Ben Orlove                                        bsorlove@ucdavis.edu

Benjamin S. Orlove Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California One Shields Way Davis, California 95616 OFFICE ADDRESS:  Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California One Shields Way Davis, California 95616 530/752-6756 (voice) 530/754-6114 (fax) bsorlove@ucdavis.edu http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/orlove.htm HOME ADDRESS:  1039 Miller Drive Davis, California 95616 530/756-8239 EDUCATION:  Harvard College B.A. (Anthropology) 1969 University of California, Berkeley M.A. (Anthropology) 1970 Ph.D. (Anthropology) 1975 EMPLOYMENT:  University of California, Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy July 1974-June 1978, Assistant Professor July 1978-June 1985, Associate Professor July 1985-present, Professor Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/International Research Institute for Climate Prediction August 1997-July 1998, Visiting Senior Research Scientist August 1998-present, Adjunct Senior Research Scientist LANGUAGES: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Quechua SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS: 2004 US National Science Foundation, division of Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences. Grant “Center for the Study of Individual and Group Decision-making Under Climate Uncertainty” 2000–2009. $5,906,000 (Orlove subcontract $509,201) 2003 US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Office of Global Programs. Grant "Improvement of Forecast Communication and Use between Indigenous and Governmental Groups in Australia: Managing Fire in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands under Conditions of Interannual Climate Variability", 2003-2006.   $339,250 [recommended for funding] 2000 US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Office of Global Programs. Grant "Improving Climate Forecast Communications for Farm Management in Zimbabwe", 2000-2003.   $159,738 (with J. Phillips)   1999 Lucius N. Littauer Foundation. Grant. "Translation of In My Father's Study into German." $5500   1998 Tinker Foundation. Grant. "The Use of El Niño-related Climate Forecasts in Peruvian Fisheries Management: Integrating Natural and Social Sciences in Environmental Policy. co-principal investigator: Steve Zebiak, Lamont-Doherty Earth Institute, Columbia University. 1998-2000. $80,000   1993 US Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. Grant. "Development of an Undergraduate Program in Nature and Culture". principal investigators: David Robertson, English, UCDavis and Mark Wheelis, Microbiology, UCDavis. 1993-1996. total award: $450,000. support for Orlove: $25,350   1991 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Grant-in-Aid, "Nation-making by Nation-bounding: An Anthropological History of the Peru-Bolivia Border."  $4000   1991 National Science Foundation, Anthropology Program. Grant DBS 91-20426 co-principal investigator: Edward Taylor, Agricultural Economics, UCDavis. "Income Source, Consumption and Migration in Four Mexican Villages" 1992-94.  $105,012   1991 Lucius N. Littauer Foundation. Grant. "Preparation of an Immigrant Biography." $3500   1990 University of California UC-MEXUS Program. Grant. co-principal investigator: Edward Taylor, Agricultural Economics, UCDavis. "Migration, Consumption and Development in Rural Mexico." $10152   1982 National Science Foundation, Anthropology Program. Grant BNS 82-17480. "The Production, Distribution and Consumption of Fish in Lake Titicaca (Peru-Bolivia)" 1982-83. $15216   1978 National Science Foundation, Anthropology Program. Grant BNS 78-15409.  "Resource Utilization in a Lacustrine Environment" 1978-81. $61303   1977 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Grant-in-Aid, "Export Agriculture, Economic Growth and Political Change in Piura, Peru."  $2550   1972 Foreign Area Fellowship Program of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant. 1972-73. $4000   1970 National Defense Education Act Title VI Grant. Quechua Language Study. Cornell University.   PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: 2003 Sarah Strauss and Benjamin S. Orlove, eds. Weather, culture, climate. London: Berg. 2002 Lines in the water: nature and culture at Lake Titicaca. Berkeley: University of California Press.   1997 The allure of the foreign: imported goods in post-colonial Latin America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (edited volume)   German translation 2002. Die Erfindung meines Vaters. Berlin: Metropol-Verlag 1995 In my father's study. Singular Lives: The Iowa Series in North American autobiography, Albert E. Stone, series editor. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.   1989 Henry J.  Rutz and Benjamin S. Orlove, eds. The social economy of consumption. Lanham, MD, New York and London: University Press of America.   1989 Benjamin S. Orlove, Michael W. Foley and Thomas F. Love, eds. State, capital and rural society: anthropological perspectives on political economy in Mexico and the Andes. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.   1982 Pierre Morlon, Benjamin Orlove and Alberic Hibon, Tecnologías agrícolas tradicionales en los Andes centrales: perspectivas para el desarrollo. Lima: UNESCO and Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo.   1980 Benjamin S. Orlove and Glynn Custred, eds. Land and power in Latin America: agrarian economics and social process in the Andes. New York: Holmes and Meier.   1977 Alpacas, sheep and men: the wool export economy and regional society in southern Peru. New York: Academic Press.   JOURNAL ARTICLES: submitted Kenneth Broad and Benjamin Orlove. The Nation-State under Globalization: The 1997-98 El Niño Event in Peru. American Anthropologist (currently under revision after first review)   submitted Benjamin Orlove and Kenneth Broad. Dissemination and Use of Seasonal Climate Forecasts: The 1997-98 El Niño Event in Peru. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (invited submission after review of abstract)   2004 Orlove, Benjamin S., Kenneth Broad, and Aaron M. Petty. Factors that influence the use of climate forecasts: Evidence from the 1997/98 El Niño event in Peru. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. In press, scheduled for Nov. 2004, Vol 85, no. 11. 2002 Benjamin S., Orlove, John C. H. Chiang, and Mark A. Cane. Ethnoclimatology in the Andes. American Scientist 90:428-435   Spanish translation Orlove, Benjamin S., John C. H. Chiang, and Mark A. Cane. Etnoclimatología de los Andes. Investigación y Ciencia. 330:77-85.   French translation Orlove, Benjamin, John Chiang, and Mark Cane. Prévisions météorologiques par les astres. Pour la Science. 311.   Swedish translation Orlove, Benjamin, John Chiang, and Mark Cane. Stjärnbild hjälper potatisoldare i Peru. Forskning & Framsteg. March 2003, 38-43.   2000 Benjamin S., Orlove, John C. H. Chiang, and Mark A. Cane. Forecasting Andean rainfall and crop yield from the influence of El Niño on Pleiades visibility. Nature 403:68-71.   1999 Benjamin S. Orlove and Joshua L. Tosteson. The application of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts based on El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events: Lessons from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Peru, and Zimbabwe. Working Papers in Environmental Politics 2. University of California, Berkeley, Institute of International Studies.   1998 Down to earth: race and substance in the Andes. Bulletin of Latin American Research 17(2):207-222.   1997 Meat and strength: the moral economy of a Chilean food riot. Cultural Anthropology 12(2):1-35.   1996 Facing threats: studies of the tropical forest. American Anthropologist 98(3):638-641.   1996 Benjamin S. Orlove and Stephen Brush. Anthropology and the conservation of biodiversity. Annual Review of Anthropology 25:329-352.   1995 Stephen Brush and Benjamin S. Orlove. A conversation on conversations. American Ethnologist 22(2):413-418.   1995 Benjamin S. Orlove and Ella Schmidt. Swallowing their pride: indigenous and industrial beer in Peru and Bolivia. Theory and Society 24:271-298.   1993 The ethnography of maps: the cultural and social contexts of cartographic representation in Peru. Cartographica 30(1):29-46.   1993 Putting race in its place: order in colonial and post-colonial Peruvian geography. Social Research 60(2):301-336.   1991   Mapping reeds and reading maps: the politics of representation in Lake Titicaca. American Ethnologist 18(1):3-38.   1991 Irresolución suprema y autonomía campesina: los totorales del Lago Titicaca. Allpanchis 37:203-268. (Cusco, Peru)   1990 Rebels and theorists: an examination of peasant uprisings in southern Peru. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 12:137-185.   1990 Dominique Levieil and Benjamin S. Orlove. Local control of aquatic resources: community and ecology in Lake Titicaca, Peru. American Anthropologist 92(2):18-38.   1987 Mountain anthropology and mountain anthropologists: the comparative study of populations and high elevations. Reviews in Anthropology 14(2):95-100.   reprinted 1992. In Pierre Morlon, ed. Comprendre l'agriculture paysanne dans les Andes centrales (Pérou-Bolivie). Paris: Institut Nationale de la Recherche Agronomique.   1986 Benjamin S. Orlove and Ricardo Godoy. Sectoral fallowing systems in the central Andes. Journal of Ethnobiology 6(1): 169-204.   