Aaron Podolefsky
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 158176 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Aaron Podolefsky |
| PRENOMES | Aaron |
| SOBRENOME | Podolefsky |
| ASSINATURA | PODOLEFSKY A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | West Virginia University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Applying anthropology
Mediator Roles in Simbu Conflict Management
The Simbu of the New Guinea highlands use mediation as the primary mechanism for attempting to resolve conflicts within and between groups.1 Mediation is generally defined as a process of conflict management in which a third party facilitates the negotiations between two parties but lacks the authority to impose a decision (Merry and Silbey 1986:7). The mediator intervenes at the disputants' request and the outcome is, ideally, a bilateral agreem…
New Tools for Old Jobs
Population Density, Land Tenure, and Law in the New Guinea Highlands
This paper examines law in the New Guinea Highlands through a cross-cultural, case-study approach. Because of low levels of variation in ecology and infrastructure, the Highlands become a natural laboratory for testing theoretically derived hypotheses relating legal complexity and the evolution of law to population density, agriculture, and property ownership. The predicted variation in legal process fails to emerge and thus the hypotheses are no…
Rejecting Crime Prevention Programs
This paper employs an ethnographic approach to reveal the dynamics of the process of implementing a community crime prevention program in a particular locale. It reveals that sociocultural factors affect the local definition of appropriate action and that when local definitions and program goals are discordant, sorely needed crime prevention programs may be rejected. These findings should be useful to those in policy making positions and in progr…
A Simple Simulation for Sociocultural Anthropology
The author describes a simulation game in which students learn through experience that a social issue is viewed differently by different segments of any population and, as a result, issues are more complex than simply "right" or "wrong." The case of development is used with groups of students playing the roles of indigenous peoples, big business, individual entrepreneurs, and government
Case Studies in Community Crime Prevention
Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands
After decades of pacification and relative peace, intergroup warfare re-emerged in the Papua New Guinea highlands during the late 1960s and early 1970s, only a few years before national independence in 1975. Death and destruction, martial law, and delay in highlands development schemes have been the outcome. Most explanations of this resurgence posit either new causes (such as psycho? logical insecurity surrounding political independence from Aus…
Topical Sorting
Citizen Participation in Community Crime Prevention
Despite increasing activity in the area of community crime prevention (involving primarily the efforts of local residents), little research has focused on citizen participation. This paper calls into question the conventional wisdom that individuals participate in collective behavioral responses to crime as a result of some special fear of or concern about crime. Survey data are employed to reject hypotheses that posit an association between part…
Some Further Considerations on West Indian Conjugal Patterns
Population Density, Agricultural Intensity, Land Tenure, and Group Size in the New Guinea Highlands
The people of the New Guinea highlands have been the subject of many recent studies by anthropologists. Discovered less than 50 years ago, observers have been able to describe many facets of their pre-contact social organization and cultural patterns. The first white men in the highlands were astonished at the intensive agriculture, population density, and community size of these people, long isolated and connected to the outside world by trade l…
Population Density, Agricultural Intensity, Land Tenure, and Group Size in the New Guinea Highlands
The people of the New Guinea highlands have been the subject of many recent studies by anthropologists. Discovered less than 50 years ago, observers have been able to describe many facets of their pre-contact social organization and cultural patterns. The first white men in the highlands were astonished at the intensive agriculture, population density, and community size of these people, long isolated and connected to the outside world by trade l…
Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands
After decades of pacification and relative peace, intergroup warfare re-emerged in the Papua New Guinea highlands during the late 1960s and early 1970s, only a few years before national independence in 1975. Death and destruction, martial law, and delay in highlands development schemes have been the outcome. Most explanations of this resurgence posit either new causes (such as psycho? logical insecurity surrounding political independence from Aus…
Citizen Participation in Community Crime Prevention
Despite increasing activity in the area of community crime prevention (involving primarily the efforts of local residents), little research has focused on citizen participation. This paper calls into question the conventional wisdom that individuals participate in collective behavioral responses to crime as a result of some special fear of or concern about crime. Survey data are employed to reject hypotheses that posit an association between part…
