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Cablecast and web streaming of program in series "Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer" Upcoming Cable Television/Web Show: For details of airing see bottom of page _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GUEST: SIDNEY GREENFIELD Ph.D
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Comprehensivist Scholar
Supporter of the "Occupy Wall Street" Movement
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SIDNEY M.
GREENFIELD is Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has conducted ethnographic research in the West Indies,
New Bedford, Massachusetts and Brazil, and ethnohistorical and historical
research in Portugal and the Atlantic Islands on problems ranging from family
and kinship, patronage and politics, the history of ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sidney M. Greenfield
EDUCATION: 1954 A.B. Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y. Major Fields: Economics and Sociology 1959 Ph.D. Columbia University, New York, NY. Major Field: Anthropolo AWARDS: 1954 Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude (Brooklyn College) 1954-55 Yale University Fellowship (declined) 1955-56 Columbia University Fellowship 1955-56 George William Curtis Fellow (Columbia University) Research Institute for the Study of Man in the Tropics Fellow 1956-57 Social Science Research Council Fellow 1960 Purdue University Research Council X.L. Research Award 1964 University of Wisconsin Summer Research Award 1965-66 Social Science Research Council Fellow Land Tenure Center Fellow (The University of Wisconsin) 1967 Fulbright-Hays Center Faculty Fellow (Brazil) 1972-73 National Science Foundation Fellow 1978 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Summer Research Award 1982 Fulbright Fellow (Brazil) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Summer Research Award 1983 UW-System American Ethnic Studies Coordinating Committee Award 1984-85 UW Sabbatical Leave Award UW-System Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Grant 1985 Academic Specialist Grant, United States Information Agency 1986-87 UW-System Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Grant 1988 Fulbright Fellow (Brazil) 1989 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School/UWM Foundation Research Award 1990-91 School of American Research Resident Scholarship (declined) 1993-94 UW Sabbatical Leave Award 1994-95 Fellow, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1996 Fulbright Award (For Nigeria) Could not accept for political reasons in Nigeria.
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CURRICULUM VITA
Sidney M. Greenfield
Office Address: Home Address: Department of Anthropology 311 West 83rd Street/ Apt. 2D University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee New York, NY 10024 P.O. Box 413 Telephone/Fax: (212) 501-7083 Milwaukee, WI 53201 Cellular: (917) 838-3641 Telephone: (414) 229-4175. E-Mail: Sgreenfield222@aol.com Fax: (414) 229 3860
MARITAL STATUS: Married, three children
EDUCATION:
1954 A.B. Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y. Major Fields: Economics and Sociology
1959 Ph.D. Columbia University, New York, NY. Major Field: Anthropology
AWARDS:
1954 Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude (Brooklyn College) 1954-55 Yale University Fellowship (declined) 1955-56 Columbia University Fellowship 1955-56 George William Curtis Fellow (Columbia University) Research Institute for the Study of Man in the Tropics Fellow 1956-57 Social Science Research Council Fellow 1960 Purdue University Research Council X.L. Research Award 1964 University of Wisconsin Summer Research Award 1965-66 Social Science Research Council Fellow Land Tenure Center Fellow (The University of Wisconsin) 1967 Fulbright-Hays Center Faculty Fellow (Brazil) 1972-73 National Science Foundation Fellow 1978 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Summer Research Award 1982 Fulbright Fellow (Brazil) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Summer Research Award 1983 UW-System American Ethnic Studies Coordinating Committee Award 1984-85 UW Sabbatical Leave Award UW-System Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Grant 1985 Academic Specialist Grant, United States Information Agency 1986-87 UW-System Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Grant 1988 Fulbright Fellow (Brazil) 1989 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School/UWM Foundation Research Award 1990-91 School of American Research Resident Scholarship (declined) 1993-94 UW Sabbatical Leave Award 1994-95 Fellow, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1996 Fulbright Award (For Nigeria). Could not accept for political reasons in Nigeria.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
1955 Research Assistant, Interdisciplinary Project: Economic Aspects of Institutional Growth, Columbia University, New York, NY. Directors: Karl Polanyi and Conrad M. Arensberg.
1956 Participant in a research seminar on the study of man in the tropics, Columbia University, New York, NY.
1956-57 Fifteen months fieldwork on the Island of Barbados with brief visits to Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Lucia, Martinique, Haiti, and other parts of the West Indies. Research carried out in association with the island's Agricultural Extension Service and the staff of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Project focused on the relationship between family life and social and economic organization.
1960 Three months fieldwork in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Research program focused on community organization and its relationship to agricultural extension and economic development. Project carried out in association with ACAR (the extension service of the state of Minas Gerais) and the staff of the URMG (Rural University of the State of Minas Gerais).
1965-66 Twelve months fieldwork in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Research program focused on examining patronage-dependency patterns in Brazilian social structure as reflected in economic, political, family and kinship behavior. Institutional inter-relationships were examined in the light of problems of social and economic development and the relationship between local communities and national institutions.
1968 Three months library and archival research in Rio de Janeiro on the organization, development and administrative history of the Brazilian municipio. The objective was to examine the role of the municipio as the context for the working out of relationships of patronage and clientage at the local level.
1971 Three months field research in New Bedford, Massachusetts focusing on ethnicity and ethnic identity management among Cape Verdean Americans.
1972-73 Eighteen months archival research in Lisbon and Madeira on: 1) the origins of Sugar Cane Plantations and Plantation Slavery (The South Atlantic System) in the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic Ocean; and 2) the rise of the Patrimonial State and systems of patronage and clientage in fifteenth century Portuguese society.
1978 One month field research in Rondonia, Brazil studying ethnicity with an emphasis on the descendants of Barbadians and other West Indians who came to work on the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad and stayed.
1982 Four months field research in Fortaleza and the state of Ceará, Brazil on aspects of "popular" medicine and "popular" religion. Research done in cooperation with colleagues at the state and federal universities of Ceará. Six weeks research and preparation for a study in Rio Grande do Sul state on ethnicity and ethnic identity among descendants of Germans, Italians and Poles. The work was done in collaboration with members of the faculty of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
1984 Six weeks fieldwork in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil at the Fundação Espírita Dr. Adolph Fritz studying the healing activities of Dr. Edson Queiroz, a spirit medium who performs surgeries without the use of antiseptics and anesthesia while in trance.
1985 Five weeks fieldwork in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil studying Spiritist healing and religious philosophy.
1986 Five weeks fieldwork studying an Umbanda Center in Belfort Roxo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1987 Two weeks fieldwork in Belfort Roxo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil studying the ritual initiation ceremony of an Umbanda Pai-de-Santo.
1988 Three months fieldwork in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil studying Spiritist healers, healing practices and beliefs, and the participation of descendants of Germans and Italians in Spiritism, Batuque, and Umbanda.
1989 Six weeks fieldwork studying the political campaigns and campaign practices of the candidates running for the presidency--to see if the old patronage style politics have or have not been revived, and if so, to what degree, in the first presidential election in Brazil in almost three decades.
1991 Five weeks fieldwork (in cooperation with two physicians, a brain neurophysiologist and a psychologist) in several Brazilian towns and cities studying treatments by Spiritist healers.
1992 Five weeks fieldwork studying Spiritist healing practices and patient follow-up. Three weeks spent in Campo Grande, Brazil with Mauricio Magalhães/Dr. Fritz, studying and videoing his healing practices and investigating and participating in his campaign for the office of vereador (councilman). A survey of 25 patients treated six months previously was conducted and a blood sample was taken of 24 patients and 24 controls to test for Interlukin 8. Two weeks were spent in Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and Fortaleza following up patients treated previously.
1993 Three weeks fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Teresópolis and São Paulo collecting data on brain wave patterns of healer-mediums and patients before and during surgeries and of religious mediums in trance (in collaboration with Dr. Norman S. Don).
