R Zarger

Biographic Data

ID88003
NAMER Zarger
GIVEN NAMESR
FAMILY NAMEZarger
SIGNATUREZARGER R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of South Florida
ORCID0000-0002-8633-8015
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS111
WORKS AS AUTHOR34
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Dilemmas of making and unmaking environmental and cultural heritage in Southern Belize

    Kristina Baines, R ZargerARTICLEInternational Journal of Heritage…2024References: 40

    Heritage is defined and maintained through complex and changing processes. In what ways might heritage scholars and practitioners understand dynamic complexities theoretically, methodologically and ethically? Through reflections on involvement in environmental and cultural heritage initiatives with Maya communities in southern Belize, this paper argues for an explicit forefronting of community aims and goals in heritage-focused project design and…

  • Ethics and ambiguity in wastewater development on the Placencia Peninsula, Belize

    Open AccessW Alex Webb, E Christian Wells et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Anthropological Practice2024References: 24

    Development projects present ambiguous ethical terrain for anthropologists to navigate. Particularly in relation to WaSH (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene) infrastructures which mediate human and environmental health. Our interdisciplinary team of anthropologists and engineers initially set out to design context-sensitive on-site wastewater treatment infrastructures for homes along Belize's Placencia Peninsula. The project's beginning coincided with th…

  • Ethnographic methods

    Open AccessMelissa Beresford, Rosalyn Negrón et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2024Cited by: 4References: 81

    American anthropology is engaged in significant self-reckonings that call for big changes to how anthropology is practiced. These include (1) recognizing and taking seriously the demands to decolonize the ways research is done, (2) addressing precarious employment in academic anthropology, and (3) creating a discipline better positioned to respond to urgent societal needs. A central role for ethnographic methods training is a thread that runs thr…

  • The clinicopathological features of BRG1-deficient non-small cell lung cancer and its response to immunotherapy

    Open AccessR Zarger, Jing Zhang et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Diagnostic Pathology2023

    BRG1-deficient NSCLC showed diverse histopathological patterns and a unique immunohistochemical phenotype. ICIs-based immunotherapy is a promising therapy needs to be investigated further for BRG1- deficient NSCLC.

  • Ethnographic Methods Training Norms and Practices and the Future of American Anthropology

    Rennie Negron, A Wutich et al.PREPRINT2023

    American Anthropology is engaged in significant self-reckonings that call for big changes to how anthropology is practiced. These include (1) recognizing and taking seriously the demands to decolonize the ways research is done; (2) addressing precarious employment in academic anthropology; and (3) creating a discipline better positioned to respond to urgent societal needs. A central role for ethnographic methods training is a thread that runs thr…

  • Teaching Ethnographic Methods

    A Ruth, Katherine Mayfour et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization2022

    Ethnography is a core methodology in anthropology and other disciplines. Yet, there is currently no scholarly consensus on how to teach ethnographic methods—or even what methods belong in the ethnographic toolkit. We report on a systematic analysis of syllabi to gauge how ethnographic methods are taught in the United States. We analyze 107 methods syllabi from a nationally elicited sample of university faculty who teach ethnography. Systematic co…

  • Engaging in Interdisciplinary Coastal Research During a Pandemic

    Kris-An Hinds, Michelle C Platz et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization2022

    Developing a deeper understanding of the human dimensions of coral reef restoration and monitoring is imperative in efforts to sustain and restore the world’s coral reefs, which are experiencing catastrophic declines. This article reports on the methodologies used to conduct interdisciplinary fieldwork that began in June 2020, investigating how coral restoration practitioners navigated the ecological and societal changes impacting reef restoratio…

  • Visual Narratives

    Open AccessCrystal Ann Vitous, R ZargerARTICLEAnnals of Anthropological Practice2020Cited by: 2References: 11

    Visualizing environmental change is one way people experience ecological degradation and changes in land-use practices. In Placencia, located in Belize, the intensity and scale of development has been increasing without participation by local populations. Through interviews and photovoice, we document the ways residents have encountered changing environments, in order to explore how global and local processes of uneven development intersect. Area…

  • Understanding Children’s Perspectives On Water Resources in Interdisciplinary Research

    Paola A González, R Zarger et al.ARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2019

    Children's perspectives and knowledge of their local environment are not often incorporated into interdisciplinary applied research projects focused on understanding human relations with water resources. This paper discusses the process of integrating children's perspectives into interdisciplinary research on water resources through the use of a method called “picture voice,” where children create drawings to share their experiences. The paper fo…

