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

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Lawless was an American cultural anthropologist. He did fieldwork in the Philippines, New York City, Haiti, and Florida. He received his PhD at New School for Social Research in 1975, his M.A. at University of the Philippines in 1968, and his BSJ at Northwestern University in 1959. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Florida, and most recently, at Wichita State University.

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Book Review: Jared Diamond. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 2005. (2009) (115)
Shifts in Production and Organization: A Cluster-Interaction Model [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (59)
The Indonesian Takeover of East Timor (1976) (12)
Information Technology in the Third World: Can I.T. Lead to Humane National Development? (1985) (9)
Nationalism and Cultural Revival in Southeast Asia: Perspectives From the Centre and the Region. (1998) (9)
Fieldwork : the human experience (2021) (8)
Standardization and Measurement in Cultural Anthropology: A Neglected Area [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (8)
The Student's Guide to Financial Literacy (2010) (6)
On the Segmentary Lineage (1977) (5)
Haiti : a research handbook (1990) (4)
: The Cultural Feast: An Introduction to Food and Society . Carol A. Bryant, Anita Courtney, Barbara A. Markesbery, Kathleen M. DeWall. (1986) (3)
Diffusion and acceptance of modern schooling in rural Jordan. (1987) (3)
Ethnology: Protein from the Sea: Technological Change in Philippine Capture Fisheries. Alexander Spoehr. (1981) (3)
Political Culture and Ethnicity: An Anthropological Study in Southeast Asia (2000) (2)
Effects of Population Growth and Environment Changes on Divination Practices in Northern Luzon (1975) (2)
An Evaluation of Philippine Culture-Personality Research. (1972) (2)
A Quasi History of the Central Vietnamese Highlanders (1983) (1)
The foundation of culture and personality research in the Philippines (1967) (1)
TRANSPORTATION IN A CHANGING WORLD (1986) (1)
Ethnology: Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. K. C. Chang, ed (1978) (1)
The social ecology of the Kalingas of northern Luzon (1975) (1)
Social change in modern Philippines : perspectives, problems, and prospects (1982) (0)
Book review: Take me to my paradise: tourism and nationalism in the British Virgin Islands by Colleen Ballerino Cohen, 2010 (2011) (0)
Dreams, Culture, and the Individual. Carl W. O'Nell. (1980) (0)
Book Review: Rebellion to Integration: West Sumatra and the Indonesian Polity 1926-1998 (2003) (0)
Book reviews (1987) (0)
The Medical Merry-Go-Round: A Plea for Reasonable Medicine. Morton Glasser and Gretel H. Pelto (1982) (0)
Social Evolutionism: A Critical History. Stephen K. Sanderson (1992) (0)
Book Reviews : Mountains without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks by Joseph L. Sax (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, 1980, 152 pp (1982) (0)
General and Theoretical: Gastronomy: The Anthropology of Food and Food Habits. Margaret L. Arnott, ed (1978) (0)
SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the Evidence. Thomas N. Headland, ed (1993) (0)
Food in Perspective: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ethnological Food Research.Alexander Fenton and Trefor M. Owen, eds (1983) (0)
The Serpent and the Rainbow/The Passage of Darkness (2008) (0)
Book reviews (1988) (0)
Haiti—Today and Tomorrow: An Interdisciplinary Study (1986) (0)
Rural People's Responses to Change: Dumaguete Trade Area, Philippines . By Agaton P. Pal and Robert A. Polson. New Day Publishers, Quezon City, 1973. Pp. xi, 289. Foreword, Preface, Glossary. (1976) (0)
Anthropology for non-anthropologists (1967) (0)
lasting into contemporary times, is anti-colonial, separatist, and nationalistic. Most writings by British scholars have, however, often ignored the Philippines or displayed a misunderstanding of their (2016) (0)
Ecology around the world and through the paradigms (2001) (0)
Uprooting and Development: Dilemmas of Coping with Modernization. George V. Coelho and Paul I. Ahmed, eds (1982) (0)
The Sociology of Urban Life, Harry Gold, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982. xx + 421 pp. $19.95 (cloth). (1982) (0)
A short review: Indonesia (1997) (0)
Take Me to My Paradise: Tourism and Nationalism in the British Virgin Islands. Colleen Ballerino Cohen (2011) (0)
General and Theoretical: Ecodynamics: A New Theory of Societal Evolution. Kenneth E. Boulding. (1980) (0)
More Support for Changing Refereeing Procedure (1977) (0)
Book Review: Metropolitan Growth: Public Policy for South and South-east Asia (1977) (0)
Ethnography and ethnogeography in the North Luzon highlands (1983) (0)
Bang Chan: Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand. Lauriston Sharp and Lucien M. Hanks. (1980) (0)
The Serpent and the Rainbow/The Passage of Darkness:The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist Uncovers the Startling Truth about the Secret World of Haitian Voodoo and Zombis.;Passage of Darkness: The Ethnoblology of the Haitian Zombie (1989) (0)
PREVENTING A NATIONAL NIGHTMARE (1991) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race. Philip Kasinitz. (1993) (0)
Ethnology: Changing Identities in Modern Southeast Asia. David J. Banks (1979) (0)
INTRODUCTION: by Robert Lawless (1998) (0)
Diffusionism (2021) (0)
Status Inequality: The Self in Culture. George A. De Vos and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco. (1992) (0)
Configurations of Power: Holistic Anthropology in Theory and Practice:Configurations of Power: Holistic Anthropology in Theory and Practice (1994) (0)
Peasants in the Hills. A Study of the Dynamics of Social Change Among the Buhid Swidden Cultivators in the Philippines.@@@Jamoyawon Ritual. A Territorial Concept. (1985) (0)
Book Review: Migration Dynamics: A Life Course Approach (1995) (0)
Behind the Smile: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism (review) (2004) (0)
CN'S RON LAWLESS BATTLES SHIPPERS OVER CLR PROVISIONS (1987) (0)
William HenryScott, ed., German Travelers on the Cordillera (1860-1890). The Filipiniana Book Guild, Manila, 1975, 237 pp. (1976) (0)
The Southeast Asian city : an introductory essay and an annotated bibliography (1975) (0)
Agents of apocalypse: Epidemic disease in the colonial Philippines. By Ken De Bevoise. xiv + 274 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. $35.00 (cloth) (1995) (0)

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