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Anthropology

Index of SIL publications on Anthropology listed by country.

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General works

• Abbot, Elinor. 1997. Review of: Defeating Darwinism by opening minds, by Phillip Johnson.
• Abbot, Elinor. 1999. Review of: Languages and their speakers, Timothy Shopen, editor.
• Anderson, Heidi R. 1999. Review of: The creationists: the evolution of Scientific Creationism, by Ronald L. Numbers.
• Arnold, Dean E. 1987. "Anthropology and the future of the Summer Institute of Linguistics: What her critics can teach her."
• Beine, Dave and Kevin Pittle. 2009. "Hooked on the fish: the Christian sign of the fish (and co-option thereof) as symbolic capital."  
• Beine, David K. 1995. "It’s all relative, isn’t it?: Cultural relativism revisited."
• Beine, David. 2001. "Views about scripture: a key to a well-used book."
• Blackburn, Perry L. 1996. "Emic postmodernism."
• Bock, Philip K. 1974. "Social structure and language structure."
• Brinneman, Carol. 2007. "A notebook for the culturally blind."  
• Bruce, Kathleen. 1999. Review of: The pentateuch in its cultural environment, by G. Herbert Livingston.
• Buswell, James O. 1987. "Anthropological appraisal and missionary response."
• Clifton, John M. 1993. Review of: Color and color perception: a study in anthropocentric realism, by David R. Hilbert.
• Collins, Wesley M. 2003. Review of: Linguistic anthropology, by Alessandro Duranti.  
• Coward, David F., Barbara Moore and John S. Wimbish. 2003. "Application guide to Shoebox: anthropology."
• Coward, David, Barbara Moore and John Wimbish. 2000. The linguist’s shoebox: application guide for anthropology: integrated data management and analysis tool for the field linguist.
• Davis, Henry F. 1997. "Grasping the concept: Emics and etics in physical anthropology."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1991. Review of: Emics and etics: The insider/outsider debate, Thomas N. Headland, Kenneth L. Pike and Marvin Harris, editors.
• Franklin, Karl J., editor. 1987. Current concerns of anthropologists and missionaries.
• Fried, Heather Y. 1999. Review of: Economics, ecology, and the roots of Western faith: perspectives from the garden, by Robert R. Gottfried.
• Gordon, Kent. 1986. Review of: Bonding and the missionary task: Establishing a sense of belonging, by E. Thomas Brewster and Elizabeth S. Brewster.
• Grimes, Barbara D. 1995. Review of: Emics and etics: The insider/outsider debate, Thomas N. Headland, Kenneth L. Pike and Marvin Harris, editors.
• Grimshaw, Allen D. 1991. "Unawareness without ignorance: Unexploited contributions in sociology."
• Hansford, Gillian. 1998. Review of: Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology sponsored by Human relations area files at Yale University, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, editors.
• Hansford, Gillian. 1999. Review of: An introduction to theory in anthropology, by Robert Layton.
• Harris, Marvin. 1990. "Harris’s reply to Pike."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1996. "Does cultural relativism undermine human rights?."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1996. "Postmodernism and reason in the balance."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1996. Review of: Nurturing doubt: From Mennonite missionary to anthropologist in the Argentine chaco, by Elmer S. Miller.
• Headland, Thomas N. 1997. "Revisionism in ecological anthropology [with comments from others and reply by author]."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1997. Review of: Darwin’s black box: The biochemical challenge to evolution, by Michael J. Behe.
• Headland, Thomas N. 1999. Review of: Black Elk: holy man of the Oglala, by Michael F. Steltenkamp.
• Headland, Thomas N. 2004. "Pristine myth."
• Headland, Thomas N. and Doris E. Blood, editors. 2002. What place for hunter-gatherers in millennium three?.  
• Headland, Thomas N. and Robert C. Bailey. 1991. "Introduction: Have hunter-gatherers ever lived in tropical rain forest independently of agriculture?."
