RICHARD R. WILK

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Bloomington, IN 47405 Email: wilkr@indiana.edu

http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro

revised June 12, 2006

General Information

Employment: Professor (6/03 - ) of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University

Professor (7/97-6/03) of Anthropology, Indiana University

Department Chair (7/00-7/03), Anthropology, Indiana University

Visiting Professor (8/99-5/00), Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley

Associate Professor (7/92 - 7/97) of Anthropology, Indiana University

Assistant Professor (8/88 - 7/92) of Anthropology, Indiana University

Assistant Professor (1/85 - 5/88) of Anthropology, New Mexico State University

Rural Sociologist (3/83 - 9/84) US Agency for International Development, Belize City

Visiting Lecturer (8/81 - 3/83) in Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz

Associate Faculty (7/77 - 5/78) in Anthropology, Pima Community College, Tucson

Personal: Born May 22, 1953 in New York City Married, 1 Child

Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1981

M.A. Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1976

B.A. cum laude, Anthropology, New York University, 1974

Dissertation: "Agriculture, Ecology, and Domestic Organization among the Kekchi Maya"
Robert M. Netting, Supervisor

Honors and Grants:

ESRC Fellowship under the “Cultures of Consumption” Program, Birkbeck College, University of London, September to December 2004, £12,000

Second place in Sophie Coe Paper Prize Competition, Oxford Conference on Food and Cookery, 2000

Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University, 1999

Campus Writing Program Summer Writing-Teaching Grant, Indiana University, 1998

Grant-in-Aid of Research for remote sensing project in Belize, Indiana University, 1996

Research Grant, National Science Foundation, Ethics and Values in Science Program 1993-1994, "Ethics in Archaeology" $55,800

Summer Grant Writing Fellowship, Indiana, University, 1992

Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Indiana University, 1991

Travel Grant to Belize: La Ruta Maya Foundation, 1991

Research Grant-in-Aid, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 1990 $9,900

Multidisciplinary Ventures Fund grant for Seminar in Household Economics, Indiana University, 1989

Fulbright Research Fellowship, Belize, 1989-90

Tinker Foundation Travel Grant, 1987

Fulbright Commission Summer Seminar, Amsterdam, 1987

Faculty Minigrant for Research and Travel, New Mexico State U., 1986

Research grant, Universitywide Energy Research Group, University of California, 1984 $16,000

Research grant, Universitywide Energy Research Group, University of California, 1983 $35,000

University of California Appropriate Technology Research Grant, 1983 $6,500

Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1982

Outstanding Dissertation Award, University of Arizona, 1982

Dozier Award for Best Graduate Paper, University of Arizona, 1981

Grant-in-Aid for Doctoral Research, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 1979 $5,200

Graduate Program Development Grant for Dissertation Research, University of Arizona, 1978

Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 1978 $8,000

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Arizona, 1975-81

Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Arizona, 1974-76

Fieldwork: Ethnographic survey of Southern Belize, 2 months, 1976

Dissertation research among Kekchi Maya in Toledo District, Belize, 16 months, 1978-80

Ethnographic studies of household economics and decision making, Santa Cruz County, California, 18 months, 1982-83

Survey of Cattle farmers in Cayo District, Belize, 6 weeks, 1983

Research on marketing of imported goods in Ghana and Togo, 3 months, 1986

Consumer Goods among Creole Belizeans, 13 months, 1989-90

Ecotourism & Community Development in Northern Belize, 10 months, 1992, 93, 94, 96, 2000

Food and Nationalism in Belize, 4 Months, 2002, 2004, 2005

Archaeology:

US: Coordinator of Field School, Middle Gila Archaic Research Project, Arizona, 1982.

Staff Archaeologist, Small survey and testing projects, Arizona State Museum, 1980.

Crewchief, Cholla-Saguaro powerline project mitigation phase. Arizona State Museum, 1977.

Survey crewmember, Cholla-Saguaro survey, Arizona State Museum, 1975.

