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Roy Richard Grinker

Anthropology

#364

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#517

Historical Rank

#202

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Bachelors Anthropology Grinnell College

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According to Wikipedia, Roy Richard Grinker is an American author and Professor of anthropology, international affairs, and human sciences at The George Washington University. Grinker is an authority on North and South Korean relations. As part of his PhD research, he spent two years living with the Lese farmers and the Efé pygmies in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Fulbright scholar. He has also conducted epidemiological research on autism in Korea.

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Roy Richard Grinker's Published Works

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Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in a total population sample. (2011) (1441)
Why Hunter-Gatherers Work: An Ancient Version of the Problem of Public Goods [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (369)
Beyond "The Original Affluent Society": A Culturalist Reformulation [and Comments and Reply] (1992) (242)
Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State (2000) (165)
Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism (2007) (128)
Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War (1998) (82)
“Communities” in Community Engagement: Lessons Learned From Autism Research in South Korea and South Africa (2012) (79)
Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (1991) (78)
Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa (1995) (75)
Korean Culture and Autism Spectrum Disorders (2013) (74)
Border Children: Interpreting Autism Spectrum Disorder in South Korea (2013) (68)
They grow in silence : the deaf child and his family (1971) (65)
The Psychological Society (1978) (64)
PSYCHIATRY RIDES MADLY IN ALL DIRECTIONS. (1964) (55)
Commentary: On Being Autistic, and Social (2010) (50)
Culture and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Impact on Prevalence and Recognition (2011) (42)
Cultural Adaptation and Translation of Outreach Materials on Autism Spectrum Disorder (2015) (40)
Images of denigration: structuring inequality between foragers and farmers in the Ituri forest, Zaire (1990) (35)
A STRUGGLE FOR ECLECTICISM. (1964) (27)
Influence of Community-Level Cultural Beliefs about Autism on Families’ and Professionals’ Care for Children (2018) (26)
CHAPTER 5 – The Psychosomatic Aspects of Anxiety1 (1966) (23)
Reframing the Science and Anthropology of Autism (2015) (22)
Autism, “Stigma,” Disability (2020) (21)
Psychiatric Diagnosis, Therapy and Research on the Psychotic Deaf. Final Report. (1969) (18)
The sciences of psychiatry: fields, fences and riders. (1965) (17)
In retrospect: The five lives of the psychiatry manual (2010) (17)
In memory of Ludwig von Bertalanffy's contribution to psychiatry. (1976) (16)
“Open-system” psychiatry (1966) (14)
In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull (2000) (13)
Boyhood rituals in an African society (1989) (11)
Estimating the incidence of autism. (2009) (11)
Isabel's World: Autism And The Making Of A Modern Epidemic (2009) (10)
Changing styles in psychiatric syndromes: a symposium. (1973) (9)
A psychodynamic view of character pathology in Vietnam combat veterans. (1983) (9)
Fifty Years in Psychiatry: A Living History (1979) (8)
Psychiatry in Broad Perspective (1975) (7)
History and hierarchy in hunter‐gatherer studies (1992) (7)
Toward a unified theory of human behavior : an introduction to general systems theory (1967) (7)
The poor rich: the children of the super-rich. (1978) (6)
Electrical and Drug Treatments in Psychiatry. (1964) (6)
Modern psychiatry and clinical research : essays in honor of Roy R. Grinker, Sr. (1972) (5)
Mourning the Nation: Ruins of the North in Seoul (1995) (5)
The Inadequacies of Contemporary Psychiatric Diagnosis (1977) (5)
Unstrange Minds: A Father Remaps the World of Autism (2008) (5)
Complementary psychotherapy: treatment of "associated" pairs. (1966) (5)
What do we do with it? (1966) (5)
Peer Review and Academic Citizenship: A Call to Our Colleagues (2016) (4)
What in the World Is Autism? A Cross-Cultural Perspective. (2008) (4)
Notes on a puzzle piece (2015) (3)
The future educational needs of psychiatrists. (1975) (3)
Who Owns Autism? Economics, Fetishism, and Stakeholders (2018) (3)
The Phenomena of Depreesions (1962) (2)
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear (2011) (2)
Autism and First-Person Accounts: The Cognitive Problem (2018) (2)
Continuities in Cultural Evolution. Margaret Mead (1966) (2)
The Politics of Knowledge: Julian Steward, Leslie White, Melville Herskovits, and L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza (2008) (2)
Estimating the Incidence of Autism. Authors' reply (2009) (2)
The "Real Enemy" of the Nation: Exhibiting North Korea at the Demilitarized Zone (1995) (2)
AIDS and the child (1992) (2)
Reconstructing the House in Anthropology (1996) (2)
The continuing search for meaning. (1970) (2)
An Editor's Farewell (1969) (2)
Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds (review) (2004) (1)
Remapping the World of Autism (2014) (1)
Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. (1967) (1)
Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion. Michael Fitzpatrick. (2009) (1)
What Are Professors of Psychiatry For (1967) (1)
Offit Paul: Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure (2009) (1)
Environmental Anthropology in Africa (2019) (1)
Culture and Autism (2021) (1)
Most of What You Need to Know. (1976) (0)
Psychiatric Unit in a General Hospital. (1966) (0)
5. Witchcraft and the Opposition of Houses (1994) (0)
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin . By Sonia Ryang. New York: Routledge, 2000. x, 229 pp. $90.00 (cloth). (2002) (0)
Cultural Issues in Education for Those with Autism (2019) (0)
Race and Ethnicity in America (2014) (0)
Note on Language and Orthography (1994) (0)
Contents Vol. 3, 1940/1941 (2004) (0)
The Theory and Practice of Psychiatry (1966) (0)
Jan Vansina's Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990) (1992) (0)
Commentary (1965) (0)
The borderline syndrome. (1978) (0)
Houses in the Rainforest (2023) (0)
Adrenal Cortical Function in Anxious (2015) (0)
Editorial: Dichotomies, states, and structures. (1975) (0)
Lectures in Dynamic Psychiatry. (1964) (0)
Summer books (2011) (0)
OTTENBERG, Simon, Boyhood Rituals in an African Society, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1989, 344 pp., illus., maps, appendices, $30.00, 0 295 96575 4 (1991) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2004) (0)
Reframing the Science and Anthropology of Autism (2015) (0)
The private hospital. A setting for clinical research. (1962) (0)
Reactive Attachment Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Diagnosis and Care in a Cultural Context (2018) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2008) (0)
Delusional loving and the self. (1985) (0)
Forests of Belonging: Identities, Ethnicities, and Stereotypes in the Congo River Basin (review) (2012) (0)
Introducing Polygot Perspectives (2009) (0)
Goals for the future of American psychiatry. In honor of a friend. (1971) (0)
From the Editor (2003) (0)
Administration in Psychiatry. (1962) (0)
Advances in the Genetics of Autism: Cultural Implications and the Public Relations Challenge (2010) (0)
Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism . By Sheila Miyoshi Jager. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. xv, 193 pp. $65.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). (2004) (0)
Many Concepts, No Grand Theory, and Sparse Data. (1976) (0)
From the Editor (2002) (0)
The Revolution in Psychiatry. (1964) (0)
Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture (review) (2008) (0)
Houses, Clans, and Cloth: Modeling an Inter-Ethnic Economy in Zaire (1992) (0)
A Setting for Clinical Research (1962) (0)
Discussion of the Papers (2006) (0)
Autism and culture: the effect on epidemiology and diagnosis at home and abroad (2010) (0)

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