I am now retired from a full-professor position at Johns Hopkins University, due to age (moving into my late 70s at the end of this year). I have held similar positions earlier in my career, including a position at Northwestern University, as director of the African Studies Center. I still respond to requests of various kinds, such as reviewing proposals, publications and careers of junior people.
The difficulty of assessing different interpretations of change in the division of labor in modem... more The difficulty of assessing different interpretations of change in the division of labor in modem African production is looked at as a descriptive rather than a theoretical problem. Methods used with theoretical frameworks applying to evolutionary change and the ethnographic present may be wrongly focussed for interpretation within a historical time frame. Research data from the Beti of southern Cameroon illustrate the limitations of current methods and the possibilities of an altemative which may allow many of the premises of ...
SENSATIONS OF THE NUMBER FRONTIER The papers in this collection show how anthropologists are seei... more SENSATIONS OF THE NUMBER FRONTIER The papers in this collection show how anthropologists are seeing numbers as insur-gently prominent in people's descriptions, imaginations and efforts to influence their social worlds in the 21st century. This topic presented itself with urgency ...
The difficulty of assessing different interpretations of change in the division of labor in modem... more The difficulty of assessing different interpretations of change in the division of labor in modem African production is looked at as a descriptive rather than a theoretical problem. Methods used with theoretical frameworks applying to evolutionary change and the ethnographic present may be wrongly focussed for interpretation within a historical time frame. Research data from the Beti of southern Cameroon illustrate the limitations of current methods and the possibilities of an altemative which may allow many of the premises of ...
SENSATIONS OF THE NUMBER FRONTIER The papers in this collection show how anthropologists are seei... more SENSATIONS OF THE NUMBER FRONTIER The papers in this collection show how anthropologists are seeing numbers as insur-gently prominent in people's descriptions, imaginations and efforts to influence their social worlds in the 21st century. This topic presented itself with urgency ...
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