Topical Sorting
Mediator Roles in Simbu Conflict Management
The Simbu of the New Guinea highlands use mediation as the primary mechanism for attempting to resolve conflicts within and between groups.1 Mediation is generally defined as a process of conflict management in which a third party facilitates the negotiations between two parties but lacks the authority to impose a decision (Merry and Silbey 1986:7). The mediator intervenes at the disputants' request and the outcome is, ideally, a bilateral agreem…
Rejecting Crime Prevention Programs
This paper employs an ethnographic approach to reveal the dynamics of the process of implementing a community crime prevention program in a particular locale. It reveals that sociocultural factors affect the local definition of appropriate action and that when local definitions and program goals are discordant, sorely needed crime prevention programs may be rejected. These findings should be useful to those in policy making positions and in progr…
Population Density, Land Tenure, and Law in the New Guinea Highlands
This paper examines law in the New Guinea Highlands through a cross-cultural, case-study approach. Because of low levels of variation in ecology and infrastructure, the Highlands become a natural laboratory for testing theoretically derived hypotheses relating legal complexity and the evolution of law to population density, agriculture, and property ownership. The predicted variation in legal process fails to emerge and thus the hypotheses are no…
New Tools for Old Jobs
Population Density, Agricultural Intensity, Land Tenure, and Group Size in the New Guinea Highlands
The people of the New Guinea highlands have been the subject of many recent studies by anthropologists. Discovered less than 50 years ago, observers have been able to describe many facets of their pre-contact social organization and cultural patterns. The first white men in the highlands were astonished at the intensive agriculture, population density, and community size of these people, long isolated and connected to the outside world by trade l…
Some Further Considerations on West Indian Conjugal Patterns
Citizen Participation in Community Crime Prevention
Despite increasing activity in the area of community crime prevention (involving primarily the efforts of local residents), little research has focused on citizen participation. This paper calls into question the conventional wisdom that individuals participate in collective behavioral responses to crime as a result of some special fear of or concern about crime. Survey data are employed to reject hypotheses that posit an association between part…
Topical Sorting
Case Studies in Community Crime Prevention
Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands
After decades of pacification and relative peace, intergroup warfare re-emerged in the Papua New Guinea highlands during the late 1960s and early 1970s, only a few years before national independence in 1975. Death and destruction, martial law, and delay in highlands development schemes have been the outcome. Most explanations of this resurgence posit either new causes (such as psycho? logical insecurity surrounding political independence from Aus…
Rejecting Crime Prevention Programs
This paper employs an ethnographic approach to reveal the dynamics of the process of implementing a community crime prevention program in a particular locale. It reveals that sociocultural factors affect the local definition of appropriate action and that when local definitions and program goals are discordant, sorely needed crime prevention programs may be rejected. These findings should be useful to those in policy making positions and in progr…
A Simple Simulation for Sociocultural Anthropology
The author describes a simulation game in which students learn through experience that a social issue is viewed differently by different segments of any population and, as a result, issues are more complex than simply "right" or "wrong." The case of development is used with groups of students playing the roles of indigenous peoples, big business, individual entrepreneurs, and government
New Tools for Old Jobs
Population Density, Land Tenure, and Law in the New Guinea Highlands
This paper examines law in the New Guinea Highlands through a cross-cultural, case-study approach. Because of low levels of variation in ecology and infrastructure, the Highlands become a natural laboratory for testing theoretically derived hypotheses relating legal complexity and the evolution of law to population density, agriculture, and property ownership. The predicted variation in legal process fails to emerge and thus the hypotheses are no…
Mediator Roles in Simbu Conflict Management
The Simbu of the New Guinea highlands use mediation as the primary mechanism for attempting to resolve conflicts within and between groups.1 Mediation is generally defined as a process of conflict management in which a third party facilitates the negotiations between two parties but lacks the authority to impose a decision (Merry and Silbey 1986:7). The mediator intervenes at the disputants' request and the outcome is, ideally, a bilateral agreem…
Applying anthropology
Sociology (9 obras) · History (5 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Crime prevention (3 obras) · Criminology (3 obras) · Demography (3 obras) · Ethnology (3 obras) · Geography (3 obras) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (3 obras)