Higher Education 
1961 B.A. (Sociology and Anthropology) 
The George Washington University 

1971 Ph.D. (Anthropology) 
University of Oregon, Eugene 

Publications, Contract Manuscripts, Invited Lectures 
"Algunas Instituciones Sociales Variables en San Miguel de Sema", chapter from Un Analisis Regional Preliminar De San Miguel De Sema, Boyaca, ed. by: Gene Martin and Bill Hanneson, C.A.R., Bogota, Columbia, 1962. 

"The Loci of Social Change: Sources of Flexibility in Gilbertese Culture as the Result of Resettlement", symposium lecture, Society for Applied Anthropology, Oakland, CA, 1968. 

Cultural Ecology: Prolegomena to a Natural Science of Anthropology, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon-Eugene, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI, 1971.

"The Explanation of Patron-Client Systems: Some Structural and Ecological Perspectives," chapter in A. Strickon and S. Greenfield (eds.), Structure and Process in Latin America, University of New Mexico Press, 1972. 

"On the Nonoccurance of Patronage in San Miguel de Sema", chapter in A. Strickon and S. Greenfield (eds.), Structure and Process in Latin America, University of New Mexico Press, 1972. 

"Review of Liu, 'Murngin: A Mathematical Solution'", with J.M. Hickman, Current Anthropology, 14: 105-106, 1973. 

"Evolutionary Cultural Ecology: The Materialist Study of Sociocultural Systems", chapter in A. Dessaint and E. Migliazza (eds.), Anthropology and Linguistics: A Reader and Workbook, Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., Dubuque, IA, 1975. 

"Descent, Alliance and Moiety in Chucuito, Peru: An Explanatory Sketch of Aymara Social Organization", with J.M. Hickman, chapter in R. Bolton and E. Mayer (eds.), Andean Kinship and Marriage, Special Publication No. 17, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 1977. 

"Background Notes on the Ecological Anthropology of the West Indies", with J. Hourihan, working paper for USAID Conference, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, 1977. 

"Some Thoughts on the Prospects and Consequences of Crop Insurance Programs in the Caribbean", with J. Hourihan, contract paper, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, 1977. 

"Internal Review: 1980 N.E.H. Grant Proposal, The Making of the Fairfax County Landscape, contract paper, Fairfax County Park Authority Park Authority, Fairfax, VA, 1980. 

"An Anthropological Examination of Two Problems in the Local Revenue Programs in the Phillipines", with J.J. Hourihan, invited symposium paper, Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, 1981.

"Eco-Evolutionary Anthropology", teaching module developed for Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, 1982. 

"The Baby and The Bathwater: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology", invited lecture, Philosophical Society of Washington, Washington, DC, 1983. 

"Discussion: Pastoral Production Systems and Women", invited symposium presentation, Annual Meetings, Association for Women in Development, Washington, DC, 1983. 

"Thoughts on 'The Relationship Between Environment and Human History: the Case of Fairfax County, Virginia'", invited keynote address, Fairfax County Park Authority, Virginia, March, 1984. 

"Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen: Problems of Gifted and Talented Youth", keynote address to Annual Meeting, MENSA, Washington, DC, June 1984. 

"Women in Development: A Framework for Project Analysis" revised chapter for AID

Workshop on Women in Development (Thailand Workshop), USAID, Bureau for Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA), University of Arizona, and National Education Foundation, 1985. 

"The Worlds That Were Theirs: Ecological Perspectives on the Changing Meaning of the Commonwealth in Fairfax County, Virginia", invited lecture, Fairfax County Park Authority, Fairfax, VA, September 1985. 

"Review of Lucy Mair, Anthropology and Development, co-authored with J.J. Hourihan, in Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 1, January 1986. 

"Local Revenue Policy in LDCs: The Case for Energy Consumption Taxation", co-authored with C.R. Enis and J.J. Hourihan, in Advances in Taxation, Vol. I, No. 1, 1988. 

"Outer Image, Inner Things: the Different Worlds of Mormon and Amish Quilting", with E.L. Lathrop, being revised for publication. 

"'Posession-and-exorcism'" as co-opted new age religiosity". invited paper -- annual meetings Conference on New Age Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November 1990, Virginia Beach, VA. 

"Another kind of teshuvah: Observations on Messianic Judaism." invited paper -- invited paper, Annual Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November 8-10, 1991, Pittsburgh, PA. 

"The Power of Belief and Commitment: Some Observations on the Study of religion." invited paper, Annual Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November, 1992, Washington, DC. 

"Thicker Than Water: Notes on the Significance of Kinship as an Idiom for Religious Identification", invited paper, Annual Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November 1993, Raleigh, NC.