reprinted 1993. Ventas y trueques en el lago Titicaca: un test para perspectivas alternativas. In Honorio M. Velasco, ed., Lecturas de antropología social y cultural: la cultura y las culturas. Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. 423-467.   1986 An examination of barter and cash sale in Lake Titicaca: A test of competing approaches in economic anthropology. Current Anthropology 27(2):85-106.   1985 The history of the Andes: a brief overview from a world-systems perspective. Mountain Research and Development 5(1):45-60.   1985 Relaciones de producción y conflicto de clases en Atalaya, una mina del sur del Perú. Allpanchis 26:213-246. Cusco, Peru.   1985 Benjamin Orlove and David Guillet. 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. Mountain Research and Development 5(1):3-18.   1985 Benjamin Orlove and David Guillet, eds. Convergences and differences in mountain economies and societies: a comparison of the Andes and the Himalayas. Mountain Research and Development (vol. 5, no. 1).   reprinted 1982. Tomar la bandera: Punch et politique au sud du Pérou. In L.T. Briggs, et al. De l'empreinte a l'emprise: identités andines et logiques paysannes. Cahiers de l'Institut Universitaire d'Etudes de Développement. Geneva IUED. 135-155.     1986. Tomar la bandera: política y ponche. Instituto Universitario de Estudios de Desarrollo, ed. Identidades andinas y lógicas del campesinado. Lima: Mosca Azul. 129-145.   1982 Tomar la bandera: politics and punch in southern Peru. Ethnos 47(3-4):249-261.   1981 The Andean herding complex: new studies on the traditional herders of the high Andean puna. Nomadic Peoples 8:27-34.   1981 Native Andean pastoralists: traditional adaptations and recent changes. Studies in Third World Societies 17:95-135.   1981 El suicidio de Juanita. América Indígena 41(1):25-52.   reprinted 1983. in Origins of Human Ecology, pp. 261 -299, Gerald L. Young, ed. Benchmark Papers in Ecology, Frank B. Golley, series ed. Stroudsberg, Pennsylvania: Dowdley, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc.   1980 Ecological anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 9:235-73.   1979 Two rituals and three hypotheses: an examination of solstice divination in southern highland Peru. Anthropological Quarterly 52(2):86-98.   1979 The breaking of patron-client ties: the case of Surimana in southern Peru. Nova Americana 2:83-107.   1979 Rich man, poor man: inequality in peasant communities. Estudios Andinos 15:8-20.   1977 Integration through production: the use of zonation in Espinar. American Ethnologist 4(1):84-101.   1975 Surimana: decaimiento de una zona, decadencia de un pueblo. Antropología Andina 12:75-110. Cusco, Peru.   reprinted 20031974. in Pierre L. van den Berghe, ed. Class and Ethnicity in Peru.            International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, 16:73-91. Leiden: E.J. Brill.           1974 Urban and rural artisans in southern Peru. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 15(3 -4): 193-211.   1973 Abigeato: la organización social de una actividad ilegal. Allpanchis Phuturinqa 5:65-81. Cusco, Peru.   BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS: 2003 Up in the air: The anthropology of weather and climate. In Strauss, Sarah. and Benjamin S. Orlove, eds. Weather, culture, climate. Oxford: Berg. 2003 How people name seasons. In Sarah Strauss and Benjamin S. Orlove, eds. Weather, culture, climate. London: Berg. 2000 Sarah M. Otterstrom and Benjamin S. Orlove. Coping with El Niño-related Droughts in Peasant Agriculture, Northern Costa Rica, 1997-1998. Proceeding of the Sixteenth Annual Pacific Climate Workshop. Edited by G. James West and Lauren Buffaloe. Technical Report 65 of the Interagency Ecological Program for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. State of California: Department of Water Resources. Climate Variability of the Eastern North Pacific and Western North America. Pp. 153-159.   1999 Biological and cultural diversity of Lake Titicaca: issues of indigenous technology, law and identity. In Hiroya Kawanabe, George W. Coulter and Anna C. Roosevelt, eds. Ancient lakes: their cultural biological diversities. Ghent, Belgium: Kenobi Productions. Pp. 101-111.   1999 Benjamin S. Orlove and Shelly Diaz . The agrarian household in social and cultural context: an examination of Andean peasant work diaries. In Nicola Tannenbaum and David Small, eds. At the interface: the household and beyond. Lanham, MD, New York and London: University Press of America. Pp. 55-72.   1998 Working in the field: perspectives on globalization in Latin America. In William Loker, ed. Globalization and the rural poor in Latin America. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.   pp. 195-203.   1997 Surfacings: thoughts on, memory and the ethnographer's self. In Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin, eds. Jews and other differences: The new Jewish cultural studies.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 1-29.   1997 Benjamin S. Orlove and Arnold J. Bauer. Giving importance to imports: an overview. In Benjamin S. Orlove, ed. The allure of the foreign: imported goods in post-colonial Latin America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 1-29.   1997 Benjamin S. Orlove and Arnold J. Bauer. Chile in the Belle Epoque: Primitive Producers, Civilized Consumers. In Benjamin S. Orlove, ed. The allure of the foreign: imported goods in post-colonial Latin America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 113-149.   1995 Beyond consumption: Meat, sociality, vitality and hierarchy in nineteenth century Chile. In Jonathan Friedman, ed. Consumption and identity. Reading, UK: Harwood Academic Publishers. pp. 119-145.   1994 The dead policemen speak: mestizo accounts of the killings at Molloccahua, 1931. In Deborah A. Poole, ed. Unruly order: Violence, power and identity in the southern high provinces of Peru. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. pp. 63-95.   1994 Sticks and stones: ritual battles and play in the southern Peruvian Andes. In Deborah A. Poole, ed. Unruly order: Violence, power and identity in the southern high provinces of Peru. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. pp. 133-164.   1992 Orlove, Benjamin S., Dominique P. Levieil and Hugo P. Treviño. Social and economic aspects of the Lake Titicaca fisheries. In Claude Dejoux and Andre Iltis, Lake Titicaca: synthesis of limnological knowledge. Kluwer. The Hague. pp. 500-504.   Spanish translation 1991. Benjamin S. Orlove, Dominique Levieil and Hugo Treviño. Aspectos sociales y económicos de la pesca. In Claude Dejoux and Andre Iltis, eds. El Lago Titicaca: síntesis del conocimiento limnólogico actual. La Paz: ORSTOM. pp. 505-508.   1992 Levieil, Dominique P. and Benjamin S. Orlove. Socio-economic importance of Lake Titicaca macrophytes. In Claude Dejoux and Andre Iltis, Lake Titicaca: synthesis of limnological knowledge. Kluwer, The Hague. pp. 505-510.   Spanish translation 1991. Importancia socio-económica de las macrofitas. In Claude Dejoux and Andre Iltis, eds. El Lago Titicaca: síntesis del conocimiento limnológico actual. La Paz: ORSTOM. pp. 509-516.   1991 La violencia vista desde arriba y desde abajo: narrativas oficiales y campesinas de encuentros conflictivos en la sierra sur del Peru. In Henrique Urbano, ed. Poder y violencia en los andes. Cusco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos. pp. 237-259.   1990 El abigeato en el contexto de la sociedad regional: bandolerismo social en el Cusco en las vísperas de la reforma agraria. In Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker, eds. Bandoleros, abigeos y montoneros: criminalidad y violencia en el Perú, siglos XVIII- XX. Lima: Instituto de Apoyo Agrario. pp. 277-305.     1989 Room for maneuver: a review of the regions. In Benjamin S. Orlove, Michael W. Foley and Thomas F. Love, eds. State, capital and rural society: anthropological perspectives on political economy in Mexico and the Andes. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. pp. 301 –309.   1989 Benjamin S. Orlove and Michael Foley. Anthropology, capitalism and the state. In Benjamin S. Orlove, Michael W. Foley and Thomas F. Love, eds. State, capital and  rural society: anthropological perspectives on political economy in Mexico and the Andes. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. pp. 1-5.   1989 Benjamin S. Orlove and Henry J. Rutz. Thinking about consumption: a social economy approach. In Henry J. Rutz and Benjamin S. Orlove, eds. The social economy of consumption. Lanham, MD, New York and London: University Press of America. pp. 1-57.   1989 Benjamin S. Orlove and Dominique P. Levieil. Some doubts about trout: fisheries development projects in Lake Titicaca. In Benjamin S. Orlove, Michael W. Foley and Thomas F. Love, eds. State, capital and rural society: anthropological perspectives on political economy in Mexico and the Andes. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. pp. 211- 246.   1988 A stranger in her father's house: Juanita's suicide. In Connie Weil, ed. Lucha: Latin American women coping with adversity. Minneapolis: Latin American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, and the Prisma Institute. pp. 161-201.   1987 Dietary stability and change in highland Andean dietary patterns: causes and consequences. In Marvin Harris and Eric Ross, eds. Food and evolution: toward a theory of human diets. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. pp. 481-515.   1982 Las técnicas tradicionales de la utilización de la sal en la sierra sur peruana. In Pierre Morlon, Benjamin Orlove and Alberic Hibon, Tecnologías agrícolas tradicionales en los Andes centrales: perspectivas para el desarrollo. Lima: UNESCO and Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo. pp. 31-34.   1980 Molloccahua 1931: un levantamiento campesino en el sur del Perú. In Jorge Flores and Abraham Valencia, eds., Rebeliones indígenas quechuas y aymaras: Homenaje al bicentenario de la rebelión campesina de Thupa Amaro 1780-1980. Cusco: Centro de Estudios Andinos Cusco. pp. 133-154.   1980 Landlords and officials: the sources of domination in Surimana and Quehue. In Benjamin Orlove and Glynn Custred, eds., Land and power in Latin America: Agrarian economies and social process in the Andes. New York: Holmes and Meier. pp. 113-127.   1980 Abigeato: the position of rustlers in regional society. In Benjamin Orlove and Glynn Custred, eds., Land and power in Latin America: Agrarian economies and social process in the Andes. New York: Holmes and Meier. pp. 179-194.   1980 (With Glynn Custred.) The alternative model of agrarian society in the Andes: households, networks and corporate groups. In Benjamin Orlove and Glynn Custred, eds., Land and power in Latin America: Agrarian economies and social process in the Andes. New York: Holmes and Meier. pp. 31-54.   1980 (With Glynn Custred.) Social process and agrarian economies in comparative perspective: the agricultural production unit. In Benjamin Orlove and Glynn Custred, eds., Land and power in Latin America: Agrarian economies and social process in the Andes. New York: Holmes and Meier. pp. 13-29.   1978 The tragedy of the commons revisited: land use and environmental quality in high altitude Andean grasslands. In Proceedings of the International Hill Lands Symposium. Morgantown: West Virginia University Books. pp. 208-214.   1978 Systems of production and Indian peasant insurrections: a general discussion and three specific cases. Actes du XLII Congrès International des Américanistes 3: 127-144. Paris   1977 The decline of local elites: Canchis in southern Peru. In Richard Adams and Raymond Fogelson, eds., The ethnography of power. New York: Academic Press. pp. 337-348.   1977 Cultural ecology: A critical essay and a bibliography. Institute of Ecology Publication No. 13. University of California, Davis.   1976 Inequality among peasants: the forms and uses of reciprocal exchange in Andean Peru. In Rhoda Halperin and James Dow, eds., Studies in peasant livelihood. New York: St Martin's Press. pp. 201-214.   1976 Against a definition of peasantries: agrarian production in Andean Peru. In Rhoda Halperin and James Dow, eds., Studies in peasant livelihood. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 22-35.   1974 Reciprocidad, desigualdad y dominación. In Giorgio Alberti and Enrique Mayer, eds., Reciprocidad e intercambio en los Andes peruanos. Perú-Problema, vol. 12:290-321. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.   Spanish translation 1991. Importancia socio-económica de las macrofitas. In Claude Dejoux and Andre Iltis, eds. El Lago Titicaca: síntesis del conocimiento limnológico actual. La Paz: ORSTOM. pp. 509-516.     PAPERS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS: 2003 Anthropological Perspectives on Adaptation to Climate Change. Conference on Mitigation and Adaptation: Toward a Mutual Agenda. Center for Advanced Cultural Studies.  Essen, Germany 2002 Experiences with Communication of Climate Forecast Information. Human Dimensions of Global Change Climate and Societal Impacts Group. Seabrook Island, SC   2001 Grounding Environmental Anthropology: The Place of Soil in Anthropological Studies. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC   1999 Sarah Otterstrom and Benjamin Orlove. Coping with El Niño-related droughts in peasant agriculture, northern Costa Rica, 1997-1998. Sixteenth Annual Pacific Climate Workshop. Santa Catalina Island, California.   1999 Indigenous forecasting of El Nino events: An overview with case studies.  Workshop on the Impacts of the ENSO 1997/99. National Center of Ocean Research in Taiwan and the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction. Taipei, Taiwan.   1999 Benjamin Orlove and Joshua Tosteson. The application of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts based on El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events: Lessons from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Peru, and Zimbabwe. Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Tucson, AZ.   1998 Joshua Tosteson and Benjamin Orlove. The application of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts based on El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events: Lessons from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Peru, and Zimbabwe. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA.   1998 Indigenous forecasts of El Niño events: an overview with case histories. International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Inaugural Lecture Series. Columbia University, New York.   1998 Indigenous forecasting of climate variability: some general considerations and three cases. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA.   1998 Benjamin Orlove and Joshua Tosteson. The application of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts based on El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events: Lessons from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Peru, and Zimbabwe. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA.   1997 Geomophological, biological and cultural diversity of Lake Titicaca, with particular attention to indigenous technology, law and historical consciousness. International Conference on Ancient Lakes: Their Biological and Cultural Diversities. Lake Biwa Museum, Shiga, Japan.   1997 Conversions and conversations: learning to speak as an environmental anthropologist. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC.   1996 Struggles to control the commons: social movement or cultural emplacement. Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Common Property. Berkeley, CA.   1996 Connections to the earth and racial identities in southern highland Peru. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA.   1996 Benjamin S. Orlove and Arnold J. Bauer. A taste for imports, an importation of tastes: Chilean wine-making and wine-drinking, 1800-1930. Conference on Material Culture, Life Styles, and Consumption in the Iberian World (16th to 19th Centuries). University of Delaware. Newark, DE.   1996 An examination of Andean peasant diaries: the agrarian household in wider social and political context. Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology. Bethlehem, PA.   1995 The anthropology of the earth: general considerations and a case from Lake Titicaca. Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnobiology. Athens, GA.   1994 Breaking away from Europe, buying into Europe: class patterns of consumption of imported goods and the paradoxes of postcolonial national culture in 19th and 20th Century Chile. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Atlanta.   1994 A stove of her own: work, family, power and health in Mexican women's kitchen narratives. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Atlanta.   1994 A place of Indians and a place for Indians: the inseparability of race and region in Peru. Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. Los Angeles.   1993 The invention of the highlands: geography and the national political imagination in Peru. Colloquium Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin.   1993 Surfacings: thoughts on Jewishness, memory and the ethnographer's self. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.   1993 Patriarchy, capitalism and shoe-polish: an examination of imports into Chile, 1870-1930. Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. Santa Fe. New Mexico.   1993 Cooperative work, common property and collective memory: the bases for peasant identity, action and resistance in highland Peru. Colloquium Series, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.   1992 Interdependent futures: sustainable development as process, project and narrative. Center for Resource Studies Research Conference: "Ecosystems and Global Systems". Utrecht, the Netherlands.   1992 Finding patterns or inventing them: an analysis of an analysis of Andean  consumption data. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco.   1991 Indigenous knowledge and agricultural practices: crop varieties in southwest China and the Andes. Biannual Meeting of the Southwest China Minority Studies Association. Dali, Yunnan, China.   1991 Censuses, briefings, interviews and observation: some reflections on research methodologies among minority peoples. Biannual Meeting of the Southwest China Minority Studies Association. Dali, Yunnan, China.   1990 Reporting conflicts and conflicting reports: an examination of accounts of hostile encounters between peasants and government officials in highland Peru. Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. Atlanta.   1990 Narrativas políticas campesinas y estatales: perspectivas distintas sobre la violencia. Conference of the Grupo de Trabajo de Historia y Antropología Andinas sobre el tema "Poder y Violencia en los Andes," Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Quito, Ecuador.   