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Peter W. Van Arsdale

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Peter W. Van Arsdale's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Colorado Boulder
Masters Anthropology University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelors Anthropology University of Colorado Boulder

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According to Wikipedia, Peter W. Van Arsdale is an American academic who retired as director of African Initiatives at the University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, where he also served as Senior Lecturer. He previously served as a senior researcher for eCrossCulture Corporation, based in Colorado. An applied cultural anthropologist, he has worked in E. Africa, S.E. Asia, the Balkans, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America, emphasizing community water resources, human rights, refugee resettlement, and humanitarian intervention. He is a noted author, journal editor, and former president of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology and known analytically for his “tree of rights” and his “theory of obligation.” He is co-founder of The Denver Hospice, and co-discoverer in 1974 of a band of previously uncontacted Citak people in Indonesian New Guinea. Since 1979, he has been a fellow of The Explorers Club. He currently serves as Affiliate Faculty Member at Regis University.

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Research methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and quantitative approaches (1996) (677)
Healing the Modern in a Central Javanese City. (2003) (23)
Population dynamics among Asmat hunter-gatherers of New Guinea: Data, methods, comparisons (1978) (18)
Humanitarians in Hostile Territory: Expeditionary Diplomacy and Aid Outside the Green Zone (2010) (7)
Activity Patterns of Asmat Hunter-gatherers: A Time Budget Analysis (2010) (4)
Book Reviews : Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (2nd edition), by H. Russell Bernard. Sage Publications, 1994, 584 pp: (1996) (4)
Death and Denial (2007) (3)
The Uprooted of the Western Sahel: Migrants' Quest for Cash in the Senegambia. (1983) (1)
LEARNING APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY IN FIELD SCHOOLS: LESSONS FROM BOSNIA AND ROMANIA (2008) (1)
Ethnography, the Life Course, and the Use of Event Calendars: A Research Note (1996) (1)
The Relevance of Refugees (1999) (1)
Triple-Crop Rice Farming in Java: (1995) (1)
Community-Level Perceptions and Outcomes of Water Source Development Projects in Timor-Leste: A Cross-Sectional Study (2015) (1)
Career Planning for Evaluation Anthropology (2008) (1)
The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging: Life Course and Personal Destiny in Niger (1998) (1)
A Method for Tracking Severely Emotionally Disturbed Children and Adolescents Through a State Mental Health System (2001) (1)
Treating Refugee Victims of Torture: The Rocky Mountain Survivors Program (1997) (1)
Guidelines for Training Now Available (1996) (0)
Book Review: Flight and Integration: Causes of Mass Exodus from Ethiopia and Problems of Integration in the Sudan (1989) (0)
Global Human Rights: People, Processes, and Principles (2016) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies. Edward L. Schieffelin and Robert Crittenden. (1992) (0)
Building Interagency Partnerships Curriculum: Instructor's Guide (2016) (0)
Applied Anthropology: The Boat People and Achievement in America: A Study of Family Life, Hard Work, and Cultural Values. Nathan Caplan, John K. Whitmore, and Marcella H. Choy (1990) (0)
Communication, Consideration and Context: A Commentary on Language Interpretation (2003) (0)
Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives (Book) (2002) (0)
Global Human Rights (2019) (0)
An Evaluation of the Foreign Language Placement Program at the University of Maryland. (1970) (0)
Treating Refugee Victims of Torture: Creation of the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center (1999) (0)
Anthropology Award Winners (2002) (0)
REHABILITATION, RESISTANCE, AND RETURN: SERVICE LEARNING AND THE QUEST FOR CIVIL SOCIETY IN BOSNIA:1-931303-16-9 (2008) (0)
Anthropological Argonauts (2019) (0)
Hazardous Field Operations: Romanian-American Joint Humanitarian Training (2016) (0)
Book Review: The Uprooted of the Western Sahel: Migrants’ Quest for Cash in the Senegambia (1983) (0)
Differences in Black Student Perceptions of the Communication Structure in a Predominantly White University. Research Report No. 6-70. (1970) (0)
The Vietnam Moratorium (Oct. 15, 1969): What Happened on One Campus. Research Report #1-70. (1970) (0)
Effective Partnerships or Dangerous Liaisons?: (605412010-001) (2010) (0)

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