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Papers Presented
1957 Lecture on Culture Change or Cultural Dynamics.
1958 The Use of the Concept Corporate in the Study of Social Organization. Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 10/58.
1959 Seminar on the Corporate Group. Australian National University 5/1/59.
1959 Personality and Culture Change: A Critique of a Research Design Involving the Method of Concomitant Variations.
1959 Achronal Research Designs and the Study of Personality and Culture Change.
1965 Some Observations of Research Design and Related Problems in Recent Studies of Stress and the Health Consequences of Culture Change. 11/4/65.
1966 The Nature of Social Groupings in a Cognatic Society; The Rungus Dusun of Sabah, Malaysia. Paper presented at the 65th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Pittsburgh, 11/17-20/66.
1967 The Pagan Peoples of North Borneo. Cornell University 12/14/67.
1967 A Social Anthropological Census for Cognatic Societies and Its use Among the Rungus of Borneo. Paper presented at Symposium: Methodological and Theoretical papers in Ethnology, Helen I. Safa, Chairman. 7th annual meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association 3/31/67, McGill University, Montreal.
1967 Symposium on the Structure of Cognatic Societies: Introduction. G. N. Appell, Chairman. Paper presented at the 66th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC 12/1/67.
1968 Ambilateral Descent Groups and the Failure of Anthropological Concepts. Paper delivered at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 4/5/68.
1968 The Study of Cognatic Societies in Borneo and Its Impact on the Development of Anthropological Theory (Rungus Project). Brandeis University Colloquium 11/15/68.
1969 The Health Consequences of Culture Change: Some Observations on Research Design and Scientific Explanation. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Maine Sociological Association, 4/5/69.
1969 The Health Consequences of Culture Change: Some Observations on Research Design and Scientific Explanation. Maine Sociological Association, 4/5/69.
1969 Dilemmas in Anthropological Inquiry. University of North Carolina 12/8/69.
1969 Dilemmas in Anthropological Inquiry. Brown University.
1970 Dilemmas in Anthropological Inquiry. University of New Hampshire.
1970 Partial Social Models and Their Failure to Account for the Pernicious Effects of Development. Paper presented at the Symposium, The Role of Education and the Problems of Development, at thatAnnual Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Boulder, Colorado 4/1-5/70.
1970 Implications of Research on Cognatic Social Systems. Michigan State University.
1971 Field Work Among the Rungus of Northern Borneo. Dansk Ethnografisk Forening, Copenhagen 10/28/71.
1971 The Cultural Ecology of Swidden Agriculture in Borneo. Paper presented at the Anthropology 106b course on Human Ecology, Brandeis University, 5/71
1971 Analysis of Moesgård as a Social System.
1972 Cognatic Structuralism. Lecture for Cultural Sociologists. Copenhagen, 3/72
1972 Rational Models and Economic Determinism. Aarhus Colloquium 3/6/72.
1972 Observational Procedures for Land Tenure and Kin Groupings in the Cognatic Societies of Borneo. Bergen University 5/9/72.
1972 Ethical Dilemmas in Anthropological Inquiry. University of Oslo, 5/5/72.
1972 Observational Procedures for Land Tenure and Kin Groupings in the Cognatic Societies of Borneo. London School of Economics 1/72.
1972 University of Hull. Department of Geography lecture.
1972 Observational Procedures for Land Tenure and Kin Groupings in the Cognatic Societies of Borneo. University of Manchester 1/72.
1972 Observational Procedures for Land Tenure and Kin Groupings in the Cognatic Societies of Borneo. University of Edinburgh 2/72.
1972 Method and Theory in Anthropological Inquiry -- Spring Semester 1972.
1973 Developing Skills in Ethical Decision Making and the Nature of Moral Education. Paper presented at the Symposium, Learning and Teaching About Ethics in Field Work, Dr. Steven Polgar and Dr. G. N. Appell, Moderators, at the 72 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.
1973 The Direction of Research in Borneo: Its Past Contribution to Anthropological Theory and Its Relevance for the Future. Paper presented at the Borneo Research Council Symposium: Contributions to Social-Anthropological Theory from Recent Research in Borneo, Cochairmen: Dr. G. N. Appell and Dr. Robert Harrison, at the 1972 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association.
