CURRICULUM VITAE

Murray J. Leaf

Februrary 25, 2008

Personal:

1939 Born in New York, New York. Raised in Tucson, Arizona.

1957 U.S. Army Reserve Active Duty, six months through December.

Active and Inactive Reserves through December 1964.

Honorable discharge 1964 as corporal, armor (supply)

Married, no children

Tel: (972) 883-2732

email: mjleafATutdallas.edu (change AT to @)

U T Dallas web page: http://www.utdallas.edu/~mjleaf/

Academic Degrees:

B.A. Reed College, Philosophy, Spring 1961

M.A. University of Chicago, Anthropology. Spring 1963.

Ph.D. University of Chicago, Social Anthropology. September 1966

Fellowships, Scholarships, Honors and Research Grants:

1960‑61 Reed College: Partial tuition scholarship

1962‑63 University of Chicago: Tuition scholarship

1963 Elected Fellow of Social Science Research Council (declined support)

1963‑66 NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship

1964‑66 NIMH Supplementary Research Grant for field work.(Punjab, India)

1968‑69 Faculty Research Grants from the Academic Senate, University of California, Los Angeles Division, for Computer Analysis of Productive Strategies in a Punjabi Village.

1969‑70 Wenner‑Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant #2475, to aid computer reconstruction of cultural ecology of agricultural village, Punjab, India

1970 Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California at Los Angeles, for write‑up of computer study.

1972 Faculty Research Grant from the Academic Senate, University of California, Los Angeles Division, for assistance in preparing history of anthropology

1979 NIMH Small Grant: Socio‑Economic Change in a Panjabi Village

1979‑80 Several U.T. Dallas Faculty Organized Research Grants for processing data on economic change in a Panjabi village

1986 Participated in NEH Seminar for College Teachers: "Ethics, Authority, and the Legal Profession." Directed by Austin Sarat. Amherst College. June 23 ‑ August 15.

2004 Best paper of the Meetings and Best Paper of the Symposium on Cultural Systems awards for the paper: “The Message is the Medium: Language, Culture and Informatics” In Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 1. (Proceedings of the 17^th European Meetings of Cybernetics and Systems Research). Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies.

2004 “Profiling Murray Leaf” Article in the Culture and Agriculture section of the Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association, May 2004: 46-47.

2006 Best Paper of Symposium prize for “The Structure of Cultural Information Systems and Communicative Probabilities.” in Cybernetics and Systems, Volume 1, Proceedings of the 18^th European Meetings of Cybernetics and Systems Research, sponsored by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. Vienna, Austria. Pp 289-294.

Research:

May 1964- Feb 1966. Field research for doctoral dissertation conducted in Punjab, India. Research director was Professor David M. Schneider, University of Chicago. The problem was to analyze semantic and legal content of marriage rituals in the context of a systematic village ethnography. The purpose was to show that ceremonial participants make mutual commitments based on rational self‑interest, and that the ceremonial was a complex contract that expressed these interests rather than simply an economically destructive manifestation of "tradition."

1968‑71 Project to develop computer analysis of Indian village ethnographic material, UCLA. Project developed a comprehensive profile of the resources of each villager and each household, listing all land, house units, cattle, and tools as well as kinship and other social commitments. This made it possible to assess the results of specific types of decisions, such as specific mixtures of crops, under specifiable assumptions at both individual and house‑hold levels-- for example, for different household sizes. The main technical problem the study resolved was in combining my own ethnographic census and social surveys with the data in the official land revenue records, which are comprehensive and have the force of law. The solution involved a series of computer programs, yielding a single comprehensive data file that could be accessed by the SPSS package (or its newer successors.)

1975‑76 Developed analysis of The University of Texas at Dallas student body for the UTD Accreditation Self‑Study. The study utilized all current student transcripts as data, and sought the correlates of course and major enrollment and good or bad performance in the various programs of the University.

1978 Summer restudy of Sidhupur Kalan. Return to the village studied in 1964‑66 to assess the effects of the "green revolution" and discuss possible larger scale projects in the future. Because of high level of village interest, this developed into a research project by itself. The study replicated the original census (but included more information on tools and housing), obtained a new land record, and recorded the histories of the major social and economic changes in the village (adoption of new crops, building of new wells, building a new school, refurbishing the village Sikh Temple, and other public and private projects.

1979‑80 Re‑application of 1968‑7l computer analysis to construct new data files to assess the changes in the intervening period, and to determine the strategies, at the household level, that brought them about and that respond to them.

Summer 1985 Visit to Sokoto state, Nigeria, to review the Sokoto Agricultural Development Project (World Bank), at invitation of M. S. Gill, Project Director.

1990-93. Designed and assisted in supervision of Flood Response Study, study #14 of the Flood Action Plan, sponsored by 26 donor countries and agencies and coordinated by the World Bank to establish planning and policy priorities for flood protection in Bangladesh. See employment, next section.

October 12-Nov 20, 1992. Study and theoretical analysis of local social development for Social Development Unit, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan. See employment, below.

Employment:

1961 Research Assistant to Samuel Moment (consulting economist in light metals), Portland, Oregon.

1961‑62 Research Assistant to Sol Tax, University of Chicago.

1962 Research Assistant to D. M. Schneider, University of Chicago (NIMH Project on Study of Dream Content).

1964‑65 Honorary Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India.

