| G. Edward Montgomery |
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Now in my 31st year at Washington University in 2001-2002, I here reflect on the development of diverse academic interests in an idiosyncratic career. I was trained in cultural anthropology and sociology as an undergraduate at Stanford, and then in ethnology (with some ecology, parasitology, nutrition science, and physiology) as a graduate student at Columbia University. In an atmosphere here, where I have had freedom to pursue academic inquiries I have valued most highly, I have in past years explored five 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 to find larger, more general implications from specific cases and from my observations from individual projects. No body of theory, however, has ever proved altogether adequate, so certain of my generalizations have been "biocultural" (ecological evolutionary), and others, more diffusely "cultural" (some cultural materialistic, others, heavily descriptive human science). Although the references listed below are representative of the breadth of my endeavors in past years, they do not indicate my recent concentration on the study of life cycles and life stage progressions, subcultural diversification and fragmentation, postethnicity, food, nutrition, and still too many other topics, all within the context of U. S American culture. In my teaching here, virtually all enrollees in my courses are undergraduates, although graduate students are welcomed, provided they are ready to do additional, advanced-level work. All my courses can be taken for graduate school credit.
Courses
Culture and Health; Anthropology of America; Culture, Food & Nutrition; American Cultures
Selected Publications
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 Con sumption Patterns, Food and Nutrition Board, National Research Council. P. 71-86. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
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