Journals and Editorial Boards
Member, Advisory Editorial Board for Anthropology & Humanism  (1993-99 ).
Consulting Editor for Archaeoastronomy (1984-).
Member, Editorial Board for Perspectives:  Anthropology, St. Paul: Coursewise Publishing Inc.  (1999) 
Reviewer for Choice (1992-3) in areas of Southwestern Native Americans, anthropology, and folklore.
Reader for refereed journals, continuing as requested:  e.g., Anthropology and Humanism   (since 1990), American Ethnologist  (since 1979), Current Anthropology  (since 1977),  Journal of American Folklore(since 1977), American Indian Culture and Research Journal   (since 1989), Medical Anthropology QuarterlyNative American Quarterly  (since 1989),  Steward Anthropology Journal  (1979-85 only).

 
 
 
Anthropological Interests
Aesthetic & Visual Anthropology Folklore Theory and Method
Ceremonialism & Ritual Play Theory
Ethnoastronomy (Cultural Astron.) Semiotics and Symbolic Anthro.
Ethnographic Theory and Method Southwestern American Indians
Ethnomedicine Southwestern Indian Art
Expressive Culture Theory & History of Anthropology


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Professional Association Memberships (F=Fellow)
American Anthropological Association (F) 
American Ethnological Society 
American Folklore Society
American Society for Ethnohistory
Authors Guild
California Folklore Society
International Soc. for Archaeoastronomy & Astronomy in Culture (founding member)
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
Society for Cultural Anthropology (F)
Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Southwestern Anthropological Association
Traditional Cosmology Society (United Kingdom)

 
Travel and Languages
Travel:  Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, and Wales.
Languages:  Mescalero Apache, Italian, Spanish - read, write, speak minimally. ìSurvival skillsî in Flemish (Nederlands/Dutch) and Swedish. (ìSurvival skillsî  include 100-200 words, 5 or 6 sentence/question frames sufficient to read and order from  menus, find and take trains, exchange greetings, etc. By no means does it mean much compentency.)

 
 
Courses Taught (g=graduate, ug=undergraduate)
Aesthetics and Philosophies in the Contemporary Southwest (ug)
American Communities and Their Problems [not my title] (ug)
Anthropological Study of Verbal Art (g/ug)
Applied Anthropology (g/ug)
Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism of Anthropological Texts (g)
Ceremonialism (g)
Cosmos and Cosmology: Archaeo/Ethnoastronomy of Non-Western People (g/ug)
Critical Ethnology (g)
Cultural Images of Women (ug)
Culture and Society in the Southwest: Folklore, Communication, and Cultural Performance (g) (with Dr. V.L. Levine at Colorado College)
Ethnographic Field Theories and Methods (g/ug)
Ethnography Then and Now (g)
Ethnology of Dance (g/ug)
Ethnoreligion (g)
Field School in Ethnographic Research and Writing (g/ug)
Folklore Theory as Applied in North America (g)
Frontier in Theory and Praxis (g)
History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (g/ug)
Honors Thesis in the Major (ug)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (honors ug)
Introduction to Folklore (g/ug)
Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion [not my title] (ug)
Native American Ceremonialism (g)
Native North Americans (ug)
Play as Communication (g/ug)
Play Theory and Theorists (g)
Representational Authenticity (g)
Semiotics (g)
Southwestern Art and Material Culture (g) 
Southwestern Ethnology (g/ug)
The American Southwest: Heritage and Variety (ug) (with Dr. V.L. Levine at Colorado College)
Topics in Women's Studies (tutorials)



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