1966 Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Chicago, Downtown Center.

1966‑67 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College, Claremont, California.

1967‑75 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UCLA

1975‑81 Associate Professor of Anthropology and Political Economy, The University of Texas at Dallas.

1981-present. Professor of Anthropology and Political Economy, The University of Texas at Dallas.

July 87‑July 89. On leave from UT Dallas. Appointed as Social Scientist, Louis Berger International Inc., to serve as Senior Social Scientist on Irrigation and Water Management and Training Project, Government of India/ United States Agency for International Development. India.

Sept-Jan 89-Consultant to Irrigation Management and Training Project, USAID/India, to analyze areas of possible organizational and procedural change to improve irrigation management in Tamilnadu State, India. Under contract to Louis Berger International, Inc.

Dec 12, 1990 - Nov 1993--Senior Socio-Economist for Government of Bangladesh/USAID Flood Response Study (FAP-14). The study was one of four USAID sponsored components of the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan. The Flood Action Plan was a 26-nation effort to develop a coordinated and effective plan for dealing with floods in Bangladesh. The purpose of the Flood Response Study was to describe the general adaptation of social and economic life and organization to the conditions of the flood plain, to serve as a basis for future planning and assessment. The flood response study covered about 8,090 households in 30 villages, with a detailed survey of a stratified sample of 2,264 of them. My work included the original survey design, participation in staff training and pretesting, drawing the sample, data base design and management, initial data analysis, drafting and/or redrafting major sections of the report dealing with household evaluations, responses, and farm management, part of editing of final draft report, and participation in initial and final workshops.

October 12-Nov 20, 1993. Consultant to United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan. My responsibility was to edit and contribute to a volume intended to lay out, in a series of volumes of studies, a general theoretical approach to the analysis of local self-organizing capabilities (for development). Specific duties included writing my own theoretical/analytical section of the first volume, writing country sketches to provide background to the case studies for Sri-Lanka, Thailand, Korea, and Japan, and editing all the actual case studies contributed by the local authors. The countries included were Papua-New Guinea, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Thailand, Korea, and Japan. The draft was completed during the consultancy but never finalized because I could not get the contributors to make enough of the needed revisions. Internal changes in the leadership of the UNCRD were also relevant.

Languages:

French: good, spoken and written

Punjabi: good spoken, fair written

Hindostani: fair spoken, fair written

Some ability to read and speak Italian, Spanish, German, and Japanese, but not up to the minimum USFS standard.

Computer Skills:

Basic hardware knowledge of personal computers.

Can read and modify programs in PL‑1 and Fortran.

Can write programs in BASIC and Dbase.

Considerable experience with Dbase in constructing and managing data bases.

Knowledgeable with spreadsheets, word-processing, and utilities.

Research Interests:

My fundamental interest is in the relationship between human thought and human social organization--more specifically in thought, including decision making, as an aspect of organization and vice versa. This plays itself out in specific concerns with the following:

Social organization, social and economic development.

Communication and information theory.

History and epistemology of social science.

Comparative law, law and development, the relation between legal philosophy and social philosophy.

Rural sociology and irrigation sociology. Farm systems. Farm management.

South Asia: politics, social organization, history and culture, particularly as they affect development.

Irrigation sociology.

Irrigation and development.

Courses Taught:

Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology of Religion

World Religions

Economic Anthropology

Development theory

Human Resources and Development

Kinship Analysis

Kinship and Social Organization

History of Anthropology

Introduction to South Asia

Social Anthropology

Comparative Law

Sociology of Law

Making of the Modern World

Local Social Development.

Fundamentals of Development.

Culture, Ethics and Public Responsibility

Issues and Theories in Development

Law and Development

Interviews on Public Media.

2001 October 3 UTD Public Panel on Terrorism. Lecture on South Asian Background to Sept 11.

2001 November 1 Interviewed by Dan Potter (WBAP radio) on South Asian background to Sept. 11.

2001 November 5-9. Interviewed each morning by Dan Potter in his morning news and talk show on Pakistan ethnic, religious, and political situation. 6 am.

2002 May 28 Interviewed by Michael Rey, Texas Cable News Network, on possibilities of war between India and Pakistan. This was apparently broadcast that night and as part a further special broadcast over the weekend, with interviews of a Pakistani

2002 May 31 Interviewed by Lance Liguez, WBAP radio, on likelihood of war and explanation for current tension in Kashmir.

2003 April 23. Interviewed on Channel 4 (Fox) morning show on significance of anti-American content in Shiite celebrations of martyrdom of Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq, the previous day and at the time of the broadcast.

Papers Presented at Meetings and Colloquia (partial list):

1966 "Party Organization in Sidhupur Kalan: A Sikh Village in Panjab." Paper presented at Monday Seminar of School of Oriental and African Studies, London (7 March).

1966 Paper of same title, revised, presented for discussion to Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.

1968 "Computer Analysis of Ethnographic Materials: An Indian Example." Paper on Panel of Special Research Reports II, annual meeting of American Anthropological Association (November).

1968 "The Sikhs: Sikhism and the Organization of Irrigation." Paper presented in Symposium on Religion and Social Change, annual meeting of Association for Asian Studies, New York.

