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Richard Stoffle, Professor
(Ph.D. Kentucky 1972)
As an applied cultural anthropologist I have spent my professional career trying to understand human problems and provide systematic research findings that may be used to reduce these problems. For the past four decades my applied research has contributed to Social Impact Assessment studies, which are normally a component of a Environmental Impact Assessment that is required under National Environmental Policy Act. In more recent years my study team has focused on environmental studies with special emphasis on issues of traditional communities co-adapting with their environment and the resilience of these communities to withstand perturbations.
During these four decades I have worked with more than one hundred American Indian tribes, rural peoples in Kentucky, Scandinavian folk fishers on Isle Royale in Lake Superior, and various peoples in the Caribbean including those on the islands of Barbados, Antigua, the Dominican Republic, and most recently the traditional people of the Bahamas.
I teach various courses in various departments including Social Construction of Knowledge in the School of Information Research and Library Science, Ethnography of North American cross listed in Anthropology and American Indian Studies, Ecological Anthropology in Anthropology, a graduate seminar in Arid Lands, and undergraduate and grad courses in the Caribbean. I enjoy teaching Honors classes and was recognized as an Outstanding Honors Faculty in 2004.
Some special recent publications are
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Shifting Risks: Hoover Dam Impacts on American Indian Sacred Landscapes In Facility Siting: Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning. Edited by Asa Boholm , Ragnar E. Löfstedt. Pp. 127-144). Earthscan Publications Ltd. (With N. Zedeno, A. Eisenberg, R. Toupal, and A. Carroll.
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Landscape, Nature, and Culture: A Diachronic Model of Human-Nature Adaptations. In Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures, H. Selin (ed.). Pp. 97-114. Great Britain: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (With R. Toupal and N. Zedeno second and third authors)
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Confronting the Angry Rock: American Indian Situated Risk from Radioactivity. Ethnos 68(2): 230-248. (With R Arnold second author)
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Historical Memory and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Southern Paiute Homeland. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 23(2): 227-246. (With N. Zedeno as second author).
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When Fish is Water: Food Security and Fish in a Coastal Community in the Dominican Republic. Understanding the Cultures of Fishing Communities. A Key to Fisheries Management and Food Security.
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Ghost Dancing the Grand Canyon: Southern Paiute Rock Art, Ceremony, and Cultural Landscapes. Current Anthropology 41(1): 11- 38. (With L. Loendorf, D. Austin, D. Halmo, and A. Bulletts.
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"Reefs From Space: Satellite Imagery, Marine Ecology, and Ethnography in the Dominican Republic," Human Ecology 22(3):355-378. (With D. Halmo, T. Wagner, and J. Luczkovich).
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Classes Taught
Ethnology of North America:
http://stoffle.bara.arizona.edu/ethnologyofnorthamerica/
Ecological Anthropology:
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/anth307/
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