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Richard Newbold Adams

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Richard Newbold Adams's Degrees

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

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Newbold Adams was an American anthropologist. His parents were Randolph Greenfield Adams and Helen Spiller Adams. He grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Adams served in the United States military during World War II, then pursued postsecondary education, obtaining a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1947, followed by a master's and doctoral degree at Yale University in 1949 and 1951, respectively. He worked in Peru and Guatemala before teaching at Michigan State University starting in 1956. Adams joined the University of Texas at Austin faculty in 1961. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1973, and was named the Rapoport Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts prior to his retirement in 1990.

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Energy and Structure: A Theory of Social Power (1975) (183)
The Rise And Fall Of Project Camelot (1967) (146)
The Eighth Day: Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy (1988) (112)
Human organization research : field relations and techniques (1961) (45)
Brokers and Career Mobility Systems in the Structure of Complex Societies (1970) (41)
Man, Energy, and Anthropology: I Can Feel the Heat, But Where's the Light? (1978) (40)
The law of the saints : a Pokomam pueblo and its community culture (1968) (39)
Human Organization Research (1961) (36)
Cultural surveys of Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras (2013) (34)
Ethnic Images and Strategies in 1944 (1988) (26)
Cultural Components of Central America (1956) (25)
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (23)
Guatemalan Ladinization and History (1994) (21)
The second sowing; power and secondary development in Latin America (1967) (20)
The Anthropology of power : ethnographic studies from Asia, Oceania, and the New World (1984) (20)
Paradoxical Harvest: Energy and Explanation in British History, 1870-1914. (1982) (18)
Etnicidad e igualdad en Guatemala, 2002 (2005) (18)
Encuesta sobre la cultura de los ladinos en Guatemala (1956) (17)
Crucifixion by Power. Essays on Guatemalan National Social Structure, 1944-1966 (1972) (17)
Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida. (1995) (16)
Social Change in Latin America Today: Its Implication for United States Policy. (1961) (14)
Strategies of Ethnic Survival in Central America (1988) (14)
The eighth day (1988) (14)
Responsibilities of the Foreign Scholar to the Local Scholarly Community (1971) (12)
World Revolution and Family Patterns. William J. Goode (1964) (11)
Un análisis de las creencias y prácticas médicas en un pueblo indígena de Guatemala (1953) (11)
Migraciones internas en Guatemala : expansión agraria de los indígenas kekchíes hacia El Petén (1965) (11)
the dynamics of societal diversity: notes from Nicaragua for a sociology of survival (1981) (10)
Ethical principles in anthropological research: one or many? (1981) (10)
Energy, Complexity, and Strategies of Evolution: As Illustrated by Maya Indians of Guatemala (2010) (10)
Technical Co-operation in Latin-American Agriculture. (1957) (10)
La red de la expansion humana (2007) (10)
The Conquest Tradition of Mesoamerica (1989) (9)
The Social Anthropology of Latin America: Essays in Honor of Ralph Leon Beals. (1971) (8)
The development of the Guatemalan military (1968) (8)
Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis (1999) (8)
On the Effective Use of Anthropology in Public Health Programs (1954) (8)
Notes on the Application of Anthropology (1953) (7)
Social Anthropology in INCAP (2010) (7)
Ethnocentbism and Ingroup Consciousness (1951) (7)
On Causation and the Struggle for a Science of Culture (1998) (7)
Personnel in Culture Change: A Test of a Hypothesis (1951) (7)
A Change from Caste to Class in a Peruvian Sierra Town (1953) (6)
Un análisis de las creencias y prácticas médicas en un pueblo indígena de Guatemala : con sugerencias relacionadas con la practica de medicina en el área maya (1952) (6)
Nutrition, anthropology, and the study of man. (2009) (6)
Colombian Conversations: The Strength of the Earth [and Comments and Replies] (1989) (6)
6. The Evolution of Racism in Guatemala: Hegemony, Science, and Antihegemony (2008) (6)