• Headland, Thomas N., Kenneth L. Pike, and Marvin Harris, editors. 1990. Emics and etics: The insider/outsider debate.
• Hiebert, Paul G. 1986. "Missions and anthropology."
• Hill, Harriet. 1999. Review of: The cultural factor in Bible translation, by Ernst R. Wendland.
• Hopkins, Stephanie. 1999. Review of: Fundamentalism and American culture: the shaping of twentieth century evangelicalism, 1870-1925, by George M. Marsden.
• Howell, Brian M. 1996. "Where and how to apply to graduate school: a personal testimony."
• Huttar, George L. 1996. Review of: Missionaries, anthropologists, and human rights, Thomas N. Headland and Darrell L. Whiteman, editors.
• Jennings, George. 1986. "Implications in Western psycho-cultural studies for cross-cultural mental pathologies and therapies."
• Kay, Paul, Brent Berlin, and William R. Merrifield, compilers. 1991. World color survey reports, microfiche index.
• Kraft, Charles H. 1986. "Worldview and Bible translation."
• Kraft, Charles H. 1987. "Missiology and SIL."
• Lander, James A. 1992. Review of: Language and the politics of emotion, Catherine A. Lutz and Lila Abu-Lughod, editors.
• Longacre, Robert E. 1993. "The universal and the culture-specific."
• Maranz, David. 1999. Review of: Patterns of thought in Africa and the west: essays on magic, religion and science, by Robin Horton.
• Mason, Ruth. 1997. "Ethnicity, gender, and vernacular literacy in the church."
• McClure, Leilani. 1982. Survey of creativity among spiritually aware people.
• McElhanon, Kenneth A. 2008. Review of: Anthropology of color: interdisciplinary multilevel modeling, Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick, editors.  
• McKinney, Carol V. 1996. Review of: Darwin on trial, by Phillip E. Johnson.
• McKinney, Carol V. 1999. Review of: Invitation to cross-cultural theology, case studies in vernacular theologies, by William A. Dyrness.
• McKinney, Carol V. 2000. "Primal religions."
• McKinney, Carol V. 2000. "Religious typologies."
• McKinney, Carol V. 2000. "Shaman, shamanism."
• Merz, Johannes. 2004. "From relativism to imagination: towards a reconstructive approach to the study of African witchcraft."
• Moore, Barbara. 1999. Review of: Understanding folk religion: a Christian response to popular beliefs and practices, by Paul G. Hiebert, R. Daniel Shaw and Tite Tienou.
• Moore, Thomas H. 1994. "Kuper’s Kalahari kaos."
• Moore, Thomas H. 1996. Review of: Thy will be done: The conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and evangelism in the age of oil, by Gerard Colby.
• Morren, Ronald C. 1992. Review of: Emics and etics: The insider/outsider debate, Thomas N. Headland, Kenneth L. Pike and Marvin Harris, editors.
• Scott, Claudia S. 1987. "Sowing the dragon teeth: a response to Stoll’s observations on SIL literacy."
• Shackelford-McLarren, Janet. 1999. Review of: The New Testament world: insights from cultural anthropology, by Bruce Malina.
• Sponsel, Leslie E., Robert C. Bailey and Thomas N. Headland. 1996. "Anthropological perspectives on the causes, consequences, and solutions of deforestation."
• Stipe, Claude E. 1987. "Criticisms of missionaries: Anthropological versus world-view issues."
• van Driem, George. 2007. "Austroasiatic phylogeny and the Austroasiatic homeland in light of recent population genetic studies."
• Vayda, Andrew P. 1998. "Anthropological perspectives on tropical deforestation?."
• Wakefield, David C. 1999. Review of: The age of missing information, by Bill McKibben.
• Webster, Jeffrey D. and Thomas N. Headland, compilers. 1996. "Selected annotated bibliography: Conflicts between missionaries and anthropologists and a review of missionaries reported involvements in human rights."
• Wise, Mary Ruth, Thomas N. Headland and Ruth M. Brend, editors. 2003. Language and life: essays in memory of Kenneth L. Pike.
• Woodward, G. Tomas. 1999. Review of: The art of fieldwork, by Harry F. Wolcott.
• Woodward, G. Tomas. 2000. "Why use the OCM in fieldwork?."
• Woodward, G. Tomas. 2008. "FieldWorks data notebook: software for writing digital fieldnotes."  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• Abbot, Elinor. 1986. "Cultural aids for translators: The ANQR charts."

