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Richard R. Wilk

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#589

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#96

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PhD Anthropology University of Arizona
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According to Wikipedia, Richard R. Wilk is an American anthropologist best known for his work in economic anthropology focusing most recently on food, though he has published widely on diverse topics including human ecology, consumer behavior, beauty pageants, Maya culture, bad poetry, and visual anthropology. Wilk has published 89 works, and his research has been translated into five languages. He is currently Director of the Open Anthropology Institute and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Indiana University.

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Richard R. Wilk's Published Works

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Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group (1984) (314)
"Real Belizean food": building local identity in the transnational Caribbean. (1999) (265)
Time, consumption and everyday life: practice, materiality and culture (2009) (261)
Household and Community in the Mesoamerican Past (1988) (244)
Household Ecology: Economic Change and Domestic Life among the Kekchi Maya in Belize (1991) (213)
Bottled Water (2006) (204)
Consumption, human needs, and global environmental change (2002) (181)
Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology (1996) (178)
Household Archaeology (1982) (141)
Home cooking in the global village: Caribbean food from buccaneers to ecotourists. (2006) (138)
The Household Economy (1989) (137)
Little house in the jungle: The causes of variation in house size among modern Kekchi Maya (1983) (131)
A critique of desire: Distaste and dislike in consumer behavior (1997) (129)
Typological Schemes and Agricultural Change: Beyond Boserup in Precolonial South India [and Comments and Reply] (1996) (115)
Fast food/slow food : the cultural economy of the global food system (2006) (106)
The Ancient Maya and the Political Present (1985) (102)
Consuming Morality (2001) (102)
Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi' Experiences (1997) (85)
Why don't people weatherize their homes? An ethnographic solution☆ (1985) (79)
The anthropology of media : a reader (2002) (76)
The Archaeology of Vacant Lots in Tucson, Arizona (1979) (74)
Changing the Atmosphere (2014) (67)
The Impossibility and Necessity of Re-Inquiry: Finding Middle Ground in Social Science (2001) (59)
Home cooking in the global village (2006) (58)
The Edge of Agency: Routines, Habits and Volition (2009) (57)
Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and Climate Change (2014) (55)
Emulation, Imitation, and Global Consumerism (1998) (52)
“It's destroying a whole generation”: Television and moral discourse in Belize (1993) (52)
Power at the Table: Food Fights and Happy Meals (2010) (49)
The Earliest Lowland Maya? Definition of the Swasey Phase (1979) (46)
The local and the global in the political economy of beauty: From Miss Belize to Miss World (1995) (45)
Miss Universe, the Olmec and the Valley of Oaxaca (2004) (44)
Consumption embedded in culture and language: implications for finding sustainability (2010) (41)
Beauty and the feast: Official and visceral nationalism in Belize (1993) (35)
Time, Consumption and Everyday Life (2009) (34)
Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis (2015) (33)
Colonial Time and TV Time: Television and Temporality in Belize (1994) (21)
Why Do the Natives Wear Adidas (1984) (21)
Off the edge: experiments in cultural analysis (2009) (20)
The household in anthropology: Panacea or problem? (1991) (20)
Machine Learning to Develop and Internally Validate a Predictive Model for Post-operative Delirium in a Prospective, Observational Clinical Cohort Study of Older Surgical Patients (2020) (20)
The community of Cuello: patterns of household and settlement change (1991) (19)
Questionable assumptions about sustainable consumption (2004) (19)