Bovine Sex and Species Ratios in India [and Comments and Reply] (1982) (5)
Notas sobre el uso de la antropología en el campo de la salud pública (2012) (5)
The World Health Organization: A Study in Decentralized International Administration. (1957) (4)
The Pattern of Development in Latin America (1965) (4)
The Day Gone By: An Autobiography (1990) (4)
The apprenticeship in policy (1977) (4)
Ethnohistoric Research Methods: Some Latin American Features (1962) (4)
Internal and External Ethnicities: With Special Reference to Central America (1989) (4)
Some observations on the inter‐relations of development and nutrition programs (1974) (4)
Estado e indígenas durante la epidemia de influenza de 1918-1919 en Guatemala (1997) (3)
Patrons and politics (1974) (3)
History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992:History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992. (1997) (3)
Migration, Ethnicity, and Adaptation: Bolivian Migrant Workers in Northwest Argentina (1975) (3)
"Scientific" social anthropology. (1977) (3)
Politics and Social Anthropology in Spanish America (1964) (3)
The Role of Energy in the Surgence of Ethnicity (1991) (3)
United States University Cooperation in Latin America: A Study Based on Selected Programs in Bolivia, Chile, Peru, and Mexico (2012) (3)
Works on Latin American Ethnicity, Emigration, and Indian Resistance and Survival (1997) (2)
Energy, Complexity and Strategies of Evolution (2009) (2)
La antropologia aplicada en los programas de salud publica de la America Latina (1952) (2)
A Study of Labor Preference in Peru (1951) (2)
The Reproduction of State Terrorism in Central America (1989) (2)
An interpretation of geertz (1974) (2)
Ethics and the Social Anthropologist in Latin America (1967) (2)
Structure, entropy and a steady state economy (1974) (2)
Concluding Observations: the Evolution of Evolutionary Theory and Mechanisms (1991) (1)
Some observations on social evolution from an energy structure approach (1987) (1)
Race and Ethnicity in the Guatemalan Army, 1914 (2010) (1)
Social Power and the Future (2010) (1)
The Panajachel Symposium [and Comments and Replies] (1975) (1)
OTHER: La inmigración en América Latino. Fernando Bastos de Ávila. (Revista inter‐americana de ciencias sociales volumen 3, número especial, 1964.) (1965) (1)
Los pueblos indios en el proceso de globalizacion (1993) (1)
United States University Co-Operation in Latin America (1960) (1)
Advances in the evolution of society (1979) (1)
Development and Change: Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution. Essays on the Development of Underdevelopment and the Immediate Enemy. ANDRE GUNDER FRANK (1972) (1)
Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity In Modern Ecuador. NORMAN E. WHITTEN, JR. (1983) (1)
Inverse Images: The Meaning of Culture, Ethnicity, and Family in Postcolonial Guatemala (1985) (1)
The Problem of Unity and Diversit in Anthropology: GUEST EDITORIAL (1977) (1)
Accustomed to Be Obedient (2011) (1)
Equity from a Vocational District Administrator's Perspective. Research and Development Series No. 214A. (1981) (1)
Principles Involved in Changes in Diet and Health Practices (1963) (1)
Man Takes Control: Cultural Development and American Aid (1962) (1)
A Survival of the Meso‐American Bachelor House* (1952) (1)
Social Change in Latin America Today. Its Implications for United States Policy@@@A History of Cuba and Its Relations with the United States. Volume 1, 1492-1845@@@Latin America between the Eagle and the Bear (1962) (1)
Social Evolution and Social Reproduction (1991) (1)
Introduction: Current Approaches to Classic and New Issues in Social Evolution (1991) (1)
La teoría y la realidad del cambio sociocultural en Colombia (1960) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: Food Habits and Nutrient Intakes in a Siamese Rice Village. Studies in Bang Chan, 1952–1954. Hazel M. Hauck, Saovanee Sudsaneh and Jane R. Hanks with the assistance of Anusith Rajatasilpin, Sapha Indrasud, Mary B. Campbell and Dana Thorangkul (1961) (0)
Applied Anthropology: Anthropology for the Future. Demitri B. Shimkin, Sol Tax and John W. Morrison (1981) (0)
Comment on Edmonson's Review (1972) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Man, Mind and Land: A Theory of Resource Use. Walter Firey (1961) (0)
Nature day and night (1978) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: Impact of the United Fruit Company on the Economic Development of Guatemala. 1946–1954. Richard Allen LaBarge (1962) (0)
