Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1970
B.A., Colby College, 1962
Professional Interests:
My field of study is economic anthropology. I have done substantial field research in the Purepecha speaking area of the State of Michoacan, Mexico and in fishing communities along the coast of Maine. My Mexican work has been concerned with the social and cultural aspects of economic development and modernization. My Maine fisheries research has focused on social science aspects of fisheries management. In the past 10 years, I have done work on the common property problem; and more recently on applying the principles of institutional economics to a variety of problems in anthropology, including the organization of household firms, fish markets in New England, and the development of local level institutions to manage resources and promote economic change.
Representative Publications:
2007 "Strategic Interaction and the Emergence of Formal Conservation Laws for the Maine Lobster Industry." In, Nature's Past. Paolo Squatriti, ed., pp 67-98. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2006 "Public Access of Privately Owned Land in Maine." Maine Policy Review 15(1): 18-31
2006 "Lobster and Groundfish Management in the Gulf of Maine: A Rational Choice Perspective." Human Organization 65(3): 240-252.
2006 "Institutional Failure in Resource Management." Annual Reviews in Anthropology Vol 35, 117-134. William Durham, ed. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews.
2006 "Lobster and Groundfish Management in the Gulf of Maine: A Rational Choice Perspective." Human Organization 65(3): 240-252.
2005 "Developing Rules to Manage Fisheries: A Cross Cultural Perspective." In, Marine Conservation Biology. Elliott Norse and Larry Crowder, eds. pp.351-361. Washington D.C.: Island Press
2005 "Spatial Strategies and Territoriality in the Maine Lobster Industry." (Roy Gardner, second author). Rationality and Society 17(3): 309-341.
2004 "Strategies, Conflict and the Emergence of Territoriality: The Case of the Maine Lobster Industry." (Roy Gardner second author). American Anthropologist 106(2): 296-307.
2003 "Changes in the Territorial System of the Maine Lobster Industry: Implications for Management." (Jennifer Brewer, second author). In: The Commons in the New Millennium: Implications for Management. Nieves Dolsak and Elinor Ostrom, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press.
2003 Anthropology and Institutional Economics (Ed.). Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994. 422 pp. Capturing the Commons: Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry. University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H., 264 pp
2002 "Rational Choice, Culture Change and Fisheries Management in the Gulf of Maine." Social Dimensions in the Economic Process, Vol. 24. Norbert Danhauser, ed. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2001 "Evolution of the Maine Lobster Co-management Law." (with Terry Stockwell and James Wilson second and third authors) Maine Policy Review 9(2): 52-63.
2001 "Confounding the Goals of Management: The Response of Maine Lobstermen to a Trap Limit." North American Journal of Fisheries Management 21: 136-148.
2001 "The Anatomy of the Maine Lobster Co-Management Law." (Laura Taylor, second author). Society and Natural Resources .
2001 "Transaction Cost Economics: Problems and Possibilities." In: Theory in Economic Anthropology, Jean Ensminger, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
2000 "With Blinders and Hobbles: Management of the Maine Lobster Industry. In, State and Community in Fisheries Management: Power, Policy and Practice. Paul Durrenberger and Thomas King, eds. pp 151-168. Westport, Conn.: Bergen and Garvey.
1998 "Lobster Trap Limits: A Solution to a Communal Action Dilemma." Human Organization 17(1): 43-52.
1998 "A Clash of Cultures." Island Journal 15: 74-75.
1997 "Bust and Boom in the Maine Lobster Industry: Perspectives of Fishermen and Biologists." (with Robert S. Steneck, second author) North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17(4): 826-847.
1997 "The Role of Management in Changes in Maine Lobster Catches." In, Social Implications of Quota Systems in Fisheries, Eds. Gisli Palsson and Gudrun Petursdotter. (Nordic Council of Ministers). Copenhagen: TemaNord.
1996 "From the Bottom Up: A Maine Fishery Embarks on Co-Management and Everyone is Watching." (with James A. Wilson, second author) Island Journal. Vol 13:56-60.
1996 "Household Organization and Budget Structures in a Purepecha Pueblo." American Ethnologist 23(2):331-351.
1995 "Coase Among the Purepechas: Transaction Costs and Institutional Change in a Mexican Indian Pueblo." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 151(2):358-372.
1989 "Where Have all the Lobsters Gone? Co-management of the Maine Lobster Industry. In, Common Property Resources: Economy and Community Based Sustainable Resources. Fikret Berkes, ed. pp. 199-217. London: Belhaven Press.
The Lobster Gangs of Maine, Durham, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1988. 181 pp.
The Question of the Commons. (Ed.)(with Bonnie McCay). Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1987. 439 pp.
Contact:
Telephone: (207) 581-1898
Fax. (207) 581-1823
Department of Anthropology
University of Maine
5773 S. Stevens Hall
Orono, Maine 04469-5773
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