Agriculture, ecology and domestic organization among the Kekchi Maya (1981) (19)
A method for self-recording household energy-use behavior (1987) (19)
Rice and beans : a unique dish in a hundred places (2012) (18)
Some Methodological Issues in Counting Communities and Households (1997) (18)
A Global Anthropology? (Friedman's Cultural Identity and Global Process ):Cultural Identity and Global Process (1998) (17)
Whose forest? Whose land? Whose Ruins? Ethics and conservation (1999) (17)
Food, Culture and the Environment: Communicating About What We Eat (2010) (17)
THE SYMPOSIUM: How can economic anthropology contribute to a more just world? (2017) (16)
The limits of discipline: Towards interdisciplinary food studies (2012) (16)
“But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More”: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize (2006) (14)
Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests, and Power. (1997) (14)
The Future of Food Studies (2015) (13)
Teaching Anthropology: Research, Students, and the Marketplace (1988) (12)
The outsized carbon footprints of the super-rich (2021) (12)
Temporal rhythms: comparing daily lives of 1937 with those of 2000 in the UK (2009) (12)
House, Home, and Consumer Decision Making in Two Cultures (1987) (12)
Loving People, Hating What They Eat:: Marginal Foods and Social Boundaries (2012) (12)
A Global Anthropology? (1998) (11)
It's about time: A commentary on Guyer (2007) (11)
Cooking on Their Own: Cuisines of Manly Men (2005) (10)
The Role of Inflammation after Surgery for Elders (RISE) study: Study design, procedures, and cohort profile (2019) (10)
Morals and Metaphors: The Meaning of Consumption (2020) (9)
REFLECTIONS ON ORDERLY AND DISORDERLY ETHNOGRAPHY (2011) (7)
Is a Sustainable Consumer Culture Possible (2016) (7)
The Snake Charmer Queen: Ritual, Competition, and Signification in American Festival (2013) (7)
Transecting “healthy” and “sustainable” food in the Asia Pacific (2020) (6)
The use of feedback in lab energy conservation: fume hoods at MIT (2010) (6)
Rice and Beans (2012) (6)
Chapter 7: Anchovy Sauce and Pickled Tripe: Exporting Civilized Food in the Colonial Atlantic World (2009) (6)
The Modern Material-Culture Field School: Teaching Archaeology on the University Campus (1981) (5)
Poverty and Excess in Binge Economies (2014) (4)
Consuming Ourselves to Death (2017) (3)
Serving or Helping Yourself at the Table (2006) (3)
Changes in food consumption in an indigenous community in southern Belize, 1979-2019 (2021) (3)
Anthropology until Only Yesterday (2013) (3)
GLOBAL JUNK: WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC? (2018) (3)
"It's Not a Beauty Pageant!": Hybrid Ideology in Minnesota Community Queen Pageants (2013) (3)
Homage to "La Cordobesa": Local Identity and Pageantry in Andalusia (2013) (3)
Concluding Thoughts and Marginal Provocations (2017) (3)
Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests, and Power (1997) (3)
Seafood: Ocean to the Plate (2018) (2)
Internet Privacy Hogwash (2018) (2)
Consumer Cultures Past, Present, and Future (2014) (2)
Family food fights (2006) (2)
Poems on the theme of “Gleaning” (2003) (2)
Paradoxes of Jews and Their Foods (2016) (2)
Natufian Chipped Lithic Assemblage from Sunakh Near Petra, Southern Jordan (1997) (2)
The census as an ethnocentric grid: methodological problems in understanding the Caribbean household. (1992) (1)
Urban life and systems of food metabolism (2010) (1)
Concluding Comments: The Essential Ambiguity of the Value of Food (2019) (1)
Editorial on Editing (2017) (1)
Assessing local food systems. Part 1 (2011) (1)
Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture. Robert M. Netting (1995) (1)
Feast: why humans share food – By Martin Jones (2009) (1)
Introduction to A Very Human Ecology: Celebrating the Work of Robert McC. Netting (1998) (1)
Stop Pretending We Are a Meritocracy (2017) (1)
The Edge of Agency (2020) (1)
Taking fun seriously in envisioning sustainable consumption (2022) (1)
Euphemisms for the Global Other (2018) (1)