1994 Three weeks fieldwork in Pernambuco and Ceará collecting data on the life and healing activities of Dr. Argue Hebster, a noted Brazilian medical doctor from Maranguape who died in the late 1970s and is reported to be returning through Spiritist mediums to continue treating the sick.
1995 Four weeks fieldwork in Porto Alegre taking electroencepholographic measure on a sample of 10 Kardecist-Spiritist mediums in and out of trance and 10 Umbanda mediums also in and out of trance (in collaboration with Dr. Norman S. Don).
1996-97 Three weeks fieldwork in Fortaleza on the life of Dr. Argue Herbster and his role as folk saint and spirit guide.
1999 Two weeks in Fortaleza completing research on Dr. Argeu Herbster and writing draft of book with Antonio Mourão Cavalcante.
2004 Two weeks in Brasília and Fortaleza interviewing Evangelical members of the Brazilian congress and state legislatures.
2006 Three weeks in Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza studying the way Evangelical Protestant churches organize electoral support for their member-candidates running for federal and state offices.
2007 The month of July in Fortaleza continuing research on and beginning to write a book on Evangelicals in Politics with Antonio Mourao Cavalcante.
2008 Two weeks in São Paulo and Dourados, MS participating in the Encontro Interdisciplinar Sobre o Imaginário de Suicádio e Violênca da População Brasileira.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1958-59 Instructor (of Anthropology) at Connecticut College for Women, New London, Connecticut.
1959-62 Assistant Professor (of Anthropology and Sociology) at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.
1963 Associate (in Sociology) at Columbia University, New York, NY.
1963-68 Associate Professor (of Sociology) at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1968 Visiting Professor (of Social Anthropology) at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1968-71 Professor (of Sociology) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1971-1990 Professor (of Anthropology and Sociology) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1990-1997 Professor (of Anthropology) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1982 Visiting Professor (of Sociology) at the Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
1986-87 Visiting Professor (of Anthropology) at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
1988 Visiting Professor (of Anthropology) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
1997-on Professor Emeritus (of Anthropology) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
1990-93 Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1991-92 President, Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
1998 on Co-chair, Columbia University Seminar on Brazil
2003-2005 Vice President, Working Group 03 (The Body in the Social Sciences) of the International Sociological Association
2009 on Co-chair Columbia University Seminar on Studies in Religion
2010 on Co-chair Columbia University Seminar on Knowledge, Technology and Social Systems.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:
1962-63 Staff Editor for Anthropology and Sociology for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, New York, NY.
1979-1997 Advisory Editor for the Luso-Brazilian Review.
1982-85 Member of the Editorial Committee of the Society for Economic Anthropology.
1989-92 Member of the Editorial Committee of the Society of the Anthropology of Consciousness.
1991-1995 Advisory Editor for Subtle Energies.
2010 Member of the Conselho Editorial da Revista Pós Ciências Sociais. (Federal University of Maranhão.)
OTHER:
1961 "The Social Organization of Agricultural Extension," Seminar presented to the Colloquium of International Agriculture of the University of California, Davis, Davis, California.
1962-63 Participation in the faculty Seminar on "Concepts and Methods in the Social Sciences," Columbia University, New York, NY.
1964 Area Coordinator and Lecturer for the Peace Corps Training Programs for Brazil conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1965 Co-assessor for "Seminar on Social Change in the Americas," International Study Center, Inc., Washington, DC.
1966-67 Consultant to the Peace Corps Training Center of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and lecturer on Brazil and the West Indies for several programs at other centers.
1969 Co-organizer of a seminar on "Patronage, Clientage, and Power Structures in Latin America," sponsored by the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1971-75 Presented a series of lectures each semester (except when I was out of the country) on "Cultural Perspectives on Medicine and Psychiatry" as part of the Introductory Psychiatry course conducted by Dr. Raymond Headly at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1972 Participant at a seminar on "Social Anthropology" at the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Sociais e Politicas Ultramarinas, Lisbon, Portugal.
1974 Participant in a conference on "Social Articulation" and organizer of a working group on that theme sponsored by the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1974-75 Awarded Visiting Professorships at: The Hebrew University at Jerusalem, Israel and The Federal University of São Paulo at Campinas, Brazil
1975 Co-organizer of a seminar on "The Economic-Anthropology of Investment Behavior in Latin America," sponsored by the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1975 Invited Participant in the Scholar-Diplomat Seminar on Latin America of the United States Department of State, Washington, DC.
1981 Program Chairman for the 1982 annual meetings of the Society for Economic Anthropology.
1982 Invited presentation: "Romarias como Terapia," at a round table at the "Primeira Semana Cearense de Medecina Alternativa," Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, October 9-17. Contributing editor to the Video Cassette Documentary, "Discurso e Practica de um Curendeiro Nordestino," by Antonio Mourão Cavalcante and Adalberto de Paula Barreto, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
1983 Invited presentation: "Holy Hill, Wisconsin: Uma Comparição de Romarias nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil," at the "Primeiro Coloquio de Cultura Popular de Canindé," Canindé, Ceará, Brazil, June 23-26.
1984 Invited presentation: "Psychic Surgery," at "Invocational-84," Chicago, Ill., October 12-14. Consultant to film "As Festas da Festa," by Antonio Mourão Cavalcante and Adalberto de Paula Barreto, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
1986 Invited presentation: "Religious Revival, Alternative Healing Modalities, and Urban Patronage in Brazil," at the Harry S. Truman Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, January 1.
1987 Invited presentation: "Sobre a Procura de Saude em Sociedades Plurais," Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, October 13.
1987 Invited presentation: "O Corpo Como um Receptaculo Disponivel: Curendeiros Espíritas e Seus Criticos," at the "Terceiro Coloquio de Cultura Popular de Canindé," (Corpo: Saude, Fortuna e Felicidade), Canindé, Ceará, Brazil, October 15-18.
1988 Invited presentation: "The Cape Verdes: The Creation of a Population and its Migration to North America," at a symposium on "Portuguese Migration in Global Perspective," sponsored by The Multicultural History Society of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, March 10-11.
1989 Invited presentation: "Penetrating Symbols, Penetrating Knives: The Medical and Physiological Implications of Brazilian Spiritist Folk Surgery for Clinical Hypnosis," Plenary session at the Scientific Meetings of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Nashville, TN, March 11-15 (with Patric Giesler).
1989 Completed Basic Workshop Training in Hypnosis offered by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis at their Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN, March 11-15.
1989 Invited Presentation: "As Ilhas da Madeira e de Cabo Verde: Rumo a uma Sociología Comparativa de Diferenciação Colonial" (The Madeiras and the Cape Verdes: Towards a Comparative Sociology of Colonial Differentiation), at the II Coloquio Internacional de História da Madeira. Funchal, Madeira, September 18-23.
1989 Invited Presentation: "Sugar Cane in the Atlantic Islands," at the Centro Cultural la Palma's International Seminar: La Cana de Azucar en Tiempos de los Grandes Descubriminetos (Sugar Cane in the Time of the Great Discoveries), Motril, Spain, September 25-28
1990 Invited Presentation: "Cyprus and the Beginnings of the Sugar Cane Plantation and Plantation Slavery" at the Centro Cultural la Palma's International Seminar: , Motril, Spain, September 17-22. Invited Presentation: "Amazing Healing in Brazil--The Reappearance of Dr. Fritz and ???" Day long seminar and workshop for the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Mt. Olivet Retreat Center, Minneapolis, MN.
1990 Visiting Lecturer, University of Tennessee Knoxville, November 15 & 16. Lecture: "Surgeries (Without Anesthesia and Antisepsis) and Other Healing by Spiritist in Brazil." Seminar: "The Participation of Descendants of European Immigrants to Southern Brazil in Afro- Brazilian Religious Cults."