1974 The Analysis of Property Systems: The Creation and Devolution of Property Interests among the Rungus of Borneo. Paper presented at the 1974 Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists on Social Anthropology and Law, University of Keele, 3/4-30/74.
1974 The Status of Social-Anthropological Research in Borneo. Paper presented at the Borneo Research Council Symposium, The Status of Social Science Research in Borneo, G. N. Appell and Leigh Wright, organizers, at the 73 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Boston, 12/1/74.
1974 Current Epistemological Issues in Anthropological Inquiry: Social structuralism, Cognitive Structuralism, Synthetic Structuralism and Opportunism. Paper presented a the Conference "Structure and Cognition: The Mutual relevance of Structural Theory and cognitive Theory in Anthropology" SUNY College at Geneseo 4/13/74.
1974 The Status of Social-Anthropological Research in Borneo. Paper presented at the Borneo Research Council Symposium, The Status of Social Science Research in Borneo, G. N. Appell and Leigh Wright, organizers. Paper presented at the 73 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Boston, 12/1/74.
1975 Ethical Issues in Anthropological Inquiry. Colloquium, Brandeis University 11/75.
1975 Epistemological Issues in Anthropological Inquiry. Brandeis University 11/14/75.
1975 Social Impact Analysis. Bowdoin College.
1975 Ethnocide: Threats to the Survival of the Indigenous Peoples of the Third World and the Effects of Modern Society.
1975 Lecture on Trust. Bowdoin College 3/5/75.
1975 The Plight of Indigenous Peoples. Paper presented at the Symposium sponsored by Cultural Survival, Inc.: "The Plight of Indigenous Peoples. Pia Maybury-Lewis, Chair, at the 15th annual meetings of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, SUNY College, Potsdam, 4/18/75.
1975 Ethical Thoughts in Social Science Research: Thoughts on the Role of the SSRC. Social Science Research Council Consultation on Research Into Ethical Issues in Social Science Research Council, NY 5/22/75.
1976 Consequences of Planned Change: Social Impact Analysis and Anthropological Theory. paper presented at the Symposium on Cultural and Ecosystem: Anthropological Views on Human Habitation, J. W. Bennett, Chair, Annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston 2/24/76.
1976 The Emergent Structure of the Rungus Property System: Social Structure, the Opportunity Structure and the Contrastructure. Paper presented at the Borneo Research Council Symposium: Contributions to the Study of a Changing Social Environment, at the 76th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 11/18/76.
1976 The Multinationals in Borneo: General Custer as Chief Executive Officer. Paper presented at the Cultural Survival Workshop on the Social Consequences of Development, Cambridge, 4/5/76.
1976 The Emergent Structure of the Rungus Property System: Social Structure, the Opportunity Structure and the Contrastructure. paper presented at the Borneo Research Council Symposium: Contributions to the Study of a Changing Social Environment Paper presented at the 76th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 11/18/76.
1977 Epistemological Issues in Social Structuralism, Opportunism, and Emergent Structuralism. McGill University 3/4/77.
1977 The Uses of Anthropological Research: Costing Social Change. Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University 3/4/77.
1977 What Constitutes a "Healthy" Social System: Covert Values or Scientific Conclusions in Anthropological Judgement?. Introduction to session organized by G. N. Appell and Conrad Reining at the 17th annual meetings of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, 3/24/77.
1977 Contributions Towards a Theory of Societal Functioning. Paper presented at Symposium: What Constitutes a "Healthy" Social System: Convert Values or Scientific Conclusions in Anthropological Judgement?, organized by G. N. Appell and Conrad Reining, at the 17th annual meetings of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, 3/24/77.
1977 The Current Status of Salvage Ethnology. Introduction to Session organized by G. N. Appell at the 17th Annual Meetings of he Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, 3/26/77.
1977 The Contributions of Salvage Ethnography. Paper presented at the Session: The Current Status of Salvage Ethnology at the 17th Annual meetings of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Providence, 3/26/77.