Postface: Is there Mexican Food? Taste and the Politics of Cultural Identity (2019) (1)
Microscopic Analysis of Chipped Stone Tools from Barton Ramie, British Honduras (2013) (1)
[Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests & Power] (1996) (1)
8. Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize (2019) (1)
Afterword: the waste that matters (2014) (1)
Food as Intangible Cultural Heritage (2009) (0)
Fish Transformers (2018) (0)
Home in Belize (2008) (0)
‘All the world’s a stage’* (1996) (0)
The Caribbean: Following Connections instead of Fitting Things in Boxes (2022) (0)
The Estranged Siblings (2017) (0)
Eco-Labeled Seafood (2018) (0)
Groping toward Sustainability (2007) (0)
Economic Anthropology An Undisciplined Discipline (2018) (0)
Anthropology and Environment Section: What To Do about Globalization? (2001) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: One God—Two Temples: Schismatic Process in a Kekchi Village. Jon Schackt (1989) (0)
30 Years Later―Does the Shoe Still Fit? (2016) (0)
Book Review: Patricia Sunderland and Rita Denny, Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007. 368 pp. ISBN 978—1—59874—01—2 (pbk) (2009) (0)
Word Salad Challenge (2016) (0)
Book Review: Consumption Challenged: Food in Medialised Everyday Lives (2012) (0)
Fish, Identity, and Social Change (2021) (0)
Economics and the Problem of Human Nature (2018) (0)
Women Writing Culture@@@Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests and Power (1996) (0)
Graduate Studies Panel Discussion: The Ups and Downs of Food Studies (2006) (0)
Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics (2018) (0)
Is Anthropology Ready for the 21st Century (2017) (0)
‘‘But the Young Men Don’tWant to Farm Any More’’: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize (2020) (0)
Teaching about Food, Sex and Gender in the Classroom (2017) (0)
Industrialization, Markets, and Globalization (2018) (0)
Feeding our Appetites and Tastes (2018) (0)
Maya Subsistence: Studies in Memory of Dennis E. Puleston. Kent V. Flannery, ed. (1983) (0)
How to Cook a Tapir: A Memoir of Belize (2010) (0)
Global Fast Food or Local Slow Cuisine: Are these the Only Options on the Menu? (2005) (0)
The Unwelcomed Guest (2017) (0)
Congotay! Congotay!: A Global History of Caribbean Food , written by Candice Goucher (2016) (0)
Afterword: A surplus of ideas (2019) (0)
The Higher Monkey Climb (2021) (0)
Conclusions Complex Economic Human Beings (2018) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
TEACHING OBESITY: STIGMA, STRUCTURE, AND SELF Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich, and Deborah Williams (2016) (0)
Academic Games (2018) (0)
Getting the Respect We Deserve (1996) (0)
The Maya World (1977) (0)
Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1648–1812. Robert W. Patch (2009) (0)
Is the whole world drinking Coke®? And what makes Coke® different from other Colas? (2007) (0)
Anthropology, Economics, and Choice by Michael Chibnik. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. (2013) (0)
The Moral Human Cultural Economics (2018) (0)
Taking gender to market (1996) (0)
Food and Farm: Current Debates and Policies. CHRISTINA GLADWIN and KATHLEEN TRUMAN (1990) (0)
Seafood Ethics (2018) (0)
Greeh Households, Domestic Consumers, Environment and Sustainability: Edited by K.J. Noorman and T.S. Uiterkamp Earthscan, 1998. ISBN 1-8538-3-4823; p. 4823 (2001) (0)
Gifts and Exchange (2018) (0)
Food for Thought at Indiana University Anthropology (2007) (0)
Car Cultures (Book) (2003) (0)
Social and Political Economy (2018) (0)
Why do the Indians Wear Adidas? Or, Culture Contact and the Relations of Consumption (2016) (0)
The Tribe that Eats Its Ancestors (2018) (0)
Fast Food - Slow Food: Social and Economic Contexts of Food and Food Systems 23rd Annual Meeting - 2004 (2004) (0)
Fish as Food (2018) (0)
Consumo, cultura e sustentabilidade (2009) (0)
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize, by Kenneth Little (2022) (0)
The Environmental History of the Sea and Seafood (2018) (0)
Tragedy or Treasury? (2018) (0)

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