Robert C. Hunt
Brown 209
Department of Anthropology
Brandeis University
P.O. Box 549110, MS 006
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
hunt@brandeis.edu
(781) 736-2221
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Social Anthropology. Economic Anthropology. Comparative methods. Irrigation Agriculture. Mesoamerica. United States.
Background and Description
Robert C. Hunt specializes in Economic Anthropology. He has worked for many years on various features of irrigated agriculture. Specific geographic areas include Mexico, USA, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. In addition he conducts systematic cross-cultural comparisions on several economic topics (social organization of irrigation, intensification of agriculture). Topically he is working on property, money, and the transfer form of allocation. Although retired he is usually on campus one day per week, and is happy to consult with advanced students.
PUBLICATIONS
1965 The Developmental Cycle of the Family Business in Rural Mexico. in Helm (ed) Essays in Economic Anthropology. Proceedings, 1965 Annual Spring Meeting, American Ethnological Society.
1966 Review of Ullman, Sociocultural Foundations of Personality. American Anthropologist, 68:1262-4.
1967a Personalities in Cultures: Readings in Psycholog ical Anthropology. New York, Natural History Press.
1967b Introduction. in Robert C. Hunt (ed) Personalities in Cultures, pp ix-xxiii.
1967c Education as an Interface Institution in Rural Mexico and the American Inner City. (with E Hunt) Midway Magazine, VIII, no. 2, pp 99-109. Reprinted in John Middleton (ed) From Child to Adult. 1970. New York, Natural History Press. Reprinted in Abrahams and Troike (eds) Language and Cultural Diversity in American Education. 1972. New York, Prentice-Hall.
1968a From Parallel-nominal to Patri-nominal: Changing Cuicatec Personal Names. (With E Hunt and R Weitlaner) Anales (INAH, Mexico), 19:191-223.
1968b Agentes Culturales Mestizos: Estabilidad y Cambio en Oaxaca. America Indigena, 28:595-609
1968c Review of Foster, Tzintzuntzan. American Anthropologist, 70:781-782.
1968d Review of S. Drucker, Cambio de Indumentaria. American Anthropologist, 70:1009-1010.
1969a (With E Hunt) The Role of the Local Courts in Rural Mexico. pp 109-139, in P Bock (ed) Peasants in the Modern World. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press. Reprinted in Ghai, Luckham and Synder, The Political Economy of Law: A Third World Reader. 1987. Delhi, Oxford University Press, pp 609-618.
1969b Review of G. Aguirre Beltran, Regiones de Refugio. American Anthropologist, 71:545-552.
1971 Components of Relationships in the Family: A Mexican Village. pp 106-143, in Hsu (ed) Kinship and Culture. Chicago, Aldine.
1973a Social Anthropology. pp 62-103, in Byars and Love (eds) Quantitative Social Science Research on Latin America. Urbana, University of Illinois Press.
1973b Power in the Domestic Sphere. Review of A. Schlegel, Male Dominance and Female Autonomy. Science, 181:741-742.
1974 (With E Hunt) Irrigation, Conflict and Politics: A Mexican Case. pp 129-157, in Downing and Gibson (eds) Irrigation's Impact on Society. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.
1975a Review of Thompson, The Winds of Change. Science, 188:1293-1295.
1975b Review of Wortman and Cummings, To Feed This World. Science Books and Films, XV:73.
1976a Canal Irrigation and Local Social Organization (with E Hunt). Current Anthropology, 17:389-411.
1976b Personalities and Cultures: Readings in Psychological Anthropology. (1967) Reprinted by University of Texas Press.
1978a The Local Social Organization of Irrigation Systems: Policy Implications of its Relationship to Production and Distribution. Distributed by USAID.
1978b Irrigation, conflict and politics: A Mexican case. Revised version of 1974, in R. Cohen and E. Service (eds) Origins of the State: A Symposium. pp 69-123. Philadelphia, ISHI Press.
