William Rathje | Academic Influence

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William Rathje

Anthropology

#275

World Rank

#396

Historical Rank

#154

USA Rank

Archeology

#428

World Rank

#607

Historical Rank

#95

USA Rank

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PhD Anthropology University of Arizona
Masters Anthropology University of Arizona
Bachelors Anthropology University of Arizona

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According to Wikipedia, William Laurens Rathje was an American archaeologist. He was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, and was consulting professor of anthropological sciences at Stanford University. He was the longtime director of the Tucson Garbage Project, which studied trends in discards by field research in Tucson, Arizona, and in landfills elsewhere, pioneering the field now known as garbology.

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William Rathje's Published Works

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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage (1992) (258)
The Origin and Development of Lowland Classic Maya Civilization (1971) (150)
Household Archaeology (1982) (141)
The world's largest landfill (1992) (90)
The Rise of a Maya Merchant Class (1975) (88)
Modern Material Culture Studies (1981) (79)
Behavioral Archaeology: Four Strategies1 (1975) (68)
The Perfume of Garbage: Modernity and the Archaeological (2004) (63)
Once and future landfills (1991) (55)
“Where's the Beef?” (1984) (55)
The Garbage Project: a new way of looking at the problems of archaeology (1974) (52)
Food waste behavior in an urban population (1975) (46)
The Garbàge Decade (1984) (46)
Socio-political implications of lowland Maya burials: methodology and tentative hypotheses. (1970) (42)
Integrated archaeology: a garbage paradigm (2002) (35)
The Archaeology of Contemporary Landfills (1992) (34)
Rich Men... Poor Men (1982) (33)
Expanding Archaeology (1974) (32)
A study of changing pre-columbian commercial systems : the 1972-1973 seasons at Cozumel, Mexico (1975) (23)
Encyclopedia of consumption and waste : the social science of garbage (2012) (22)
A Manifesto for Modern Material-Culture Studies (1981) (22)
Ancient Maya commercial systems: A research design for the island of Cozumel, Mexico (1973) (20)
The Formation of Hydroxyfluor-Apatite in Tooth Enamel Under Influence of Drinking Water Containing Fluoride (1952) (19)
Characterization of household hazardous waste from Marin County, California, and New Orleans, Louisiana (1987) (10)
Garbage and the modern American feast (2001) (7)
Surface structures of ionic crystals (1949) (6)
The Milwaukee Garbage Project: Archaeology of Household Solid Wastes (1982) (5)
Household discards and modern refuse: a principle of household resource use and waste (1991) (5)
Archaeological intervention in the past, present and future tense (2011) (4)
Review Feature: A review of An Archaeology of Socialism, by Victor Buchli. (Materializing Culture.) Oxford & New York (NY): Berg Publishers, 2000; ISBN 1-85973-212-7 hardback £44.99; ISBN 1-85973-426-X paperback £14.99; 256 pp., 26 figs. (2002) (4)
Structure and Dynamics of Household Hazardous Wastes (1989) (4)
Meat fat madness: conflicting patterns of meat fat consumption and their public health implications. (1987) (3)
Sympathicotony of the Salivary Glands as a Cause of Dental Caries (1951) (3)
Consumption and Status ACRoss Cultural Boundaries: Nonreactive Evidence (1985) (2)
Changing Pre-Columbian Commercial Systems: Cozumel, Mexico (1977) (2)
Encyclopedia of Garbage (1996) (2)
Living With the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society. Patricia A. Mcanany. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1995. xvi + 213 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. $16.95 (paper). (2001) (2)
Fast‐Food Plastic in Landfill Garbage (1988) (2)
Garbage as runes: The archaeology of globalization (2014) (2)
Melanesian and Australian Exchange Systems: A View from Mesoamerica (2010) (1)
Garbage: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of (2004) (1)
Material Culture: A Research Guide. Thomas J. Schlereth, editor. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1985. xiv + 224 pp., selected bibliography of bibliographies, index. $25.00 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). (1988) (1)
Food Waste Behavior in (1975) (1)
Monitoring trends in food utilization: application of an archaeologcial method. (1978) (1)
Increasing the seedling growth of rye plants by coating the seeds with calcium citrate. (1960) (0)
[Chemical aspects of dental enamel fluoridation]. (1955) (0)
[Decrease of dental caries by fluorine content in drinking water]. (1952) (0)
[The anti-caries effects of local fluoride treatment of dental enamel]. (1953) (0)
Monographs and Papers in Maya Archaeology. Edited by William R. Bullard Jr., Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 61. Cambridge, 1970. ix + 502 pp. $13.50. (1972) (0)
[Possibility of reducing the incidence of caries by peroral administration of neo-cesol]. (1950) (0)
Promotion of the early growth of rye seedlings by treating the seeds with calcium citrate. (1960) (0)
Desulfurization of coal gas. [Removal of H/sub 2/S by scrubbing with NH/sub 3/ in gaseous form] (1957) (0)
Acceleration by citrate of mobilization of carbohydrates in germinating rye seeds. (1960) (0)
Ontology , World Archaeology , and the Recent Past william caraher (2016) (0)
ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS OF DIAGNOSTIC NUCLEAR MEDICINE. (1970) (0)
Is grass tetany nitrate poisoning (1958) (0)
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MODERN LANDFILLS: CULTURAL-MATERIAL CONTENTS OVER TIME (1994) (0)
A Model of Ports-of-Trade (2013) (0)
Garbage project on recycling behavior (1982) (0)
Interpreting burial customs. (1976) (0)
A Decent Burial for the American Dream (2011) (0)
MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE. (1969) (0)
Introductory Comments (1984) (0)
Increasing the speed of mobilization of carbohydrates in germinating rye seed by means of citrate. (1960) (0)
Um elogio à Arqueologia (2021) (0)

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