EDUCATION:

Stanford University. B.A. in Pre-Architecture with Honors in the Humanities, 1957.
Honors thesis: "Modern Mexican Architecture: A Reflection of the Aspirations of the Mexican Revolution."

University of Chicago. M.A. in Anthropology, 1960.
M.A. thesis: "Witchcraft and Curing in Two Tzeltal Communities of Chiapas, Mexico."

University of Chicago. PhD. in Anthropology, 1975.
Dissertation: "In the Aftermath of Civilization: The Persistence of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma."

EXPERIENCE:

Teaching and Academic Administration

1958 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology of the University of Chicago. (Graduate "core" curriculum in anthropology).

1958 Teaching Assistant, Summer Workshop on American Indian Affairs. The Colorado College, Colorado Spring, Colorado.

1965 Faculty, Summer Workshop on American Indian Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

1966 Visiting Lecturer, Summer Workshop on Canadian Indian Affairs, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

1967 Lecturer in Anthropology, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. (General Anthropology, Personality and Culture).

1968 Assistant Professor, Division of the Science of Society, Monteith College, Wayne State University, Detroit.
(Social Science theory and method: comparative social systems).

1969 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Sonoma State College,Rohnert Park, Ca.
(cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, ethnology of Mesoamerica).

1974 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Sonoma State College.

1977-1978 All-College Faculty Fellow, Sonoma State College.

1979- 2005 Professor, Department of Anthropology, Sonoma State University.

1978-1980, 1988-1992 Chairperson, Department of Anthropology.

2005-present. Emeritus Professor.

Fieldwork:

June-December 1959 - Chiapas, Mexico.
Community study of Villa Las Rosas (San Miguel Pinola) in association with the "Man in Nature" Project of the University of Chicago.

December-February 1960 - Chiapas, Mexico.
Reconnaissance of San Pablo Chalchihuitan in association with the "Man in Nature" Project of the University of Chicago.

October 1963-January 1967 - Eastern Oklahoma.
Demographic survey of tribal Cherokee population. Socio-economic survey of tribal Cherokee population. Study of four selected traditional Cherokee settlements. Participation in study of literacy and cross-cultural learning among Cherokees. Observation of a contemporary nativisitic organization among traditional Cherokees. Participant observer in ceremonial cycle of Arbeka Town, Creek Nation. Observations of contemporary Cherokee ritual and ceremony. In association with the Carnegie corporation Cross-Cultural Education Project of the University of Chicago.

June-October 1967 - Eastern Oklahoma.
Observations of political activity among traditional Cherokees.

February 1972 - Eastern Oklahoma.
Study of administrative and economic system enclaving tribal Cherokee population and response of tribal Cherokees to enclavement. Collection of Cherokee prophecy. In association with the American Indian Economic Development Project, Center for the Study of Man, Smithsonian Institution.

July 1974, August 1976 - Eastern Oklahoma. Culture change in traditional Cherokee settlements.

September 1975-June 1976 - Sonoma County, Calif.
Ethnography of a Sonoma County psychiatric facility; observation of staff and patient culture and the structure of therapeutic intervention, with four Sonoma State College undergraduate field assistants as contribution to Oakcrest Psychiatric Facility in-service training project.

August 1977 - Chiapas, Mexico.
Commenced brief survey of culure change in Villa Las Rosas. Terminated due to political instability and concern about placing informants in jeopardy.

1979-1980 - Sonoma County, Calif.
Overview of adaptation of Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Hmong and Htin refugees in Sonoma County; collection of oral history from selected survivors.

1979 - Sonoma County, Calif.
Sociocultural factors review of ranching culture and land use. Lake Sonoma Project Candidate Critical Habitat Zone Evaluation.

April & July 1984 - Mexico City; Huehuetla, Puebla; San Rafael, Veracruz.
Preliminary fieldwork in conjunction with two ethnographic films, one on Danza Azteca and one on the acculuturation of a Totonac Indian adolescent and his family.

June 1992 - Lumberton, North Carolina. Lumbees Indians - contemporary culture. Preliminary observations.

April 1993, December 1997, December 1998 - Resumption of work in Huehuetla.
Observation of emergence of OIT (Independent Totonac Organization) and its efforts towards cultural revitalization and political organizing.

November 1994, December 1995, July 1996, January 1999, January 2000 - Ethnography of Totonac migrants from Huehuetla settling in various locations in the State of Veracruz.

January 1995, January 1996 - Ethnographic recomaissance of fincas and parcelamentos on north Pacific Coast of Guatemala - in cooperation with Sonoma State University/Universidad del Valle Arcaeological Field School.

January 2000, June-July 2000, December 2001, November-December 2002. -Ethnography of visual communication in Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico, especially Portada de Semillas, murals, banners. Work on videodocumentary about local god, El Tepozteco, and Tepoztecan cultural integrity.

December 2004, December 2005 Fieldwork in the Totonac Indian community in Huehuetla, Puebla, Mexico on the rebirth of the ritual of Los Voladores. With Pacho Lane, director. Researching full length video in collaboration with the Captain of the Voladores.

General and Professional Experience:

Assistant to the Coordinators, American Indian Chicago Conference, 1960.

Member of first contingent of Volunteers to be selected for the U.S. Peace Corps. Served as community development worker in Manaure, Magdalena, Colombia with the extention service of the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation for 9 months and in Silvia, Cauca, Colombia with the Colombian Division of Indian Affairs for 11 months. 1961-1963

Research Associate, Carnegie Corporation Cross-Cultural Education Project of the University of Chicago. 1963-1967

Anthropological Consultant to Project Head Start, evaluating Head Start programs in Oklahoma Indian communities. Summer 1975

Senior Investigator, "Project Sachem" of Human Science Research, Inc., evaluating Office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Program at Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota. 1966

Historian and Consultant to Five County Northeastern Oklahoma Cherokee Organization. 1965-1968

Consultant to Indian Association of Alberta, Canada, Spring 1971

Press Committee, Second Indian Ecumenical Conference. Stoney Indian Reservation, Morely, Alberta, Canada. August 1971

Research Associate, American Indian Economnic Development Study. Smithsonian Institution, Center for the Study of Man, 1972-1973

Public Spokesperson for Conference:"Indian Survival in the 1980's". Claremore, Oklahoma. 1980.

Executive Committee, Indochinese Studies Task Force. Sonoma County, California. 1980.

Board of Directors, Indochinese-American Council (principal refugee resettlement agency in Sonoma County) 1979-1984

Associate Investigator. Warm Springs Dam-Lake Sonoma Project Candidate Critical Habitat Zone Evaluation, Sociocultural Factors Review. 1980

Board of Directors, Southwestern Folklore Media Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1982-present

Board of Directors, Sonoma County Task Force on the Homeless, 1989-present.

Project Director, "Preventing Homelessness" Program, Sonoma State University, 1992-1995

PUBLICATIONS:

Monographs

*The Cherokee People Today (bilingual publication in Cherokee and English).
Tahlequah Printing Co., Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 1966. 45 pages

*Social and Economic Characteristics of the Cherokee Population of Eastern Oklahoma.
Anthropological Studies, No. 5. American Anthropological Association. 1970. 69 pages

House/Site/Community. Monograph #1, Sonoma State University Cultural Consultation Project.
Ttp://www.sonoma,.edu/anthropology/t3.

Video With Bruce "Pacho" Lane, Director. Democracia Indigena. 1999. 36 minutes

With Bruce "Pacho" Lane, Director. A Defender of his People: The Legend of El Tepozteco. 2005. 57 minutes.

With Bruce "Pacho" Lane, Director. The Language of the Seeds: The Seed Mosaics of Tepoztlán. 20 minutesl

Web Site Founder and co-webmaster. Anales de Tepoztlán, http://www.sonoma.edu/anthropology/tepoztlan - a bilingual web site for sharing information on the history, art, and culture of Tepoztlán, Morelos

Photograpy "1959: The Mexico That Was - an exibit in photography and text celebrating 40 years of ethnographic involvement in Mexico."
Sonoma State University Department of Anthropology. 1999

"Imágenes de Tepoztlán" Museo Exconvento de Tepoztlán. Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico. December 2002

A Way of Seeing - An Anthrpologist's Eye: Works by Albert Wahrhaftig. University Library Art Gallery, Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center, Sonoma State University. January-February 2004.