Belize: Director, settlement area sampling program, Cuello Archaeological Project, 1980. (Rutgers U., National Geographic Society)

Director, contextual analysis program, Cuello Archaeological Project, 1978-79.

Survey, Colha, Belize. Test excavations at Nimli Punit, 1976-77.

Assistant Field Director, Corozal Project, 1973-76. (Cambridge U., British Museum)

Europe: Field Assistant, `Ubeidiya and Abou Gosh, Israel, 1971.

Field School, Roman Alcudia, Spain, 1970.

Consulting: Indian Law Resource Center: Expert testimony in Maya land claims before the Belize Supreme Court, 1997-8.

Discovery Channel: Segment of "The Travelers" filmed in Crooked Tree, Belize, 1996.

Cambridge Studios: "Out of the Past," segment on household archaeology for PBS, 1991.

Cultural Survival Inc.: Study of indigenous and ethnic organizations in Belize, 1988.

USAID/Belize: Social soundness and institutional analysis for Toledo Cocoa Development project, 1986.

USAID/Belize: Selection criteria for the Central America Peace Scholarship program, 1985.

US Department of Energy and Response Analysis Corporation: Ethnographic study of

abnormal energy use patterns in California households, 1984.

USAID/USDA: Social soundness analysis for livestock project in Belize, 1983.

USAID: Institutional and social soundness analysis, rural road project in Belize, 1983.

Publications: Edited Volumes and Journal Issues

2005- (with Frank Trentmann) Series Editor, Consumption and Public Life, Palgrave Macmillan

2002- (with Josiah Heyman) Series Editor, Globalization and the Environment, Altamira Press.

2006 Fast Food/ Slow Food: The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System. Altamira Press.

2006 Orvar Lofgren and Richard Wilk Unknown Cultural Processes. Ethnologia Europea. Journal of European Ethnology, 2005:1-2..

2005 Nora Haenn and Richard Wilk The Environment in Anthropology. NYU Press.

2002 Kelly Askew and Richard Wilk The Anthropology of Media: A Reader. Blackwell.

1998 Richard Wilk and Priscilla Stone A Very Human Ecology: Special Issue of Human Ecology in Memory of Robert M. Netting. Human Ecology 26(2)

1995 Colleen Cohen, Richard Wilk and Beverley Stoeltje Beauty on the Global Stage: Pageants and Power. Routledge.

1989 The Household Economy: Reconsidering the Domestic Mode of Production. Westview Press.

1988 Richard Wilk and Wendy Ashmore Household and Community in the Mesoamerican Past. University of New Mexico Press.

1984 Robert M. Netting, Richard Wilk and Eric Arnould Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group. University of California Press.

1982 Richard Wilk and William Rathje Archaeology of the Household: Building a Prehistory of Domestic Life. American Behavioral Scientist. July/August, 25(6).

Monographs

2006 Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists. Berg Publishers.

2006 (with Lisa Cliggett) Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology. Second Edition. Westview Press.

1996 Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology. Westview Press.

(translations published or underway in Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Uzbek)

1991 Household Ecology: Economic Change and Domestic Life among the Kekchi Maya of Belize. Arizona Studies in Human Ecology, University of Arizona Press. (Paperback edition by Northern Illinois University Press in 1997)

1990 (with Mac Chapin) "Ethnic Minorities in Belize: Mopan, Kekchi and Garifuna." Monograph No. 1, Society for the Promotion of Education and Research, Belize City.

Internet Resources

www.indiana.edu/~wanthro includes “Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology,” “Book Reviews on the Anthropology of Consumption,” “The Global Consumer Culture Project,” and the “Museum of Weird Consumer Culture.” Winner of “best site” award from the WWW Virtual Library, March 2000.

Journal Articles and Chapters in Books

In Press

“But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize.” In Political Ecology, edited by Peter Brosius and Aletta Biersack, Duke University Press.

“The Extractive Economy.” In Environmental History: World System History and Global Environmental Change, edited by Alf Hornborg, Joan Martinez-Alier and John McNeill, Altamira.

