CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Eugene A. Hammel

Jan  2007

PERSONAL DATA:

                  Date of birth:                                               18 March 1930

                  Place of birth:                                             New York, N.Y.

 

                  University addresses:                                Department of Demography

                                                                                          (510) 642-1256, -9800*

                                                                                          University  of California

                                                                                          Berkeley, California 94720

                                                                                                                                                                  *messages

                                                                                          electronic mail: gene@demog.berkeley.edu

                                                                                          FAX:  (510) 643-8558

 

EDUCATION:

A.B. in Anthropology with Highest Honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1951.

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1959. (Wealth, authority and prestige in the Ica valley, Peru)

 

LANGUAGES:

German, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian (speaking, reading, writing)

Latin, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovak (limited reading ability)

 

MAJOR FIELDS OF INTEREST:

Social structure and kinship.

Social theory.

Techniques of empirical analysis (formal and logical, statistical, computer).

Theory and philosophy of explanation.

Stratification, ranking, and mobility.

European peasant society (particularly Balkan).

Anthropological linguistics.

Demography, particularly historical and anthropological demography.

 

TEACHING FIELDS:

General anthropology.

Kinship and social structure.

Social theory.

Formal analysis.

European peasant culture.

Data analysis, computing.

Demography

 

COURSES TAUGHT:

University of New Mexico, 1958-59 to 1960-61

Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

South American Archaeology

Osteology

Mestizo Cultures of Latin America

University of California, Berkeley, 1959, 1961 ->

Introduction to Archaeology

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Introductory Graduate Seminar in Physical Anthropology, Archaeology

Introductory Graduate Seminar in Social-Cultural Anthropology

Peasant Cultures of Europe

Mestizo Cultures of Latin America

European Peasant Society

Seminar on Peasant Society

Social Structure  

Graduate Seminar in Formal Methods

Kinship

Seminar in Recent Developments in Anthropological Theory

Seminar on Religious Movements

Social Theory

Culture History of Eastern Europe

Seminar on Historical Demography

Introductory Graduate Course in Statistics

Seminar on Research Design

Anthropological Data Analysis

Lab in Anthropological Data Analysis

Seminar on Computing

Seminar on Analysis of Field Data

Practical Computer Use

Lab in Practical Computer Use

Demographic History of Homo Sapiens (With N. Howell)

Anthropological Demography

Advanced Demographic Methods (with K. Wachter)

Empirical analysis of gender roles in academic anthropology

Cultural factors in demographic behavior

Introduction to social science computing

The American Immigrant Experience (with C. Mason and J. Gjerde)

 

FIELD WORK:

Excavations in the Sacramento and Napa Valleys, California, Summer, 1947 and intermittently thereafter to 1959.

Phonology of Big Valley Pomo, California, Summer, 1950.

Serbo-Croatian and Albanian kinship terminology among  immigrants in California, 1955-56.

Ethnohistory and social structure of the Ica Valley, Peru, 1957-58.

Survey of fishing communities on the Peruvian coast, 1958.

Chiricahua and Navaho archaeology, intermittently during 1960.

Patterns of consumpton of alcoholic beverages among various  ethnic groups in the Southwest, Summer, 1961.

Patterns of compadrazgo in Aguacatenango, Chiapas, Mexico,  November, 1962.

Ritual kinship in Jugoslavia, Summer, 1963.

Social networks and mobility in urban locations in Jugoslavia, 1965-66.

Ritual kinship in Greece, Spring, 1966.

Color lexicon in Romanian, Fall, 1973.

Examination of historical demographic records in Slovenia, Croatia, Austria and Hungary, Summer 1983, Fall 1984, Summer 1985, Summer 1988.

 

RESEARCH IN RESIDENCE:

Maya morphology, 1949.

Burmese phonology and morphology, 1949-50.

Zu–i phonology, 1950 (with Leslie Sanchee, Kroeber's Zu–i informant).

The nationalistic movement in Jugoslavia, 1952.

Kinship terminology in Old Church Slavic, 1955.

Ceramics of the Ica Valley, Peru, 1956-57.

Osteometry of the skeletal materials collected by Kroeber in Peru in 1925-26, as assistant to T. D. McCown, 1950-51.

Preceramic lithic horizons of South America with E. P. Lanning, 1959-60.

Developmental cycle of the family in the Ica Valley, Peru, 1960.

Social ranking in the Ica Valley, Peru, 1960.

Patterns of endogamy and exogamy in the Ica Valley, Peru, 1962.

Intrasocietal diffusion and the sociology of entropy, 1962.

Structure of parallel cousin marriage among the Arabs, 1962.

Computer analysis of problems in kinship and social structure, with  J. Gilbert, 1963-65.

Transformational analyses of Uto-Aztecan kinship, 1963-64.

Transformational and componential analyses of Iroquois, Dravidian, Crow-Omaha, and Arunta kinship, 1964.

Jugoslav urbanization, 1964-65.

History of formal semantic analysis, 1965.