1991 Invited Presentation: "Mudança e Tradição no Sucesso da Umbanda," at the V Coloquio Internacional de Cultural Popular (Tradição e Modernidade: Milagre ou Inovação), Canindé, Ceará, Brazil, September 26-29. "Primitive Medicine and 'Cold Knife' Surgery: A Report from Brazil." Paper Presented and Abstract Published in the Proceedings of the Meeting of the American Back Society, December 11-15, San Francisco, CA. also Presented with Abstract Published in the Proceedings of the Spring Symposium on Back Pain of American Back Society, May 6-10, 1992, New Orleans, LA. (With Scott Anderson and Robert Anderson.)
1992 Invited Presentation: "Spiritism and Racism in Brazil: Kardecist Mediums and African Spirits in Esoteric Umbanda." at a conference on "The Challenge of Magic: Spiritualism, Satanism and Occultism in Contemporary Societies." Lyon, France, April 6-8.
1992-1997 Served as Member of the Board of the Kiaros Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.
1994 Invited Presentations: "Conservative Organizational Forms in a New Syncretic Religion: The Success of Brazilian Umbanda" at a conference on "New Religions: International Expansion of Religious Movements and Magic." Recife, Brazil, May 15-17. "The Resurgence of Afro-Brazilian Religion: Multiculturalism the Other Way Around." Seminar at the Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power and History, Johns Hopkins University, September 27.
1995 Invited Presentation: "Popular Religion and the Paranormal" at the annual meetings of the Netherlands Association for Social and Cultural Sciences. Leiden, the Netherlands, May 21. "Spirit Possession in Brazilian Umbanda: A Psychophysiological Case Study." at "Varieties of Prayer: Spirituality, Prayer, and Altered States of Consciousness in New Religious, Magical and Esoteric Movements. Rome, May 10-12 (with Norman S. Don, Briuce McDonough and Eleanor Greenfield).
1997 Consultant to Atlas Media on production of "Rites of Pain (segment of Brazilian Spiritsit Healing)," a video documentary in the "Rituals of the World" series aired on the Learning Channel, August 10. Some of my original footage is included in the documentary.
1998 on. Associate Member, Columbia University Seminar on Brazil. Associate Member, Columbia University Seminar on Religion. "Finding a Cure for Cancer in the Religious Market Place: A Documentary Case Study of Healing and Conversion in Brazil." Columbia University Seminar on Religion, February 9.
1999 on. Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Brazil. "The Psychophsiology of Spirits Possession." Columbia University Seminar on Religion, April 6. Translation of "Ethnopsychiatry: Curing Through Culture," by Antionio Mourão Cavalcante from Portuguese into English for publication.
2000 on Associate Member, Columbia University Seminar on Computers, Man and Society. Taught classes at NYU and The New School.
2001 "Psychological Darwinism: Implications for Civic Discourse and Public Policy." Invited presentation at a session on "Anthropology and the New Reductionism," at the New York Academy of Sciences, January 29. Presentation and discussion of "Spirits, Medicine, and Charity: A Brazilian Woman's Cure for Cancer" at Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia University, April 12. Presentation and Discussion of "Spirits, Medicine, and Charity: A Brazilian Woman's Cure for Cancer" with the Brazil Network Group at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, April 12. "Surgery by the Spirits in Brazil," presented at Bard College, November 7. "Healing by the Spirits," Class lecture and video showing presented at the New School for Social Research, December 4.
2002 "GLOSAS in the Brazilian Amazon: Will Others Continue to be Treated as Invisible? Or is the a Chance that the Future will be Different?" Paper presented at the Columbia University Seminar on "Computers, Man and Society, January 23. “The Body in a State of War: Liminality and the Loss of Agency.” A paper prepared for a seminar of the Thematic Group on The Body in the Social Sciences at the XV World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13. "Healing by the Spirits," Class lecture and video showing presented at the New School for Social Research, Dec. 10.
2003 “Comments on the Background to the ‘Lula’ Presidency.” Stonybrook Manhattan Campus, February 19. “Broader Implications of the Election of ‘Lula’ in Brazil.” Presented at the Columbia University Seminar on "Computers, Man and Society, March 19. “Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer.” (On the war in Iraq and World reaction) Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel, (WMNN). Aired April 7 Reviewed MS for U. of Alberta Press. “Syncretic Processes and the Definition of New Religions," Paper presented at the SAR meeting, Providence, RI, April 24-26, 2003. “Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer” (On” Favelas and the World Economic System”.) Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired April 19. “Religious Conversion and Neurogenesis: A CultrualBiological Approach to Spiritual Transformation.” Paper presented at the Annual Metanexus Conference, Jume 2. “Análise Comportamental da Possessão Espiritual” and “Palestra com Mostra de Video: “Curandeiro” Presentations at III Congresso Nacional de Etnopsiquiatria e Psiquiatria Social, Macapá, Amapá, Brazil, November 26-29. Presentation at Session on “Brasphobia,” Hunter College, December 16, 2003
2004 “Pluralism and Diversity vs Intolerance and bigotry in the implicit politics of Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion.’” Part of a panel discussion on Mel Gibson’s film, “The Passion of the Christ” sponsored by Columbia University Seminars: “Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation” #539; “Religion in America” #661 and “Studies in Religion” #405, Monday, March 29. “Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer” (On “The Passion of the Christ”.) Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired April 19. “Religions of Trance and the Maintenance of the Brazilian Patronage Tradition,” Paper presented as part of a symposium that I organized on “Religions of Trance in Brazil Today: Problems and Interpretations,” IV Congreso Europeo (CEISAL) de Lantino-Americanistas, Bratislavia, Slovakia, July 4-7, 2004. “Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer” (On “The Power of Greed” and Development.) Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired September 14.
2005 “Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer” (On “Christian Fundamentalism”.) Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired March 31. “The Protestant Ethic and Capitalism in Brazil: Implications of Proposing a Historical Correlation as a Model for the Future of a Nation.” Paper presented at the symposium “Religion, Migration and Conversion: The Morality of Adapting Beliefs to New Contexts,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Vancouver, CA, April 8-10, 2005. Guest Host on Conversations with Harold Channer (Discussion of Binary Economics with Prof. Robert Ashford.) Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired June 1. “Religion and Public Policy: Max Weber and Evangelical Politics in 21st Century Brazil.” Presented at the Columbia University Seminar on Brazil. 9/15/05. “Cults, Rituals and Altered States of Consciousness in Brazil: Another Perspective.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, December 4, 2005. "Healing by the Spirits," Class lecture and video showing presented at the New School for Social Research, December 13.
2006 “Conversations with Harold Channer.” (On Poverty and how it may be eliminated) Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired March 7; rrepeated December, 4. “Conversations with Harold Channer.” (On Technology and the Distribution of Wealth). Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired May 8. “Making Another World Possible: The Torah, Louis Kelso, and the Problem of Poverty.” Paper presented at the Columbia University Seminar on Religion, May 8. Participant in discussion on radio talk show in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, September 30 and October 1. Lecture and video showing presented in class on “Ritual and Film” at the New School for Social Research, October 24. “Conversations with Harold Channer” (On Evangelicals in Brazilian Politics). Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired November 1. “Dr. Fritz: Myth, Man and Spirit Guide.” A paper presented on the session “The Social Lives of Spirits” at the 105th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, November 15-19, 2006.