1979a The Comparative Method and the Study of Irrigation Social Organization. No. 97, Bulletin Series, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University
1979b Introduction. In English translation of G. Aguirre Beltran, Refuge Regions. Society for Applied Anthropology.
1984 Review of MacLachlan and Rodriguez, The Forging of the Cosmic Race. American Anthropologist 86:200-201.
1986a Canal Irrigation in Egypt: Common Property Management. Pp 199-214, in Proceedings of the Conference on Common Property Resource Management. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press.
1986b Biographical Note, Oscar Lewis. Pp 398-9, Encyclopedia of World Biography. New York, McGraw-Hill.
1987a Agricultural Ecology: The Impact of the Aswan High Dam Reconsidered. Culture and Agriculture, Number 31, pp 1-6.
1987b The Role of Bureaucracy in the Provisioning of Cities: A Framework for the Analysis of the Ancient Near East. In The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East. Gibson, McGuire and R. D. Biggs (eds) pp. 161-92 Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, No 46 Chicago, Ill. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
1987c CA Comment on David Guillet, Terracing and irrigation in the Peruvian Highlands. Current Anthropology 28:409-430. p 420.
1988a The Impact of the Aswan High Dam Reconsidered. Brandeis Review, Winter, pp 29-34.
1988b Size and Authority Structure in Canal Irrigation. In Proceedings, International Conference on Irrigation System Evaluation and Water Management, Wuhan University, People's Republic of China.
1988c Size and the structure of authority in canal irrigation systems. Journal of Anthropological Research 44:335-355.
1988d Hydraulic Management in Southern Mesopotamia in Sumerian Times: Some Observations. Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture IV:189-206.
1988e CA Comment on Jane I. Guyer, The Multiplication of Labor. Current Anthropology 29:247-272. p 64.
1988f Review of C Kroeber, Man, Land and Water: Mexico's Farmlands Irriation Policies 1885-1911, and T McGuire Politics and Ethnicity on the Rio Yaqui: Potam Revisited. Society for Latin American Anthropology, Newsletter, Vol IV, p 17.
1989a Appropriate Social Organization? Water Users Associations in Bureaucratic Canal Irrigation Systems. Human Organization 48:79-90.
1989b Preface. for Keepers of Earth and Water, by Enge and Whiteford, University of Texas Press
1990a Bundles of Assets in Exchanges: Integrating the Formal and Informal in Canal Irrigation. In M.E. Smith et.al. (eds), Perspectives on the Informal Economgy, Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 8. pp 301-319. Society for Economic Anthropology Lanham MD, University Press of America
1990b Organizational Control over Water: The Positive Identification of a Social Constraint on Farmer Participation. In Young and Sampath (eds), Social, Economic, and Institutional Issues in Third World Irrigation Management, pp 141-154. Studies in Water Policy and Maangement, No 15. Boulder, Westview Press.
1990c Review of Lomnitz and Adler, A Mexican Elite Family, 1820-1980. Economic Development and Cultural Change 38(3): 676-681.
1992 Determinants of management form in canal irrigation. In Diemer and Slabbers (eds) Irrigators and Engineers, Essays in Honor of Lucas Horst. pp 203-214. Amsterdam, Thesis Publishers
1992 Foreword. In David Guillet Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State in the Peruvian Highlands. pp xi - xv. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press
1993 Review of Henry Lewis, Ilocano Irrigation: The Corporate Resolution Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1991, in Pacific Affairs 66:458-459.
1994 Irrigation in Cuicatlan: The Question of Rio Grande Waters. In J. Zeitlin and J. Marcus, Caciques and Their People, A Volume in Honor of Ronald Spores, pp. 163-187. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, # 89.
