Lambros Comitas
Gardner Cowles Professor of Anthropology and Education  

PUBLICATIONS

1960 "Metropolitan Influences in the Caribbean: The West Indies." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 83, Art. 5, pp. 809-815.

1962a (with David Lowenthal) "Emigration and Depopulation: Some Neglected Aspects of Population Geography." The Geographical Review, Vol. LII, No. 2, pp. 195-220. Reprinted in Population Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, July 1962, pp. 83-84; and in Warner Modular Publication, Reprint 493, 1973, pp. 1-16.

1962b Fishermen and Cooperation in Rural Jamaica. Ph.D. dissertation: Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University, New York, University of Michigan Microfilm Series, 364 p.

1963 "Anthropology and the Peace Corps: An Assessment." Peace Corps and Behavioral Sciences, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public Health Services, pp. 566-589.

1964a "Occupational Multiplicity in Rural Jamaica." Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society, 1963, pp. 41-50. Reprinted in Comitas, Lambros and David Lowenthal (eds.), Work and Family Life: West Indian Perspectives, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1973, pp. 157-173.

1964a "Anthropology." The Americana Annual, 1964. The Encyclopedia Americana, pp. 56-57.

1965a "Anthropology and Archaeology." The Americana Annual, 1965. The Encyclopedia Americana (with Ralph Solecki and George S. Metcalf), pp. 71-74.

1965b (with Vera Rubin) "The Caribbean as an Ethnographic Region: Theories and Methodologies for the Study of Complex Societies." Proceedings of the VII International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

1966a "Lessons from Jamaica." Cultural Frontiers of the Peace Corps. Robert Textor (ed.), The M.I.T. Press, pp. 201-219.

1966b "Anthropology." The Americana Annual, 1965. The Encyclopedia Americana, pp. 56-58.

1966c Review: The Plural Society in the British West Indies, by M. G. Smith (University of California Press) in The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, pp. 199-201.

1967a "Education and Social Stratification in Contemporary Bolivia." Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences. Series II, Vol. 29, No. 7, pp. 935-948. Reprinted in LaBelle, Thomas (ed.), Education and Development: Latin America and the Caribbean, Latin American Center, University of California, 1972, pp. 363-378; and in Ianni, Francis A. J. and Edward Storey (eds.), Cultural Relevance and Educational Issues: Readings in Anthropology and Education, Little, Brown and Co., 1973, pp. 402-418.

1967b "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, No. 29, pp. 118-128.

1968a Caribbeana 1900-1965: A Topical Bibliography. University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 909 p (Selected by Choice as one of the "out-standing academic books for 1968.")

1968b "Educación y estratificación social en Bolivia." America Indigena, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3, July 1968, pp. 631-651.

1969 "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 31, pp. 113-132.

1971 "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 33, pp. 114-129.

1972 (with Vera Rubin) Effects of Chronic Smoking of Cannabis in Jamaica. Research Institute for the Study of Man, for the Center for the Studies of Narcotic and Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, 519 p. Reprinted serially in The Daily Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica, June 3--August 11.

1973a (edited with David Lowenthal) Slaves, Free Men, Citizens: West Indian Perspectives. Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 340 p.

1973b (edited with David Lowenthal) Consequences of Class and Color: West Indian Perspectives. Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 334 p.

1973c (edited with David Lowenthal) Work and Family Life: West Indian Perspectives. Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 422 p.

1973d (edited with David Lowenthal) The Aftermath of Sovereignty: West Indian Perspectives. Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 422 p.

1973e "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 35, pp. 78-93.

1974 "Statement of Lambros Comitas, Professor of Anthropology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University." United States Caribbean Policy, Part I, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, 93rd Congress, U.S. G.P.O., Washington, D.C., pp. 58-68.

1975a (with Vera Rubin) Ganja in Jamaica: A Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marihuana Use. Mouton, The Hague, Paris, 205 p. Published in paper-back as Ganja in Jamaica: The Effects of Marijuana Use. Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1976, 217 p. Reprinted in part as "Cannabis, Society, and Culture" in Kelleher, M. E., B. MacMurray, and T. M. Shapiro (eds) Drugs and Society: A Critical Reader, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1983, pp. 212-218.

1975b "The Social Nexus of Ganja in Jamaica," in Cannabis and Culture. Vera Rubin (ed.), Mouton, The Hague, Paris pp. 119-132. Reprinted in Hamid, Ansley (ed.), Drugs and Drug Abuse: A Reader, Copley Publishing Group, 1988, pp. 40-50.