2007 “Conversations with Harold Channer.” (On Technology and the Distribution of Wealth). Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) originally aired May 8, 2006, repeated February 28, 2007. “Our Science is Better Than Yours: Two Decades of Data on Patients Treated by a Kardecist-Spiritist Healing Group in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.” A paper presented at a symposium “Worlds in Collusion: Entangling Religious and Scientific Fields,” Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Phoenix, AZ, April 13-16. “Resolving the Problem of Injustice in the Distribution of Wealth and Income: The Approaches of The Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Louis Kelso.” A paper presented at a joint meeting of the Columbia University Seminars on Brazil and Latin America, Thursday, April 19. “Conversations with Harold Channer.” (On The Failure of the Enlightenment Institutions and the Need for a New Vision). Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired May 24. Organized, introduced and provided background to “Community Therapy, Mental Health and Development in Brazilian Favelas: Sharing what has been Learned in Fortaleza and Bom Jardim,” by Fatehr Ottorino Bonvini, MD and Comboni Missionary. Inter-Church Center, 475 Riverside Dr., August 7. “Freedom, Work and Migration: Barbados and the Organization of the Modern World Economy.” Paper presented at the session “Moving Targets: Historical Consciousness and Changing Meanings of Freedom,” at The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), Barbados, October 9-12, 2007. “Assimilated into the Assault on the Jungle: Barbadians in the Brazilian Amazon.” Paper presented at the symposium “Circum-Caribbean and Latin American Connections: Regional Migrations of Peoples, Ideas, Cultural Practices and Politics,” 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 28-December 2, 2007. Lecture and video showing presented in class on “Ritual and Film” at the New School for Social Research, December 19. Taped voice-over for scene from film “My Last Five Girlfriends” reading quotation from my 1965 article, "Love and Marriage in Modern America: A Functional Analysis," Sociological Quarterly, December 22.
2008 Presentation on a panel on “Binary Economics and the History of Economic Thought” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, New York, January 3.
2009 “A Faith-Based Mental Health and Development Project for Slum Dwellers in Brazil.” Paper presented on a panel “Developing Community/Development People: Intersections of Faith and Development in Local-Global Contexts,” at the meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 17-21, Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Syncretism and the Rise of Candomblé, Kardecist-Spoiritism and Umbanda in Brazil.” Presented at a class on Religions of Latin America, University at Texas, Austin, March, 23. “Spirits with Scalpels.” A public book-talk presented at the University of Texas at Austin, March 23. “Conversations with Harold Channer.” (On “The Current Economic Crisis.”) Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired April 6. “Healing the Body in Differing Mythic Universes: The Case of Brazilian Kardecist-Spiritism. Paper presented at the Columbia University Seminar on Religion, May 4. “Unjust Deserts: How Culture Trumped Reason and Americans were Unable to Behave in their Rational Self Interest to Avoid the Latest Financial Collapse,” paper presented at the 16th IUAES World Congress, Kunming, China, July 30. “Conversations with Harold Channer.” (Discussion of “Spirits with Scalpels.”) Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired October 1.
2010 “Evangelical Christians in the Brazilian Political Arena,” A paper prepared for the Fifth International Meeting of Socio-Religious Studies, Havana, Cuba, July, 5-10. Member of Conselho Diretivo do Nucleo de Antropologia Medica da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. Invited lecture and video presentation on “Spiritist Healing” presented at a class on Developmental Psychology at the Medical School of the Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil (in Portuguese), September 24. Invited lecture on “Conducting Research on Economic Development in Northeast Brazil” for the program on Social Justice and Sustainable Development, SIT Study Abroad, a Program of World Learning, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, September 27. Discussant of “American Dreams of Brazilian Racial Democracy: Is Race to Brazil as Class is to the US?“ by Sean Mitchell at the Anthropology Section Meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences, October 25. “Culture Trumps Reason: Why Americans were Unable to Behave Rationally and Avoid the Latest Economic Crisis,” paper presented at the Columbia University Seminar on Contents and Methods in the Social Sciences, November 10. “The Flow of Goods and Services in Hierarchically Ordered Rural Societies: Patronage, Clientage and the Livro de Virtuosa Bemfeitoria of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal,” paper presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17.
2011 “Conversations with Harold Channer.” (Discussion of “English Rustics in Black Skin” and its relationship to protests and demonstrations in North Africa, the Middle East and the State of Wisconsin.) Talk show on NYC Local Access Channel (WMNN) aired March 3. Talk on “English Rustics in Black Skin” at the launching of the new edition at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, March 3. “Culture Trumps Reason: How Wall Street Manipulated the American Dream to Enrich Itself and Why the Victims of the Scam Were Put Out on The Street While the Perpetrators Were Rescued by The Government.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, Notre Dame, Indiana, March 12. “Conversations with Harold Channer.” (Discussion of “Occupy Wall Street.”) Talk show on NYC Cable Access Channel (WMNN) aired November 1.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Fellow of the American Anthropological Association
Member of the Society for Economic Anthropology Board Member 1982-1985 Nominations Committee 1985
Member of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Board Member 1988-92 President 1991-92
Member of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion Board Member 1996 Vice-President 1996
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
1. English Rustics in Black Skin: A Study of Modern Family Forms in a Pre-Industrial Society. New Haven, Conn.: The College and University Press, 1966, 208 pp. Paperback Edition republished by the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, 2010.
2. Structure and Process in Latin America: Patronage, Clientage and Power Systems. Albuquerque, NM.: The University of New Mexico Press, 1972, 256pp. (Co-edited with Arnold Strickon). Paperback Edition republished by the School for American Research, 2010.
3. Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context. Albuquerque, NM. The University of New Mexico Press, 1979, 373 pp. (Co-edited with Arnold Strickon and Robert T. Aubey). Paperback Edition republished by the School for American Research, 2010.
4. Entrepreneurship and Social Change. Washington, DC. University Press of America, 1985, 273pp. (Co-edited with Arnold Strickon).
5. Cirurgias do Além: Pesquisas Antropológicas Sobre Curas Espirituais. Petrópolis, RJ: Editora Vozes, 1999, 213pp.
6. Argeu: A Construção de um santo popular. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Terceira Margem, 2000, 86pp. (with Antonio Mourão Cavalcante). Second Edition. Fortaleza, CE: Editora Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2003.
7. Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001, 227pp. (Co-edited with André Droogers).
8. Spirits With Scalpels: The CultrualBiology of Spirit Healing in Brazil. San Francisco, CA: Left Coast Press, 2008.
9. O Mercado e a Cura: Aflição, Religião e Competição on Brasil Atual. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Pallas. In preparation (with Roberto Motta).
Video Documentaries:
1. Spiritist Healing in Brazil. Produced by Sidney M. Greenfield at the Educational Communications Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Written, narrated and edited by Sidney M. Greenfield, 1985. 28 Min.
2. A Brazilian Pilgrimage: The 'Festa de São Francisco' in Canindé. Produced and edited by Sidney M. Greenfield and John B. Gray at the Educational Communications Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Written and narrated by Sidney M. Greenfield, 1985. Two versions, one 28 Min, the other 56 Min.
3. The Return of Dr. Fritz: Healing by the Spirits in Brazil. Produced and edited by Sidney M. Greenfield and John B. Gray at the Educational Communications Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Written and narrated by Sidney M. Greenfield, 1988, 63 Min.
4. José Carlos and His Spirits: The Ritual Initiation of a Zelador dos Orixás. Produced and edited by Sidney M. Greenfield and John B. Gray at the Educational Communications Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Written by Sidney M. Greenfield, 1989, One hour and 24 Min.
5. Spirits, Medicine, and Charity: A Brazilian Woman's Cure for Cancer Written, produced and directed by Sidney M. Greenfield at the Media Resource Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1995, 39.36 Min.
Articles:
1. "Land Tenure and Transmission in Rural Barbados," Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4, October, 1960, pp. 165-176. Reprinted in: Dwight Heath and Richard Adams (eds.), Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America. N.Y.: Random House, 1965, pp. 200-210.
2. "Socio-Economic Factors and Family Form: A Barbadian Case Study," Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, March, 1961, pp. 72-85.
3. "Industrialization and the Family in Sociological Theory: A Critical Analysis of an Assumed Causal Relationship," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. LXVII, No. 3, November, 1961, pp. 312-322. Reprinted in: a. Bernard Farber (ed.), Kinship and Family Organization. NY.: John Wiley and Sons, 1966. b. Robert F. Winch (ed.), Selected Studies in Marriage and the Family. NY.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1968. c. Neil J. Smelser (ed.), Readings in Economic Sociology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1965. d. John N. Edwards (ed.), The Family and Change. NY.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Meyer Barash and Alice Scourby (eds.), Marriage and the Family. NY.: Random House, Inc., 1970. e. Kathleen G. Gunther (ed.), Illusion and Disillusion: The Self in Love and Marriage. Bellmont, CA.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1983.