24. Nationalization (1967) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: Etnología y Etnografía de Guatemala. Franz Termer (1961) (0)
History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492‐1992 (1997) (0)
Ecodynamics: A New Theory of Societal Evolution. KENNETH E. BOULDING (1980) (0)
A look beyond (1976) (0)
General and Theoretical: Elitelore. JAMES W. WILKIE (1975) (0)
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. WILLIAM R. CATTON, JR (1982) (0)
Contemporary Change in Traditional Communities of Mexico and Peru (1980) (0)
Political Changes in Guatemalan Indian Communities: A Symposium (2019) (0)
Development and Change: Peasants, Power, and Applied Social Change. HENRY F. DOBYNS, PAUL L. DOUGHTY, and HAROLD D. LASSWELL (1973) (0)
Social Change in Latin America Today: Its Implications for United States Policy.@@@The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America. (1961) (0)
Revolt Against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala. DOUGLAS E. BRINTNALL (1981) (0)
A model of the reproduction of state-sponsored ethnic violence (1989) (0)
OPEN LETTER TO EMPLOYERS OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS (1977) (0)
OTHER: Social Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Hubert Bonner (1955) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Studies in Human Ecology. George A. Theodorson (1962) (0)
[Anthropology applied to the public health programs of Latin America]. (1952) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Guatemala: The Land and the People. Nathan L. Whetten (1962) (0)
Slavery and peasantry in the Caribbean (1975) (0)
Tradition and Adaptation: Life in a Modern Yucatan Maya Village. By Irwin Press. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1975. Pp. xi, 224. Map. Photos. Diagrams, Appendix I, II. Index. $15.00.) (1977) (0)
Kalman Hirsch Silvert 10 March 1921 – 15 June 1976 (1978) (0)
PRESIDENT RICHARD N ADAMS WELCOMES MEETING PARTICIPANTS (1977) (0)
Book Review: Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida (1995) (0)
17. Sickness and Social Relations (1967) (0)
Human societies as corporate entities (1976) (0)
Regulation and Natural Selection in the Micro/Macro Perspective (2019) (0)
Ethnographies of terror (1984) (0)
Campesino: The Diary of a Guatemalan Indian (1985) (0)
Energy, Complexity and Strategies of Evolution. En: Avá, nº 14 (2014) (0)
: Synoptic Studies of Mexican Culture . Munro S. Edmonson, Pedro Carrasco, Glen Fisher, Eric Wolf. (1958) (0)
An Open Letter From the President: ON COOPERATION AMONG CANADIAN MEXICAN AND US ANTHROPOLOGISTS (1977) (0)
In memoriam: Roberto Varela (2007) (0)
OTHER: Automation Cybernetics and Society. F. H. George (1961) (0)
Cultural Evolution and Energy (2004) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Entrepreneurs hip in Argentine Culture: Torcuata Di Telia and S.I.A.M. Thomas C. Cochean and Ruben E. Reina (1964) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology:Sojourners of the Caribbean: Ethnogenesis and Ethnohistory of the Garifuna. Nancie L. Gonzalez (1988) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Kuna Gathering: Contemporary Village Politics in Panama. James Howe (1989) (0)
1 Energy , Complexity and Strategies of Evolution (2012) (0)
Men's Day (2013) (0)
: Directed Culture Change in Nayarit, Mexico: Analysis of a Pilot Project in Basic Education . Glen Fisher. ; Turrialba: Social Systems and the Introduction of Change . Charles P. Loomis. (1955) (0)
Special Symposium of the American Anthropological Association (1961) (0)
A . Some Things That Cannot Happen (2010) (0)
Books Received (1961) (0)
Ethnic Emergence and Expansion in Central America (1988) (0)
CULTURE CHANGE, APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: La antropologia social aplicada en México: trayectoria y antología. Juan Comas (1965) (0)
Cultural Patterns and Technical Change. Margaret Mead (ed.) (1956) (0)
Energy and the Regulation of Nation States (1988) (0)
A Reply to Comas (1966) (0)
Guatemalan internal migration : agrarian Kekchi Indian expansion into the Peten (1966) (0)
Ladinización e historia: el caso de Guatemala (1994) (0)
Etnias y sociedades (1930-1979) (1993) (0)
Mi amigo, “el Flaco” Varela (2005) (0)
El problema del desarrollo político a la luz de la reciente historia sociopolítica de Guatemala (1968) (0)
La naturaleza en las cuatro estaciones (1981) (0)
Observing the complex through simple lenses (1975) (0)

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