Richard Robbins (anthropologist)

Education

He received his Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Rutgers University, his Master of Arts in anthropology from New York University, and Ph.D in anthropology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Awards and honors

  • 2005: American Anthropological Association AAA/McGraw-Hill Teacher of the Year Award
  • 2002: SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
  • 1977: SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Selected publications

  • 2012: Cultural Anthropology: A Problem Based Approach (6th edition), Cengage Publishers
  • 2012: Neoliberalism, Race and Racism. In: Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd edition. Edited by Patrick Mason. Cengage Publishers
  • 2009: Anthropologizing Economics: Lessons from the Latest Crisis, Anthropology News, 50:11-12
  • 2009: Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation. Edited (with Mark Nathan Cohen). Allyn & Bacon Publishers
  • 2005: Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (3rd Edition), Allyn & Bacon, Publishers, Boston, Mass.
  • 2005: The History of Technology: The Western Tradition. In: Sal Restivo (Eds.): The Oxford Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society, Oxford University Press
  • 1999: Ethnic Violence and the Question of Political Sovereignty. In: Richard Deutsch (Eds:) Perspectives Anthropology, Coursewise Publishing Inc., St. Paul, MN
  • 1988: The Belief Machine. Published on the web at https://web.archive.org/web/20130819082116/http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/belief/belief-machine.htm
  • 1975: Canadian Native Peoples: A Review, The American Review of Canadian Studies, Volume 1, #5
  • 1969: Economic Change and Ecological Adaptation among the Schefferville Naskapi. McGill Subarctic Research Laboratory Reports, Volume 4

Online

  • 1996–present: Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, A multi-purpose site that includes, among other things, course material, an Internet course, support materials for the Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, a "global update" feature, and an extensive collection of links to Internet resources on global issues.

References

  1. McKenna, Brian (2011):Bestselling Anthropologist "Predicted" Financial Meltdown of 2008 Archived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter
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