Peter Whiteley

Biographic Data

ID86052
NAMEPeter Whiteley
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMEWhiteley
SIGNATUREWHITELEY P
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS53
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Machine learning methods for isolating indigenous language catalog descriptions

    Open AccessYi Liu, Carrie Heitman et al.ARTICLEAI & Society2025

  • How Crow-Omaha Skewing Spreads

    P M Whiteley, Peter Whiteley et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2021Cited by: 1References: 63

    Crow-Omaha kinship systems skew kin terms intergenerationally. Although occurring worldwide, they are relatively infrequent and often exist in historically unrelated clusters: “similar inventions in areas widely apart” (per Boas). Most analyses have been formalist, evolutionist, or sociological. Here, adding some historical linguistics and focusing on the core kin-term equations via the ethnographic and ethnohistoric record of Indigenous Australi…

  • Ethnography

    P M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyOTHERA Companion to the Anthropology…2004

    This chapter contains section titled: INTRODUCTION DISCOVERY THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BEFORE MORGAN LEWIS HENRY MORGAN AND THE LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS SOCIAL EVOLUTIONISM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BOAS AND THE BOASIANS CULTURE AREAS RELATIVISM, CULTURE-AND-PERSONALITY, AND STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONALISM ACTIVISM AND APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY ACCULTURATION STUDIES AND FURTHER POLICY CHANGES REVITALIZATION, RESISTA…

  • Social Formations in the Pueblo IV Southwest

    P M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyCHAPTERProtohistoric Pueblo World, A. D.…2004

  • Do "Language Rights" Serve Indigenous Interests? Some Hopi and Other Queries

    Open AccessP M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2003Cited by: 41References: 40

    While valuable, the discourse of language rights neglects language use in cultural, social, and historical contexts. This article examines some implications of that neglect, especially vis-a-vis small-scale, indigenous, "oral" societies. Drawing principally on Hopi examples, I argue that language rights discourse rests on a reflexivization of language and culture enhanced by globalism. Now reified, language becomes an allegory of ethnic identity.…

  • The End of Anthropology (at Hopi)

    P M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyCHAPTERIndians and Anthropologists1997

  • The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

    P M Whiteley, Peter Whiteley et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1997

    Friends and enemies, the history of an ambiguous relationship -- Peace and strife -- Preparation, the road to Prescott -- Prescott -- The long wait -- Progress (of sorts) -- False hopes -- Confrontation -- The end of the line -- Final thoughts

  • Lumbee Indian Histories

    Open AccessP M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1995

  • Born a Chief

    P M Whiteley, Peter Whiteley et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1994

  • Hopi Ruin Legends-Kiqötutuwutsi. Narrated by Michael Lomatuway'ma, Lorena Lomatuway'ma and Sidney Namingha, Jr

    Open AccessP M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1994Cited by: 1

  • Religion and Hopi Life in the Twentieth Century

    P M Whiteley, Peter Whiteley et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1993

  • Designs and Factions

    Open AccessP M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1992

  • Burning culture

    P M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyARTICLEHistory and Anthropology1992Cited by: 1References: 55

  • Bacavi

    Lydia L Wyckoff, P M Whiteley et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1990Cited by: 9

  • Deliberate Acts

    Shuichi Nagata, P M Whiteley et al.ARTICLEMan1990References: 24

    And to the memory of Jack WhiteleyLes evenements retentissants ne sont souvent que des instants, que des manifestations de ces larges destins et ne s'expliquent que par eux.Resounding events are often but instants, but manifestations of a larger destiny by which alone they can be explained.-Fernand Braudel (La Mediterranee et le monde mediterraneen a I' epoque de Philippe JI) It is no mystery, We're making history