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Degrees
Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology/Descriptive linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington, 1991
M.A. Anthropology, University of Minnesota, 1962
B.A., Northwestern College, 1959
Current positions
Anthropology Consultant, MSEA (1993-)
International Anthropology Consultant (1976-~2003, 2006-)
Other experience
SIL Literacy Specialist: Vietnam (1972-1975); Indonesia, (1975-1978); Thailand, (1996-1997); Cambodia, (1998-2003)
Director or Co-director/Consultant: Anthropology &/or Linguistics Workshops in Vietnam, Indonesia, Sudan and Malaysia (1968, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1979-1981, 1983, 1989, 1991)
Assistant to the SIL President: 1979-1990
Visiting Scholar in anthropology, Rice University, Houston, 1987-1988
SIL Cultural Anthropology Lectures: Bolivia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cóte d'Ivoire, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, Thailand (1973, 1980, 1983, 2003, 2005)
Anthropology Instructor, Seattle Pacific College (now Seattle Pacific University), Seattle, WA. 1961-1963
Language proficiency
Rengao, (minority lg. of Vietnam): understand, speak, read
Vietnamese: understand, speak read
Indonesian: understand, speak, read
Central Thai: understand, speak level 1
Khmer (Cambodian) understand, speak level 2
French, read only
Greek, five semesters in college, read only
Research interests
Traditional law, music, folklore, social organization, kinship, religion
Mother tongue literacy in ethnic minority languages
Selected publications
Publications in SIL International Bibliography
1999-2003. Tampuan Reading Primers (with Way Tiang and J. D. Crowley), Ratanakiri, Cambodia, 5 volumes.
1998. Symbolism and ritual in Irian Jaya; with Joyce K. Sterner, Editors. International Museum of Cultures Publication, 33. Jayapura and Dallas. Cenderawasih University and Summer Institute of Linguistics.
1997. Kinship and social organization in Irian Jaya: a glimpse of seven systems, with Joyce K. Sterner, editors. International Museum of Cultures Publication 32, Cenderawasih University, Jayapura, Irian Jaya, Indonesia: and SIL, Dallas, TX.
1993. Ritual, belief, and kinship in Sulawesi, editor. International Museum of Cultures. Publication 31. 194p.
1991. The Rengao of Vietnam An ethnography of texts. (Ph.D. dissertation) Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms.
1987. Tales from Indochina. Dorothy M. Thomas, Doris E. Blood, and Carol F. Zylstra, editors. International Museum of Cultures Publication 21, Dallas, TX.
1983. Gods, heroes, kinsmen: Ethnographic studies from Irian Jaya, Indonesia . Merrifield, William R., Marilyn Gregerson, and Daniel C. Ajamiseba, editors. International Museum of Cultures Publication #17. Jayapura and Dallas, TX: Cenderawasih University and International Museum of Cultures.
1980. Notes from Indochina on ethnic minority cultures, with Dorothy M. Thomas, editors. International Museum of cultures Publication #6. Dallas, TX.
Selected papers presented
2001. LEARNING TO READ IN RATANAKIRI: "An anatomy of some literacy efforts among the indigenous ethnic minorities of northeastern Cambodia," presented at the 5th International Conference on Language and Development, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, September 5-7, 2001. |