4. "Households, Families and Kinship Systems in the West Indies," Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3, July, 1962, pp. 121-133.
5. "Social Change and Labor Commitment in Southeastern Minas Gerais," Inter-American Economic Affairs, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring, 1963. pp. 29-58.
6. "Stocks, Bonds and Peasant Canes in Barbados: Some Notes on the Use of Land in an Overdeveloped Economy," In George K. Zollschan and Walter Hirsch (eds.), Explorations in Social Change. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, Inc., 1964, pp. 619-650.
7. "Social Anthropology and Economic Theory: Their Place in the Study and Policy Formulation in the New nations," Indian Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, July, 1964, pp. 24-31.
8. "A Unit Concept for Sociological Theory," Indian Journal of Social Research, No. 3, pp. 252-260.
9. "More on the Study of Subsistence Organization," American Anthropologist, Vol. 67, No. 3, 1965, pp. 737-744.
10. "Love and Marriage in Modern America: A Functional Analysis," Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1965, pp. 361-377. Reprinted in: a. J. Ross Eshleman (ed.), Marriage and the Family. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1969. b. Jeffrey K. Hadden and Marie L. Borgatta (eds.), Marriage and the Family. Itasca, Ill.: F.E. Peacock Publishers, Inc., 1969.arriage and the Family c. Warner Modules Publications, Inc., #R586, 1973. d. Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, 1974. e. Kenneth C.W. Kammeyer (ed.), Confronting the Issues. Sex Roles, Marriage and the Family. (2nd. ed.) Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1975.
11. "Rural Labor and Economic Development in Brazil," Inter-American Economic Affairs, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1965, pp. 75-81 (co-authored with Edgar de Vasconcelos Barros).
12. "The Organization of Large Scale Agricultural labor in Barbados and Minas Gerais, Brazil: A Comparison of Two Responses to Emancipation," Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3, October, 1967, pp. 201-216.
13. "Overseasmanship: An Amerian Experiment," The UW-M Magazine, Vol. II, Summer, 1968, pp. 3-8. Reprinted in: Latin American Center Pamphlet Series, No. 3. Center for Latin America. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
14. Article on Barbados in the "Nations of the World" section of the 1967 Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook, 1968, p. 686.
15. "Culture-Historical and Structural-Functional Orientations and the Analysis of the West Indian Family," In Stanford N. Gerber (ed.), The Family in the Caribbean. Proceedings of the First Conference on the Family in the Caribbean. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico: Institute of Caribbean Studies of the University of Puerto Rico, 1968, pp. 15-28.
16. "The Bruce Effect and Malinowski's Hypothesis on Mating and Fertility," American Anthropologist, Vol. 70, No. 4, August, 1968, pp. 759-760.
17. "Patronage Networks, Factions, Political Parties and National Integration in Contemporary Brazilian Society," Discussion Paper No. 12. Center for Latin America. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September, 1968, 15 pp.
18. "Fertility Control and Development Planning: An Examination of Some Implicit Assumptions," Discussion Paper No. 17. Center for Latin America. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October, 1968, 21 pp.
19. "Slavery and the Plantation in the New World: The Development and Diffusion of a Social Form," The Journal of Inter-American Studies, Vol. XI, No. 1, January, 1969, pp. 44-57.
20. "Differentiation, Stratification and Mobility in Traditional Brazilian Society," Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Winter, 1969, pp. 3-21.
21. "Applied Anthropology and Brazilian Agricultural Development," Universitas, Revista de Cultura da Universidade Federal da Bahia, No 6/7, 1970, 205-215.
22. "On Monkeys, Fish and Brazilian Agricultural Development: Some Questions and Suggestions," The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 5, No. 4, July, 1971, pp. 507-516.
23. "The Analysis of Patron-Client Relationships: An Introduction," In Arnold Strickon and Sidney M. Greenfield (eds.), Structure and Process in Latin America. Albuquerque, N.M.: The University of New Mexico Press, 1972, pp. 1-18 (Co-authored with Arnold Strickon).
24. "Charwomen, Cesspools and Road Building: An Examination of Patronage, Clientage and Political Power in Southeastern Minas Gerais," In Arnold Strickon and Sidney M. Greenfield (eds.), Structure and Process in Latin America. Albuquerque, N.M.: The University of New Mexico Press, 1972, pp. 71-100.
25. "Love: Some Reflections by an Anthropologist," In Mary Ellen Curtin (ed.), A Symposium on Love. N.Y.: Behavioral Publications, 1973, pp. 37-52.
26. "On the Critique of Romantic Love: Some Sociological Consequences of Proposed Alternatives," In Mary Ellen Curtin (ed.), A Symposium on Love. N.Y.: Behavioral Publications, 1973, pp. 53-68.
27. "Dominance, Focality, and the Composition of Domestic Groups: Some Reflections on Matrifocality in the Caribbean," In Stanford N. Gerber (ed.), The Family in the Caribbean. Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Family in the Caribbean. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Institute of Caribbean Studies of the University of Puerto Rico, 1973, pp. 31-50.
28. "Fieldwork, Categoreal Bias and Understanding Socio-Cultural Reality: Some Philosophical Considerations," In Transactions of the XL International Congress of Americanists, Vol. II. Rome and Genoa, 1974 (co-authored with Stanford N. Gerber and Walter Wright).
29. "In Search of Social Identity: Strategies of Ethnic Identity Management Amongst Cape Verdeans in Southeastern Massachusetts," Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Summer, 1976, pp. 3-18.
30. "Patronage, Politics and the Articulation of Local Community and National Society in Pre-1968 Brazil," Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, Vol. XIX, No. 2, 1977, pp. 139-172.
31. "El cabo eleitoral y la articulacion de la comunidad local y la sociedad nacional brasilenas anteriores a 1968," In Esther Hermitte and Leopoldy Bartomome (eds.), Procesos de articulacion social. Buenos Aires. Consejo Latinamericano de Ciencias Sociales: Amorrotu editores, 1977, pp. 23-54. English version, "The Cabo Eleitoral and the Articulation of Local Community and National Society in pre-1968 Brazil," appeared as Discussion Paper Number 54. Center for Latin America. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1975. 39 pp.
32. "Madeira and the Beginnings of Sugar Cane Cultivation and Plantation Slavery: A Study in Institution Building," In Vera Rubin and Arthur Tuden (eds.), Comparative Perspectives in New World Plantation Societies. N.Y. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, No. 292, 1977, pp. 536-552.
33. "The Patrimonial State and Patron Client Relations in Iberia and Latin America: Sources of "The System" in the Fifteenth Century Writings of the Infante D. Pedro of Portugal," Occasional Paper No. 1, Latin American Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1976, 25 pp. Also in: Ethnohistory, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1977, 163-178.
34. "Studies in Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Review and Introduction," In Sidney M. Greenfield, Arnold Strickon and Robert T. Aubey (eds.), Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context. Albuquerque, N.M.: The University of New Mexico Press, 1979, pp. 3-20 (co-authored with Arnold Strickon, Robert T. Aubey and Morton Rothstein).
35. "Entrepreneurship and Dynasty Building in the Portuguese Empire in the Seventeenth Century: The Career of Salvador de Sá e Benivides," In Sidney M. Greenfield, Arnold Strickon and Robert T. Aubey (eds.), Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context. Albuquerque, N.M.: The University of New Mexico Press, 1979, pp. 21-64.
36. "Entrepreneurship and Social Change: Towards a Populational, Decision-Making Approach," In Sidney M. Greenfield, Arnold Strickon and Robert T. Aubey (eds.), Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context. Albuquerque, N.M.: The University of New Mexico Press, 1979, pp. 329-350 (Co-authored with Arnold Strickon).
37. CA Comment on Ian Prattis, "The Survival of Communities: A Theoretical Perspective," Current Anthropology, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1979, p. 371.
38. "Plantations and Sugar Cane: An Historic and Developmental Overview," Historical Reflections (Reflexions Historiques), Vol. VI, Summer, 1979, pp. 85-119. Reprinted in: Michael Craton (ed.), Roots and Branches: Current Directions in Slave Studies. N.Y.: Pergamon Press, 1979. Bieber, Judy (ed.), An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450-1800. Vol 18, Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion, pp. 1-35. Aldershot, GB; Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum, 1997.
39. "Domestic Crises, Schools, and Patron Clientage in Southeastern Minas Gerais," In Maxine Margolis and William Carter, (eds.), Brazil: Anthropological Perspectives. Essays in Honor of Charles Wagley. N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1979, pp. 362-378.
40. "A New Paradigm for the Study of Entrepreneurship and Social Change." Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 29, No. 3, 1981, pp. 469-499 (co-authored with Arnold Strickon). Reprinted in: Harold C. Livesay (ed.), Entrepreneurship and the Growth of Firms. 2 vols. Aldershot, Hants, Emg; Brookfield, VT, 1995. A volume in the Series THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF CRITICAL WRITINGS IN BUSINESS HISTORY Edited by Geoffrey Jones, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Vol. I, pp. 509-541.
41. "Barbadians and Barbadian House Forms in the Brazilian Amazon," Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, January, 1981, pp. 253-265.
42. "The Portuguese Expansion and the Development of Atlantic Creole Languages," Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1981, pp. 225-238 (co-authored with William Washabaugh). Reprinted in: William Washabaugh and Ellen Woolford (eds.), The Social Context of Creolization. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Karoma Publishers, Inc., 1983, pp. 106-119.
43. "Anthropology and Institutional Economics," Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XVI, No. 2, 1982, pp. 485-487
44. "Barbadians in the Brazilian Amazon," Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1983, pp. 44-64.
45. "Anthropology and the Formation of the State: A Critical Review and an Alternative Formulation," Anthropology, Vol. 7, No. 1, May, 1983, pp. 1-16 (co-authored with Herbert Lewis).
46. "Barbadians in the Amazon and Cape Verdeans in New England: Contrasts in Adaptation and Relations with Homelands," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, April, 1985, 209-232.
47. "Introduction." In Sidney M. Greenfield and Arnold Strickon (eds.), Entrepreneurship and Social Change. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1985, pp. 4-18 (Co-authored with Arnold Strickon).
48. "Psychodrama, Past Life Regression, and Other Therapies Used by Spiritist Healers in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil," Newsletter of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Consciousness, Vol. 2, No. 2, June, 1986, pp. 1-11.
49. "Espiritismo Como Sistema de Cura," In R. Parry Scott, (org.) Sistemas de Cura: As Alternativas do Povo. Recife, Brazil. Mestrado em Antropologia, 1986, pp. 89-101.
51. "Romarias, Terapías, e a Ligação Entre as Curas e a Imagenação," In Antonio Mourão Cavalcante, (org.) Fé, Saúde, e Poder: Taumataurgos, Profetas, e Curandeiros. Fortaleza, Brazil, Centre de Cultura Popular de Canindé and Universidade Estadual do Ceará, 1987, pp. 77-93. English version, "Pilgrimage, Therapy, and the Relationship Between Healing and Imagination," appeared as Discussion Paper No. 82, Center for Latin America, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, July 1989. 27 pp.
52. "The Best of Two Worlds: Spiritist Healing in Brazil," In Anne Retel Laurentin, Coordinatrice, Etiologie et Perception de la Maladie dans les Societes Modernes et Traditionnelles. Paris. L'Harmattan, 1987, pp. 277-288.
53. "The Elderly in Brazil: Some Contrasts and Comparative Insights," In Enid Gort, ed., Aging in Cross Cultural Perspective: Africa and the Americas. New York. Phelps Stokes Fund, 1988, pp. 33-60.
54. "From Umbanda to the Kabbalah: A Personal Odyssey," AASC Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 1, March, 1989. pp. 1-10.
55. "Sugar Cane in the Atlantic Islands." In La Cana de Azucar en Tiempos de Los Grandes Descobrimientos, 1450-1550. Motril, Spain: Casa de la Palma, 1989. Pp. 59-82.
56. "Popular Religion, Patronage, and Resource Distribution in Brazil: A Model of an Hypothesis for the Survival of the Economically Marginal," In M. Estelle Smith, ed., Perspectives on the Informal Economy. Washington, D.C. University Press of America, 1990, pp. 123-146. (co-authored with Russell Prust).
57. "The Cape Verde Islands: Their Settlement, the Emergence of Their Creole Culture, and the Subsequent Migrations of their People," In David Higgs, ed., Portuguese Migration in Global Perspective. Toronto. The Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1990, pp. 158-181.
58. "O Corpo Como Uma Casca Descartavel: O Medium-Curador e Seus Criticos," (The Body as a Disposable Container: The Healer-Medium and His Critics.") In Antonio Mourão Cavalcante, org., Corpo de Saúde: Corpo de Fé. Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Imprensa Universitaria, 1990, pp. 59-84.
59. "German Spirit Doctors in Spiritist Healing in Urban Brazil." In Darell A. Posey and William L. Overal, organizers, Ethnobiology: Implications and Applications. Proceedings of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology (Belem, 1988). Part F, "Ethnomendicine and Popular Curing," Clarice Novães da Mota and José Flavio Pessoa de Barros, eds. Belem, Pará, Brazil. Muesu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, 1990, pp. 241-256. Reprinted in Whiteford, Michael and Scott Whiteford, eds., Crossing Currents: Continuities and Change in Latin America. Prentice Hall, 1998, pp. 279-289.
60. "Turner and Anti-Turner in the Image of Christian Pilgrimage in Brazil," Anthropology of Consciousness Review, Vol. 1, Numbers 3-4, 1990, pp. 1-8.
61. "As Ilhas da Madeira e de Cabo Verde: Rumo a uma Sociología Comparativa de Diferenciacao Colonial." In Actas do II Coloquio Internacional de Historia da Madeira Funchal, Madeira. Comissão Para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1990, pp. 547-564. .
62. "Hypnosis and Trance Induction in the Surgeries of Brazilian Spirit Healer-Mediums," The Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 2, Nos. 3-4, 1991, pp. 20-25. Reprinted in Klass, Morton and Maxine Weisgrau, eds. Beyond the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion. Westview Press, 1999, pp. 211-226.
63. "O Corpo Como uma Casca Descartavel: As Cirurgias de Dr. Fritz e o Futuro das Curas Espirituais." Religião e Sociedade, Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2, 1992, pp. 136-145.
64. "Spirits and Spiritist Therapy in Southern Brazil: A Case Study of an Innovataive, Syncretic Healing Group." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Vol. 16, 1992, Pp. 23-51.
65. "Legacies from the Past and Transitions to a 'Healed' Future in Brazilian Spiritist Therapy." Anthropologica, Vol. XXXV, 1993, pp. 23-38.
66. Spiritisme et racisme au Brésil: médiums kardécistes et espirites africains dans l'Umbanda ésoterique. Le défi magique: esotérism, occultism, spiritisme. Vol. 1 Textes réunis par Jean-Baptiste Martin et présentés par François Laplantine. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1994, pp. 219-227 (co-authored with Eleanor Greenfield).
67. "Presenting Dr. Fritz: The Making of an Anthropological Monograph on Video About Brazilian Spiritist Healer-Mediums," In Jack R. Rollwagen (ed.), Anthropological Film and Videomaking in the 1990s. Brockport, NY: The Institute, Inc., 1994, pp. 37-66.