1969 Participation in two‑day Conference on Problems of Economic Change, in association with Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, Philadelphia.

1969 "A Semantic Map of Panjabi Kinship Terms." Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (November).

1970 "The Panjabi Subah: Linguistic Autonomy and Panjabi Agricultural Development." Paper on South Asia panel at Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Oaxtepec, Mexico (June).

1970 "Ecological Adjustment and Political Behavior in Panjab, India." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Nov.).

1971 "Social Organization and Hopi and Navaho Dreams." Paper presented at Colloquium at Cedars‑Sinai Medical Center (May).

1971 "Peasant Motivation, Ecology, and Economy in Panjab." Paper presented in panel on Peasant Motivation and Economic Behavior, annual meeting of Association for Asian Studies, New York (April).

1972 "The American English Kinship Terminology as a Semantic System." Paper presented at annual meeting of American Anthropological Association (November).

1972 "Formal Analysis of American English Kinship." Presentation by invitation at Conference on Kinship Analysis under auspices of Mathematics in the Social Sciences Board, National Science Foundation. Conference Directors were D. Kronenfeld and H. Gladwin, University of California, Riverside (December).

1973 "Information Systems, Rituals, and Behavior." Paper presented to departmental colloquium, State University of New York, Binghamton (December).

1974 "Seeing Economics in a Panjabi Village." Paper presented at Wednesday Colloquium, California Institute of Technology (October).

1974 "Kinship Terminologies as Self‑Teaching Structures." Paper presented at annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, Mexico City (November).

1975 "Economic Implications of the Language Issue: A Local View in the Panjab." Paper presented at annual meeting of Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco (March).

1976 "Two Directions in Metatheory." Paper in Symposium on New Directions in Metatheory, annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. (November).

1980 "The Green Revolution in a Panjab Village, 1965‑1978." Paper presented at annual meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C. (March). (I also organized the panel, titled "Indian Socio Economic Development: Theoretical Surprises and Practical Lessons.")

1980 "Taxation and Social Values." Paper presented on panel titled "Beyond Urban Anthropology." Annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. (December).

1981 "Land Ceilings, Incentives to Production, and Family Structure." Presented on Panel titled Land Ceilings in India: Issues and Predictions. W. C. Neale, organizer. 10th Annual Conference on South Asia, U. of Wisconsin. Nov 6‑8.

1981 "The Representatives of Society: Local Groups that Seem to Stand for a "Wider" Whole." Annual Meetings of The American Anthropological Association. Symposium on Rural‑Urban Linkages. December.

1982 "The Poor and Social Policy in Rural Punjab" Presented on panel on "Pro‑poor Policies in South Asia", Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting. Chicago. March.

1982 "The Green Revolution in the Indian Development Framework." invited paper in conference on Independent India: the First 35 Years sponsored by The Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, U. C. Santa Cruz. June 25‑27.

1983 "The Organizations of Cities". Invited paper in panel on new theoretical approaches in urban anthropology, XIth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Quebec Canada, August 13 ‑ 18.

1984 Discussant on panel of restudies of South Asian villages. B. S. Cohn, chairman. 13th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

1985 Discussant on panel on Reemergence of Minority Problems in South Asia in the 1980's. Paul Wallace, chairman. 14th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

1986 "Singer, Kant, and the Semiotic Self." presented in panel "Semiotics, Self, and Society." Annual meetings, American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia. December.

1986 "Demography and Law in Punjab Family Structure." in panel on "Family and Household Structure Over Time: Four Restudies." 15th Annual Conference on South Asia. University of Wisconsin.

1987 "Economic Development and Religious Reaffirmation in India: Panjab and Kashmir." Invited lecture, Kellogg Food and Values Speaker Series, Carleton College, Northfield Minn. January 27.

1987 "Academic Paradoxes" Honors' Convocation Address. UTDallas. May 15, 1987.

1988 "Irrigation Sociology and the Four F's" Seventh World Congress for Rural Sociology. Bologna, Italy. July 1.

1989 "Irrigation Sociology and Irrigation Management" Keynote paper in VIth Training of Trainers Program for the Irrigation Management and Training Program. Rajasthan Agricultural University, Udaipur. June.

1989 "Basic Concepts of Irrigation Sociology." paper for VIth Training of Trainers Program, Udaipur, as previous.

1989 Conducted informal seminar on alternative theoretical approaches to understanding local development for staff United Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan. Feb 3-4.

1990 "Self-Organization Capability of Local Communities" Invited Theme Paper (one of three) for First Expert Group Meeting of United Nations Centre For Regional Development, Yokohama and Nagoya, Japan. Feb. 3-9.

1990 "Avoidance of Hierarchy in Rajasthan Canal Management" paper in panel on Irrigation and Stratification. Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association. 2 December.

1990 Served as coordinator of Second Expert Group meeting on Local Self-Organizing Capabilities, United Nations Center for Regional Development. Nagoya Japan. Dec 5-12. Agreed to edit three volumes to be developed in these meetings.

1991 "Elements of Sustainability in Local Development" Invited Theme Paper in Plenary Session of Twentieth Anniversary Commemorative Program, United Nations Centre For Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan. 8 November.

1991 Discussant in invited Symposium: Formal Models in Anthropology: Past Successes and Future Directions. Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association. Chicago, November 23.