1977 The Uses of Anthropological Research: Costing Social Change. Paper presented at Symposium: Indigenous Scientific and Technological Research in Developing Countries: Where, How Much, What Kind, What Directions?. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2/20-25/77.
1977 Lecture for "The Development of Human Food Production" Course. Brandeis University 3/16/77.
1977 Dilemmas and Ethical Issues in Anthropological Inquiry. Brandeis University 11/14/77.
1978 Swidden Agriculture. Brandeis University 3/15/78.
1978 Ethics of Social Inquiry. Department of Philosophy & History, Brandeis University. 3/15/78.
1978 Salvage Ethnology. Anthropological Society, University of Massachusetts, Harbor Campus, Boston 10/20/78.
1978 The Health Consequences of Social Change: A Set of Postulates for Developing General Adaptation Theory. Paper Presented at Cornell University 11/30/78.
1978 The Human Consequences of Social Change. Paper presented at Symposium entitled Amazonia: Extinction or Survival? The Impact of National Development on the Native Peoples of Tropical South America, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 4/18-22/78.
1978 Salvage Ethnology. Presented to the Anthropology Society, University of Massachusetts - Boston.
1978 Ethnocide Lecture. Bowdoin College 12/78.
1978 The Utopian Vision of the Anthropologist: What is a Healthy Society? Paper presented to the Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, November 30, 1978.
1978 The Human Consequences of Social Change. Paper presented at Symposium entitled Amazonia: Extinction or Survival? The Impact of National Development on the Native Peoples of Tropical South America, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 4/18-22/78.
1979 The Social Consequences of Individualization of Land Tenure and Intensification of Agriculture Among the Rungus of Northern Borneo. Paper presented at the 78 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 11/28/79.
1979 The Health Consequences of Social Change. University of California, Santa Barbara.
1979 The Health Consequences of Social Change: A Set of Postulates for Developing General Adaptation Theory. Medical Anthropology Training Program, Michigan State University 4/30/79.
1979 Workshop: Ethical issues in Fieldwork: A Case Study Workshop. Society for Applied Anthropology, Philadelphia, 3/17/79.
1979 Case Studies of Ethical Problems in Fieldwork. Presented at Conference on Ethical Problems of Fieldwork, Pacific Grove, CA, 4/23/79.
1979 Health, Culture, and Disease. Michigan State University 5/1/79.
1979 The Social Consequences of Individualization of Land Tenure and Intensification of Agriculture Among the Rungus of Northern Borneo. Paper presented at the 78 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 11/28/79.
1980 The Social Design of Successful Tropical Agricultural Systems: The Rungus and Other Examples from Borneo. World Bank Talk 4/3/80.
1980 The Status of Borneo Ethnography. Paper presented at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 7/5/80.
1980 The Status of Borneo Ethnography. Paper given at University of Malaya, 7/80.
1980 Research Problems in Borneo: And Their Implications for Insular Southeast Asia and Melanesia. Paper presented at the Australian National University, 10/13/80.
1980 What Constitutes a Healthy Society: The Cultural Contamination of Social Science inquiry. Department of Anthropology, Australian National University.
1980 Urgent Problems in Anthropological Research: Substantive and Theoretical. Paper presented to the Graduate Student Seminar of the University of Sydney and McQuarie University 10/14/80.
1982 The Human Consequences of Social Change. paper presented at Symposium entitled Amazonia: Extinction or Survival? Paper given at a National Conference on Social Stress Research, University of New Hampshire, Durham, 10/11-12/82.
1982 Ethnic Groups in the Northeast Region of Indonesian Borneo and Their Social Organizations. Paper presented at the Borneo Research Council Symposium "Recent Research Among Borneo Societies" at the 81 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, 12/6/82.
1983 How to Evaluate Societal Functioning: Or What Constitutes a Healthy Society? Talk Given to the CIA 4/21/83.
1984 reeman's Refutation of Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa: The implications for Anthropological Inquiry. Harvard University 4/23/84.
1984 The Anthropology of Reservations: Introduction. Paper presented Symposium: The Anthropology of Reservations, organized by G. N. Appell and Barbara S. Nowak, at the 83 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, 11/18/84.