1994 Reply to Price. Journal of Anthropological Research 50:205-211.
1995 Agrarian Data Sets: The Comparativist's View. In Moran, E (ed) The Comparative Analysis of Human Societies: Toward Common Standards for Data Collection and Reporting. pp 173-189. Boulder, Lynne Rienner
1995 On Dry Farming in Upper Mesopotamia. Current Anthropology 36:289-290.
1995 Amy Todd and Robert C. Hunt. Cuicatec. In Encyclopaedia of World Cultures, James W. Dow (ed), VIII:90-95 Boston MA, G. K. Hall & Co.
1996 Irrigation systems. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, II:662- 667 New York, Henry Holt and Co.
1997 Economic Anthropology. pp 140-143 in The Dictionary of Anthropology, T Barfield (ed) Oxford, Basil Blackwell
1997 Barter. p 34 in The Dictionary of Anthropology, T Barfield (ed) Oxford, Basil Blackwell
1997 Property. pp 378-379 in The Dictionary of Anthropology, T Barfield (ed) Oxford, Basil Blackwell
1997 Reciprocity. p 398 in The Dictionary of Anthropology, T Barfield (ed) Oxford, Basil Blackwell
1997 Redistribution. p 399 in The Dictionary of Anthropology, T Barfield (ed) Oxford, Basil Blackwell
1997 Trade. pp 468-470 in The Dictionary of Anthropology, T Barfield (ed) Oxford, Basil Blackwell
1997 Sistemas de riego por canales: Tamano del sistema y estructura de la autoridad. In T. Martines Saldana y J. Palerm Viqueira, Antologia Sobre Pequeno Riego pp 185-219. Texcoco, Mexico, Colegio de Postgraduados. Translation of 1988 article from Journal of Anthropological Research
1998 Property in Economic Context. Edited by Robert C. Hunt and Antonio Gilman. Monograph 14, Society for Economic Anthropology. Lanham MD, University Press of America.
1998 Properties of Property. Chapter 1 in Property in Economic Context. Edited by Robert C. Hunt and Antonio Gilman. Monograph 14, Society for Economic Anthropology. Lanham MD, University Press of America.
2000 Labor Productivity and Agricultural Development: Boserup Revisited. Human Ecology 28(2):251-277.
2000 "Forager Food Sharing Economy: Transfers and Exchanges" In Wenzel, George, G. Hovelsrud-Broda and N. Kishigumi (eds) The Social Economy of Sharing: Resource Allocation and Modern Hunter-Gatherers. Pp. 13-32. Senri Ethnological Series # 53, Osaka, National Museum of Ethnology.
2000 Review of Tanabe, Shigeharu, 1994, Ecology and Practical Technology: Peasant Farming Systems in Thailand. in Cambridge Anthropology 1999/2000, Vol 21, # 3:84-87.
2002 "Economic Transfers and Exchanges: Concepts for Describing Allocations", pp 105-118 in Jean Ensminger (ed) Theory in Economic Anthropology, Walnut Creek CA, Alta Mira Press
2003 "Irrigated Farming", in Joel Mokry (ed) Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 3:165-168.
2005 "Water Management" in W. McNeil et al (eds) Encyclopedia of World History, 5:2036-2041. Great Barrington, MA, Berkshire Publishing Group.
2005 "One-way economic transfers" in James Carrier (ed) Handbook of Economic Anthropology, pp 290-301. Cheltenham UK, Edward Elgar.
2005 "Plausible ethnographic analogies for the organization of Hohokam irrigation" (with Guillet, Abbott, Bayman, P. Fish, S. Fish, Kintigh and Neely). American Antiquity 70(3):433-456.
2005 Review of Trawick, The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons. Stanford, Stanford University Press. Journal of Latin American Studies 37:229-231.
2006 "Locally Controlled Irrigation Systems: Principles and Practices." Article for 150th year Jubileum of Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkendunde, Leiden.
2006 "One-Way Economic Transfers." Handbook on Economic Anthropology. Ed. J. Carrier
2007 Beyond Relativism: Rethinking Comparability in Cultural Anthropology. First ed. Lanham MD: Alta Mira Press