Recently added articles from Human Organization:
The Application of the Social Sciences' Contemporary Issues to Work on Participatory Action Research1
Dec 01, 2008; ... Malinowski Award Lecture, 2008 Dedicated to the memory of my dear late wife, the sociologist Maria Cristina Salazar, who died in Bogatá on July 10, 2006. No one could have been more surprised than I when at the closing session of the 12th International Symposium on Action ...
Advertising Oaxacan Woodcarvings
Dec 01, 2008; ... Most analyses of the appeal of ethnic and tourist art emphasize buyers' romantic and nostalgic desires to connect with lost, simpler worlds through their purchase of handmade artifacts. Anthropologists discussing the marketing of these handicrafts therefore ordinarily focus on how ethnic and ...
Misreading the Arizona Landscape: Reframing Analyses of Environmental Degradation in Southeastern Arizona
Dec 01, 2008; ... Landscape change in southeastern Arizona represents one of the most thoroughly studied examples of long-term ecological and hydrological change in the American West. Researchers have documented the diminution of grassland and alteration of rivers using historical texts, matched photographs, ...
Cash Cropping, Farm Technologies, and Deforestation: What are the Connections? A Model with Empirical Data from the Bolivian Amazon
Dec 01, 2008; ... Research suggests that cash cropping is positively associated with deforestation. We use three-year data (2000-2002, inclusive) from 493 households to estimate the association between cash cropping rice and deforestation. Doubling the area sown with rice is associated with a 26-30 percent ...
Attitudes towards Doula Support during Pregnancy by Clients, Doulas, and Labor-and-Delivery Nurses: A Case Study from Tampa, Florida
Dec 01, 2008; ... Introduction: This study evaluated the supportive role of doulas provided by The Central Hillsborough Healthy Start (CHHS) Program to inner city women during pregnancy and delivery and assessed the reaction of labor and delivery (L&D) nurses to the presence of the doulas. The personal ...
Traditional Roles, Modern Behavior: Intergenerational Intervention and Contraception in Rural Bangladesh
Dec 01, 2008; ... Although rural Bangladesh retains many traditional socioeconomic characteristics, the use of contraceptives has increased over the past three decades. This paper examines the influence a mother-in-law has on her young daughter-in-law's use of contraceptives in the rural community of Matlab, ...
Life at the Crossroads of Social Change: Invigorating Romani Women's Empowerment in Post-Socialist Croatia
Dec 01, 2008; ... This paper describes the challenges of Romani women's empowerment in the context of Croatia's rapidly changing political economy. Romani women-for the first time in Croatia's history-are positioned to reap substantial benefits from state largesse, including minority rights legislation, which ...
The Tule River Tribal History Project: Evaluating a California Tribal Government's Collaboration with Anthropology and Occupational Therapy to Preserve Indigenous History and Promote Tribal Goals
Dec 01, 2008; ... Postcolonial and indigenous scholars suggest that creating alternative histories is a necessary activity for Native peoples in their recovery from the destructive emotional, behavioral, and political effects of colonial domination. The literature on history-making as a restorative process has ...
Enhancing Organizational Change and Improvement Prospects: Lessons from an HIV Testing Intervention for Veterans
Dec 01, 2008; ... Most research on why health care quality improvement implementation succeeds or fails focuses on front-line or providerbased factors. However, background factors related to the structures and processes of projects themselves also pose challenges. Using a focused ethnographic assessment approach, ...
Evaluating Appreciative Inquiry as an Organizational Transformation Tool: An Assessment from Nepal
Dec 01, 2008; ... Two women's health projects in Nepal are examined for impacts from using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as an organizational transformation and team building tool. This paper describes AI, and then looks at its use in Nepal to help improve access, quality of care, and utilization of essential ...
Taking Care of Children: Applying Anthropology in Maternal and Child Nutrition and Health
Oct 01, 2008; ... Bringing anthropology to bear on programs and policies in nutrition and health requires the application of both theory and method. This paper describes several examples, drawing from my experiences related to infant and young child feeding and management of infectious disease in children. Part ...
Through a New Mirror: Reflections on Tourism and Identity in the Amazon
Oct 01, 2008; ... Interactions between locals and tourists entail more than simple transactions of money for goods or services. They also involve the exchange of expectations, stereotypes, and expressions of ethnicity and culture. In this study, an ecotourism lodge in Peru was the setting for an ethnographic ...
We Want To Be Equal to Them: Fair-trade Coffee Certification and Gender Equity within Organizations
Oct 01, 2008; ... This paper analyzes the understudied gendered dimensions of fair-trade coffee networks and certification practices. It combines data collected during 14 months of fieldwork among the members of a Guatemalan coffee cooperative with a survey of the existing literature on fair-trade coffee ...
Modes of Incorporation, Social Exclusion, and Transnationalism: Salvadoran's Adaptation to the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area1
Oct 01, 2008; ... Capital globalization affects traditional production models, displacing the most vulnerable population from less industrialized countries. The Salvadoran migratory flow to the Washington D.C. metropolitan area constitutes a case study for analyzing how globalization is affecting not only the ...
Survival, Drugs and Social Suffering during the Argentine Neoliberal Collapse
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article analyzes changes in young drug users' income-producing strategies as a way of understanding how neoliberal structural transformations have combined to change drug use micropractices and morbidity-mortality patterns in Greater Buenos Aires shantytowns. Mirroring transformations ...
Destroying God's Creation or Using What He Provided?: Cultural Models of a Mining Project in New Caledonia
Oct 01, 2008; ... Large-scale surveys have identified a negative association between Christian fundamentalism and environmental concern. In contrast to this broad-brush approach, I used a cultural models framework, informed by political ecology, to examine the statements of a small sample of fundamentalist Kanak ...
Nunavik Inuit Perspectives on Beluga Whale Management in the Canadian Arctic
Oct 01, 2008; ... In the Arctic, there has long been a strong relationship between Inuit and beluga whales. As well as being considered sentient creatures, Inuit value these small white toothed whales for nutritional, economic, social, and cultural reasons. They are a staple food for many Inuit, and in the ...
Transnational Corporations and Livelihood Transformations in the Peruvian Andes: An Actor-Oriented Political Ecology
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article argues for the use of an actor-oriented approach in political ecology studies that links the activities of transnational corporations with local human and environmental change. It argues for the use of sustainable livelihoods frameworks as one way of linking these actor-oriented ...
The Waning of Soqotra's Pastoral Community: Political Incorporation as Social Transformation
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Soqotra Archipelago is Yemen's ultimate frontier, straddling the African Continent and the Arabian Peninsula. Its approximately 50,000 inhabitants occupy a hyphenated geographical place as well as an interstitial cultural space. Soqotra, the main island of the Archipelago, is a community of ...
Prevalence of Male Clients of Street Prostitute Women in the United States
Oct 01, 2008; ... Survey estimates of the prevalence of clients of prostitute women are biased because men underreport sex with prostitutes. We conducted capture-recapture analyses of prostitution arrest records in several United States metropolitan areas and found that about two to three percent of adult male ...