1992 "The Anthropology of Departments of Irrigation" paper in panel on Water in South Asia--Too Little and Too Much: How to Manage It. Annual Meetings, Association for Asian Studies. April 4, 1992.

1994 "Overview of Local Self-Organizing Capability." Lead paper for Expert Group Meeting, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan, January 25-February 1, 1994.

1997 The Physical Farm Budget, an Evolved Indigenous Optimizing Algorithm. Paper presented on panel Computing the Future of Culture: New Approaches to Understanding Cultural Dynamics. American Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings. Invited Session #127. November 20, 1997.

1997 David Schneider’s Idealism. Invited Paper in a panel on the Influence of David M. Schneider on Anthropological Theory. Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Association, April 5, 1997.

1998 Pragmatism, Positivism, and Legal Realism: A Real Difference Within an Unreal Difference. Paper Presented on Invited Panel on Pragmatism and New Approaches to Socio-Legal Studies, Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association, Snowmass, Colorado, June 4.

1998 David Schneider’s Idealism, Relativism, and the Confusion of Kinship. Invited Paper in a panel on the Influence of David M. Schneider on Anthropological Theory. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, November 1998.

2001 Instantiating South Asian Factions: the Instructions are in the Definitions. Paper presented in panel titled Cultural Idea Systems: Logical Structures and the Logic of Instantiation. I was also co-organizer of this panel and one related panel making up a half-day symposium, with Dwight Read (UCLA).]

2002 “What is “Formal” Analysis?” Paper presented in invited panel on Cultural Systems in the 16^th European Conference on Cybernetics and Systems Theory, Vienna, Austria, April 2-5, 2002.

2002 “Biotechnology, Ethics, and Sustainability.” Concluding presentation at the workshop for Biology teachers titled Biotechnology: Potential and Challenge, August 1, TAMU, Dallas.

2002 “Action Anthropology in Action in Irrigation” in panel on Irrigation Systems and Cultural Theory for Culture and Agriculture Section, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, LA. Nov. 2002. I was also the panel organizer.

2004 “Walter C. (Terry) Neale.” Invited remarks at Memorial meeting at the Annual Meetings of the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. October 24, 2004. Professor Neale was a leading institutional economist, dealing with South Asia.

2004 “The Message is the Medium: Language, Culture and Informatics” Paper presented in Symposium F, Cultural Systems, at the 17^th European Meetings of Cybernetics and Systems Research, sponsored by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. Vienna, Austria 16 April 2004. Paper was awarded the Best Paper of Meeting prize and the Best Paper of Symposium prize.

2005 “The physical farm budget: simulating an indigenous simulation.” Presented in a panel titled: Not Just Heuristic: Simulation models as experiments. Meetings of the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Santa Fe, NM, Feb. 23-27, 2005. I also organized the panel.

2005 “Bandkeramik, Jats, Anabaptists and Amish: the Persistence of Agricultural Tribes.” In Invited Panel: Intensive Agricultural Communities I: Independence autonomy and community. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D. C. Nov. 30-Dec. 4. I was also co-organizer of the panel, with Barbara Dilly.

2006 “The Structure of Cultural Information Systems and Communicative Probabilities.” Paper presented in Symposium F, Cultural Systems, at the 18th European Meetings of Cybernetics and Systems Research, sponsored by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. Vienna, Austria 18-21 April 2006. Paper was awarded the Best Paper of Symposium prize.

2006. “Experimental Elicitation of Kinship: from field to algebra.” Presented in panel on Precision and Power in Anthropological Sciences.” Meeting of the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Savannah, GA, Feb 22-25. Mulberry Hotel. I also organized the panel.

2007 “Empirical Formalism” Paper presented on panel on formal methods in anthropology, Annual Meetings of the Society for Anthropological Sciences, San Antonio, Texas. 22-24 Februrary, 2007.

2007 Organized panel titled “The Theoretical Implications of Agriclulture as Such.” at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D. C. Nov 28-Dec 2.

2007 Presented paper titled “Diversity in Farm Management in a single Cultural-Ecological Frame.” in panel The Theoretical Implications of Agriclulture as Such.” at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D. C. Nov 28-Dec 2.

Major Project Papers, Irrigation Management and Training Project:

1988 Rajasthan Organizational and Procedural Changes: Working Paper. This was plan to reorganize the Rajasthan Irrigation Department to make it more responsive to farmers.

1989 Maharashtra Organizational and Procedural Change: Working Paper. This was plan to reorganize the Maharashtra Irrigation Department to make it more responsive to farmers.

1989 "Measures to Activate Farmers' Organizations." Technical Report No. 27-A. Irrigation Management and Training Program. USAID/GOI. June.

1989 Tamil Nadu Organizational and Procedural Change: Working Paper. December. This was plan to reorganize the Tamil Nadu Irrigation Department to make it more responsive to farmers.

1994 Final Report: Flood Response Study (FAP 14). I helped edit the whole, and wrote several of the chapters and sections.

Bibliography:

1961 Critical Analysis of W.V.O. Quine's "The Two Dogmas of Empiricism". B.A. Thesis, Reed College.

1963 "Age" in Purum Social Structure. M.A. Paper, University of Chicago.

1964 "Muddled Metatheory," in Anthropology Tomorrow, IX:3. University of Chicago.

