Richard R Wilk

Dados Biográficos

ID102322
NOMERichard R Wilk
PRENOMESRichard R
SOBRENOMEWilk
ASSINATURAWILK R R
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Arizona
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS35
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES513
TOTAL COMO AUTOR34
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1977
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ÍNDICE H8

  • Time, Consumption and Everyday Life

    Richard R Wilk, Elizabeth Shove et al.BOOKTime, Consumption and Everyday Life2020

    Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable? This volume brings together international experts from geography, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. In case studie…

  • Social and Political Economy

    R Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.CHAPTEREconomies and Cultures2018

    Most humans grow up in family groups of some sort and therefore get basic training in working together, sharing, and identifying as a member of a collective with a group identity. This capacity to belong seems very basic to many, a "natural" characteristic of the species. The social exchange theory used by game theorists tries to show that individual maximizing leads people to form social groups as a rational solution to real-world economic probl…

  • Economic Anthropology An Undisciplined Discipline

    R Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.CHAPTEREconomies and Cultures2018

    This chapter describes the early history of economic anthropology and economic philosophy. It shows how the formalist-substantivist debate, once the centerpiece of economic anthropology, has now become an obstacle instead of an inspiration. The field needs to move beyond the debate and ask more sophisticated questions. Economists, in the meantime, mostly ignored anthropology and went on with the business of advising politicians on how to run the …

  • Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics

    R Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.CHAPTEREconomies and Cultures2018

    This chapter outlines the intellectual history of the effort to build economics starting from the rational individual. The goal is to give a fair and balanced view of the dominant perspective in modern Western economics, to explain some of its results and conclusions, and to question why it has achieved such wide acceptance and power in the world. The chapter contains some discussion of the internal criticism of Western economics by people seekin…

  • The Moral Human Cultural Economics

    R Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.CHAPTEREconomies and Cultures2018

    The newspapers and magazines in the United States are full of discussions about "family values" and the collapse of public morality. People in small towns across America perceive that there is increasing family violence, teenage pregnancy, drunk driving, and handguns in the high schools. Many economists have no trouble accepting the general proposition that culture shapes human values, since economists do not pretend to explain where values come …

  • Conclusions Complex Economic Human Beings

    R Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.CHAPTEREconomies and Cultures2018

    In 1982, Richard Wilk began working with another anthropologist on an ethnographic project among an exotic tribe: middle-class suburbanites in Santa Cruz County, northern California. The United States was then, as now, highly dependent on foreign oil, and public utilities could no longer afford to build new nuclear power plants. The authors present fair and balanced views of three fundamentally different approaches to human behavior, arguing that…

  • Gifts and Exchange

    R Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.CHAPTEREconomies and Cultures2018

    This chapter offers a history of how anthropologists have looked at economic systems over time, and provides a framework-the three paradigms-for understanding how ideas of the economy connect with models of human nature. It examines that the gift giving is a good way to see all the various aspects of human nature in action at one time because gifts can be simultaneously understood as rational exchange, as a way to build political and social relat…

  • Economics and the Problem of Human Nature

    R Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.CHAPTEREconomies and Cultures2018

    This chapter describes that the controversy in economic anthropology has revolved around the problem of defining "economic" behavior and "the economy" as an objective set of activities and objects. It explores the debates and disagreements to expose the most basic "bedrock" positions. The chapter suggests that neither the formalist-substantivist debate nor the later theoretical trends in the discipline have generally asked the right questions. It…

  • Economies and Cultures

    R Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.BOOKEconomies and Cultures2018Citada por: 73

    This book introduces economic anthropology to countries where it has never been taught before, including Vietnam, China, Brazil, Argentina, and Italy. It identifies the fundamental practical and theoretical problems that give economic anthropology its unique strengths and vision

  • Years Later-Does the Shoe Still Fit

    Open AccessRichard R WilkARTICLEJournal of Business Anthropology2016

    There are some very obvious things to say when re-reading a paper (which I will call "Adidas") authored so long ago-one I have not read in many years. Yes, it was ahead of its time, and it does hold up pretty well in the light of subsequent scholarship. Since it was published only in a very truncated form in conference proceedings, it has had little impact or influence. It is also very much an artifact of its time, raising issues that were novel …

