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Anthropology | John Bodley

Ph.D., University of Oregon
Regents Professor
Cultural Anthropology

 

 

Research Interests

Indigenous peoples, cultural ecology, and contemporary issues

 

Representative Research

In press. Cultural Anthropology: Tribe, State, and the Global System. 6th Edition. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

2015. Victims of Progress. 6th Edition. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

2013. The Small Nation Solution: How the World’s Smallest Nations Can Solve the World’s Biggest Problems. AltaMira Press. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

2012. Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems. 6th Edition. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

2011. Cultural Anthropology: Tribe, State, and the Global System. 5th Edition. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

2003. The Power of Scale: A Global History Approach. Armonk, New York: Taylor & Francis, Routledge.

1994. Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and the Global System. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Co., 478 pp.

1988. Tribal Peoples and Development Issues. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company. 421 pp.

1976. Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems. Menlo Park, California: Cummings Publishing Co. 240 pp.

1975. Victim of Progress. Menlo Park, California: Cummings Publishing Co. 200 pp.

Current, Continuing, and Recent Research

 

John H. Bodley [Regents Professor] is a cultural anthropologist with research interests in indigenous peoples, cultural ecology, and contemporary issues. Dr. Bodley (M.A., Ph.D., University of Oregon) conducted field research with the Ashaninka, Conibo, and Shipibo indigenous groups in the Peruvian Amazon throughout his early career. He has visited other indigenous groups in Alaska, Australia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and the Philippines.
He has held visiting academic appointments at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (1986), and the University of Uppsala, Sweden (1985). He was a visiting researcher at the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs in Copenhagen (1980). In 1986, Dr. Bodley served on the Tasaday
Commission for the University of the Philippines Department of Anthropology in Manila. He was a member (1991-94) of the advisory subcommittee for the human rights section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.

Current Graduate Students

Due to retirement, Dr. Bodley is no longer accepting new students.

 

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Contact Information

College Hall 230
509.335.4204

bodleyj@wsu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Bodley Anthropology website