1966 Ideas, Rites, and Action in Sidhupur Kalan: A Sikh Village in the Panjab. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.

1967 Review of Caste and Kin in Nepal, India, and Ceylon. edited by Cristoph Von Furer‑Haimendorf, in Journal of Asian Studies, 26:4:726‑728.

1968 Review of Sociology for India. by T.K.N. Unnithan et al., in American Anthropologist.

1968 Review of The Andaman Islanders, by Lidio Cipriani, in Journal of Asian Studies, 27:3:652‑653.

1971 "Baking and Roasting: A Compact Demonstration of a Cultural Code," in American Anthropologist, 70:5:1046.

1971 "The Panjabi Kinship Terminology as a Semantic System," in American Anthropologist, 73:3:545‑554.

1972 Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (South Asian edition published by Oxford University Press, Ltd.)

1972 "Peasant Motivation, Ecology, and Economy in Panjab," in Contributions to Asian Studies, Vol. III, edited by K. Ishwaran. Sponsored by Canadian Association for South Asian Studies. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

1973 Review of Rationality, edited by Bryan Wilson, in American Anthropologist, 75:2:393‑395.

1974 Frontiers of Anthropology. Senior author and editor, with B.F. Campbell, C. Cronin, G. DeVos, W.A. Longacre, M. McClaran, F.T. Plog, J. H. Prost, and R. Wagner. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company.

1974 Review of The Wild Man Within, edited by E. Dudley and M. E. Novak, in Journal of Modern History, 46:2:341‑343.

1974 Review of When a Great Tradition Modernizes, by Milton Singer, in American Anthropologist, 76:3:6l5‑6l6.

1975 "Baking and Roasting" reprinted in The Nacerima: Readings in American Culture. James P. Spradley and Michael A. Rynkiewich, eds. Boston and Toronto: Little Brown and Co.

1975 Review of Kinship and Urbanization, by Sylvia Vatuk, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 95:2:346‑347.

1975 "Documenting Social Change: Two Approaches." Review essay in Reviews in Anthropology, edited by Pelto and Pelto, Vol. 2:1:97‑104.

1976 “Economic Implications of the Language Issue: A Local View in Panjab," in Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. 14:2:197‑203.

1977 Review of Images of Man, by Anne Marie de Waal Malefijt, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

1977 Review of Authority and Influence in Two Sikh Villages, by Harjinder Singh, in Journal of Asian Studies, 36:5:161‑162.

1978 Review of A History of Ethnology, by F. Voget, in ISIS, 69:1:246.

1978‑79 Review of Class and Power in a Panjabi Village, by S. Ahmad, in Pacific Affairs, 51:4:682‑684.

1979 Man, Mind, and Science: A History of Anthropology. New York: Columbia University Press.

1979 Review of Kinship in Bengali Culture, by R. Inden and R. Nicholas, in American Ethnologist, 6:1:175‑177.

1980 Review of Ideology and Everyday Life, by M. Silverman and S. Barnett, in American Anthropologist, 82:4:927‑928.

1981 "The Green Revolution in a Panjab Village: 1965‑1978," in Pacific Affairs Quarterly, 53:4:617‑625.

1981 Review of The Politics of Inequality, by Miriam Sharma and The Politics of Passion, by Harry Izmerlian, in American Anthropologist, 83:2:470‑471.

1981 Umo Historia da Antropologia. Portugese Translation of Man, Mind, and Science. by Waltensir Dutra and Sergio Tadeu de Niemayer Lamarao. Rio de Janeiro: ZAHAR Editores S. A.

1983 "The Green Revolution and Cultural Change in a Panjab Village, 1965 ‑ 1978." Economic Development and Cultural Change. 31:2:227‑270.

1983 Paperback edition of Man, Mind, and Science. Columbia.

1983 Review of Punjabi Kinship and Marriage. by P. Hershman. Pacific Affairs. 56:1:172-173.

1983 Articles on "Franz Boas," Lucien Levy‑Bruhl," "G. H. Mead," "E. E. Evans‑Pritchard," "Meyer Fortes," "Talcott Parsons," "A. R. Radcliffe‑Brown," A. L. Kroeber," and "W. I. Thomas." in Elizabeth Levine, Michael Held, James Vinson and George Walsh, eds., Thinkers of the 20th Century: A Biographical, Bibliographical and Critical Dictionary. London: Macmillan.

1984 Song of Hope: The Green Revolution in a Panjab Village. Rutgers University Press.

1984 "Useful Automated Data Bases" communication in Newsletter of Society for Economic Anthropology Summer 1984.

1985 Review of Concepts of Person: Kinship, Caste, and Marriage in India. Edited by Akos Ostor, Linda Fruzzetti, and Steve Barnett. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. In Journal of Asian Studies 44:2:438‑440.

1985 "The Punjab Crisis" in Asian Survey. 25:5:475‑498.

1985 Review of Actions, Norms, and Representations: Foundations of Anthropological Inquiry. L. Holy and M. Stuchlik. Contemporary Sociology - A Journal of Reviews. University of California Press. May. pp. 404-406.

1985 Review of The Rice Economy of Asia. R. Barker, R. W. Herdt. Journal of Asian Studies. 45:4:808-809.

1986 Review of Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860-1920. by M. B. Mcalpine. Journal of Asian Studies. 21:1-2:128-129.