1984 Reservations in Indonesian Borneo (II): The Bulusu' Experience. Paper presented Symposium: The Anthropology of Reservations, organized by G. N. Appell and Barbara S. Nowak, at the 83 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, 11/18/84.
1985 Lecture on Culture and Social Organization of the Family Firm. Brandeis University 4/3/85.
1985 Dehumanization in Fact and Theory: Processes of Modernization and the Social Sciences. Paper presented at the BRC Symposium: "Nation States and Tribal Societies in Southeast Asia," Vinson H. Sutlive, Jr., Chair, held at the 84 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, 12/7/85.
1986 Lecture on Culture and Social Organization of the Family Firm. Brandeis University March 6, 1986.
1986 Adaptation Lecture for Course on the Family Firm. Brandeis.
1986 Social Anthropological Research Among the Rungus Dusun: A Talk for the Sabah Society given on Friday, August 22, 1986.
1987 Sexual Metaphors in Verbal Aggression: Rungus and American Cultural Patterns. Paper presented at the Symposium: "Male and Female in Borneo," Vinson H. Sutlive, Jr., Chairman, held at the 86 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 11/21/87.
1989 The Moral Grounds of Anthropological Inquiry. Keynote Address for the University of Minnesota Anthropology Club 11th Annual Undergraduate Spring Conference 5/19/89, Lake Itasca, Minnesota.
1990 Talk at Harvard Herbarium to Biologists. 4/25/90.
1990 Role of the Museum in Cultural Heritage Preservation. Sabah Museum, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia July 13, 1990.
1990 A Brief History of the Borneo Research Council. Paper Presented at the 1st International Meeting of the Borneo Research Council, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, July-August 1990.
1990 Vinson Sutlive Honored for his Fifteen Years as Editor of the Borneo Research Bulletin and Executive Director of the Borneo Research Council. Paper Presented at the 1st International Meeting of the Borneo Research Council, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, July-August 1990.
1990 The Borneo Research Council Distinguished Service Medal for the Advancement of Scientific Knowledge Awarded to the Honorable Datuk Amar Leonard Linggi Tun Jugah. Paper Presented at the 1st International Meeting of the Borneo Research Council, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, July-August 1990.
1990 The Tradition of Scientific Inquiry in Sarawak and the Borneo Research Council. Paper Presented at the 1st International Meeting of the Borneo Research Council, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, July-August 1990.
1991 Resource Management Regimes Among the Swidden Agriculturalists of Borneo: Does the Concept of Common Property Adequately Map Indigenous Systems of Ownership. paper presented at the Panel Session: Property in Common Property, Robert C. Hunt, Chair, at the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) Common Property Conference, 9/26-29/91, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
1991 Resource Management Regimes Among the Swidden Agriculturalists of Borneo: Does the Concept of Common Property Adequately Map Indigenous Systems of Ownership. Paper presented at the Panel Session ?Property in Common Property,? Robert C. Hunt, Chair, at the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) Common Property Conference, 9/26-29/91, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Also available as Working Paper 5. Phillips, ME: Social Transformation and Research Institute.
1992 The Emergent Nature of Social Behavior Including Social Structure, Rape, Sex, Aggression and Land Tenure: An Opinionated, Obsessional Travelogue of he Relationship Between Ethnography and Theory Construction. Brown Bag Talk, Brandeis University, 2/17/92.
1992 Opening Address. Paper Presented at the 2nd International Meeting of the Borneo Research Council, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, July 1992.
1992 Recent Activities of the Borneo Research Council. Paper Presented at the 2nd International Meeting of the Borneo Research Council, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, July 1992.
1992 The History of Research on Traditional Land Tenure and Tree Ownership in Borneo. Paper Presented at the 2nd International Meeting of the Borneo Research Council, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, July 1992.
1992 The Sabah Oral Literature Project. Report for the Period 1986 to 1992. Paper Presented at the 2nd International Meeting of the Borneo Research Council, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, July 1992.
1992 The Social Construction of Dependent Peoples: The Rungus of Northern Borneo. Paper presented at the BRC Symposium: The Transformation of the Societies of Borneo Produced by the Expansion of the World System, Vinson H. Sutlive, Jr., Chair, held at the 91st annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 12/3/92.
