Kathleen Musante DeWalt | Academic Influence

Kathleen Musante DeWalt's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Kathleen Musante DeWalt

Anthropology

#1461

World Rank

#1911

Historical Rank

#660

USA Rank

anthropology Degrees

Download Badge

Anthropology

Kathleen Musante DeWalt's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor's in Anthropology 2025

Why Is Kathleen Musante DeWalt Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Kathleen Musante DeWalt is an American academic who served as director of the Center for Latin American Studies – University of Pittsburgh and a Professor of Anthropology. She became Assistant Professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Behavioural Science in 1978, receiving her PhD from the University of Connecticut in 1979. She was promoted to Associate Professor at Kentucky in 1984, and full Professor in 1992. In September 1993, she moved to the University of Pittsburgh, serving as Chair of the Department of Anthropology from 1995 to 1996 and Associate Dean from 1996 to 1999. In 2001 she became director of CLAS.

(See a Problem?)

Kathleen Musante DeWalt's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Participant Observation: A Guide for Fieldworkers (2001) (2426)
The measurement of physical activity in young children. (1990) (109)
Nutrition and the commercialization of agriculture: ten years later. (1993) (70)
Meal Patterns of Older Adults in Rural Communities: Life Course Analysis and Implications for Undernutrition (1997) (64)
Growth differences between children of highland and coastal Ecuador. (1995) (63)
Influence of dietary quality on the growth of highland and coastal Ecuadorian children (2000) (50)
Nutritional strategies and agricultural change in a Mexican community (1983) (32)
STUDENT PRIZE PAPER: The Illnesses No Longer Understand: Changing Concepts of Health and Curing in a Rural Mexican Community (1977) (30)
Home gardening and food preservation practices of the elderly in rural Kentucky (1994) (29)
Income and dietary adequacy in an agricultural community. (1983) (27)
Shifts from maize to sorghum production (1990) (20)
Ecological correlates of dietary consumption and nutritional status in highland and coastal Ecuador (1993) (20)
The use of itemized register tapes for analysis of household food acquisition patterns prompted by children. (1990) (19)
Diet and nutritional status among cassava producing agriculturalists of coastal Ecuador (1994) (18)
Caretakers, child care practices, and growth failure in highland Ecuador. (2000) (16)
Nutrition and Agricultural Change in Southern Honduras (1987) (15)
Meal Patterns of the Elderly in Rural Kentucky (1993) (13)
Description of the Physical Activity of Young Children Using Movement Sensor and Observation Methods (1991) (13)
Agrarian Reform and Small-farmer Welfare: Evidence from Four Mexican Communities (1987) (8)
Chapter 12 – Stratification and Decision Making in the Use of New Agricultural Technology1 (1980) (8)
Dairy based production and food systems in Mejia and Salcedo (1990) (3)
Potato Production and Consumption in the Sierra of Ecuador: A Diagnostic Survey Conducted by the Nutrition and Agriculture Cooperative Agreement (1989) (2)
Research priorities for medical anthropologists in the 1980s (1984) (2)
Food consumption and production systems in the Cassava Program -- Manabi (1990) (1)
Proceedings of the Human Biology Association 25th Annual Meeting, April 10–12, 2000, Adam's Mark Hotel, San Antonio, Texas (2000) (1)
: Food in the Social Order: Studies of Food and Festivities in Three American Communities . Mary Douglas. ; Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity . Linda Keller Brown, Kay Mussell. (1986) (1)
Differential Agricultural Change in a Bicultural Community (1979) (1)
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN HEALTH AND NUTRITION SUSTAINABILITY : Technical Support for Policy , Financing and Management (2008) (0)
Incorporating Nutrition into Agricultural Research: A Case Study from Southern Honduras (2019) (0)
Food Energy in Tropical Ecosystems. Dorothy J. Cattle and Karl H. Schwerin, eds (1987) (0)
James Davies and Dimitrina Spencer , eds. Emotions in the Field: The Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. ix + 265 pp., index. (2013) (0)
Laurijon The Sociology of Food and Nutrition: Australian Perspectives, J. Germov, L. Williams (Eds.). Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, Newcastle, New South Wales 2308, Australia (1996), 68, softcover, $20.00 (Australian) ISBN 7259-09 (1997) (0)
Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post‐Soviet Cuba. P. Sean Brotherton. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 257 pp. (2013) (0)
Diet as adaptation: the search for nutritional strategies. (1981) (0)
Proceedings of the Human Biology Association 25(th) Annual Meeting, April 10-12, 2000, Adam's Mark Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. (2000) (0)
Editorial note: referees (2012) (0)
The Continuing Struggle for Maize. A Review of Elizabeth Fitting’s The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.) (2012) (0)
The Sage handbook of fieldwork – Edited by Dick Hobbs & Richard Wright (2007) (0)
Applied: The Anthropology of food in Rural Igboland, Nigeria.L. C. Okete. Lanham (1984) (0)
Indicators of nutritional status and food consumption for REE Baseline Surveys (Ecuador) (1989) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Diet and Domestic Life in Society. Anne Sharman, Janet Theophano, Karen Curtis, and Ellen Messer, eds (1992) (0)
The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship With Food Edited by John S. Allen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2012. 319 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐05572‐8. $29.95 (Paper) (2013) (0)
The International Sorghum/Millet Research Project (2019) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Kathleen Musante DeWalt

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Kathleen Musante DeWalt?

Kathleen Musante DeWalt is affiliated with the following schools: