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G. EDWARD MONTGOMERYPh.D., Columbia University, 1972 |
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G. EDWARD MONTGOMERYPh.D., Columbia University, 1972 |
Now in my 35th year at Washington University in 2005-2006, I here reflect on the development of diverse academic interests in an idiosyncratic career. I learned some cultural anthropology and sociology at Stanford (A.B., 1964), and some ethnology (and ecology, parasitology, nutrition science, physiology) in graduate studies at Columbia. My major field research has been in Nevada with Washo Indians, in India in northern Tamil Nadu, and in Peru with the Machiguenga Indians. At Washington University over the years I've explored five academic areas: human ecology; the old medical anthropology; southern Asian regional interests (especially southeastern India); food and nutritional anthropology; and, in recent years particularly, analyses of the complexities of U.S. American cultures. I have repeatedly sought generalizations, both in my writings and in teaching, and some have been "biocultural" (ecological evolutionary), others, more diffusely "cultural" (some cultural materialistic, and others, heavily descriptive human science). In 34 years of teaching, I've taught 24 different courses, revealing my restlessness. Most recently I've been interested in life cycles and life stage progressions, subcultural diversification / fragmentation, postethnicity, food, nutrition, and the proliferation of alternative medicine---all within the context of U. S American culture. I appreciate hearing from former students and have set up what I would like to think will be a lifetime email address at gmail.com using my same email name: gemontgo.
Culture and Health; Anthropology of America; Culture, Food & Nutrition; American Cultures
Montgomery, G. Edward
1977 Social structuring of nutrition in southern India. In Malnutrition, Behavior, and Social Organization. Lawrence S. Greene, ed. P. 143- 171. New York: Academic Press.
1978 Toward representing energy data: The Machiguenga Study. Federation Proceedings 37(1):61-64.
1981 Life histories of medical practitioners in Tamil Nadu. In The Social and Cultural Context of Medicine in India. Giri Raj Gupta, ed. Pp. 76-104. New Delhi: Vikas.
1984 Selecting food in the United States: Cultural-behavioral research inquiries. In Methodologies for Assessing Factors Affecting Food Selection. Panel on Factors Affecting Food Selection, Committee on Food Consumption Patterns, Food and Nutrition Board, National Research Council. P. 71-86. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
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