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Education:
- PhD Yale, 1970
Biography:
In recent years, my research interests have centred on two main
themes: (1) the relations between communities and the larger social and
economic processes that affect them and (2) how histories are created
and represented, especially through the uses of space. My current
research on the first theme concerns culture, space, and built form,
especially in urban settings. Specifically, I have carried out research
on housing and, to some degree, on planning in Canada. Some of the
issues I have studied have to do with the relation between ideology and
practice in building communities, the political economy of housing,
housing and cultural difference, cultural aspects of design, and
spatial discourses. The second thematic research area has to do with
spatial practices, landscape, and historical representation. For
several years I have been carrying out research on the social
production of historic restoration sites and museums. Finally, I am
currently undertaking research on research ethics.
3L03 - History of Anthropology
4B03 - Ethics in Anthropological Research
2002 Cyber-Utopias: Notes on How Historic American Communal Groups are Represented on the World Wide Web. Communal Societies 22:127-136.
2001 Representing Historic Groups Outside the Mainstream. Cultural Resource Management. 24(9):36-38.
2000 Consequences of Economic and Political Change for a Toronto Housing Cooperative, Canadian Journal of Urban Research 9(2): 52-68. (with M. Rodman)
1999 Spatial Discourses and Social Boundaries. In S. Low (ed.) Theorizing the City: the New Urban Anthropology, Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999, pp 377-399.
1997 The Representation of Time at Two Shaker Village Sites. International Journal of Heritage Studies 3:157-167.
1995 Culture and Spatial Boundaries: Cooperative and Non-Profit Housing in Canada. Architecture & Behaviour 11(2): 123-138. (with M. Rodman)
1992 New Neighbours: A Case Study of Cooperative Housing in Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (with M. Rodman)