1975c "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 37, pp. 98-114.

1976 "Cannabis and Work in Jamaica: A Refutation of the Amotivational Syndrome," in Chronic Cannabis Use. Rhea L. Dornbush, Max Fink and Alfred M. Freedman (eds.), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 283, pp. 24-32. Reprinted in Hamid, Ansley (ed.), Drugs and Drug Abuse: A Reader, Copley Publishing Group, 1988, pp. 14-20.

1977a The Complete Caribbeana 1900-1975: A Bibliographic Guide to the Scholarly Literature. Vol . I Peoples / Vol. II Institutions / Vol. III Resources / Vol. IV Indexes. Kraus Thomson Organization, Millwood, NY, 2193 pp. (Selected by Choice as one of the "outstanding books for 1978").

1977b "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 39, pp. 134-153.

1978a (editor and contributor) Report and Working Papers. The Committee on Anthropology and Education, National Academy of Education, 551 p.

1978b (with Janet Dolgin) "Anthropology and Education: Retrospect and Prospect." Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Vol. IX, No. 3, 165-180.

1978c "El vínculo social de la marijuana en Jamaica." Instituto de asuntos internacionales, Ministerio de relaciones exteriores, Caracas, Venezuela.

1978d "Reflexiones sobre la educación en las Antillas angloparlantes." Instituto de asuntos internacionales, Ministerio de relaciones exteriores, Caracas, Venezuela.

1978e "Una perspectiva antropológica de las Antillas: con referencias especiales a los territorios no hispánicos." Instituto de asuntos internacionales, Ministerio de relaciones exteriores, Caracas, Venezuela.

1978f (with H. Russell Bernard) "Greek return migration." Current Anthropology, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 658-659.

1980 "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 41, pp. 122-148.

1982a "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 43, pp. 119-142.

1982b Opprobrium and Persecution: Hashish Users in Urban Greece. Research Institute for the Study of Man. Final Research Report for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 445 p.

1983 "Andorra: pequeña y universal." La Vanguardia, Barcelona, pp. 18-20 (December 28, 1983).

1985a "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 45, pp. 110-127.

1985b "Las mayorias son la minorias: el desarrollo histórico y socio-estructural de las Antillas Occidentales contemporáneas." Annals de la 3 Universitat d'Estui Andorra 83.

1986 (with Timothy C. Brock, Bengt Sigurd, and Åke O. F. Sundborg). Inter-disciplinary Research and Doctoral Training: A Study of the Linköping University (Sweden) Tema Departments. Swedish National Board of Universities and Colleges, Liber Tryck AB, Stockholm, 108 p.

1987 "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 47, pp. 109-129.

1989a "Reflections on Educational Anthropology in the United States" (in Chinese). Educational Science Edition, Journal of East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, pp. 1-11.

1989b "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 49, pp. 92-111.

1989c With Ithaca on My Mind: An Anthropologist's Journey. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 27p.

1989d "Growth and Consolidation of Tema: An Outsider's View" in Initiation, Growth and Consolidation: The Scientific Dynamics and Societal Relevance of a Non-Traditional Research Organization. Ingemar Lind, Tord Maunsbach and Lena Olsson (eds.) Swedish National Board of Universities and Colleges, Linköping University, pp. 61-64.

1991 "RISM and Caribbean Social Science" in Education and Society in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Errol Miller (ed.), Institute of Social and Economic Research, UWI, Mona, Jamaica, pp.1-6.

1992 "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 51, pp. 96- 110.

1994a "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 53, pp. 124-138.

1994b "Out of the Seraglio: Or, Embracing Life." AnthroWatch, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 11- 12.

1994c "Roast Vincent." AnthroWatch, Vol. II, No. 3, pp. 20-21.

1997a "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 55, pp. 98- 110.

1997b "Entrevista a Lambros Cómitas." IICE; Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación, Año VI, No. 11, pp. 71-76.

1997c "El Caribe: colonialismo y desarollo de las sociedades nuevas." in Cátedra ‘Jorge Juan’ ciclo de conferencias Ferrol: curso 1995-1996. Robustiano Fernández Ballesteros (ed.), Servicio de Publicacións, Universidade da Coruña, Ferrol, Spain, pp. 181-203.