Côte d’Ivoire

• Hill, Harriet S. 1987. "Are you doing anthropology research or not?."

Kenya

• Payne, Doris L. 2003. "Maa color terms and their use as human descriptors."

Madagascar

• Sussman, Robert W., Glen M. Green and Linda K. Sussman. 1996. "The use of satellite imagery and anthropology to assess the causes of deforestation in Madagascar."

Mozambique

• Floor, Karen. 2004. "Sobre a morte e os rituais mortuários entre os Mwani."
• Leach, Rhoda Martyn. 2003. "O sistema matrilinear Makonde."

Nigeria

• Mohrlang, Roger. 1968. "How anthropological study aided language learning."

Sudan

• Arensen, Jonathan E. 1987. "Anthropologists’ attitudes toward religion: Implications for SIL."

Togo

• Nicole, Marie-Claire. 1993. "Lieux sacres chez les nawdba."

Americas

Bolivia

• Key, Mary R. 1964. "Resin-glazed pottery in Bolivia."
• Olson, Ronald D. 1985. Review of: Anthropological insights for missionaries, by Paul G. Hiebert.
• Priest, Robert J. 1987. "Anthropologists and missionaries: Moral roots of conflict."

Brazil

• Headland, Thomas N. 2001. "When did the epidemic begin?."
• Meader, Robert E. 1978. Indios do Nordeste: Levantamento sobre os remanescentes tribais do nordeste brasileiro.
• Moran, Emilio F. 1996. "Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon."
• Sheffler, E. Margaret. 1986. "Polyvalent consultants—anthropologically speaking."

Colombia

• Frank, Paul S. 1986. "Cultural learning styles."

Ecuador

• Kaplan, Jonathan E., James W. Larrick, and James A. Yost. 1980. "Infectious disease patterns in the Waorani, an isolated Amerindian population."
• Larrick, James W., James Yost and C. Gourley. 1985. "Markers of genetic variation among the Waorani indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon headwaters."

Guatemala

• Grunlan, Stephen A. and Marvin K. Mayers. 1979. Cultural anthropology, a Christian perspective.
• Headland, Thomas N. 1999. Review of: Rigoberta Menchu and the story of all poor Guatemalans, by David Stoll.
• Mayers, Marvin K. 1976. A look at Latin American lifestyles.  
• Mayers, Marvin K. 1977. "Participant observation and cognitive studies."
• Neuenswander, Helen L. 1985. "Report of Latin America Area Anthropology Consultants’ Meeting (Brasilia, July 1985)."

Honduras

• Abrams, Elliot M. and others. 1996. "The role of deforestation in the collapse of the late classic Copán Maya state."

Mexico

• Bradley, C. Henry and Karl J. Franklin. 1986. "Anthropological training in SIL."
• Casad, Eugene H. and Thomas L. Willett, editors. 2000. Uto-Aztecan: structural, temporal, and geographic perspectives: papers in memory of Wick R. Miller by the friends of Uto-Aztecan.
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 1969. "A note on concepts of political geography."
• Merrifield, William R. 1968. Review of: The rise of anthropological theory, by Marvin Harris.
• Merrifield, William R. 1970. Review of: Kinship and social organization and Marriage, family and residence, by Paul Bohannon and John Middleton, editors.
• Merrifield, William R. 1979. "Bildung in Minoritätsgruppen."
• Merrifield, William R. 1979. "Ethik der christlichen Mission."
• Merrifield, William R. 1987. "On the ethics of Christian mission."
• Merrifield, William R. 2009. Insufficient land: the fortunes of the Tlatepuzcan Chinantecs of San Juan Palantla 1928-2005.  
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1979. "Christianity and culture 1: Conscience and culture."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1979. "Christianity and culture 2: Incarnation in a culture."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1979. "On the extension of etic-emic anthropological methodology to referential units-in-context."
• Robinson, Dow F. 1962. "The Indian church in a sponsor-oriented society."
• Schram, Judith L. and Philip J. Lauver. 1988. "Alienation in international students."
• Townsend, Elaine M. 1948. "Accelerating literacy by piecemeal digestion of the alphabet."
• Weitlaner, Roberto J. and Searle Hoogshagen. 1960. "Grados de edad en Oaxaca."

Peru

• Chávez, Margarethe S. 1985. "Guilt and shame in cross-cultural perspective."
• Powlison, Paul. 1975. "La cosmovisión: Elemento clave en la comunicación de ideas."
• Wise, Mary Ruth and Eddy Riggle. 1981. "Mathematical terminology and instruction in basic mathematical concepts among ethnic groups of the Peruvian Amazon."

United States

• Abbot, Elinor. 1989. Transformations: the reconstruction of social hierarchy in early colonial Andover, Massachusetts.
• Casad, Eugene H. and Thomas L. Willett, editors. 2000. Uto-Aztecan: structural, temporal, and geographic perspectives: papers in memory of Wick R. Miller by the friends of Uto-Aztecan.
• Franklin, Karl J. 2008. Review of: Beyond racial gridlock: embracing mutual responsibility, by George Yancey.
• Oh, John J. 1999. Review of: Summer for the gods: the Scopes trial and America’s continuing debate over science and religion, by Edward J. Larson.
• Speirs, Randall H. 1979. "Nambe Pueblo."

Venezuela

• Headland, Thomas N. 1999. Review of: Who speaks for Yanomami?, by Frank A. Salamone.
• Headland, Thomas N. 2001. "When did the epidemic begin?."

Asia

India

• Alcorn, Janis B. and Augusta Molnar. 1996. "Deforestation and human-forest relationships: What can we learn from India?."
• Jeffery, Susan. 1986. "Purdah."

Indonesia

• Franklin, Karl J. 2000. Review of: Perspectives on the bird’s head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Proceedings of the conference Leiden, 13-17 October 1997, Jelle Miedema, Cecillia Odé and Rien A. C. Dam, editors.

Israel

• Willett, Elizabeth Ann R. 2002. "Infant mortality and family religion in the Biblical periods."