68. "Descendants of European Immigrants in Southern Brazil as Participants and Heads of Afro-Brazilian Religious Centers." Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1994, pp. 684-700.
69. "Mudança e Tradição no Sucesso da Umbanda." In Antonio Mourão Cavalcante and Ismael Pordeus Jr. (organizadores), Folia: Maldição dos Deus, Doença dos Homens. Fortaleza: Universidade Federal do Ceará, 1994, pp. 19-34 (With Russell Prust).
70. "Syncretism and Racism in 'Esoteric' Umbanda." Horizontes Antropológicas, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1995, pp. 37-68.
71. "Sobre Macacos, Peixe, e Programas de Modernização Aplicada" (On Monkies Fish, and Programs of Applied Modernization). In Antonio Mourão Cavalcante, org., Tradição e Modernidade: Milagre ou Inovação?. Fortaleza: Federal University of Ceará Press, 1995, pp. 9-17.
72. "The Beirut Massacre and Jewish Identity in Brazil: A View from Porto Alegre," In David Sheinin and Lois Baer Barr, (eds.), The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America, Garland Publishing, 1996, pp. 251-263.
73. "A Model Explaining Brazilian Spiritist Surgeries and other Unusual Religious Based Healings. " Subtle Energies, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1994, pp. 109-141.
74. "Godparenthood." In David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds., Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. A Henry Holt Reference Book. New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1996. Volume 2, pp. 541-544.
75. "The Patients of Dr. Fritz: Assessment of Treatment by a Brazilian Spiritist Healer," British Journal of Psychical Research, Vol. 61, No. 847, 1997, pp. 372-387.
76. "Tratando de Doenças Depois da Morte: Dr. Argeu Herbster como Santo Popular e Gua Espiritual." In Lea Perez, Organizer, Pluralismo Social e Trânsito Religioso na Sociedade Contemporânea. Porto Alegre: Editora Sulina, in press. (With Antonio Mourão Cavalcante)
77. "Recasting Syncretism...Again: Theories and Concepts in Anthropology and Afro-American Studies in the Light of Changing Social Agendas," In Peter B. Clarke, ed., New Trends and Developments in African Religions, Greenwood Press, 1998, pp. 1-15.
78. "Il Corpo Come Strumento Associativo Nell'Umbanda Brasiliana: Un'Indagine Comportamental e Psicofisiologica Sugu Stati de Trance." In Bianca Maria Pirani, ed. Corpo i ritmi del caos (The Body: Rhythmes of Caos), Nuovo frontiere sociologiche, 10. Rome: SEAM, 1999, pp. 323-346.
79. "Traditional Cultures, Multicultural Contexts, and the Problematics of the Dangerous Alien," In Bianca Maria Pirani, ed. L'Abbaglio dell'Occidente: Per il Diritto Differenza Culturale. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2000, pp. 155-168.
80. "Introduction," In Sidney M. Greenfield and André Droogers, eds. Reinventin Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas , Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, pp. 9-19. (With André Droogers).
81. "Recovering and Reconstructing Syncretism," In Sidney M. Greenfield and André Droogers, eds. Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, pp. 21-42. (with André Droogers).
82. "Population Growth, Industrialization and the Proliferation of Syncretized Religions in Brazil," In Sidney M. Greenfield and André Droogers, eds., Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, pp. 55-70.
83. "The Reinterpretation of Africa: Convergence and Syncretism in Brazilian Candomblé." In Sidney M. Greenfield and André Droogers, eds. Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americs. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, pp. 113-129.
84. "Nature/Nurture and the Anthropology of Franz Boas and Margaret Mead as an Agenda for Revolutionary Politics." Horizonte Anthropológicos, ano 7, n. 16, 2001, pp.35-52.
85. "The Pragmatics of Conversion in the Brazilian Religious MarketPlace," In Dwight B. Heath, ed., Contemporary Culture and Society in Latin America, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2002, pp. 490-96.
86. "Syncretic Processes and the Definition of New Religions." Journal of Contemporary Religions, Vol. 18, No.1, 2003. (With André Droogers), pp. 25-36.
87. "Can Supernaturals Really Heal? A View of Science That Shows How they Might," Anthropological Forum, Special Issue “Perspectives on the Category ‘Supernatural,’” Guest Editor, Roger I. Lohmann, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2003, pp. 151-158.
88. “Treating the Sick with a Morality Play: The Kardecist-Spiritist Disobsession in Brazil,” Social Analysis, Volume 48, Summer 2004, pp. 174-194. Reprinted In: Don Handelman and Galina Lindquest, eds., Ritual in its Own Right: Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation. NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005, pp. 174-94.
89. “Dr. Argeu: Um Santo Popular,” Psychology on Line [in Brazil], Summer, 2004. (With Antonio Mourão Cavalcante).
90. “Introduction” to Michael Rosberg’s, The Power of Greed: Collective Action in International Development, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA: University of Alberta Press, 2005, pp. xvii-xxxvi.
91. “Trance States and Accessing Implicit Memories: A Psychosocial Genomic Approach to Reconstituting Social Memory During Religious Rituals,” In Bianca Maria Pirani, and Ivan Varga, eds, Bodily Order, Mind, Emotion and Social Memory. Current Sociology, Vol. 53, No. 2, Monograph 1, March 2005, pp. 275-291.
92. "Pilgrimage and Healing in Northeast Brazil." In Jill Dubisch and Michael Winkelman, eds. Pilgrimage and Healing, Tuscon, AZ: Universty of Arizona Press, 2005, pp. 3-23 (With Antonio Mourão Cavalcante).
93. "The CulturalBiology of Brazilian Spiritist Surgery and Other Non-Biomedical Healing." International Journal of Parapsychology, Volume 13 (2002-2005), 01–32, Reprinted In Phillips Stevens, ed., The Anthropology of Religion: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, 4 Volumes. London: Routledge, 2010, Volume 4, Chapter 63, pp. 51-76.
94. “Choice and Religious Pluralism in Brazil: Another View. In André Droogers, et al. Playful Religion: Challenges for the Study of Religion. Eburon Delft, The Netherlands: Eburon Academic Publishers, 2006, pp.109-121.
95.“Pilgrimage and Patronage in Brazil: A Paradigm for Social Relations and Religious Diversity.” Luso-Brazilian Review, Volume 43, No. 2 (2006), pp. 63-89 (With Antonio Mourão Cavalcante).
96. “Making Another World Possible: The Torah, Louis Kelso and the problem of Poverty,” Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, Vol. 3, No. 5 (September/October 2007), pp. 493-502.
97. “Freedom, Work and Migration: Barbados in the Organization of the Modern World Economy,” Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. 75th Anniversary Commemorative Issue 1933-2008. Vol LIV (December, 2008, pp. 187-201.
98. “Our Science is Better than Yours: Two Decades of Data on Patients Treated by a Kardecist-Spiritist Group in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.” The Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2009, pp. 101-110.
99. “Technology, Memory and the (Mind)Body: Towards the Integration of the Biological and the Cultural in the Analysis of Human Social Behavior.” In Bianca Maria Pirani & Ivan Varga, eds. Acting Bodies and Social Networks, Vol. II, Mapping Bodies in Social Networks Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2009, pp. 315-325.
100. “Resolving the Problem of Injustice in the Distribution of Wealth and Income: The Approaches of The Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Louis Kelso.” In Donald C. Wood, ed. Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations Research in Economic Anthropology, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Volume 30, 2010, pp. 47–76.
101. “A Faith-Based Mental Health and Development Project for Slum Dwellers in Brazil.” In Keri V. Brondo & Tara Hefferan, eds., Interactions of Faith and Development in Local and Global Contexts (Developing Community / Development People: Intersections of Faith and Development in Local-Global Contexts), NAPA Bulletin, Volume 33, 2010, pp. 175-98.