  • Partnerships to Visualize Climate Change Futures in Tampa Bay, Florida

    R Zarger, Rebecca K Zarger et al.ARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2019

    Our project investigates public perceptions of climate change risk and vulnerability in the Tampa Bay, Florida, region, specifically focused on how climate change is likely to impact water infrastructure in the area. As part of the project, our research team of anthropologists and environmentally-focused state extension agents collaboratively developed public workshops to promote more dialogue on local climate change impacts. The anthropologists …

  • Wastewater technopolitics on the southern coast of Belize

    Open AccessE Christian Wells, W Alex Webb et al.ARTICLEEconomic Anthropology2019Cited by: 5References: 45

    After a massive hurricane devastated Belize's south coast in 2001, "sustainable tourism" was the national government's answer to spurring economic redevelopment. Since then, the communities of the Placencia Peninsula, in particular, have engaged in rapid tourism development as an economic strategy for securing local livelihoods, culminating in the arrival of mass cruise tourism in 2016. In a region where environmental resources and services shape…

  • Rapid assessment framework for modeling stakeholder involvement in infrastructure development

    Open AccessChristine Prouty, Eric S Koenig et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2017

  • Ecomyopia in the Anthropocene

    Open AccessD G Casagrande, David Casagrande et al.ARTICLEAnthropology Today2017Cited by: 2References: 20

    The authors apply longue durée and semiotic approaches to a case study of flood management in the American Midwest to critique the suggestion that naming the current geological epoch the ‘Anthropocene’ might encourage global environmental sustainability. It is unlikely that the Anthropocene moniker has the symbolic power to correct ecomyopia, which the authors define as the tendency to not recognize, to ignore, or fail to act on new information t…

  • It’s Good to Learn about the Plants”

    Open AccessKristina Baines, R Zarger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Studies…2016Cited by: 1References: 4

  • Lockdown

    R D Baer, R Zarger et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization2014

    In October 2009, a large public university in central Florida experienced a "lockdown" in response to a reported bomb at the campus library and two other threats. We conducted an anthropological study of how students perceived the university administration's response to these incidents. This study addresses the gaps in our understanding of university campus emergencies. We studied the situated vulnerabilities of students in different parts of the…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessCourtney Carothers, M Moritz et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 1

    Carothers, C., M. Moritz, and R. Zarger. 2014. Introduction: conceptual, methodological, practical, and ethical challenges in studying and applying indigenous knowledge. Ecology and Society 19(4): 43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07212-190443

  • Assessing Methodologies in Archaeological Ethnography

    R Zarger, Rebecca K Zarger et al.ARTICLEPublic Archaeology2013Cited by: 4References: 27

    Archaeologists have increasingly turned to ethnography as a tool for understanding the contemporary social context of material culture, archaeological practice, and ‘de-colonizing’ archaeology. Furthermore, ethnographers have turned their analysis to the practice of archaeology, providing insights into key ethical dilemmas. This work has produced significant dialogue, demonstrating the potential for research and collaboration at the interface of …

  • Accessibility and usability

    Open AccessHeather E Wright Wendel, R Zarger et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2012

  • Mosaics of Maya Livelihoods

    Open AccessR Zarger, Rebecca K ZargerARTICLENAPA Bulletin2009Cited by: 10References: 25

    The particularities of how residents in Southern Belize encounter the vagaries of what is commonly referred to as a "global food crisis" (between 2006 and 2008) are explored in this paper. Belize, like many other nation states around the globe, has been structurally (and sequentially) "readjusted" by transnational lending institutions over the last several decades. Cyclical shifts in agricultural practices have taken place in many Maya communitie…

  • School Garden Pedagogies

    Open AccessR ZargerARTICLEAnthropology News2008

  • Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination

    Open AccessR ZargerARTICLEJournal of Ecological Anthropology2007

    Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination JULIE CRUIKSHANK UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS, VANCOUVER, BC, 2005 328 PP. $32.95 PAPERBACK REVIEWED BY REBECCA K. ZARGER This fascinating book weaves together a study of memory, oral history and transformations through a series of encounters between people and glaciers in the region where the Saint Elias Mountains and the Alsek River converge in the southwes…

  • Anthropology and Environment

    Open AccessR Zarger, Tom SherihnARTICLEAnthropology News2004

  • Anthropology and Environment

    Open AccessR ZargerARTICLEAnthropology News2004

  • Anthropology and Environment

    Open AccessR Zarger, Kelly D Alley et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2004

  • Anthropology and Environment Section

    Open AccessR Zarger, Pamela Puntenney et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2004