  • Why do the Indians Wear Adidas? Or, Culture Contact and the Relations of Consumption

    Open AccessR Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business Anthropology2016

    The study of the consumption of goods has never achieved the prominence in anthropology of either production or exchange. Yet the accelerating consumption of western goods in non-western societies is one of the most obtrusive cultural and economic trends of the last three centuries. This article addresses the general issue of why goods flow between cultural groups by re-examining the concept of consumption. It raises questions of importance to st…

  • Time, Consumption and Everyday Life

    Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann et al.BOOKTime, Consumption and Everyday Life2009

  • Car Cultures

    Open AccessR Wilk, Richard R WilkARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2003

    Car Cultures. Daniel Miller. ed. Oxford: Berg, 2001. 256 pp

  • The Impossibility and Necessity of Re-Inquiry

    R Wilk, Richard R WilkARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2001Citada por: 7Referências: 12

    Journal Article The Impossibility and Necessity of Re-Inquiry: Finding Middle Ground in Social Science Get access Richard R. Wilk Richard R. Wilk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 28, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 308-312, https://doi.org/10.1086/322905 Published: 01 September 2001

  • Real Belizean Food

    Open AccessR Wilk, Richard R WilkARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1999Citada por: 110Referências: 25

    Food and cooking can be an avenue toward understanding complex issues of cultural change and transnational cultural flow. Using examples from Belize, I discuss the transformation from late colonial times to the present in terms of hierarchies of cuisine and changes in taste. In recent Belizean history, food has been used in personal and political contexts to create a sense of the nation at the same time that increased political and economic depen…

  • Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom

    R Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.REVIEWJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1998

  • Maya Resurgence in Guatemala

    Open AccessR Wilk, Richard R WilkARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1997

    Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi' Experiences. Richard Wilson. Norman; University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.373 pp

  • A critique of desire

    R Wilk, Richard R WilkARTICLEConsumption Markets & Culture1997Citada por: 39Referências: 18

    This paper argues that what we do not want to consume is often as personally and socially important as what we desire. Are desire and distaste really two separate bodies of knowledge; do we keep separate mental lists of good and bad, of things to be sought out and things to be avoided? Or are the positive and negative aspects of goods always intimately related to each other, so that we learn a series of relationships between desire and disgust, o…

  • Colonial Time and TV Time

    Open AccessR Wilk, Richard R WilkARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review1994Citada por: 6Referências: 6

  • Household Ecology, Economic Change and Domestic Life among the Kekchi Maya in Belize

    Laura Rival, R Wilk et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research1993Citada por: 5

  • Household Ecology

    M Moberg, R Wilk et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1993

  • Household Economy

    Stephen Gudeman, R Wilk et al.ARTICLEMan1993Citada por: 14

  • It's destroying a whole generation

    R Wilk, Richard R WilkARTICLEVisual Anthropology1993Citada por: 25Referências: 14

    An anthropological approach to television must transcend the limitations of traditional media scholarship by paying closer attention to the cultural and political context of the medium in different times and places. This paper explores the ways television has affected the small Caribbean country of Belize during the last ten years. It focuses attention on the way people talk about television in public and private, on the place of television in mo…

  • Beauty and the feast

    R Wilk, Richard R WilkARTICLEEthnos1993Citada por: 8Referências: 12

    This article discusses two nationalizing projects in the recently independent Caribbean country of Belize. Beauty pageants, promoted by political parties as an explicit effort to build unified national consensus in a multi-ethnic society, have failed to do so. In practice they dramatize difference more than identity. In the meantime other forms of national identification have flourished, often in sites completely outside of state intervention. An…

  • Household Ecology

    O Nigel Bolland, R Wilk et al.REVIEWHispanic American Historical Review1992

    Development and economic change are often seen as destructive to the family and to other traditional forms of social organization. Wilk's study of household ecology reveals that the Kekchi Maya of Belize have responded by creating new forms of family organization, working together to face challenges posed by development. Not merely survivors of an ancient splendor, the Kekchi Maya build upon their rich heritage to approach such problems as ethnic…