CURRICULUM VITA

David W. Guillet
Department of Anthropology
Catholic University
Washington D.C. 20064
202 319 5080

Education:

Loyola University - New Orleans B.A. (English) 1965
University of Texas Ph.D. (Anthropology) 1974

Teaching Appointments:

Instructor, Pomona College 1973-74
Assistant Professor/Chair, Rockford College 1974-76
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City 1977-78
Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City 1982-87
Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City 1982-87
Associate Professor, Catholic University of America 1987-92
Chair, Catholic University of America 1993-6
Professor, Catholic University of America 1992-

Research Appointments:

Research Associate, Universidad de San Antonio Abad, Cuzco 1970-71
Research Scientist, Interamerican Institute of Agricultural Sciences, O.A.S., Bogotá 1976-77
Research Associate, Delhi University, Delhi, India 1980

Field Research:

Mexico - Political Attitudes of Zapatista Veterans in Morelos 1970
Bolivia - New Towns in Central Bolivia 1971
Peru - 1969 Agrarian Reform in Cuzco 1971-72
Illinois - Demographic Survey of the Latino Community in Rockford 1975
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru - Organization of Peasant Production 1976-77
India, France - Montane Adaptations in the Himalayas. Travel in 1980
Indian Himalayas and library research in New Delhi and Centre d'Etudes Himalennes, CNRS Paris
Peru - Communal Water Management in the Colca Valley 1983-84
Peru - Cognitive and Behavioral Studies of Soil Management in the Colca Valley 1987
Spain - Canal Irrigation Systems in León 1992-96
Spain - Groundwater Irrigation in Leon 1996-

Areas of Major Interest:

Montane Agroecology Andes, Himalayas, and Spain Land, Soil and Water Management Decision Analysis Historical Anthropology Political Ecology

Field Experience:

Peace Corps Volunteer - Bolivia, Central highlands, Agricultural Development 1966-68

Trainer and Curriculum Writer - VISTA Regional Training Center Austin, Texas and rural Oklahoma1969

Consultant, Agricultural Research and Development, Pará, Brazil 1982

Consultant, Resource Management Analysis Technologies CHEMONICS/AID. India 1990

Grants and Fellowships:

E.D. Farmer Foundation Grant for Research in Mexico 1970

N.I.M.H. Traineeship in Anthropology 1971

University of Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies 1971-72 Dissertation Research Grant - Peru

Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant-In-Aid for Research in Peru 1971-72

Rockford College, Faculty Research Grant - Peru 1975

Rockefeller Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellow 1976-77

Interamerican Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Organization of American States. Research Grant 1976-77

University of Missouri-Kansas City. Faculty Research Grant 1978

Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program Travel Grant to attend the Xth ICAES in Delhi, India 1978

Indo-American Fellowship Program. Grant for Research in India 1980

University of Missouri - Kansas City. Faculty Research Grant - Peru 1982

Title XII - A.I.D. Collaborative Research Program  in Small Ruminants. Agro-Pastoralism in Peru 1983-84

Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida. Library Travel Grant   Peruvian Ethnohistory 1985 -

National Science Foundation. Cognitive and Behavioral Studies of Soil Management in the Colca Valley, Peru 1987-88

National Science Foundation. Training in Soil Science with Applications in Native Andean Soil Management 1990

National Science Foundation. Local Irrigation and the State: Spain and Peru 1992-94

National Science Foundation. Groundwater Irrigation and Property Rights in Northwestern Spain 1996-1999

Honors

Phi Kappa Phi
Sigma Xi
University of Kansas City Faculty Fellow 1984-85 (cash award for research)

Languages:

Spanish - excellent speaking, writing, comprehension and reading

15th-18th century Spanish paleography

Quechua - basic familiarity

French - good reading knowledge

Portuguese - good reading knowledge

Courses Taught:

Social Theory: Structure and Agency (Catholic)
Ecological Anthropology (Catholic)
Environmental Degradation (Catholic)
Perspectives in Anthropological Theory (Catholic)
Ethnographic Field Methods (Catholic)
Urban Anthropology (Rockford, Missouri, Catholic)
Economic Anthropology (Pomona, Rockford, Missouri, Catholic)
Introductory Cultural Anthropology (Pomona, Rockford, Missouri)
Latin American Social Anthropology (Pomona, Missouri, Catholic)
Human Evolution (Pomona, Rockford, Missouri)

