John B. Gatewood JBG1@Lehigh.edu Department of Sociology & Anthropology Lehigh University 681 Taylor Street Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015-3169 phone: (610) 758-3814 fax: (610) 758-6552	Research
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Hobbies

Guitar. Long ago, when the stones were soft, I used to make extra cash playing guitar and singing folk songs for lounge lizards. But, listening to the Gypsy Kings or Los Lobos forces me realize what an amateur I was.

Pool. Also used to play a fairly mean game of pool--nine-ball, straight pool, snooker, etc. Now I'm playing again, and the word is that I'm the "best player in my immediate family."

Movies. This is my life-long passion--flicks, motion pictures, the Big Screen! I'll be watching films as long as my eyes can see and they have popcorn at the theaters. More and more, however, I view old films on the small screen: TCM and AMC are my favorite movie channels.

Fishing. Definitely! There are few things I enjoy more than fishing on a lake or pond and contemplating the meaning of life (even figured it out once, but forgot).

Motorcycles. "If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand."

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Lehigh University's home page
L.U.-Sociology& Anthropology
L.U.-Cognitive Science Program
American Anthropological Association
Society for Anthropological Sciences
Society for Applied Anthropology
FOSAP-Federation of Small Anthropology Programs
Kinship and Social Organization
Becoming Human (paleoanthropology)
National Marine Fisheries Service
NMFS-Fisheries Statistics and Economics
Harley-Davidson, Inc.

Research Areas

• Cognitive Anthropology
  social organization of knowledge, distributed cognition, decision-making, folk classification systems, language and thought
• Maritime Anthropology
  Alaska, mid-Atlantic, work organization, job satisfaction, fisheries management, property rights systems
• Applied / Commerical Resarch
  advertising and marketing research, fisheries management, tourism surveys

"Differential knowledge concerning students in an academic institution" (1999, with Dawn E. Murray)

"Culture... one step at a time" (1999)

"Reflections on the nature of cultural distributions and the units of culture problem" (1999)

"Some formal contrasts between language and other forms of behavior-action" (1998)

"Excursions into the un-remembered past: What people want from visits to historical sites" (1998, with Catherine M. Cameron)

"Ignorance, knowledge, and dummy categories: Social and cognitive aspects of expertise" (1996)

"Personal knowledge and collective representations" (1994)

"Intracultural variability and problem-solving" (1993)

Teaching Areas

• General Anthropology
  four-field introduction to anthropology; human evolution; prehistory; language; culture
• Intro Sociocultural Anthropology
  nature of culture and society; language structure and use; production, reproduction, and economics; kinship; politics and social order; ethnic, racial, and class identities; gender hierachies; culture and personality; religion and worldview; applied anthropology
• Intro Physical Anthropology
  evolutionary theory; the primates; human fossil record; early cultural traditions; transition to food production; rise of states and urban society; contemporary genetic variability
• Human Evolution
  evolutionary theory; the primates; human fossil record; early cultural traditions; genetic variability among modern humans; evolutionary psychology
• Linguistics
  phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; language variation
• Environment and the Consumer Society
  [Team-taught by professors in anthropology, history, journalism, and political science.]
  rise and spread of consumer culture; environmental constraints on human societies (carrying capacity, sustainable yield); tragedy of the commons; conceptions of nature/environment in the US; role of media and advertising in consumerism; political-economic solutions
• North American Indians
  prehistory; culture areas north of Mexico, especially Plains, Northwest Coast, and Southeast
• Cultures of the Pacific
  prehistory; cultures of Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia
• Culture and the Individual
  culture and personality; language and thought; intracultural variabilty; personal versus collective representations
• Anthropology of Fishing
  theory of common property resources; decision-making when fishing; work organization; management policies and philosophies
• Social Organization
  kinship; economics; politics; religion
• Research Methods and Statistics
  observational, survey, and experimental methods of data collection; elementary statistics appropriate to different kinds of data