Articles and other presentations "An Anti-Poverty Exploration Project: A Suggestion for Non-reservation Indian Communities."
J. American Indian Education. 1965

*"Community and the Caretakers," New University Thought 4:4 1966-67
Review. Kilpatrick and Kilpatrick, Walk in my Soul: Love Incantations of the Oklahoma Cherokees. American Anthropologist 68:3 1966

*"The Tribal Cherokee Population of Eastern Oklahoma." Current Anthropology 9:5:510-519. 1968

*"Renaissance and Repression: the Myth of Cherokee Assimilation" (with Robert K. Thomas) Trans-action 6:4:42-48. l969

"The Folk Society as Type" Syllabus for the Study of the Science of Society. Monteith college, Wayne State University, Detroit. n.p. 1969

Review of Gregory and Strickland, eds. Starr's History of the Cherokee Indians. American Anthropologist 71:5:952 1969

"Renaissance and Repression. . ." anthologized in John Howard, ed. The Awakening Minorities. Aldine. 1970

"Indians, Hillbillies, and the "Education Problem"" (with Robert K. Thomas) in Murray Wax, Stanley Diamond and Fred O. Gearing. Anthropological Persepctives on Education. Basic Books. 1971 pp. 230-251

"Renaissance and Repression. . ." anthologized in Joyce Gelb and Marian Lief Palley, eds. The Politics of Social Change: A Reader for the Seventies. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. pp. 297-304

"Renaissance and Repression. . ." anthologized in Howard M. Bahr, Bruce Chadwick and Robert Day. Native Americans Today: Sociological Perspectives. Harper and Row. 1972. pp. 80-88.

"The Tribal Cherokee Population of Eastern Oklahoma" anthologized in Deward E. Walker. The Emergent Native Americans: A Reader in Culture Contact. Little, Brown, 1972. pp. 217-233.

"Institution Building Among Oklahoma's Traditional Cherokees" in Charles Hudson, Four Centuries of Indians in the South. University of Georgia Press. 1975 pp. 132-148.

"More Than Mere Work: The Subsistence System of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma" Appalachian Journal, Special Cherokee Issue, 2:4:327-332. 1975

"The Thrice Powerless: Oklahoma Cherokee Conceptions of Power" (with Jane Wahrhaftig) in R.N. Adams and Ray Fogelson, eds. The Ethnography of Power. Academic Press. 1977 pp. 225-237.

"Peasants" Alfred Feinstein, ed. Varieties of Man and Society: A Social Science Reader. Journal of University Studies, 2:1-4:82-91. 1975

"Tribes of One: Ethnographies of the Urban Person" Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society 6:1:1-32. 1974

"Making Do with the Dark Meat: A Report on the Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma" San Stanley, ed. American Indian Economic Development. The Hague: Moulton. 1978 Pp. 409-510.

"Our Collaborative Effort in Teaching Two Management Classes" (with Saul Eisen) Interdisciplinary Investigations 1:1:7-13. 1978.

"New Militants or Resurrected State: The Five County Northeastern Oklahoma Cherokee Organization" (with Jane Wahrhaftig) in Duane H. King, ed. The Cherokee Indian Nation: A Troubled History. University of Tennessee Press. 1979. Pp 223-245.

"We Who Act Right: The Persistent Identity of Oklahoma Cherokee Indians" in Robert Henshaw, ed. Currents in Anthropology. The Hague: Moulton. 1980

"A Portfolio of Narratives by IndoChinese Refugees" Sonoma State University IndoChinese Studies Project. Working Paper #1. Mimeo. 1980

"A Cultural View of Residents and Owners" in David A. Fredrickson, Principal Investigator. Sociocultural Factors Review for the Warm Springs Dam-Lake Sonoma Project Candidate/Critical Habitat Zone Evaluation. Pp 155-173. 1981

Review of Dianna Evrett, The Texas Cherokees: A People Caught Between Two Fires, 1819-1840. American Anthropologist 94:710. 1992

