Publications
Books:
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Green Encounters: Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica. Berghahn Books, 2006.
Co-Editor, Tarzan was an Ecotourist...And Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure. Berghahn Books, 2006
Co-editor, Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology. McGraw Hill, 2006.
Journals:
- "Spectacular Quetzals, Ecotourism, and Environmental Futures in Monte Verde, Costa Rica." Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology vol. 40 no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 79-92.
- "Escaping from Reality." The Ecologist 32(2): 26-30. March 2002.
- " Ancestral Homes: Indigenous Peoples are pushing for tourism alternatives that respect community, culture, and the land." Alternatives Journal. vol. 24, no. 8 (Fall 2002): 27-28.
- "Seeing Green: Knowing and Saving the Environment on Film" American Anthropologist 104(4): 1195- 1204, December 2002. Reprinted in Outlooks: Readings for Environmental Literacy, M. MicKiney, ed. Jones and Bartlett Publishers. In Press.
- "The Work of Environmentalism in an Age of Televisual Adventures." Cultural Dynamics 16(1), February 2004.
Book Chapters:
- "Environmentalism, Democracy and the Cultural Politics of Nature in Monte Verde, Costa Rica" Chapter in Democracy and the Claims of Nature: Critical Perspectives for a New Century, R. Taylor and B. Minteer, eds. Rowman and Littlefield. 2002, pp. 215-36.
- "The Prospects and Dilemmas of Certifying Indigenous Tourism" In Quality Control and EcotourismCertification. R. Black and A. Crabtree, eds. CAB International, U.K. In Press.
- "Conservation and Culture, Genuine and Spurious." Chapter in Reconstructing Conservation: Finding Common Ground. B. Minteer and R. Manning, eds. Island Press. 2003, pp. 57-73. "Conservation and Culture, Genuine and Spurious." Speaking of the Future: A Dialogue on Conservation. A Report on a National Symposium. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. 2002. p. 21.
- "Performative Pilgrims and the Shifting Grounds of Ethnographic Documentary" Chapter in Religion and World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making. S. Brent Plate, ed., Palgrave Press. pp. 159-77.
Major
Research Fellowships and Awards
2006-7 Snelling Center for Government Fellow 2004 Fulbright Award, for six month teaching and research appointment at University of Costa Rica, Master's Program in Social Anthropology, Faculty of Anthropology. 2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. "(Re)Imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands." East-West Center, University of Hawai'i. 1998-9 Minority Dissertation Scholar-In-Residence. UVM Graduate College. Hosting Department: Anthropology. 1997-8 New England Board of Higher Education Minority Dissertation Scholar-In- Residence. UVM. Hosting Departments: Anthropology and Environmental Studies. 1992-7 Princeton University PresidentŐs Fellowship for Graduate Study. 1997 Council on Regional Studies Dissertation Fieldwork Funds. Princeton University. 1995-6 Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Small Grant for Dissertation Resarch. Grant #5921. MacArthur Foundation Grant for Dissertation Research. Center of International Studies, Princeton University. Refunded Summer 1997. Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies Dissertation Research Funds. Refunded Summer 1997. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Funds. Department of Anthropology, Princeton University. 1995 Hanna Grant for Minority Scholars. The Graduate College, Princeton University. 1993-4 Various grants from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Department of Anthropology, Princeton University.1992 Robert McKennan Prize for Best Undergraduate Paper in Anthropology. Dartmouth College.
Teaching