“A Critique of Desire: Distaste and Dislike in Consumer Behavior.” In Consumer Behaviour, edited by Margaret Hogg. Sage Publications. (reprint)

“Completely Unique but Appealing to Everyone: Managing Difference on the Globalized Menu of National and Ethnic Foods.” in The Globalization of Food edited by David Inglis and Debra Gimlin, Berg Publishers.

2006 “Smoothing.” Ethnologia Europea. Journal of European Ethnology, 2005:1-2.

2006 Orvar Löfgren and Richard Wilk, “Introduction.” Ethnologia Europea. Journal of European Ethnology, 2005:1-2.

2006 “Consumer Culture and Extractive Industry on the Margins of the World System.” In Consumer Cultures: Global Perspectives, edited by John Brewer and Frank Trentmann, Berg Publishers. Pp. 123-144.

2006 “Economic and Ecological Anthropology and the Study of Consumer Culture.” Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities, Beijing, 27(6): 29-37.

2005 (with Persephone Hintlian) “Cooking on Their Own: Cuisines of Manly Men.” Food and Foodways 13(1-2): 159-169.

2005 L. A. Michaelis and Richard R. Wilk, “Consumption and the Environment,” in Social and Cultural Development of Human Resources, from Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net] [Retrieved December 7, 2005]

2005 “The Ecology of Global Consumer Culture.” In The Environment in Anthropology, edited by Nora Haenn and Richard Wilk, NYU Press.

2005 “Colonialism and Wildlife in Belize.” Belizean Studies 27(2):4-12.

2004 “Miss Universe, the Olmec, and the Valley of Oaxaca.” Journal of Social Archaeology 4(1):81-98.

2004“The Extractive Economy: An Early Phase of the Globalization of Diet.” Review 27(4):285-306.

2004 “Poems on the theme of ‘Gleaning,’ and 12 photographs of recycled consumer culture in West Africa.” Consumption, Markets, Culture 6(3): 183-205.

2004 “Morals and Metaphors: The Meaning of Consumption.” In Elusive Consumption, edited by Karin Ekström and Helene Brembeck. Berg Publishers. Pp. 11-26.

2004 “The Binge in the Food Economy of Nineteenth-Century Belize.” In Changing Tastes: Food Culture and the Processes of Industrialization, edited by Patricia Lysaght. Basel: Verlag der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde. Pp. 110-120.

2004 “Questionable Assumptions about Sustainable Consumption.” In The Ecological Economics of Consumptiony, edited by Lucia Reisch and Inge Røpke, Current Issues in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar (Cheltenham UK). Pp. 17-22.

2003 “Colonial Time and TV Time: Television and Temporality in Belize.” In Television: Critical Concepts, edited by Toby Miller, Routledge. Pp. 418-430. (reprint)

2003 “Moral och metaphor: Konsumtionens mening.” Kulturella Perspektiv: Svensk etnologisk tidskrift 12(1):14-23.

2003 “How Big a Tent? A Commentary on The Uncertain Sciences by Bruce Mazlish” History of Human Sciences 16(2): 158-164.

2003 Julie Zimmer and Richard Wilk “What Archaeologists Really Think: A Survey of Attitudes and Values in Archaeological Practice.” In Archaeology into the New Millenium: Public or Perish, edited by B. Cripps, R. Dickau, L.J. Hartery, M. Lobb, D.A. Meyer, L. Nicholls, and T. Varney, The Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, Calgary. Pp. 198-208.

2002 “When Good Theories Go Bad: Theory in Economic Anthropology and Consumer Research.” In Theory in Economic Anthropology, edited by Jean Ensminger, Altamira Press: Walnut Creek. Pp. 239-250.

2002 “Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize.” In Media Worlds, edited by Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin, University of California Press: Berkeley. Pp. 171-186.

2002 “Culture and Energy Consumption.” In Energy: Science, Policy and the Pursuit of Sustainability, edited by Robert Bent, Lloyd Orr, and Randall Baker. Island Press: Washington. Pp. 109-130.

2002 “Consumption, Human Needs, and Global Environmental Change.” Global Environmental Change 12(1): 5-13.