1992 The Social Construction of Dependent Peoples: The Rungus of Northern Borneo. Paper presented at the BRC Symposium ?The Transformation of the Societies of Borneo Produced by the Expansion of the World System,? Vinson H. Sutlive, Jr., Chair, held at the 91st Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 12/3/92.
1993 Does Anthropology Have Any Special Contribution to Make to the Advancement of Human Rights? Paper presented to the Commission for Human Rights of the American Anthropological Association, April.
1993 Does Anthropology Have A Special Contribution to Make to the Advancement of Human Rights? Paper presented at the Symposium "International Year of Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights" sponsored by the American Anthropological Association Program Committee and the American Anthropological Association Commission for Human Rights, C. Patrick Morris, Chair, at the 92nd Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1993.
1993 Does Anthropology Have A Special Contribution to Make to the Advancement of Human Rights? Paper presented at the Symposium "International Year of Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights" sponsored by the American Anthropological Association Program Committee and the American Anthropological Association Commission for Human Rights, C. Patrick Morris, Chair, at the 92nd Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1993.
1994 Declining Health Status as an Indicator of Human Rights Violations in Planned Social Change. Paper Presented at the Borneo Research Council Session ?Land, Law, and Culture: Human Rights in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei,? Vinson H. Sutlive, Jr., Chair, at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, December 4, 1994.
1995 The Corruption of Scholarship: The Trickster as Anthropologist. Paper Presented at the Session "Enduring Traditions: Anthropological Theory After Postmodernism," Paula G. Rubel and Herbert S. Lewis, Organizers, Abraham Rosman, Chair, at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 15, 1995.
1995 Community Resources in Borneo: Failure of the Concept of Common Property and Its Implications for the Conservation of Forest Resources and the Protection of Indigenous Rights. Paper prepared for the International Society of Tropical Foresters Conference: "Local Heritage in the Changing Tropics: Innovative Strategies for Natural Resource Management and Control" and sponsored by the Yale Tropical Resources Institute, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and the Weyerhaeuser Center for Forest Resource Management and Policy Studies, February 10-12, 1995, New Haven, CT.
1995 The Strengths of the Past: Foundation for Development, Springboard to the Future. Paper presented at the Koisaan Cultural Development Institute (KDI) Conference "The Status and Role of the Indigenous Communities of Sabah in National Development", 29-30 November and 1 December 1995, Kota Kinabalu.
1995 The Corruption of Scholarship: The Trickster as Anthropologist. Paper Presented at the Session "Enduring Traditions: Anthropological Theory After Postmodernism," Paula G. Rubel and Herbert S. Lewis, Organizers, Abraham Rosman, Chair, at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 15, 1995.
1995 Anthropological Foundations for Human Rights. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association November 1995.
1996 Human Rights and Anthropology; Remarks. American Anthropological Association 1996.
1997 Paradigmatic Myopia: The Unrecognized Contributions of Borneo Ethnography to Social Theory. Paper presented at the Session "New Guinea: Borneo :: Canon : No Canon", Peter Metcalf, Organizer, Annual Meetings of the American Ethnological Society, March 6-9, 1997.
1997 Style in Anthropological Discourse: Claims for Uniqueness and the Persuasion of Scholarship and Ethnographic Methods. Brandeis 2/6/97.
1999 Talk given at Department of Anthropology, UNIMAS, Sabah, 4/12/99.
n.d. Lecture at University of Massachusetts at Amherst on land tenure.
Appell, G.N. and Laura W. R. Appell
1994 The Seizing of Indigenous Lands and the Destruction of Cultures by the Governments of East Kalimantan and Sabah, Malaysia. Paper Presented at the Borneo Research Council Session ?Land, Law, and Culture: Human Rights in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei,? Vinson H. Sutlive, Jr., Chair, at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, December 4, 1994.
Appell, Laura W. R. Appell and G. N. Appell
1989 To Do Battle With the Spirits: Bulusu' Spirit Mediums. Paper presented at the BRC Symposium, Spirit Mediums of Borneo, Vinson H. Sutlive, Jr., Chairman, held at the 88th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 11/19/89.