousness
Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis
The Eighth Day: Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy
A Study of Labor Preference in Peru
The problem of why a group of workers prefers one employing organization to another has usually been explored in terms of such observable factors as wages, working conditions, vacation time, and so on. It is not uncommon, however, for a specific case of preference to involve factors which are less obvious and which may concern the very structure of the social organization of the working men. In the process of carrying on a community study in the …
Ethnocentbism and Ingroup Consciousness
A Survival of the Meso-American Bachelor House
Notes on the Application of Anthropology
From January, 1950 until August, 1951, the writer had the opportunity to work as an applied anthropologist on several public welfare programs in Central America. In the course of the work a number of problems arose which do not seem to have received adequate attention in the literature. While anthropologists are usually called in to deal with subject societies, the main problems to be discussed here deal with issues arising from the fact of an an…
Un análisis de las creencias y prácticas médicas en un pueblo indígena de Guatemala
On the Effective Use of Anthropology in Public Health Programs
In July of 1951 George Foster published a mimeographed report based on the work carried on by the four anthropologists of the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution. (The report, entitled "A Cross-Cultural Anthropological Analysis of a Technical Aid Program," was translated into Spanish and issued by the National Indian Institute of Mexico in 1952, and an article-length summary of it appeared in the same year in the Bolet…
Other: Social Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Hubert Bonner
Cultural Components of Central America
Technical Co-operation in Latin-American Agriculture
Ethnology and Ethnography: Synoptic Studies of Mexican Culture. Munro S. Edmonson, Pedro Carrasco, Glen Fisher, Eric Wolf
Minorities in the New World. Six Case Studies
United States University Cooperation in Latin America
United States Cooperation in Latin America. A Study based on Selected Programs in Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Mexico
Journal Article United States Cooperation in Latin America. A study based on selected programs in Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Mexico Get access United States Cooperation in Latin America. A study based on selected programs in Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Mexico. By Richard N. Adams and Charles C. Cumberland. Preface by Edward W. Weidner. East Lansing, Michigan, Institute of Research on Overseas Programs, Michigan State University, 1960, xxxii+264 pp. Ta…
A Community in the Andes: Problems and Progress in Muquiyauyo
La teoría y la realidad del cambio sociocultural en Colombia
Organization Theory: An Elephantine Problem
Social Change in Latin America Today: Its Implications for United States Policy
Journal Article Social Change in Latin America Today: Its Implications for United States Policy Get access Social Change in Latin America Today: Its Implications for United States Policy. By Richard N. Adams and others. Introduction by Lyman Bryson. New York, Harper for the Council on Foreign Relations, 1960; London, Oxford University Press, 1961. xiv+353 pp. Index. 40s. S. C. S. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
United States University Co-Operation in Latin America
Ethnology: Food Habits and Nutrient Intakes in a Siamese Rice Village. Studies in Bang Chan, 1952–1954 . Hazel M. Hauck, Saovanee Sudsaneh and Jane R. Hanks with the assistance of Anusith Rajatasilpin…
Other: Automation Cybernetics and Society . F. H. George
Special Symposium of the American Anthropological Association
Social Change in Latin America Today: Its Implication for United States Policy
Human Organization Research: Field Relations and Techniques
Social Change in Latin America Today. Its Implications for United States Policy
A Community in the Andes: Problems and Progess in Muquiyauyo
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