2002""It's Destroying a Whole Generation": Television and Moral Discourse in Belize." The Anthropology of Media, edited by Kelly Askew and Richard Wilk, Blackwell. Pp. 286-298. (Reprint)

2002 “Learning to Be Local in Belize: Global Systems of Common Difference." Development: A Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Susanne Schech and Jane Haggis, Blackwell. (Reprint)

2001 “Towards an Archaeology of Needs." In Anthropological Perspectives on Technology, edited by Michael Schiffer. University of New Mexico Press. Pp. 107-122.

2001 “”Consuming Morality.” Journal of Consumer Culture 1(2): 245-260.

2001 “Food and Nationalism: The Origins of "Belizean Food."” In Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies, Warren Bellasco and Philip Scranton Ed. Routledge: New York. Pp. 67-89.

2001 “Houses as Consumer Goods: Social Processes and Allocation Decisions.” In D. Miller Ed. Consumption: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. Vol. 2. Pp. 133-154 London: Routledge. (Reprint)

2001 “The Impossibility and Necessity of Re-Inquiry: Finding Middle Ground in Social Science.” Journal of Consumer Research 28(2): 308-312.

2001 “Consumer Goods as Dialogue about Development.” In D. Miller Ed. Consumption: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences Vol 3.Pp. 34-53. London: Routledge. (Reprint)

2000 “The Joys and Perils of Being Transdisciplinary.” Society for Economic Anthropology Newsletter. 20(1):10-14. Online at: http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/transdisciplinarity.htm

2000 “Consuming America.” In Anthropology and Middle Class Working Families. Mary Overbey and Kathryn Dudley, eds., American Anthropological Association: Arlington VA. Pp. 106-109. (reprint from Anthropology Newsletter)

1999 Norman Hammond, Sheena Howarth and Richard Wilk "The Discovery, Exploration, and Monuments of Nim Li Punit, Belize." Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, No. 40, Center for Maya Research, Washington, D.C.

1999 “Quality of Life: An Anthropological Point of View.” Feminist Economics 5(2):91-93.

1999 "Whose Forest? Whose Land? Whose Ruins? Ethics and Conservation." Science and Engineering Ethics 5(3): 367-374.

1999 "Real Belizean Food": Building Local Identity in the Transnational Caribbean. American Anthropologist. 101(2): 244-255.

1998 (with Priscilla Stone) " Introduction to A Very Human Ecology: Celebrating the Work of Robert McC. Netting." Human Ecology 26(2): 175-188.

1998 “Emulation, Imitation, and Global Consumerism.” Organization & Environment 11(3): 314-333.

1998 Elizabeth Babcock and Richard Wilk "International Travel and Consumer Preferences among Secondary School Students in Belize, Central America." Caribbean Geography 8(1): 32-45.

1997 "Emerging Linkages in the World System and the Challenge to Economic Anthropology." in Economic Analysis Beyond the Local System, Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 13. Richard Blanton, Peter Peregrine, Deborah Winslow, and Thomas Hall, eds., University Press of America. Pp. 97-108.

1997 (with K. Anne Pyburn) “Archaeological Ethics.” Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Volume 1. Academic Press. Pp. 197-207.

1997 "Preface to the Paperback Edition." Household Ecology. DeKalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press. Pp I-xx.

1997 (with Stephen Miller) "Some Methodological Issues in Counting Communities and Households." Human Organization 56(1): 64-71.

1997 "A Critique of Desire: Distaste and Dislike in Consumer Behavior." Consumption, Markets & Culture 1(2):175-196.

1997 "Emulation and Global Consumerism." in Environmentally Significant Consumption. Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change, National Research Council. National Academy Press. Washington, DC. Pp. 110-115.

1996 "Sustainable Development: Practical, Ethical, and Social Issues in Technology Transfer." In Traditional Technology for Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Asian-Pacific Region. Kozo Ishizuka, Shigeru Hasajima, and Darryl Macer, eds., University Of Tsukuba. pp. 206-218.