Paul Durrenberger - Department of Anthropology

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Paul Durrenberger

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

epd2@psu.edu

Education

B.A., University of Texas Austin, 1964

M.A., Washington State University, 1966

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1971

Websites

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/e/p/epd2/

Professional Bio

Paul Durrenberger directing backhoe in Icelandic: Archaeological Survey Project, N. Iceland 2007

Research Activities and Interests

Labor unions in the U.S., globalization, modern and Medieval Iceland, archaeology of Medieval Iceland, highland and valley groups of Mainland Southeast Asia, fisheries and fisheries policy, agricultural policy and practice, noncapitalist and capitalist economic systems, stateless societies, states, cognitive anthropology, religion, the relationships among political and economic forms and ideological and cognitive systems, economic anthropology, historical processes, applied anthropology.

Courses Taught

ANTH 045 Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 450W Comparative Social Organization
ANTH 453 Anthropology of Religion
ANTH 455 Global Processes and Local Systems
ANTH 448 Ethnography of the United States
ANTH 560 History of Anthropological Theory

Recent Publications

Books

2005. (with Suzan Erem) Class Acts: An Anthropology of Urban Workers and Their Union. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
2006. (With Judith Martí) Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York. AltaMira.
2007. (with Suzan Erem) Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the21st Century. Boulder, Paradigm Publishers.
2008. On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston Five. New York. Monthly Review Press.
(see video and discussion at ontheglobalwaterfront.org).
2010. (With Suzan Erem) Paradigms for Anthropology: An Ethnographic Reader. Paradigm Publishers.
2010. (With Suzan Erem) Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century, Second Edition. Boulder, Paradigm Publishers.
2010. Author, Editor. (With Karaleah S Reichart, Editor) The Anthropology of Labor Unions. University Press of Colorado

: Paul Durrenberger in the field

Articles

2005. Economic Anthropology. IN Encyclolpedia of Social Measurement. Vol 1:723-732.
Labour. IN A Handbook of Economic Anthropology.James G. Carrier, Editor. Cheltenham, UK andNorthampton, MA, Edward Elgar. 125-140.
2005. (With Suzan Erem) Checking for Relationships Across Domains. Field Methods Vol 17(2):150-169.
2005. (With Suzan Erem) Staff, Stewards, and Strikes: Labor’s Communication Gap. Journal of Anthroological Research. Vol 51(2):179-200.
2007. The Anthropology of Organized Labor. Annual Reviews of Anthropology
Vol. 36: 73-88.
2007. (With Suzan Erem) The Turkish Elections -- What's at Stake . . . and What Isn't. Monthly Review. June 2007
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/ed130607.html.
2008 (With Dimitra Doukas) Gospel of Wealth, Gospel of Work: Hegemony in the U.S. Working Class. American Anthropologist 110 (2):1548-1433.
2009 The Last Wall to Fall: The Anthropology of Collective Action and Unions in the Global System. Journal of Anthropological Research. 65(1).

Paul Durrenberger with sculpture in Ankora, Turkey, 2007

: Suzan Erem and Paul Durrenberger, Iceland 2007