1987 "Intensification in Peasant Farming: Panjab in the Green Revolution." Chapter in Farming Systems. Steve Brush and B. L. Turner III, eds. Guilford Press.

1987 Review of Twice Migrants: East African Sikh Settlers in Britain. by P. Bhachu. American Anthropologist: 89:1:164-164.

1988 Review of Agriculture and the Development Process: A Study of Punjab. by D. P. Caudhri and Ajit K. Dasgupta. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 36:3:603-608.

1989 "Singer, Kant, and the Semiotic Self." in G. Urban and B. Lee, eds. Semiotics, Self, and Society. Approaches to Semiotics. T. Sebeok, general editor. The Hague: Mouton. pp. 171-192.

1990 Review of Political Regimes, Public Policy and Economic Development: Agricultural Performance and Rural Change in the Two Punjabs. by Holly Sims. Journal of Asian Studies. 63:2:266-267.

1991 "There are no bullocks in the village any more." Punjab in Perspective: Proceedings of the Research Committee on Punjab Conference, 1987. Surjit S. Dulal and Arthur Helwig, eds. South Asia Series Occasional Paper No. 39, Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University. pp.78-84.

1991 Review of Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse. by Nicholas Thomas. Journal of Asian Studies. 50:1:121-122.

1991 Review essay: Stocking, George Jr. ed. Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology. and McGrane, Bernard. Beyond Anthropology: Society and the Other. In Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 27:3: 236-240.

1991 Review of McGrane, B. Beyond Anthropology - Society and the Other. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 27:3:236‑240.

1991 Review of Frederique Apffel Marglin and Stephen A. Marglin, eds., Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance. Journal of Asian Studies.50:4:895-896.

1992 Review of A. A. Goldsmith Building Agricultural Institutions - Transferring the Land Grant Model to India and Nigeria. Pacific Affairs. Spring V65 N1. P116-117.

1992 "Punjabi" (article) The Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume III: South Asia. Sponsored by the Human Relations Area Files. Paul Hockings, ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.

1992 "Irrigation and Authority in Rajasthan" Ethnology. April:115-132.

1994 "Indian Agriculture and Agrarian Communities: Two Studies" Review article on Athreya, V. et. al. Barriers Broken: Production Relations and Agrarian Change. and Thomas G. Walker and James G. Ryan, Village and Household Economies in India's Semi-Arid Tropics. Economic Development and Cultural Change. April. 42:647-53.

1994 Review of The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics. By Vandana Shiva. Pacific Affairs. (Spring 1994) 67:1:133-134.

1994 Review of The New Economics of India's Green Revolution. by Rita Sharma and Thomas Poleman. Pacific Affairs. 67:3:459-461.

1994 Review of Developing Rural India: Policies, Politics, and Progress. By Walter C. Neale. Economic Development and Cultural Change. Oct 1994 v43 n1 p231(7)

1996 "Agriculture and Farming Systems." In The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Vol 1:31-38. Human Relations Area Files, Yale University. New York: Henry Holt.

1997 Review of “India's Persistent Dilemma: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform.” Economic Development & Cultural Change July 1997 45:4:915-917.

1997 “Local Control Versus Technocracy: The Bangladesh Flood Response Study.” Journal of International Affairs, Summer 1997, 51, no. 1, 180-200. Columbia University Press.

1997 Review of Agricultural growth, rural poverty and environmental degradation in India - Rao, C. H. H. Economic Development and Cultural Change 45: (4) 915-921 JUL 1997

1998 Pragmatism and Development: the Prospect for Pluralist Transformation in the Third World. Westport: Bergen and Garvey.

1999 Review of Post-Green Revolution Rural Punjab: A Profile of Economic and Socio-Cultural Change. (1965-95). By B. I. Abbi and Kesar Singh. Chandigarh (India): Centre for Research and Rural and Industrial Development. Pacific Affairs 72:2:279-280.

1999 "Granthi" (article) in Encyclopedia of Sikhism. Panjabi University, Patiala. (note: The encyclopedia is dated 1995, actually seems to have been finished in 1998, but was not available until 1999.)

1999 “Namkaran” (Sikh name-giving) (article) in Encyclopedia of Sikhism. Panjabi University, Patiala. (note: The encyclopedia is dated 1995, actually seems to have been finished in 1998, but was not available until 1999.)

1999 Review of “Reviving a rural industry: Silk producers and officials in India and Bangladesh, 1880s to 1980s.” Economic Development and Cultural Change.48: (1) 219-224 OCT 1999

2000 “The Physical Farm Budget: An Indigenous Optimizing Algorithm” in Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory. 1:1. Nov. 2000. (This is an all-electronic journal that permits mathematically active simulations to accompany the articles in a downloadable form.)

2001 “Comment” on “Boas, Darwin, Science, and Anthropology,” by Herbert S. Lewis. Current Anthropology, 42:398.

2001 “David Schneider’s Idealism, Relativism, and the Confusion of Kinship.” In The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: the Legacy of David M. Schneider. Richard Feinberg and Martin Ottenheimer, eds. Urbana: U of Illinois Press.