Professional Associations

American Anthropological Association (Fellow)
Society for Applied Anthropology (Fellow)
Society for Economic Anthropology, Member, Board of Directors (1989-91)
Latin American Studies Association, Member, Working Group on Natural Resources and the Environment (1989-98)
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.Commission of Human Ecology. Chair. Working Group on Montane Environments (1986-89)
Culture and Agriculture (Steering Committee 1980-82; President 1998-2000)
International Mountain Society

Editorial Boards

Anthropological Quarterly
Culture and Agriculture

Department Committees

Graduate Financial Aid; Graduate Admissions; Undergraduate and Graduate Curriculum; Visiting Speakers; various ad hoc committees (University of Missouri and Catholic University)

Chancellor's Committee for Program Review; University Committee on Appointments and Promotions; Arts and Sciences Rules Committee; Arts and Sciences Steering Committee; Latin American Studies; Human Subjects Review; Faculty Research Needs; Computer Acquisition and Policy; Director, Urban Affairs Program;

Publications

Books and Monographs:

New Approaches to the Study of Migration. 1976 Houston: Rice University Press (edited with D. Uzzell)

Agrarian Reform and Peasant Economy in Southern Peru. 1979 University of Missouri Press

Convergences and Differences in Mountain Economies and Societies: A Comparison of the Andes and the Himalayas. 1985 Special Issue. Mountain Research and Development (edited with B. Orlove)

Expert Systems Applications in Anthropology. 1989 Special Issue. Anthropological Quarterly (ed) Vol 62: 2, 3

Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State in the Peruvian Highlands. 1992 University of Michigan Press

Irrigation at High Altitude: Social Organization of Water Control in the Andes. 1995 Arlington, VA : American Anthropological Association. (edited with W. Mitchell)

Articles and Chapters:

Integración sociopolitica de las poblaciones nuevas en Bolivia: Un caso y una discusión. Estudios Andinos 3:3:111-128 1973

A comparative view of the fiesta complex in migrant adaptation. Urban Anthropology 3:222-242 1974 (with S. Whiteford)

Transformación ritual y cambio sociopolitico en una comunidad andina. Allpanchis (Cuzco) 6:143-159 1974

Urbanization of small towns in Latin America: A view from the Andes. Potomac Review 7:46-55 1975 

Migration, Agrarian Reform, and Structural Change in Rural Peru. Human Organization 35:295-302 1976

Introduction. In: D. Guillet and D. Uzzell, eds., New Approaches to the Study of Migration. Rice University Studies Vol. 62:3:1-23 1976

El contexto social de los sistemas de producción campesina en Colombia. Desarrollo Rural en las Americas 9:39-41 1977

The Supra-Household Sphere of Production in the Andean Peasant Economy. Actes du XLIIe Congres International des Américanistes Vol 4, pp. 89-105. Paris 1978

Peasant Participation in a Peruvian Agrarian Reform Cooperative. Journal of Rural Cooperation 6:1:21-34 1978

Peruvian Rural Society and the Impact of Agrarian Reform. In: 1980 W.P. Avery, R.E. Longsdale, and I.Volgyes (eds.) Rural Change and Public Policy: Eastern Europe,Latin America, and Australia.Pergamon Press pp. 212-228

Reciprocal Labor and Peripheral Capitalism in the Central Andes. Ethnology 19:2:151-167 1980

Risk Management among Andean Peasants. In: Andean Peasant Economics and Pastoralism. Publication No. 1. Small Ruminants CRSP. Columbia, MO: Department of Sociology, University of Missouri, Columbia. pp. 19-43 1980

Land Tenure, Agricultural Regime, and Ecological Zone in the Central Andes. American Ethnologist 8:1:139-156 1981

Surplus Extraction, Risk Management, and Economic Change among Peruvian Peasants. Journal of Development Studies 18:3-24 1981

Agrarian Ecology and Peasant Production in the Central Andes. Mountain Research and Development 1:1: 19-28 1981

Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Andes and the Himalayas Compared. Current Anthropology Vol. 24 No. 5. 1983 reprinted in Mountain Research and Development 6:3:206-222 (1986)

Agro-Pastoral Land Use and the Tragedy of the Commons in the Central Andes. In: P. Beaver and B. Purrington (eds) Contemporary Cultural Adaptations to Highland Environments. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. Pp. 12-23 1984

On the Cultural Ecology of Mountains: Reply to Messerschmidt and Malengreau. Current Anthropology 25:4:535-536 1984

