Irwin Altman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 110569 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Irwin Altman |
| PRENOMES | Irwin |
| SOBRENOME | Altman |
| ASSINATURA | ALTMAN I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2510-938X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 89 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 314 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 12 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1960 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Caribbean Letters
The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus
Boundaries of Belonging
En Bas Saline
The details of Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage to the Caribbean long have both fascinated and frustrated scholars as well as a wider public. The grounding of his flagship, the Santa María, on Christmas Eve on the north coast of Hispaniola, the construction of a fort close to the site of the ship's destruction, the hospitality and assistance provided by local ruler Guacanagarí, Columbus's decision to leave a sizable contingent of men behind on …
The seventeenth-century Spanish Caribbean as global crossroads
The Conquest of Mexico
According to a recent article in the New York Times entitled “Demoting the Conquest: How the Denver Art Museum Kicked Columbus Out the Door,” a Colorado art museum “obliterated all references to the canceled hero from its collections.”1 Regardless of how one views Columbus, the effort to “cancel” historical figures and events that have resonated for good and ill over the centuries is far from straightforward. In our continuing fascination with th…
Captives of Conquest
Collision of Worlds
Few episodes in modern world history have attracted as much scholarly and popular attention as the Spanish invasion and occupation of central Mexico. Since the mid-nineteenth century, when William H. Prescott published History of the Conquest of Mexico (Boston, 1843) portraying Hernando Cortés as a romantic hero prevailing against great odds, scholars have drawn on a limited corpus of records and histories produced by Spaniards and native Mesoame…
Failed experiments
Conflict, violence, turmoil, untrammeled exploitation, and demographic devastation characterized the early Spanish Caribbean. Although these forces did not allow much space or support for accommoda
Promiscuous Power
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The Early Modern Hispanic World
Iberia stands at the center of key trends in Atlantic and world histories, largely because Portugal and Spain were the first European kingdoms to 'go global'. The Early Modern Hispanic World engages with new ways of thinking about the early modern Hispanic past, as a field of study that has grown exponentially in recent years. It focuses predominantly on questions of how people understood the rapidly changing world in which they lived - how they …
Nancy E. van Deusen. Global Indios
The tens of thousands of indigenous inhabitants of the Americas whose lives were radically disrupted, transformed, and often prematurely curtailed by Europeans’ escalating demands for slave labor in the first half of the sixteenth century mostly have remained anonymous because of the nature of both the trade in indigenous captives and the records themselves, which reduced them to numbers and units of sale (piezas) and often obscured their actual …
Key to the Indies
Seaborne commerce, communication, and transportation to a great extent defined and enabled the Spanish enterprise in the Caribbean from the time Europeans first arrived in the islands. With the exception of a minority of towns such as Concepción de la Vega in Española that were established in the interiors of the islands to provide access to gold mines and the indigenous labor to exploit them, the majority of new towns and cities were located on …
Discovering Florida
John Worth's excellent collection of accounts of sixteenth-century Spanish activity along the lower Gulf Coast of modern Florida and resulting European-indigenous contacts raises the question of why Spanish Florida still remains as marginal to the study of Spanish America and the Caribbean as it does to that of the United States. In recent decades, the history of early postcontact Florida has been well served by a number of scholars, not least of…
Of Cannibals and Kings
Book Review| January 01 2014 Of Cannibals and Kings: Primal Anthropology in the Americas Of Cannibals and Kings: Primal Anthropology in the Americas. By Whitehead, Neil L.. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xii + 136 pp., preface, introduction, figures, bibliography, index. $25.95 paper.) Ida Altman Ida Altman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 213–215. https://doi.org…
Home Environments
Environment and Culture
Marriage, Family, and Ethnicity in the Early Spanish Caribbean
The Spanish Atlantic, 1650–1780
During the years from the mid-seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century, the Spanish empire exhibited increasing economic diversity and robustness and maintained its dominant position among European empires in the Americas without serious challenge, notwithstanding Spain's eclipse as a military power in Europe and maritime power on the seas. In size alone, Spain's possessions in the Americas dwarfed those of any other colonising nation and…
Behavior and the Natural Environment
Human Behavior and Environment
Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
A Nation upon the Ocean Sea
If the importance of Portuguese merchants in the Spanish Empire is well known to scholars of early Spanish America, nonetheless their economic activities, complex and wide-ranging trade and kin networks, and family and household structure have not been examined systematically. Until the appearance of this relatively short but highly informative and suggestive volume by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, the Portuguese for the most part remained shadowy a…
The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America
In 1519 Enrique, one of the few remaining caciques, or indigenous chiefs, of the island of Hispaniola, removed himself and some of his people from the reach of Spanish authority. For nearly a decade and a half he and his followers lived in the remote and barely accessible south-central mountains of his native island, occasionally raiding Spanish settlements for arms and tools and clashing with militia units but for the most part avoiding contact …
Mexico
Book Review| July 01 2005 Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest; Mexico: The Colonial Era By Alan Knight. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xix + 254 pp., preface, series introduction, maps, bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth,$21.99 paper.)By Alan Knight. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xix + 353 pp., preface, maps, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth, $22.99 paper.) Ida Altman Ida Altman Search for other works…
Privacy Regulation
This article examines privacy as a generic process that occurs in all cultures but that also differs among cultures in terms of the behavioral mechanisms used to regulate desired levels of privacy. Ethnographic data are examined from a variety of cultures, particularly from societies with apparently maximum and minimum privacy, and from analyses of various social relationships, such as parents and children, in-laws, husbands and wives. It is conc…
A Conceptual Analysis
This paper presents a ,theoretical analysis of the concept of privacy which emphasizes its role as an interpersonal boundary control process. The paper also analyzes mechanisms and dynamics of privacy, including verbal and paraverbal behavior, personal space, territorial behavior, and culturally based responses. Finally, several functions of privacy are proposed, including regulation of interpersonal interaction, self-other definitional processes…
Reciprocity of Interpersonal Exchange 1
Interpersonal exchange as a function of rewards and costs and situational factors
Interpersonal relationships and personal space
Interpersonal Exchange in Isolation
Emigrants and Society
The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Caceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for the Indies. By maintaining ties with home and one another, and sometimes returning, these emigrants developed patterns of involvement that on one level…
The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America
In 1519 Enrique, one of the few remaining caciques, or indigenous chiefs, of the island of Hispaniola, removed himself and some of his people from the reach of Spanish authority. For nearly a decade and a half he and his followers lived in the remote and barely accessible south-central mountains of his native island, occasionally raiding Spanish settlements for arms and tools and clashing with militia units but for the most part avoiding contact …
A Transactional Approach to Interpersonal Relations
This article overviews a program of research that has explored the implications of a transactional worldview for research on personal relationships. In particular, the present article emphasizes the role of the physical environment in relationships. It briefly describes our theoretical perspective and delineates the methods by which we study personal relationships. The main body of the article focuses on three kinds of relationship (acquaintance,…
Relationship of Nonverbal Behavior to the Social Penetration Process
Theoretical formulations concerning the relationship of nonverbal behavior to the social penetration processes, i.e., the development of interpersonal relations (Altman & Taylor, 1973) were examined via acted, videotaped conversations in which subjects role played good friends (GF) or casual acquaintances (CA) discussing intimate (I) or nonintimate (NI) topics. The methodological approach adopted for this study was unique in three ways. First, pa…
Self-disclosure in isolated groups
A Nation upon the Ocean Sea
If the importance of Portuguese merchants in the Spanish Empire is well known to scholars of early Spanish America, nonetheless their economic activities, complex and wide-ranging trade and kin networks, and family and household structure have not been examined systematically. Until the appearance of this relatively short but highly informative and suggestive volume by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, the Portuguese for the most part remained shadowy a…
Community psychology twenty years later
Field study of territorial behavior and dominance
Spanish Society in Mexico City After the Conquest
Dialectics, physical environments, and personal relationships
(1993). Dialectics, physical environments, and personal relationships. Communication Monographs: Vol. 60, Into the New Century, pp. 26-34
Privacy regulation, territorial displays, and effectiveness of individual functioning
The Contact of Cultures
WHETHER REGARDED AS AN OPPORTUNITY to reach a wider public than usually takes an interest in events remote in time and place, an occasion for scholarly reflection and discussion, or an opportunity to air grievances both historical and contemporary, the Columbian Quincentenary elicited a range of institutional, individual, and collective responses. There were symposia, exhibitions, publications, debates, demonstrations, the multimillion-dollar con…
The Effects of Social Isolation and Group Composition on Performance