2001 Frontiers of Anthropology. Senior author and editor, with B.F. Campbell, C. Cronin, G. DeVos, W.A. Longacre, M. McClaran, F.T. Plog, J. H. Prost, and R. Wagner. Originally published by Van Nostrand Company in 1974, it is to be republished in electronic form by Questia Media, Houston. (I have not actually seen this, but Questia said it would be coming out.)

2002 (or 2001) Ideas Rites and Action in a Sikh Village: Social Organization Reconsidered. First published by U of California press in 1979. Republished by Questia Media. This is on line.

2002 What is “Formal” Analysis? Cybernetics and Systems 2002: Volume 1:402-407. Robert Trapple, ed. Proceedings of the 16^th European Conference on Cybernetics and Systems Theory, Vienna, Austria, April 2-5, 2002.

2002 “The Green Revolution: South Asia” in Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. David Levinthal, ed. Berkener/Scribners Publications.

2002 “Agriculture: South Asia” in Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. David Levinthal, ed. Berkener/Scribners Publications.

2002 “Rice and Rice Agriculture” in Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. David Levinthal, ed. Berkener/Scribners Publications.

2003 “Ethnography and Pragmatism” in Alfonso Morales, ed. Renascent Pragmatism. Aldershot: Ashgate. Pp. 92:117.

2003 “Pragmatic Legal Norms” in Alfonso Morales, ed. Renascent Pragmatism. Aldershot: Ashgate. Pp. 72:91.

2004 “The Green Revolution” in The Encyclopedia of Environmental History. Shepard Krech III, J. R. McNeill and Carolyn Merchant, eds. New York and London: Routlege. Vol 2:615-619.

2004 “What is “Formal” Analysis?” In Mathematical Modeling and Anthropology: Its Rationale, Past Successes and Future Directions, published as special issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, the journal of the Austrian Society for Cybernetics and Systems Theory. Dwight Read, editor. Taylor and Francis.Vol. 35:2-3; 129-146.

2004 “Cultural Systems and Organizational Processes: Observations on the Conference Papers.” In Mathematical Modeling and Anthropology: Its Rationale, Past Successes and Future Directions, published as special issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, the journal of the Austrian Society for Cybernetics and Systems Theory. Dwight Read, editor. Taylor and Francis. Vol 35:2-3: 289-313.

2004 “The Message is the Medium: Language, Culture and Informatics” In Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 1. (Proceedings of the 17th European Meetings of Cybernetics and Systems Research).  Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. This paper was awarded the Best Paper of Symposium prize for its symposium and Best Paper of the Meetings Prize. 

2004 “Studying Mind by Simulation” Review article on cognitive modeling and neural networks. Reviews in Anthropology. 33:317-333. Lourdes Giordano, editor. Taylor and Francis.

2004 Agricultural Societies. In Encyclopedia of World History. David Levinthal, general ed. Berkshire Publishing Group. 1:52:59.

2004 Review of Land Reforms in India, Volumes 6, 7, and 8. In Pacific Affairs. Summer 2004: 77: 2.

2004 “Cross Cultural Data and Comparison” in Encyclopedia of Social Measurement. Academic Press. Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, editor.

2005 “On the Annual Meeting and Community Organization.” Column for Culture and Agriculture section in Anthropology News 46:4:44. (Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association.)

2005 “The Message is the Medium: Language, Culture and Informatics” Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, the journal of the Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies, Vienna. Dwight Read, Michael Fischer, and Stephen Lyon eds. Taylor and Francis. Volume 36:8:903-917. November, 2005.

2005 “Walter C. (Terry) Neale, 1925-2004.” Memorial article. Journal of Asian Economics. 16. pp 581-589. 4. July-August, 2005. With George Rosen (I was the primary author).

2006 “Romanticism, Meaning, and Science” in Language, Culture and the Individual: A Tribute to Paul Friedrich. LINCOM Studies in Anthropology. Catherine O’neil (University of Denver), Mary Scoggin (Humbolt University), and Kevin Tuite (U. of Montreal), eds. Munich: Lincom Europa. Pp. 9-23.

2006 “Law and Society” in Encyclopedia of Anthropology. James Birx, editor. Sage Reference.

2006 “Michael Cernea’s Excerpt: What it Means for Us.” Culture and Agriculture: 28:1: 10-16.

2006 “The Structure of Cultural Information Systems and Communicative Probabilities.” in Cybernetics and Systems, Volume 1, Proceedings of the 18^th European Meetings of Cybernetics and Systems Research, sponsored by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. Vienna, Austria. Pp 289-294.

2006 “Experimental Analysis of Kinship.” Ethnology. 45: 305-330. U. of Pittsburg Press. (Due to a backlog at the press, this was actually published in Dec. 2007)

2007 "Empirical Formalism." Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences: Vol. 2: No. 1, Article 2.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/socdyn/sdeas/vol2/iss1/art2

2008. Book Review of Researching the Culture in Agriculture: Social Research for International Development. Edited by Michael Cernea and Amir H. Kassam 2006. Oxfordshire: CABI Publishing. In Field Methods Vol 20:1: 96-103. Sage Publications.

Forthcoming Publications:

2009 Human Organizations and Social Theory. Urbana: U of Illinois Press.

200x “Lessons of 1984 and Since: Wrong, Right, and Missed.” To appear as chapter in. Lessons of 1984 (tentative title). Bhupinder Singh Mahal and Manmohan Singh Virk, eds.

