Rick also runs an email mailing list devoted to humor, defined broadly...he forwards from one to five jokes and strange things every day to a global list of funny people. Email him at wilkr@hotmail.com if you want to be added. For the last two years Rick has run a mailing list devoted to the topic of GLOBAL CONSUMER CULTURE and ITS EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT. To subscribe, send an email with the message "subscribe globalconsumer" to majordomo@indiana.edu.

Richard (Rick to everyone who knows him) is a Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. His main interests in life are the country of Belize, where he has been working for 30 years, his family, teaching, writing, woodworking, and science fiction.

Richard Wilk is married to Dr. K. Anne Pyburn . Anne is an archaeologist, a Professor at Indiana University, and the excavator of an important ancient Mayan city in Belize, Central America, called Chau Hiix. This picture shows the main pyramid of the site - the hill under the trees behind her. Carolyn Beebe took this picture - about a year after we first saw the site in 1990. Mr. Rudolph Crawford, the chairman of the village council of Crooked Tree Village, took us to see Chau Hiix - then called simply "Indian Hill." The village had kept the city a secret for well over a century, but they decided they needed help protecting it 

Rick and his family own a dog. A long haired miniature dachshund to be precise. He has his own page.

Below are links the pages of his friends, links to other anthropology resources, and some of the other weird things he likes.

I love the hilarious photo essays on Herman Krieger’s website. Worth a visit! You cannot leave the internet without checking out the Museum of Burnt Food, and the Gallery of Regretable Food is even better!

His mother - Barbara Wilk, is a graphic artist and his father, Max Wilk, also has a web-presence, in the form of an essay on the popular songwriter Johnny Mercer. Max has written 22 books, fiction and non-fiction, as well as hundreds of screenplays, plays, articles, treatments, and TV shows.

Rick is past president of The Society for Economic Anthropology. 

Here is my favorite picture of my daughter. She was the flower girl at the wedding of my greatest friend and mentor, Robert M. Netting. Bob died in February of 1995; the pain of losing him is still with us every day. 

Personal Links:

His Friend Joseph Moosman,once an anthropologist, now a software consultant, who lives in Sweden, also has an interesting webpage full of good links.

Steve Miller (not the rock star!) was once an anthropology graduate student in Bloomington, Indiana. Now he does webpage design and other neat things, and publishes a strange 'zine about death (Goodbye! the journal of contemporary obituaries).

Glenn Stone teaches anthropology at Washington University. Also a student of Robert Netting, Glenn works in Nigeria on settlement, ecology, and agriculture. A site worth a visit- it has a picture of me as a graduate student on it!

Guliz Ger teaches marketing, and works on important issues of global consumer culture, at the University of Bilkent in Turkey. She does not have her own webpage yet, but this link connects to her entry in the Bilkent directory, and has a nice picture of her.

Dominique Bouchet is a consumer researcher, musician, and multitalented professor of marketing at the University of Southern Denmark. His webpage includes his own museum of weird consumer culture, as well as many other resources on consumption and social change (plus his own humorous drawings).

Last Updated January 6, 2005