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Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, Room 125
3601 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: (213) 740-0519
E-mail: almoore@usc.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~almoore/
Research
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Bio
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Education
B.A. 1958 Harvard College, cum laude, (Major: History and Literature of Spain, England, Russia since 1800). Honors thesis: "Liberals of the Spanish Republic, 1931-36"
M.A. 1963 Columbia University, Masters essay "The Guatemalan Plantation System in Historical Perspective," 208 pp.
Ph.D 1966 Columbia University, Dissertation: "Social and Ritual Change in a Guatemalan Town," 380 pp.
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Recent Publications
1998 Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings, revised 2nd ed., San Diego, California: Collegiate Press, 560 + xvi pp.
1999 Life Cycles in Alotenango: The Diverse Careers of Certain Guatemalans, Ethnographics Monograph series, 12, Gary Seaman, ed., Ethnographics Press, University of Southern California (2nd revised version of 1973 book above, with a new preface, extensive updates in footnotes and the text, and substitution of pseudonyms with real names of persons and places).
In draft Jungle Book: Viewing the Yanomami in Print and through the Camera, a study of the ethnographies of the Yanomami Indians as seen in film contrasted with the written portraits. ms. of 300 pp. finished, projected publication date, 2003
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Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
Principles of Human Organization, Native Peoples of Mexico and Central America, Ethnographic Film Analysis; Exploring Culture Through Film; Family and Kinship in Cross-cultural Perspective; Peoples and Cultures of Latin America, History of Anthropological Theory; Politics, Social Organization and Law; Symbolic Anthropology; Seminar on the Nature of Maya Civilization; Seminar on Constitutions and Social Organization. Thematic Option, Core 103: the Process of Change in Science.
Graduate:
Ethnological Theory I & II. Ethnographic Film Analysis. Ethnographic Field Methods. Urban Anthropology.
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Awards and Honors
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Professional Memberships
American Anthropological Association (Fellow)
American Ethnological Society
Council for Anthropology and Education
Latin American Anthropology Group
Latin American Studies Association
Society for Applied Anthropology
Southern Anthropological Society
Society for Visual Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Society for Urban Anthropology
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