Social mobility and kinship networks, 1966-73.

Mediaeval Serbian tax rolls and census documents, 1969-81.

Computer simulation of demographic and social processes, 1971- .

Student flows in graduate education, 1971-79.

Postdoctoral employment in Anthropology, 1973-75.

Demographic structures in large organizations, 1978-82

Age, cohort and period analyses of intellectual productivity, 1978-83.

Sex ratios in the historical U.S., 1978-83.

Demography of 19th century Serbia, 1979-82.

Demography of 19th century Ainu, 1982-87.

Age estimation from dentition for demographic surveys, 1982-89 .

Historical demography of Slavonia and the Croatian Military Border, 1983- .

Historical demography of Prussia, 1985 -2000.

Gender roles in academic anthropology, 1984-1990.

Demographic processes in biological and cultural evolution, 1986-.

 

EDITORIAL WORK:

Co-editor (with M. Baumhoff), Papers of the Kroeber Anthropological Society, 1955.

Editorial Committee, University of New Mexico Press, 1960-61.

Assistant Editor, Abstracts of New World Archaeology, 1961-62.

UCPAAE Board of Editors, 1961-62.

Assistant Editor, Biennial Review of Anthropology, 1962-63.

Associate Editor, American Anthropologist, 1962-65.

Editorial Committee, UC Press, 1963-65.

Editor, Special Issue of the American Anthropologist on Formal Semantic Analysis, 1965.

Co-editor, Addison-Wesley Modular Series in Anthropology, 1970-74.

Editor, Academic Press Studies in Anthropology, 1971-85.

Editor, Language, Thought and Culture:  Advances in Cognitive Anthropology (Academic Press) 1971-85.

Associate Editor:  Studies in East European Social History, 1971-82.

Editor, Population and Social Structure:  Advances in Historical Demography (Academic Press) 1978-85

Associate Editor, Historical Methods, 1980-85.

Co-editor, University of California Press Series in Population, 1985-94.

Co-editor, Cambridge University Press, Themes in the Social  Sciences, 1985-90.

Editorial Board, Medical Anthropology, 1986-90.

Editorial Board, Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, 1988-98.

 

Reviewer: American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Demography, Population Studies, Demographic Research, and other journals.

 

PUBLICATIONS: (NB Serbo-Croatian diacritics have been removed)

 

No.

Year

Title

 

1

1950

California mountaineering folklore.  Notes and Queries. Western Folklore 9:158-159.

2

1955

A mountain climberÕs song.  Notes and Queries.  Western Folklore 14:208-210.

3

1956

Review:  The Little Community, by Robert Redfield.  (E.H. & P. J. Pelto.)  Kyklos 1:125-26.

4

1956

An unusual burial from Contra Costa County.  UC Archaeological Survey, Papers in California Archaeology 46:47-54.

5

1957

Serbo-Croatian kinship terminology.  With an appendix on Albanian terms.  Papers of the Kroeber Anthropological Society 16:45-75.

6

1958

Sobre el concepto de horizonte en la arqueolog’a peruana.  (J. C. Muelle, E. P. Lanning, and E.H.) Anales de la Universidad de San Marcos, pp. 72-74.

7

1960

Some models for the analysis of marriage-section systems. Oceania 31:14-30.

8

1960

Review: Paracas, Nazca, and Tiahuanacoid cultural relationships in south coastal Peru, by W. D. Strong.  American Anthropologist 62: 3:45-46.

9

1960

Review:  Wesen and Ordnung der altperuanischen Kulturen, by M. Uhle.  American Anthropologist 62:722-24.

10

1960

Recent studies of the archaeology and folk cultures of South America.  Proceedings of the Sixth Regional Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies of the Pan American Union, pp. 68-69.

11

1961

The family cycle in a coastal Peruvian slum and village.  American Anthropologist 63:989-1005.

12

1961

Early lithic industries of western South America. (E. P. Lanning & E. H.)  American Antiquity 27:139-154.

13

1962

Social rank and evolutionary position in a coastal Peruvian village.  Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 18:199-215.

14

1962

Wealth, authority, and prestige in the Ica Valley, Peru. University of New Mexico Publications in Anthropology 10. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press.  (Revision of doctoral dissertation.)

15

1962

A survey of fishing communities on the coast of Peru. (E.H. & Y. D. Haase).  UC Anthropological Records 21:2.  Berkeley, University of California Press.

16

1962

Review:  Hualc‡n:  Life in the highlands of Peru, by W. Stein.  Science 136:644.

17

1962

Review:  The people of Aritama, by G. Reichel-Dolmatoff.  New Mexico Quarterly 32:1:81-83.

18

1962

Review:  Seljačke obiteljske zadruge . . . .  American Anthropologist 64:426-427.

19

1963

A corrected model for patrilateral cross cousin marriage. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 19:287-296.  (A. D. Coult & E.H.)

20

1963

Review:  Data quality control . . . . , by R. Naroll.  Journal of the American Statistical Association 85:303:835-836. (F. Mosteller &  E. H.)