Malaysia

• Combrink, Hans J. B., compiler, and others. 2008. Indigenous groups of Sabah: an annotated bibliography of linguistic and anthropological sources. Part 1: author Index.  
• Combrink, Hans J. B., compiler, and others. 2008. Indigenous groups of Sabah: an annotated bibliography of linguistic and anthropological sources. Part 2: ethnic group index; topical Index.  

Pakistan

• Baart, Joan L. G. and Ghulam Hyder Sindhi, editors. 2003. Pakistani languages and society: problems and prospects.
• Radloff, Carla F., editor, and others. 2002. An outline for cultural research = Saqafati, tahqiqi ainah.

Philippines

• Berreman, Gerald D. 1992. "The Tasaday: Stone Age survivors or Space Age fakes?."
• Bodley, John H. 1992. "The Tasaday debate and indigenous peoples."
• Fraiser, Douglas Meredith. 2007. Loggers, settlers, and tribesmen in the mountain forests of the Philippines: the evolution of indigenous social organization in response to environmental invasions.
• Headland, Thomas N. 1974. "Anthropology and Bible translation."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1984. "Neofunctionalism: a reflection of bias in the book, Is God an American?."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1987. "The wild yam question: How well could independent hunter-gatherers live in a tropical rain forest ecosystem?."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1992. "Conclusion—the Tasaday: a hoax or not?."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1992. "Introduction—background: a historical review."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1993. "The Tasaday ‘cave people’."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1999. "Managing the natural resources of the Sierra Madre: what is the role of the Agta."
• Headland, Thomas N. and Janet D. Headland. 1997. "Limitation of human rights, land exclusion, and tribal extinction: The Agta Negritos of the Philippines."
• Headland, Thomas N. and Janet D. Headland. 2007, 2009. Agta Demographic Database: chronicle of a hunter-gatherer community in transition.  
• Headland, Thomas N. and Lawrence A. Reid. 1989. "Hunter-gatherers and their neighbors from prehistory to the present."
• Headland, Thomas N. and others. 2001. "Do hunter-gatherers need supplemental food sources to live in tropical rain forests? Yes: Thomas N. Headland. No: Serge Bahuchet, et. al.."
• Hemley, Robin. 2005. "Laurie Reid's importance to the Tasaday controversy."
• Iten, Oswald. 1992. "The ‘Tasaday’ and the press."
• Salazar, Zeus A. 1992. "Third and final footnote on the Tasaday."
• Sponsel, Leslie E. 1992. "Our fascination with the Tasaday: Anthropological images and images of anthropology."

Pacific

Australia

• Hargrave, Susanne. 1986. "Symbolism and sacramentalism."
• Hargrave, Susanne. 1988. Doing anthropology.
• Hargrave, Susanne. 1991. Whitefella culture.
• Ray, Michael J. 1982. Review of: Annual review of anthropology, vol. 10, Bernard Siegel, Alan R. Beals and Stephen A. Tyler, editors.
• Sayers, Barbara. 2001. Review of: Why warriors lie down and die: towards an understanding of why the Aboriginal people of Arnhem land face the greatest crisis in health and education since European contact, by Richard Trudgen.

Papua New Guinea

• Bradley, C. Henry and Karl J. Franklin. 1986. "Anthropological training in SIL."
• Dye, T. Wayne and William R. Merrifield. 1977. "Anthropology."
• Dye, T. Wayne. 1974. "Stress-producing factors in cultural adjustment."
• Dye, T. Wayne. 1976. "Toward a cross-cultural definition of sin."
• Dye, T. Wayne. 1987. "On the ethics of evangelism."
• Firchow, Irwin B. and Jacqueline Firchow. 2008. The Rotokas people of Bougainville Island.  
• Franklin, Karl J. 1986. "Unicorns and ‘hidden peoples’."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1987. "Anthropology: But why the concern?."
• Franklin, Karl J., Joice A. Franklin and Yapua Kirapeasi, compilers. 2006-. A Kewa dictionary, with supplementary grammatical and anthropological materials.  
• Healey, Alan. 1973. "Comments on ‘Verbal associations in the analysis of subjective culture,’ by Lorand B. Szalay and Bela C. Maday."
• Litteral, Robert L. 1964. How anthropological and linguistic analysis illuminates Paul’s use of redemptive terms.
• Logan, Peter F. and T. Wayne Dye. 1984. "Physics for anthropologists?."
• Shaw, R. Daniel. 1970. "Fossil man: Ancestor or descendant of Adam?."
• Shaw, R. Daniel. 1972. "Why genetic variation between New Guinea communities? (Migration-dispersion model applied)."
• Townsend, Patricia K. 1987. "Saniyo-Hiyowe 1966-1986: Evaluating the SIL presence."