102. “Unjust Deserts: How Culture Trumped Reason and Americas were Unable to Behave in Their Rational Self Interest to Avoid the latest Financial Crisis.” To be published in a volume on Economic Anthropology edited by Lin Shi under the auspices of The Organizing Committee of the 16th IUAES Congress in China.
103. “Reducing Adolescent Suicides on the Aldea de Dourados, Brazil: A Psycho-Anthropological Intervention.” To be published in Applied Anthropology, Development and Cultural Diversity edited by P.R.G. Mathur under the auspices of The Organizing Committee of the 16th IUAES Congress in China.
104. “Ritual Healing: A History of its Development and Proliferation in Brazil.” In E. De Smet amd F. Bauwens, eds. Rituals: Types, Efficacy and Myth, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2011.
105. Article on Spiritism for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Religion in Latin America.
106. “Culture Trumps Reason: How Wall Street Manipulated the American Dream to Enrich Itself and Why The Victims of the Scam Were Put Out on the Street While the Perpetrators Were Rescued by the Government.” To appear in forthcoming volume of Anthropological Investigations Research in Economic Anthropology.
107. “Possible Complications for Patients of Multiple Health Care Systems: Modern Medicine and Alternative Religious Healing in Brazil.” Under review by EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing.
108. “The Flow of Goods and Services in Hierarchically Ordered Rural Societies: Patronage, Clientage and the Livro de Virtuoso Bemfeituria of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal.” Submitted to Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.
109. “Dr. Fritz: Myth, Man and Spirit Guide.” Under review for Tracy Luedke and John Cinnamon, The Social Lives of Spirits (Tentative Title).
110. “Assimilated Into the Assault on the Jungle: Barbadians in the Brazilian Amazon.” Under review for The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society.
Book Reviews:
1. Bandeirantes and Pioneers, by C. Vianna Moog. American Anthropologist, Vol. 66, No. 5, 1964, Pp. 1237-1238.
2. Social Change, by Wilbert E. Moore. Wisconsin Sociologist, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1964, P.
3. Continuity and Change in Latin America, edited by John J. Johnson. Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1965, Pp. 202-203.
4. Family in Tradition: A Study of 300 Yugoslav Villages, by Vera St. Erlich. Social Forces, Vol. 46, No. 1, 1967, P. 135.
5. Indians of Brazil in the Twentieth Century, edited by Janice Hopper. American Anthropologist, Vol. 70, No. 4, 1968, Pp. 783-784.
6. Civil Service Reform in Brazil, by Lawrence Graham. Journal of Inter-American Studies, Vol. XII, No. 1, 1970, Pp. 146-149.
7. The Industrialization of Sao Paulo, 1880-1945, by Warren Dean. The Journal of Inter-American Studies, Vol. XIII, No. 2, 1971, pp. 300-303.
8. Case Studies in Social Power, edited by Hans Dieter Evers. American Anthropologist, Vol. 73, No. 4, 1971, Pp. 834-835.
9. Black Intellectuals Come to Power: The Rise of Creole Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago, by Ivar Oxaal and Social Change and Images of the Future: A Study of the Pursuit of Progress in Jamaica, by James Mau. Political Science Quarterly, Vol. LXXXVI, No. 3, 1971, Pp. 504-506.
10. Kinship: Selected Readings, edited by Jack Goody. American Anthropologist, Vol. 75, No. 6, 1973, pp. 1784-1786.
11. Classes, Crises, and Coups: Themes in the Sociology of Developing Countries, by Peter C. Lloyd. American Anthropologist, Vol. 76, No. 2, 1974, Pp. 392-394.
12. Cabo Verde: Formação e Extinção de uma Sociedade Escravocrata (1460-1878), by Antonio Carreira. American Anthropologist, Vol. 76, No. 2, 1974, Pp. 395-396.
13. Modernization, Exploitation and Dependency in Latin America: Germani, Gonzalez Casenova and Cardozo,\by Joseph Kahl. Sociology: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 4, No. 1, Nov. Dec., 1976, P.
14. The Politics of Cultural Pluralism, by Crawford Young. Reviews in Anthropology, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1979, Pp. 1-9.
15. After Africa: Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Concerning the Slaves, their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies, Edited by Roger D. Abrahams and John F. Szwed. Revista Interamericana de Bibliografia, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3, Pp. 394-395.
16. Relationships, Residence and the Individual: A Rural Panamanian Community, by Stephen Gudeman; Compadrinazgo: Ritual Kiship in the Philippines, by Donn V. Hart; and Essays in Mexican Kinship, edited by Hugo G. Nutini, Pedro Carrasco and James M. Taggert. Latin Amerian Research Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring, 1980, Pp. 211-218 ( A review essay that appeared under the title, "Contributions to the Study of Kinship and Compadrazgo in Latin America").
17. Authoritarian Capitalism: Brazil's Contemporary Economic and Political Development, edited by Thomas Bruneau and Phillippe Faucher. Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1985, Pp. 182-185.
18. Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St. John. Three Centuries of Afro-Caribbean Life, by Karen Fog Olwig. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids - New West Indian Guide, 1987, Pp. 84-86.
19. Panama Money in Barbados, 1900-1920, by Bonham C. Richardson. Caribbean Review, Vol. , 1988, P.
20. The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from its Origins to 1914, by J.H. Galloway. Agricultural History, Vol. 64, No. 1, 1990, Pp. 96-97.
21. The Religious Imagination in New Guinea, edited by Gilbert Herdt and Michele Stephen. The Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 1, Nos. 3-4, 1991. Pp. 35-36.
22. Hierarchy and Trust in Modern Mexico and Brazil, by Luis Roniger. American Anthropologist, Vol. 94, No. 3, Sept., 1992, Pp. 715-16.
23. Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Realities: Religion in a Pluralistic World, by Felicitas D. Goodman. Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1993, P. 16.
24. Cultivation and Culture: Labor and The Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas, edited by Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan. Agricultural History, Vol. 68, No. 3, 1994, Pp. 82-84
25. Os Candomblés de São Paulo, by Reginaldo Prandi. Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 32,No. 1, 1995, Pp. 110-113.
26. The Brazilian Puzzle: Culture on the Borderlands of the Western World, edited by David J. Hess and Roberto A. DaMatta. Amerian Anthropologist, Vol. 98, No. 2, 1996, Pp. 458-9.
27. Raça, Ciência e Sociedade, edited by Marcos Chor Maio and Ricardo Ventura Santos. Current Anthropology, Vol.
28. Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach, by Daniel Miller, Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. No., 1999, Pp. 157-8.
29. Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil, by John Burdick, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2000, Pp. 154-156.
30. A Refuge of Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness, by Rachel E. Harding, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2001, Pp. 691-693.
31. From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture, by Patrician R. Pessar, Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol. , No.. , Pp.432-434.
32. “Race, Culture, and an Anthropological Disconnect Between Teaching and Practice.” Review essay of The Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions. Edited by Stephen D. Glazier, Reviews in Anthropology, Vol. 33, No. 3, Pp. 263-279.
33. Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial, by Richard Price. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Vol. No., 2011, Pp,.
Video Reviews:
1. Hail Umbanda, produced and directed by Jose Araujo. American Anthropologist, Vol. 91, No. 2, June, 1989, pp. 529-530.
2. Bahia: Africa in the Americas, produced by Geovanni and Michael Brewer. American Anthropologist, Vol. 91, No. 2, June, 1989, pp. 530-531.
Letter to the Editor:
"On Research Designs." Subtle Energies. Vol. 1, No. 2. 1990. p. 89.
Other Publications:
"Tribute to a Teacher," AnthroWatch, Vol. V, No. 1, Summer, 1997, p. 21.
"Arnold Strickon (1930-1997), AnthroWatch, Vol. V, No. II, Fall, 1997, p. 27 (with Herbert Lewis).
“Morton Klass, 1928-2001: A Dedication,” Anthropological Forum, Vol. 13, No. 2, November 2003, pp. 115-116 (with Benson Saler).
Movies:
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