Robert Dirks
Biographic Data
| ID | 90020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Dirks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Dirks |
| SIGNATURE | DIRKS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7752-4684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
D Iet and N Utrition in P Oor and M Inority C Ommunities in T He U Nited S Tates 100 Y Ears a Go
Atwater and his colleagues began studying food consumption in the closing years of the nineteenth century and from the very start devoted much effort to collecting data from poor and minority households. This paper reviews some of the fruits of these labors, particularly from the standpoint of what they contribute toward a better historical understanding of American food habits and nutrition. It surveys dietary data from African American, Appalac…
Agriculture Experiment Station Studies and the History of Food Habits and Nutrition in the United States
Starvation and Famine
This article provides a set of codes that rate the starvation and famine experiences of societies in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. The codes are used to test several theoretical generaliza tions regarding the underlying cultural causes of famine. The results indicate that several changes arising from world systems involvements increase the likelihood of famine. They suggest fur ther that the extent to which societies experience famine depen…
Alabi's World. Richard Price
The Black Saturnalia Conflict and Its Ritual Expression on British West Indian Slave Plantations
The Black Saturnalia
The Black Saturnalia
Annual Rituals of Conflict
Great rituals of conflict-annual celebrations containing episodes of threat, insult, or contention-are widely, though sporadically, distributed worldwide. To account for their incidence, propositions derived from Gluckman's analysis of Southeast African rituals of rebellion are tested crossculturally. Results indicate annual rituals of conflict occur disproportionately among societies situated in environments prone to seasonal hunger and possessi…
Slave Population of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
Comments on Drennan's “Long Distance Transport Costs in Pre‐Hispanic Mesoamerica”
Alas, Alas, Kongo
Africa and the Caribbean
Social Responses During Severe Food Shortages and Famine [and Comments and Reply]
Although emergency food shortages and famines have been a prominent part of human experience for thousands of years and recur somewhere on our planet almost annually, data describing behavioral and organizational responses are few and scattered. Generalizations, when not speculative, tend to be vague and frequently contradictory. Practical, humanistic, and scientific concern with how people respond when overtaken by nutritional catastrophe provid…
Social Movements, Violence, and Change
Ethnology
General and Theoretical
Movements Toward Understanding Humans Through the Anthropological Study of Dance [and Comments and Reply]
An attempt is made to identify the study of dance as a specialization and peripheral interest within each of the four fields of anthropology, in order to suggest how our understanding of Homo sapiens may be enhanced by dance study. The neglect, gestation, and emergence of the anthropological study of dance, its theoretical and methodological areas of consensus and disagreement, and some specific approaches and their strengths and limitations are …
Relief Induced Agonism
Networks, Groups, and Adaptation in an Afro-Caribbean Community
Social Responses During Severe Food Shortages and Famine [and Comments and Reply]
Although emergency food shortages and famines have been a prominent part of human experience for thousands of years and recur somewhere on our planet almost annually, data describing behavioral and organizational responses are few and scattered. Generalizations, when not speculative, tend to be vague and frequently contradictory. Practical, humanistic, and scientific concern with how people respond when overtaken by nutritional catastrophe provid…
Movements Toward Understanding Humans Through the Anthropological Study of Dance [and Comments and Reply]
An attempt is made to identify the study of dance as a specialization and peripheral interest within each of the four fields of anthropology, in order to suggest how our understanding of Homo sapiens may be enhanced by dance study. The neglect, gestation, and emergence of the anthropological study of dance, its theoretical and methodological areas of consensus and disagreement, and some specific approaches and their strengths and limitations are …
The Black Saturnalia Conflict and Its Ritual Expression on British West Indian Slave Plantations
Networks, Groups, and Adaptation in an Afro-Caribbean Community
Starvation and Famine
This article provides a set of codes that rate the starvation and famine experiences of societies in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. The codes are used to test several theoretical generaliza tions regarding the underlying cultural causes of famine. The results indicate that several changes arising from world systems involvements increase the likelihood of famine. They suggest fur ther that the extent to which societies experience famine depen…
Annual Rituals of Conflict
Great rituals of conflict-annual celebrations containing episodes of threat, insult, or contention-are widely, though sporadically, distributed worldwide. To account for their incidence, propositions derived from Gluckman's analysis of Southeast African rituals of rebellion are tested crossculturally. Results indicate annual rituals of conflict occur disproportionately among societies situated in environments prone to seasonal hunger and possessi…
The Black Saturnalia
The Black Saturnalia
Relief Induced Agonism
Networks, Groups, and Adaptation in an Afro-Caribbean Community
Social Movements, Violence, and Change
Ethnology
General and Theoretical
Movements Toward Understanding Humans Through the Anthropological Study of Dance [and Comments and Reply]
An attempt is made to identify the study of dance as a specialization and peripheral interest within each of the four fields of anthropology, in order to suggest how our understanding of Homo sapiens may be enhanced by dance study. The neglect, gestation, and emergence of the anthropological study of dance, its theoretical and methodological areas of consensus and disagreement, and some specific approaches and their strengths and limitations are …
Relief Induced Agonism
Africa and the Caribbean
Social Responses During Severe Food Shortages and Famine [and Comments and Reply]
Although emergency food shortages and famines have been a prominent part of human experience for thousands of years and recur somewhere on our planet almost annually, data describing behavioral and organizational responses are few and scattered. Generalizations, when not speculative, tend to be vague and frequently contradictory. Practical, humanistic, and scientific concern with how people respond when overtaken by nutritional catastrophe provid…
Alas, Alas, Kongo
Comments on Drennan's “Long Distance Transport Costs in Pre‐Hispanic Mesoamerica”
Slave Population of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
The Black Saturnalia
The Black Saturnalia
Annual Rituals of Conflict
Great rituals of conflict-annual celebrations containing episodes of threat, insult, or contention-are widely, though sporadically, distributed worldwide. To account for their incidence, propositions derived from Gluckman's analysis of Southeast African rituals of rebellion are tested crossculturally. Results indicate annual rituals of conflict occur disproportionately among societies situated in environments prone to seasonal hunger and possessi…
The Black Saturnalia Conflict and Its Ritual Expression on British West Indian Slave Plantations
Alabi's World. Richard Price
Starvation and Famine
This article provides a set of codes that rate the starvation and famine experiences of societies in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. The codes are used to test several theoretical generaliza tions regarding the underlying cultural causes of famine. The results indicate that several changes arising from world systems involvements increase the likelihood of famine. They suggest fur ther that the extent to which societies experience famine depen…
Agriculture Experiment Station Studies and the History of Food Habits and Nutrition in the United States
D Iet and N Utrition in P Oor and M Inority C Ommunities in T He U Nited S Tates 100 Y Ears a Go
Atwater and his colleagues began studying food consumption in the closing years of the nineteenth century and from the very start devoted much effort to collecting data from poor and minority households. This paper reviews some of the fruits of these labors, particularly from the standpoint of what they contribute toward a better historical understanding of American food habits and nutrition. It surveys dietary data from African American, Appalac…
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