1999a "Conrad Maynadier Arensberg (1910-1998). American Anthropologist, Vol. 101, No. 4, pp. 810-813.

2000a "Antropología y educación: delineando un futuro desconocido." In Análisis político y propuestas pedagógicas. Tomo 1, I Congreso Internacional de Educación "Educación, Crisis y Utopías", University of Buenos Aires and Aique Grupo Editor, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2000b Review: Cultura popular y participación social: Una investigación en el barrio de Mataderos (Buenos Aires) by María Teresa Sirvent {Coedición: Facultad de Filosofia y Letras (UBA) y Miño y Davila Editores, 1999 in IICE: Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de Educacion. University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 86-87.

2000c "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 57, pp.96-116.

2000d "Ethics in Anthropology: Dilemmas and Conundrums." In Ethics and Anthropology: Facing Future Issues in Human Biology, Globalism, and Cultural Property. Anne-Marie Cantwell, Eva Friedlander and Madeleine L. Tramm (eds. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 925, pp. 196-210.

In press:

2001 "Ethnology: West Indies." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 59.

2001 "Con Itaca en mi pensamiento: la odisea de un antropólogo." IICE: Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de Educacion. University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Completed:

(with M.G.Smith) Education and Society in the Creole Caribbean (monograph based on anthropological field research that deals with the relationship of education and development in post-independence Barbados, Grenada, and Trinidad. Includes major sections by Philip Burhnam (University College London), Josep Llobera (Goldsmith College, London), and Jack Harewood (University of the West Indies). Research Institute for the Study of Man.

(with Academician Y. V. Bromley) Peoples of the Soviet Union (an edited
monograph on the major ethnic groups in the Soviet Union completed before the dissolution of the Union. In association with the Institute of Ethnography, located then at the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences). Publication problematic.


FOREWORDS, INTRODUCTIONS, OR OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS IN:

1969 Rubin, Vera and Marisa Zavalloni. We Wish to be Looked Upon: A Study of the Aspirations of Youth in a Developing Society. Teachers College Press, New York

1970a McNeil, Malvina R. Guidelines to Problems of Education in Brazil: A Review and Selected Bibliography. Teachers College Press, New York.

1970b Cartey, Wilfred G. Black Images. Teachers College Press, New York.

1971 Kennedy, Paul P. Middle Beat: A Correspondent's View of Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Teachers College Press, New York.

1972a Heath, Shirley B. Telling Tongues: Language Policy in Mexico, Colony to Nation. Teachers College Press, New York.

1972b Walker, Malcolm T. Politics and the Power Structure: A Rural Community in the Dominican Republic. Teachers College Press, New York.

1973a Foner, Nancy. Status and Power in Rural Jamaica: A Study of Educational Political Change. Teachers College Press, New York.

1973b Ashcraft, Norman. Colonialism and Underdevelopment: Processes of Political Economic Change in British Honduras. Teachers College Press, New York.

1974 Hendricks, Glenn. The Dominican Diaspora: from the Dominican Republic to New York City--Villagers in Transition. Teachers College Press, New York.

1975a Rubin, Vera and Richard P. Schaedel. The Haitian Potential: Research and Resources of Haiti. Teachers College Press, New York.

1975b Mañach, Jorge. Frontiers in the Americas: A Global Perspective. Teachers College Press, New York.

1975c McEwen, William J. Changing Rural Society: A Study of Communities in Bolivia. Oxford University Press, New York, London, Toronto.

1978 Hendricks, Glenn. Los Dominicanos ausentes: un pueblo en transición. Fondo para el avance de las ciencias sociales, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana.

1979 Harrington, Charles C. Psychological Anthropology and Education. AMF Press, New York.

1982 Dreher, Melanie Creagan. Working Men and Ganja: Marihuana Use in Jamaica. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia.

1986 Donahue, John M. The Nicaraguan Revolution in Health: from Somoza to the Sandinistas. Bergin and Garvey Publishers, Inc., Massachusetts.

1991 Pratt, Frantz. Haiti: Guide to the Periodical Literature in English, 1800-1990. Greenwood Press, New York, Westport, London.

1992 Glick Schiller, N., L. Basch & C. Blanc-Szanton (eds). Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 645, New York.

1998 Smith, M.G. The Study of Social Structure. Research Institute for the Study of Man, New York.


 

 

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