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Degrees
Ph.D., University of Hawaii (1986)
M.A., University of Hawaii (1982)
B.A., Bethel College (St. Paul, MN, 1960)
Current positions
International Anthropology Consultant, SIL (1984- )
Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington (1986- )
Visiting Professor of Linguistics, University of North Dakota (2001- , summers only)
Other experience
1962-1986, 1991-1992, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006: A total of 15 years of fieldwork during this 44-year period among the Agta Negrito hunter-gatherers of the Philippines.
Memberships
American Anthropological Association (fellow)
American Association of University Professors
Linguistic Society of the Philippines
Research interests
Ecological anthropology
hunter-gatherer societies
Philippine Negritos
tropical forest human ecology
culture change
swidden cultivation systems
ethnoscience
descriptive linguistics
translation theory
Geographical area of interest is Insular Southeast Asia. (See biographical background.)
Selected publications
Publications in SIL International Bibliography
Population Dynamics of a Philippine Rain Forest People: The San Ildefonso Agta. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998 (Coauthor with John Early).
The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the Evidence. Special Publication No. 28, Scholarly Series. Washington, DC: The American Anthropological Association, 1992. (Editor).
Revisionism in Ecological Anthropology. Current Anthropology 38:605-630, 1997.
Limitation of Human Rights, Land Exclusion, and Tribal Extinction: The Agta Negritos of the Philippines. Human Organization 56:79-90, 1997. (Co-author: Janet Headland). | 