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George H. Axinn is Professor in the Department of Resource Development at Michigan State University. He has worked as practitioner, teacher, and researcher in agricultural and rural development for four decades. After service in several states of the U.S.A., his work during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s has been in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, in association with several international development assistance agencies. This includes participation at technical and administrative levels in many different projects, and, more recently as a Country Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. His books includeModernizing World Agriculture (Praeger, 1972);New Strategies for Rural Development (Rural Life Associates, 1978); andGuide on Alternative Approaches to Agricultural Extension, (FAO, 1988, forthcoming).
Shelley Feldman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rural Sociology at Cornell University. Her research interests include gender relations and social production, Third World state formation, development theory and policy analysis in South Asia. She has published a number of articles inJournal of Marriage and the Family, Development and Change, South Asia Bulletin, International Journal of Sociology, andPeasant Studies. She is completing two manuscripts on women and labor in South Asia.
Patricia W. Barnes-McConnell, a developmental psychologist, is the director of the multi-institutional, international Blean/Cowpea Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP). She is an associate professor in the Department of Resource Development in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University and a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Values in Higher Education. Her most recent work, The Concept of Minority and The Organization of Social Control, is in press in SOUNDINGS. She is presently writing a comprehensive analysis of her multi-year research conducted among farm families in northern Malawi.
Michele Lipner holds a Master's Degree in Psychology and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. Degree in Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has worked in the administration of agricultural research projects in Kenya and Brazil.
Jere Lee Gilles is an Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has written extensively on topics of resource conservation in the Third World and has conducted research in Morocco, Chad, and Peru.
J. Kathy Parker currently works out of her office in Pennsylvania as an international consultant in the field of social ecology. Previously, she worked as an Analyst at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment on a study looking at low-resource agriculture in Africa; as Sr. Technical Advisor on contract to the Agency for International Development on the design of the Forestry/Fuelwood Research and Development Project; and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil.
William M. Alexander is Professor of Political Science at California State Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo. His overseas experience includes two years of work with peasants in agriculture extension in Kenya, a year as a Fulbright Professor in India, and visitation of agricultural development projects in 12 third world countries. He has also recently created a new teaching specialty—a general education course on the politics of food distribution world-wide.
Judith Krieger is currently a doctoral student in the Dept. of Anthropology and Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky. Her “Food Resources of the Western Washington Salish” is forthcoming inNorthwest Anthropological Research Notes.
Dr. J. P. Brien teaches Extension and Communication in the Faculty of Agriculture, at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has had extensive experience as a consultant in developing countries, and has a special interest in research on the communication of international agricultural science information.
James P. Stansbury is a doctoral candidate in the Applied Anthropology Program at the University of Kentucky. He received his M.A. in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico in 1986. His interests include problems related to sustainable agriculture and resource preservation, particularly in Latin America, as well as issues related to migration and resettlement. He conducted work on the problems of stress and resettlement for Nicaraguan Miskito refugees living in Honduras in 1985.
Kathleen Staudt is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas/EI Paso. Her research on agricultural policy and women's politics has been published in Washington, DC.DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, RURAL AFRICANA, COMPARATIVE POLITICS, JOURNAL OF DEVELOPING AREAS, RURAL SOCIOLOGY, andPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT, among others. She publishedWOMEN, FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND ADVOCACY ADMINISTRATION (NY: Praeger 1985), and is currently co-editingWOMEN AND THE STATE IN AFRICA with Jane Parpart, forthcoming from Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Marcy Rosenbaum is a first year graduate student in the Applied Anthropology program at the University of Kentucky. Her interests include medical anthropology, psychological anthropology and economic development. She plans to conduct research examining the relationship between economic development and health in both Appalachia and the Caribbean Islands.
Norman Uphoff is Professor of Government and Chairman of the Rural Development Committee in the Center for International Studies at Cornell University. His recent books includeLocal Institutional Development (1986),Improving International Irrigation Management with Farmer Participation (1986) andLocal Organizations: Intermediaries in Rural Development (1984), with Milton Esman. His current work is on participatory irrigation management in Sri Lanka and Nepal and he is working with the FAO People's Participation Programme on evaluation and extension of that effort to promote “bottom-up” development.
Alan Long is Associate Professor of Forestry at the University of Florida. His teaching and research interests focus on forest management operations and their impacts on stand development. He also teaches an introductory course for non-Forestry majors. Prior to coming to Florida he spent 12 years in forestry research programs in Washington, Oregon, and Indonesia.
Constance McCorkle is Research Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has conducted research on agricultural development issues in West Africa and in the Andes. She is currently a Fulbright Faculty Scholar at the University of Cuzco, Peru.
David Brokensha is Professor of Anthropology and of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and also a Director of the Institute for Development Anthropology, a not-for-profit corporation. He has done extensive fieldwork in West and East Africa, and is co-author of the fortcomingThe Mbeere of Kenya: Changing Rural Ecology (Lanham, Md., University Press of America). He is particularly interested in the study and promotion of indigenous knowledge systems.
Kimberley Lucas earned a Masters in applied anthropology at The American University (Washington, D.C.) where she focused her work on small-holder agricultural development in Africa. She completed field research for her thesis in the Taita Hills of Kenya (working with Dr. Anne K. Fleuret) in 1985, where she examined differential levels of agricultural input use by male and female smallholders. She hopes to continue her research in highland areas like Taita that are handhoe strongholds due to their specific topography (i.e. steep terrain).
Carrie Johnston is a Graduate Student in the Department of Sociology and Rural Sociology and president of the Graduate Student Association at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her area of specialization is sociology of natural resources. At present she is conducting research on the utilization of water resources in several Missouri counties.
Robert Lawless is in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida and is affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies at the same university. He received his M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of the Philippines and his Ph.D. in anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Dr. Lawless spent seven years in Southeast Asia doing anthropological research on urban scavengers in Manila, peasants in the Central Plains of Luzon, neo-colonial warfare on the Indonesian Island of Timor, and headhunters in the North Luzon Highlands. For several years in New York City he investigated the social organization of hospitals in Manhattan and the survival strategies of street people on the Lower East Side. Most recently he spent a year in Haiti studying Voodoo and tourism.
The author of two monographs, two book-length bibliographies, a textbook, and over 30 articles in professional journals, Dr. Lawless is currently conducting research into cross-cultural concepts of time and space in relation to agricultural systems.
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Axinn, G.H., Feldman, S., Barnes-McConnell, P. et al. Book reviews. Agric Hum Values 5, 124–168 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02217183
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