Preface to the Proceedings of a Symposium on the Comparative Study of the Andes and the Himalayas. With B. Orlove. Mountain Research and Development 5:1-2 1985a

Theoretical and Methodological Considerations on the Study of Mountain Peoples: Reflections on the Idea of Subsistence Type and the Role of History in Human Ecology. With B. Orlove. Mountain Research and Development 5: 3-18 1985

Small Scale Agropastoral production in the Central Andes. With S. Brush.Mountain Research and Development 5:19-30 1985

Hacia una Historia de los Bosques en los Andes Centrales del Perú. Boletín de Lima 38: 79-84 1985

Microcomputers in Fieldwork and the Image of the Anthropologist Human Organization 44:4:369-371 1985

Comment on B. Orlove, Cash Sale and Barter in the Lake Titicaca region: A Test of Conflicting Hypotheses. Current Anthropology 27:2:101 1986

Paleotecnologías hidráulicas en el altiplano peruano y su potencial económica. América Indígena XLVI:332-48 1986

On Restoring Ancient Terrace Systems in the Central Andes. In: Prehistoric Agricultural Fields in the Andean Region. W. Denevan, (ed.) British Archaeological Reports, International Series Oxford 359 pp. 193-206 1987

Agricultural Intensification and Deintensification in Lari, Colca Valley, Peru. Research In Economic Anthropology. JAI Press. B. Isaac (ed.) Vol. 8 Pp. 201-224 1987

On the Potential for Intensification of Agro-Pastoralism in the Arid Zones of the Central Andes. In: Arid Land Use Strategies and Risk Management in the Andes. D. Browman, (ed.) Boulder, Colo: Westview Press Pp. 81-98 1987

Irrigation and Terracing in the Peruvian Highlands. Current Anthropology 28:4:409-430 1987

Irrigation and Power in Southern Peru. In: E. Reeves and S. Smith, eds. Human Systems Ecology: Studies in the Integration of Political Economy, Adaptation, and Socionatural Regions.Westview Press. pp. 41-58 1988

A knowledge-based-systems model of native soil management. Anthropological Quarterly 62:2:59-67 1989

Andenes y riego en Lari: Valle del Colca. Arequipa:Centro de Apoyo y Promoción al Desarrollo Agrario 1990

The Impact of Alfalfa Introduction on Common Field Agro- Pastoral Regimes: Quechua Agro-Pastoralists in Southwestern Peru. In: Plants, Animals, and People: Crop-Livestock Systems Research on the SR-CRSP Sociology Project. C. McCorkle, ed. Boulder CO: Westview Press. pp. 111-124 1992

Comparative Irrigation Studies: The Orbigo Valley of Spain and the Colca Valley of Peru. Polígonos (León, Spain) 2:141-150 1992

Introduction. With William Mitchell. In: William Mitchell and David W. Guillet, eds. Irrigation at High Altitudes: The Social Organization of Water Control Systems in the Andes. Arlington: American Anthropological Association. Pp. 1-21 1994

Canal irrigation and the state: The 1969 water law and irrigation systems of the Colca Valley of southwestern Peru. In: W. Mitchell and D. W. Guillet, eds. Irrigation at High Altitudes: The Social Organization of Water Control Systems in the Andes. Arlington: American Anthropological Association. Pp. 167-87 1994

On a Methodology for Combining Cognitive and Behavioral Research: The Lari Soils Project. (Senior Author) In: Indigenous Knowledge Systems: The Cultural Dimensions of Development. D.M. Warren, D. Brokensha, L.J. Slikkerveer, eds. London: Intermediate Technology Publications. Pp. 71-81 1995

Revisión, riego y la organización humana: Una visión desde los Andes. In: J. A. González Alcantud and A. Malpica Cuello, coords. El agua:mitos, ritos y realidades. Barcelona: Anthropos pp. 308-328 1995

State intervention and water property rights in the margins of Europe: The Orbigo valley of northwestern Spain. In: Agrarian Questions: The Politics of Farming anno 1995: Proceedings. Wageningen, the Netherlands. Wageningen Agricultural University. Vol II, pp. 520-536. 1995

South America, Highland. In: Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Human Relations Area Files/ Henry Holt Reference Books 1996

Water demand management and farmer managed irrigation systems Culture and Agriculture 19: 1-5 1997

The politics of sustainable agriculture: The case of water-demand management in Spain. South European Society and Politics 2:1:97-1171997