(with Pacho Lane) "Totonac Cultural Revitalization: An Alternative to the Zapaatistas" Presented at te 37th Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association, Oakland, CA, April 29, 1995.
http://www.sonoma.edu/anthropology/cultural_revival/cultural_revival.html

Review of Alvin Wolfe and Honggang Yang. Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution in Conflict Resolution Notes 15:4:41-2. Sept. 1998

Review of Carter Wilson. Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDs in Yucatán. Journal of World Anthropology in press

"Looking Back to Tahlequah: Robert K. Thomas' Role Among the Oklahoma Cherokee, 1963-1967" in Steve Pavlik, editor. A Good Cherokee, A Good Anthropologist: Papers in Honor of Robert K.Tomas. UCLA American Indians Studies Center. 1998. Pages 93-104.

"Robert K. Thomas and the Monteith Theory" in Steve Pavlik, editor. A Good Cherokee, A Good Anthropologist: Papers in Honor of Robert K.Tomas. UCLA American Indians Studies Center. 1998. Pages 9-16.

• Reprinted in Hearings before the special Subcommittee on Indian Education of the Commission of Labor and Public Welfare, U.S. Senate, 90th Congress, on The Study of the Education of Indian Children. Part 2, February 19, 1968, Twin Oaks, Oklahoma

Selected recent conference participations: "Where Indians Rule in Mexico" Latin American Studies Lecture Series, Sonoma State University. May 1998
(with Pacho Lane) "Etnografía visual en comunidades mexicanas" Department of Anthropology, Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa, Veracruz, January 1999
Presentation of video: Democracia Indigena. Latin American Studies Association Film Festival and 2000 Annual Meeting . March 2000 (Award of Merit)
Session Chair: "Anthropological Perspectives on Mexico" Annual Meeting of the Western Social Sciences Association. April 2000

"Grey Haired at Last: A Reflection on My Cherokee Studies of 30 Years Ago" Presented at Annual Meeting of the Western History Association, Also, Discussant for "The Evolution of Twentieth Century Indian Identities" San Antonio, Texas. 2000

Session Chair: "Expressing Identity: Resistance and Representation in Latin America/Americas" Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 2000

"Talking Walls: The Iconography of Tepoztecan Resistance" Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, December 2, 2001
http://www.sonoma.edu/anthropology/tepoztlan/talkingwalls.html

Manuscripts presented during consultation with selected staff of Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah Oklahoma, September 6-12, 2002

"Stories for Cherokee Youth"
"Cherokee Impressions"
"Literacy as a 'Gift': Some Observations About Cherokee Literacy and the Sacred"
"Oscar Lewis en Tepoztlán desde una punta de vista norteamericana" Presented at "Encuentro de Miradas" Tepoztlán y sus estudiosos" Museo Exconvento de Tepoztlán. November 16, 2002

"Portadas y Banderas: Una comparison en formas de comunicación visual en Tepoztlán" Presented at at "Encuentro de Miradas" Tepoztlán y sus estudiosos" Museo Exconvento de Tepoztlán. November 30, 2002

"Portadas and Banderas: Unity and Diversity in the Visual Culture of Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico." Faculty Seminar of the Department of Anthropology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA. Spring 2003

"Las Portadas de Semillas: Annual State of the Culture Representations in Tepoztlán, Mexico." Annual Meeting of the International Visual Sociology Association. San Francisco. July 11-13, 2004.

"Talking About Culture with Pictures: Visual Communication in Tepoztlán, Mexico." Robert K. Thomas Symposium, Hosted by the Center for Indian Scholars. Northwest Indian College and the Lumbee Nation. Bellingham, Washington. July 21-23, 2005

Organizer and Chairman: "A Defender of His People: The God of Tepoztlán in the 21st Century." A Panel presented by Albert Wahrhaftig, Catharine Bood, Margarita Betancourt, Gordon Brotherston, Yolanda Corona and Carlos Pérez, and Bruce Lane. XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006-04-06

"Pictorial State of the Culture Representations in Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico." . XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006-04-06

Works in Progress: With Pacho Lane, editor. "Rebirth of the Voladores - A Totonac Indian y9outh bring an ancient ritual back to life." Feature length video documentary filmed in Huehuetla, Puebla, Mexico in 2004-2005. Now being edited.