2008 “Not God’s Truth, Just Razzle-Dazzle” Article in symposium on privatization of education. Anthropology News.

200x Indigenous Algorithms, Organizations, and Rationality. submitted to Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences. This will be part of a volume on new types of formal analysis in anthropology.

University Service, UTD (Partial list):

University‑Wide

1975‑77 Executive Director, UTD Accreditation Self‑Study. Coordinated committee activity and edited Self‑Study report.

1977‑78 Secretary, Academic Senate/Council. Member, President's Committee on Goals.

1978‑79 Secretary, Academic Senate/Council. Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Handbook. With John Kimmeldorf, redrafted Senate constitution and committee charges to bring them into a coherent system, pursuant to evaluation in accreditation self-study.

l98l‑83 Member, Committee on Educational Policy.

1982‑83 Member, Academic Senate; Member Academic Council; Secretary Academic Senate and Council; Member Committee on Qualifications of Academic Personnel.

1983‑87 Member, Academic Senate.

1984‑85 Member, Academic Council.

1983‑87 Member, Committee on Qualifications of Academic Personnel (two terms).

1984‑86 Member Clark Foundation Scholarship Committee.

1986‑87 Member, UTD Self‑Study Committee (Chaired undergraduate program review until going on leave, July 1987.)

1989-92 Member, Committee on Qualifications of Academic Personnel.

1989-1992. Member, Committee on Qualifications of Academic Personnel, UTD.

1989-90 Member, committee on freshman-sophomore program, School of Social Sciences.

1990-95 Member, committee on core curriculum, UTD.

1991-93 Member, Academic Senate, UTD.

1994-95 Member, Academic Senate and Council, UTD.

3+3 committee on evaluation of administrators.

CEP.

3+3 committee on affirmative action policy.

1996-98 Member, Academic Senate and Council, UTD.

1998-99 Member, Academic Senate, UTD.

1997-98 Member, UT Dallas Library Committee,

1998-2000 Chair, U T Dallas Library Committee (two terms).

2001-Spr 2004 Speaker of the U T Dallas Academic Senate (three terms). This entailed several additional ex-officio positions.

2001-2 Member, President’s Task Force on UTD Master Plan.

2004 Member, UTD Presidential Search Advisory Committee.

2004-2005 Member, Academic Senate, U T Dallas. Member, Academic Council. Chair, Committee on Facilities; Chair, Task force on Workload Strategies; Chair, ad hoc Committee on Signage, Member, Committee on Committees.

2006-present Speaker of the Faculty. This entails several ex-officio positions. Chair, Campus Facilities Oversight Committee.

May 2001-Present (multiple terms) Member U T System Faculty Advisory Council.

2005- Member, Executive Board of University of Texas System Faculty Advisory Council

2005- Co-Chair of Governance Subcommittee, University of Texas System Faculty Advisory Council

2007-8 Member, Search Committee for Dean of School of Engineering and Computer Sciences, U T Dallas.

2007-8 Member, Search Committee for Vice President for Enrollment Management, U T Dallas.

School of Social Sciences (School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences).

1975‑76 Chairman, College V Interdisciplinary Studies Committee. Faculty Advisor, Political Economy Program.

1976‑78 Member, Personnel Review Committee, School of Social Sciences. Chairman, Anthropology Faculty Search Committee.

1977‑78 Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and Graduate Curriculum Committee, School of Social Sciences.

1978‑79 Member, Personnel Review Committee, Faculty Recruitment Committee, Committee on Undergraduate Studies.

Spr.1978‑Sum. 1979 Co‑Master, School of Social Sciences.

Fall 1979‑Spring 1986 Master, School of Social Sciences.

Fall 1981 Chairman, Anthropology Search Committee.

1984‑87 Member, Social Sciences Personnel Review Committee.

1986‑87 Reviewed and reported on Political Economy advising system. Member of Committee on Graduate Study, Curriculum Review Committee, Theory Examination Committee.

1989-2001 Library coordinator, School of Social Sciences.

2004 Ad hoc committee for tenure review of Susan McElroy.

2004-07 Member MPA committee, Member PPPE program committee, Coordinator PPPE Development group.

Community Service (partial list):

1975‑76 Honorary Member, Board of Directors of Sikh Gurudwara Committee of Dallas and Fort Worth.

1984‑86 Adjunct Curator, Dallas Museum of Natural History.

1986-95 Member, Board of Directors, Research Committee on the Punjab.

1991-1996 Treasurer-Secretary, U T Dallas Chapter Texas Faculty Association

1996-2001 President, U T Dallas Chapter Texas Faculty Association

1994-2002 Member, editorial board, Regional Development Dialogue, the journal of the United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan.

2000- Member, editorial board, Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory. (online journal).

2003-4 President Elect, Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association.

2005-7 President, Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association.

2005-2007 Treasurer, Society for Anthropological Science, an independent scientific society incorporated in California.

2005-2007 Treasurer, Section for Anthropological Sciences of the American Anthropological Association and independent scientific society (formerly an interest group in the Association).

Professional Associations:

American Anthropological Association, Fellow.

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Fellow.

Law and Society Association, Member.

Society for Economic Anthropology, Member

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member

Texas Faculty Association (NEA affiliate), Member