Groundwater irrigation and property rights in northwestern Spain. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 20:2: 144-163 1997

Rethinking legal pluralism: Local law and state law in the evolution of water property rights in northwestern Spain. Comparative Studies in Society and History 40:1: 42-70 1998

Spanish Water Law. In: Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia New York and London: Garland Publishers. In Press

Water Demand Management and Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems in the Colca Valley of Southwestern Peru. In: Globalization and the rural poor in Latin America: Crisis and response in campesino communities. Edited by W. Loker. Boulder: Lynn Rienner Publishers In Press

Book Reviews:

Latin American Peasant Economics and Politics. A review essay. Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 15: 494-499. 1973 (with R.P.Schaedel)

Internal Migration Systems in the Developing World: With Special Reference to Latin America. R.N. Thomas and J. Hunter (eds). Journal of Developing Areas 16: 475-476 1982

Economía agraria de la sierra peruana antes de la reforma agraria de 1969. by J.M. Caballero. Hispanic American Historical Review.May pp. 308-309 1982

Change and Transformation in Highland Peru. A review essay. Peasant Studies 1: 40-53 1982

Peasants, Primitives, and Proletarians. edited by D. Browman and R. Schwartz. American Anthropologist 84: 231-232 1982

The Individual and the Collectivity in Andean Studies. A review essay Latin American Research Review 18:2:240-251 1983

The Peasant Potters of Los Pueblos, by Dick A. Papousek. Journal of Development Studies 19: 423-424 1983

Montane Culture Ecology and Forest History. A review essay Journal of Forest History 33:44-45 1989

The Question of the Commons, edited by Bonnie M. McCay and James Acheson. American Ethnologist 17:2:384-385 1989

State, Capital, and Rural Society edited by B.S. Orlove, M.W. Foley, and T.F. Love. American Anthropologist 12:3:776 1989

Societes rurales des Andes et de l'Himalaya. by J. Bourliaud et. al. Mountain Research and Development 12:1:98-99 1992

Las chacras de Coporaque: Andenería y riego en el valle del Colca. by J. Treacy. Latin American Antiquity 7:3: 284-285 1996

A new era for irrigation. National Research Council, Culture and Agriculture 1997

Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes. By: K. S. Zimmerer. University of California Press. American Scientist 86: 90-91 1998

Unpublished Reports and Working Papers

A Comparative Study of Production Organization among Peasants in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Final Report. Rockefeller Foundation and the Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences. Bogotá 1977

Cognitive and Behavioral Studies of Soil Management in Peru. Final Report to the National Science Foundation 1989

International Congresses and Symposia

Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. New Delhi, 1978
International Conference on Attitudinal and Behavioral Changes in Rural Life,Lincoln, Nebraska, 1978
International Symposium on Andean Peasant Economics and Pastoralism. Columbia Mo. 1980
National Seminar on Hydrology, Lima, 1983
International Congress of Americanists, 1985; 1988 (Symposium organized)
Symposium on History of African Agricultural Technology and Field Systems. Oxford University, 1988 (Invited commentator)
Conference on Drug Trafficking in the Americas. George Washington University and Woodrow Wilson Center, 1988 (Invited participant)
Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Agriculture and Rural Development. Academy for Educational Development, Washington 1988
International Coloquium on Water, Myths, Rites, and Realities, Granada 1992
International Congress on Indigenous Knowledge and Contemporary Social Issues.Tampa, 1994
International Congress on Agrarian Questions. Wageningen, the Netherlands. 1995 International Conference on the Social Development of the Altiplano. Puno, Peru 1997
Kay Pacha: Earth, Land, Water and Culture in the Andes. Symposium. University of Wales, Lampeter. 1998

Papers Presented at U.S. Meetings

American Anthropological Association 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1986,1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Dumbarton Oaks Precolumbian Program, Washington 1991, 1993 (panelist)
Society for Economic Anthropology, 1982
Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory. 1986 Farming Systems Research and Extension Symposium 1986
Andean Seminar, George Washington University, 1987, 1993
Symposium on the Sierra in Peru. Brookings Institute, 1988 (panelist)
Conference on Appropriate and Paleo-Technologies in the Andes. University of Texas, 1986
American Association for the Advancement of Science 1989
Conference on Urban America, Kansas City, 1978 (panelist)
Society for Applied Anthropology, 1985

Invited Lectures Presented At: