RESEARCH REPORT:
Belonger Perceptions of Tourism and Its Impacts in the Turks and Caicos Islands (PDF file, ~1 MB).
Final report to officials and citizens of the Turks and Caicos Islands concerning our NSF-sponsored study of residents' understanding
of tourism. Data collected during 2006 and 2007; draft completed July, 2009; final report completed August, 2009.
F. K. LEHMAN ... booklet (PDF file, ~2 MB):
Frederic Kris Lehman (U Chit Hlaing), Anthropologist and Teacher:
A collection of personal remembrances and reflections by some of his former students (2007)
See, also, the "In Memorium: F. K. Lehman"
webpages at Northern Illinois University's Center for Burma Studies.
https://www.lehigh.edu/~jbg1/jbg1.html
Last updated August 21, 2025, by JBG1@Lehigh.edu
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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Links
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
Analytic Technologies
QualQuant (Methods Mall)
Becoming Human
(paleoanthropology)
Kinship
and Social Organization
NOAA: Fisheries (NMFS)
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Research Areas
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Cognitive Anthropology
social organization of knowledge, distributed cognition, decision-making,
folk classification systems, language and thought
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Maritime Anthropology
Alaska, mid-Atlantic, work organization, job satisfaction, fisheries
management, property rights systems
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Tourism & Applied/Commercial Research
tourism research, applied (advertising/marketing) research,
fisheries management reports
To read works-in-progress (and comments are WELCOME), please follow
these links:
- "Differential
knowledge concerning students in an academic institution"
(1999, with Dawn E. Murray)
- "Some formal
contrasts between language and other forms of behavior-action" (1998)
- "Ignorance,
knowledge, and dummy categories: Social and cognitive aspects of
expertise" (1996)
- "Intracultural
variability and problem-solving" (1993)
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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
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Linguistics
phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; language variation
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Environment and Culture
frameworks for studying human-environment interactions (cultural ecology, ecological
anthropology, human adaptability, etc.); adaptations to different environmental
zones; adaptations associated with different subsistence systems; effects of
human behaviors on environments
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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
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