The study examined performance of socially isolated and nonisolated dyads on two group tasks and on an individual task. Dyads were formed according to a Greco-Latin square design with composition differences on dogmatism, need achievement, need affiliation and need dominance. Nine dyads lived in a small room for ten days with no outside contact. Matched controls followed the same schedule but had access to other people and outside facilities. Res…
Key to the Indies
Seaborne commerce, communication, and transportation to a great extent defined and enabled the Spanish enterprise in the Caribbean from the time Europeans first arrived in the islands. With the exception of a minority of towns such as Concepción de la Vega in Española that were established in the interiors of the islands to provide access to gold mines and the indigenous labor to exploit them, the majority of new towns and cities were located on …
Self-Disclosure as a Function of Reward-Cost Outcomes
Fifty-six sailors individually participated in a lengthy interaction session, ostensibly with another sailor (an experimenter confederate). They were subjected to one of four reward/cost interaction histories (Continuous Positive, Later Positive, Continuous Negative, and Later Negative). In addition, Ss expected to be in either a long-term or short-term relationship with their partner (Non-Withdrawal or Withdrawal). Disclosure measures included a…
Marriage, Family, and Ethnicity in the Early Spanish Caribbean
Close Relationships in their Physical and Social Contexts
This article calls for more research that embeds dyadic relationships in their physical, social and temporal contexts. We use ethnographic accounts of courtship, wedding and placemaking practices in two different societies and find that: (1) social and environmental rituals often make salient the couple members' relationship to one another and their degree of obligation to their families and society; (2) events almost always involve significant u…
Stress relations in socially isolated groups
Interpersonal perception and communication in discussion groups of varied attitudinal composition
Interpersonal perception and communication in discussion groups of varied attitudinal composition
Mainstreams of Research on Small Groups
Interpersonal Exchange in Isolation
Intimacy-Scaled Stimuli for Use in Studies of Interpersonal Relations
Psychometric materials for use in research on interpersonal exchange and self-disclosure included 671 statements about various aspects of the self which people might discuss as they form interpersonal relationships with others. Items were scaled for “intimacy” and topical category by judges from two different populations. From equal-appearing interval analysis were obtained intimacy scale values and Q-scores. Pearson product-moment correlations s…
Small Group Research
Together in isolation
The Effects of Social Isolation and Group Composition on Performance
The study examined performance of socially isolated and nonisolated dyads on two group tasks and on an individual task. Dyads were formed according to a Greco-Latin square design with composition differences on dogmatism, need achievement, need affiliation and need dominance. Nine dyads lived in a small room for ten days with no outside contact. Matched controls followed the same schedule but had access to other people and outside facilities. Res…
Stress relations in socially isolated groups
Interpersonal exchange as a function of rewards and costs and situational factors
Academic salaries in psychology
Reciprocity of Interpersonal Exchange 1
Self-disclosure in isolated groups
Field study of territorial behavior and dominance
Self-Disclosure as a Function of Reward-Cost Outcomes
Fifty-six sailors individually participated in a lengthy interaction session, ostensibly with another sailor (an experimenter confederate). They were subjected to one of four reward/cost interaction histories (Continuous Positive, Later Positive, Continuous Negative, and Later Negative). In addition, Ss expected to be in either a long-term or short-term relationship with their partner (Non-Withdrawal or Withdrawal). Disclosure measures included a…
Interpersonal relationships and personal space
A Conceptual Analysis
This paper presents a ,theoretical analysis of the concept of privacy which emphasizes its role as an interpersonal boundary control process. The paper also analyzes mechanisms and dynamics of privacy, including verbal and paraverbal behavior, personal space, territorial behavior, and culturally based responses. Finally, several functions of privacy are proposed, including regulation of interpersonal interaction, self-other definitional processes…
Relationship of Nonverbal Behavior to the Social Penetration Process
Theoretical formulations concerning the relationship of nonverbal behavior to the social penetration processes, i.e., the development of interpersonal relations (Altman & Taylor, 1973) were examined via acted, videotaped conversations in which subjects role played good friends (GF) or casual acquaintances (CA) discussing intimate (I) or nonintimate (NI) topics. The methodological approach adopted for this study was unique in three ways. First, pa…
Human Behavior and Environment
Privacy Regulation
This article examines privacy as a generic process that occurs in all cultures but that also differs among cultures in terms of the behavioral mechanisms used to regulate desired levels of privacy. Ethnographic data are examined from a variety of cultures, particularly from societies with apparently maximum and minimum privacy, and from analyses of various social relationships, such as parents and children, in-laws, husbands and wives. It is conc…
Provinces of Early Mexico
The Environment and Social Behavior
Human Behavior and Environment
Environment and Culture
Privacy regulation, territorial displays, and effectiveness of individual functioning
Dialectic Conceptions In Social Psychology
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