21

1963

A study of drinking patterns in several southwestern ethnic groups. Report of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Licensed Beverage Industries, p. 21.  (E. H. & E. Nolan)

22

1964

Territorial patterns of endogamy and exogamy in the Ica Valley, Peru.  American Anthropologist 66:66-74.

23

1964

Some characteristics of rural village and urban slum populations on the coast of Peru.  Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 20:346-358.

24

1964

Further comments on componential analysis.  American Anthropologist 66:1167-71.  Reprinted in Readings in kinship and social structure (Nelson Graburn, ed.), pp. 285-88.  New York: Harper and Row, 1971.

25

1964

Review:  Sturgeon hooks of Eurasia, by G. de Roheim-Csermak. American Anthropologist 66:698-699.

26

1964

Culture as an information system.  Papers of the Kroeber Anthropological Society 31:83-91.

27

1964

Employment of Berkeley doctoral recipients and candidates 1967-1974.  (E.H. and V. Aldrich).  Report to the Dean of the Graduate Division, Berkeley.  MS.

28

1965

Introduction.  Formal Semantic Analysis.  Special Issue of the American Anthropologist 67:5:2:1-8.  Revised and reprinted in Kinship (J. R. Goody, ed.), pp. 316-327.  Penguin Modern Sociology Readings, 1971.

29

1965

A transformational analysis of Comanche kinship terminology. Formal Semantic Analysis.  Special Issue of the American Anthropologist 67:5:2:65-105.

30

1965

An algorithm for Crow-Omaha solutions.  Formal Semantic Analysis, Special Issue of the American Anthropologist 67:5:2:118-126.

31

1965

Preface.  Formal semantic analysis.  Special Issue of the American Anthropologist 67:5:2:v-vi.

32

1965

Review:  The ceque system of Cuzco, by R. T. Zuidema.  American Anthropologist 67:780-785.

33

1966

Computer analysis of problems in kinship and social structure. (J. Gilbert & E. H.).  American Anthropologist 68:71-93.

34

1966

Nacrt ispitivanja društvene pokretljivosti i njenog uticaja na medjulične odonose.  Sociologija 8, 3:105-120.  Belgrade.

35

1966

A factor theory for Arunta kinship terminology.  UC Anthropological Records, vol. 24.

36

1966

Rejoinder to Coult.  American Anthropologist 68:1483-1488.

37

1967

The Jewish mother in Serbia.  Papers of the Kroeber Anthropological Society, Special Publication No. 1, Essays in Balkan Ethnography (W. Lockwood, ed.), pp. 55-62.

38

1967

Sexual symbolism in flatware.  Papers of the Kroeber Anthropological Society 37:23-29.  Reprinted in Anthropology: the study of  people.  (J. Friedl, ed.), pp. 311-314.  New York, Harper & Row, 1977.

39

1968

Anthropological explanation:  style in discourse.  Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 24:155-169.

40

1968

Alternative social structures and ritual relations in the Balkans.  Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice-Hall.

41

1968

Review:  Kinship and marriage, by Robin Fox.  American Anthropologist 70:972.

42

1969

The Balkan peasant:  a view from Serbia.  In Peasants in the modern world (Phillip K. Bock, ed.), pp. 75-98.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press.

43

1969

Structure and sentiment in Serbian cousinship.  American Anthropologist 71:285-293.

44

1969

Observations on the intellectual history of ethnology and other social sciences in Yugoslavia.  (J. Halpern & E. H.)  Journal of Comparative Studies in Society and History 11:17-26.

45

1969

Economic change, social mobility, and kinship in Serbia. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 25:188-197.

46

1969

The pink yo-yo:  Occupational mobility in Belgrade ca. 1915-1965. Research Monograph No. 13, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

47

1969

Power in Ica:  the social history of a Peruvian valley.  Boston: Little, Brown & Company.  Revision of (14).

48

1969

Peck's archaeologist.  Papers of the Kroeber Anthropological Society 40:93-99.

49

1969

Comment on Involuntary Birth Control.  Science 164:1010, 30 May 1969.

50

1969

Obituary:  Theodore Doney McCown.  Papers of the Kroeber Anthropological Society 41:1-7.  Reprinted in part in the Annual Report of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 1970.

51

1970

The ethnographer's dilemma:  alternative models of occupational prestige in Belgrade.  Man 5:652-670.

52

1970

Man makes sense:  a reader in modern cultural anthropology. (E. .H. & W. S. Simmons.)  Boston:  Little, Brown & Co.

53

1970

Review:  Proper peasants, by Edit Fel and Tamas Hofer. American Anthropologist 72:1110-1111.

54

1970

Obituary:  Milenko S. Filipović.  (J. Halpern & E. H.)  American Anthropologist 72:558-560.

55

1971

Parallel cousin marriage. (E. H. & Harvey Goldberg.)  Man 6:488-489.

56

1971

Review:  A Slovenian village (by Irene Winner.)  Slavic Review 31:724-725.

57

1971

Review: