Education
1975 B.A. Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
1981 Ph.D. Social Science, University of California, Irvine
Dissertation: Cultural Evolution and the Organization of Work: Scarcity
and Resource
Management in an Alaskan Fishery
Research and Teaching Interests
I am interested in the influence of technological, ecological, and environmental factors on the organization of work, leisure, and cognition, particularly in groups in extreme and isolated environments. I have focused a major portion of my teaching and research program around the use of social network theories and methods for understanding social structure and organization. Recent substantive interests have focused on the relationship between cognition and social structure. The bulk of my research has focused on these concerns among the maritime peoples of the Pacific basin, espe-cially the insular Central Pacific, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the Antarctic, and coastal North America. Interdisciplinary in both training and orientation, I have had teaching experience in economics, anthropology, sociology, statistics, and Pacific studies.