1990 Local events or a regional movement: examining peasant opposition to a government program in Peru. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans.   1990 Consumption, production and history among the fishermen of Lake Titicaca. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans.   1989 The analysis of time allocation among Lake Titicaca fishermen. Annual Meeting of American Ethnological Society. Santa Fe, New Mexico.   1988 Fighting over reeds. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Phoenix.   1987 Consumption and production perspectives: accounting for the response of Lake Titicaca Fishermen to the international debt crisis. Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology. Riverside, California.   1985 Sustainability of resource extraction: the fisheries of Lake Titicaca. Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology. Warrenton, Virginia.   1984 Barter and cash sale: the allocation of fish in Lake Titicaca. Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology. Davis, California.   1983 Dietary stability and change in highland Andean dietary patterns: causes and consequences. Wenner-Gren Conference on Human Dietary Preferences and Avoidances. Cedar Key, FL   1983 Bureaucratic duplication, inefficiency and failure in rural Peru. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago.   1982 The history of the Andes: a brief overview from a world-systems perspective. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.   1982 Barter and cash sale: the allocation of fish in Lake Titicaca. International Congress of Americanists. Manchester, England.   1981 Wool export economics and agrarian reform in the central Andes: pastoral populations in highland Peru and Bolivia. International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Studies. Amsterdam.   1980 The politics of inland fisheries development in two nations: Lake Titicaca, Peru-Bolivia. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.   1980 Pastoralism in the Southern Sierra. Symposium on Andean Peasant Economies and Pastoralism. Columbia, MO.   1979 Recent ethnographic and ecological research in Lake Titicaca. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Cincinnati.   1979 Para quienes se aprovecha el Lago Titicaca. IV Congreso Peruano del Hombre y la Cultura Andina. Cusco, Peru.   1978 Some interactions of production scale, natural environments and socio-economic impacts on food production strategies in Latin America. Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington, D.C.   1978 Rebels and theorists: modes of production, world-system, and peasant uprisings in Peru. Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association. San Francisco.   1978 Ecological and behavioral constraints on pastoral economies: central Andean Herders and their flocks. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Spokane, WA.   1977 The state and class conflict in northern coastal Peru. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Houston.   1976 Tomar la bandera: politics and punch in southern Peru. XLII International Congress of Americanists. Paris   1976 The tragedy of the commons revisited: land use and environmental quality in high-altitude Andean grasslands. International Hill Lands Symposium. Morgantown, WV     A stranger in her father's house: Juanita's suicide. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.   1976 Systems of production and Indian peasant insurrections: a general discussion and three specific cases. XLII International Congress of Americanists. Paris.   1976 Integration through production: the use of zonation in Espinar. XLII International Congress of Americanists. Paris.   1975 Two hypotheses and two rituals: solstice divination in southern Peru. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco.   1975 Relations of production in industrial capitalism: a mine in central Peru. Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New York.   1975 Benjamin S. Orlove and Glynn Custred. The laymi system: collective land use patterns in the Peruvian highlands. Annual Meeting of the Institute for Andean Studies. Berkeley, CA.   1974 The decline of local elites: Canchis in southern Peru. Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. San Francisco.     1974 Rich man, poor man: inequality in peasant communities. XLI International Congress of Americanists. Mexico City.   1974 Land and power: aspects of peasant-elite relations in Surimana and Quehue. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Mexico City. Molloccahua 1931: A Peasant Uprising in Southern Peru. XLI International Congress of Americanists. Mexico City.   1974 Benjamin S. Orlove and Glynn Custred. Sectorial fallowing and crop rotation systems in the Peruvian highlands. XLI International Congress of Americanists Mexico City.   1974 (With Glynn Custred.) The hacienda and the community reconsidered. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Mexico City.   1973 Abigeato: social banditry in the Andes. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans.   1973 A mixed agricultural-transhumance economy and techniques of microevironmental variation in the Andes. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association New Orleans.   1971 Two models of the American corporation: the case of an insurance firm. Annual Meeting of the Kroeber Anthropological Society. Berkeley, CA   BOOK REVIEWS: 2004 Orlove, Benjamin S. Review of Philander, S. George. Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard. American Scientist 92(4): 388   1995 Review of Poverty and peasantry in Peru's southern Andes, 1963-90. R. F. Watters. Journal of Economic History. 55(1):187-8.   1993 Review of The flocks of the wamani: a study of llama herders on the punas of Ayacucho, Peru. Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus and Robert Reynolds. American Ethnologist 19(2):375-6.   1989 Review of Pilgrims of the Andes: regional cults in Cusco. Michael J. Sallnow. American Anthropologist 91(1):215-216.     1987 Review of Andean ecology and civilization: an interdisciplinary perspective on Andean ecological complementarity. Shozo Masuda, Izumi Shimada and Craig Morris, eds. American Ethnologist 14(3):575-6.   1983 Review of The keeping of animals: adaptation and social relations in livestock producing communities. Riva Berleant-Schiller and Eugenia Shanklin, eds. Science 221:355-6.   1983 Review of At the crossroads of the earth and the sky: an Andean cosmology. Gary Urton. Man 18(2):429.   1982 Review of The devil and commodity fetishism in South America. Michael Taussig. Human Ecology 10(3):419-422.   1982 Review of Beyond the myths of culture. Eric Ross. Human Ecology 10(1): 145-151.   1978 Review of Resources and population: a study of the Gurungs of Nepal. Alan MacFarlane. Contemporary Sociology 7(2):154-155.   1978 Review of Mountain, field and family: the economy and human ecology of an Andean valley. Stephen B. Brush. American Ethnologist 5(4):788-790.   1977 Review of Pottery and society in ancient Peru: art as a mirror of society in the Ica Valley, 1350-1570. Dorothy Menzel. Agricultural History 51(3):611-612.   1976 Review of Struggle in the Andes, Howard Handelman; The African slave in colonial Peru, Frederick Bowser; Poder y conflicto social en el valle del Mantaro, Giorgio Alberti. Agricultural History 50(3):328-332.   1976 Review of Directed cultural change in Peru: A guide to the Vicos Collection. Deborah A. Wood. Agricultural History 50(4):671-672.   1974 Review of La ville de São Paulo: peuplement et population, 1750-1850, d'après les registres paroissiaux et les recensements anciens. Maria-Luiza Marcillo. Hispanic American Historical Review 54(4):707-708.   1973 Review of Des hommes et des villes. Paul-Henri Chombart de Lauwe. American Anthropologist 75(6): 1846- 1847.   REPLIES AND COMMENTS: 1999 Comments on "Anthropological engagements with environmentalism," J. Peter Brosius. Current Anthropology. Current Anthropology 39(3):295-6.   1998 Comments on "The sweetness of salvation: consumer marketing and the liberal-bourgeois theory of needs," Kalman Applbaum. Current Anthropology 39(3):343.   1993 Comments on "Rethinking the politics of anthropology: the case of the Andes," Orin Starn. Current Anthropology 35(1):30-1.   1992 Comments on "La fiesta del carnaval postcolonial en Oruro: clase, etnicidad y nacionalismo en la danza folklórica," Thomas Abercrombie. Revista Andina (Cusco, Peru) 10(2):342-5.   1983 Comments on "Towards a cultural ecology of mountains: the Andes and the  Himalayas compared," David Guillet. Current Anthropology 24(5):569-70.   1982 Comments on "Notes for a history of Peruvian social anthropology 1940-80," Jorge P. Osterling and Héctor Martínez. Current Anthropology 24(3):353.   1981 Comments on "Aggression and hypoglycemia in the Andes," T. Lewellen. Current Anthropology 22(4):358-359.   1980 Comments on "Apropos of the typological model of social change," J. Espínola. Current Anthropology 21(3):347-348.   1980 A Reply to Caro's review of Alpacas, Sheep and Men. América Indígena 40(1): 181.     OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES: EDITORIAL SERVICE: Current Anthropology, Editor, 2000- American Ethnologist, Associate Editor, 1995-98. University of California Press, Editorial Committee Member, 1991-1996. American Ethnological Society, Councillor: Review of American Ethnologist and AES Monograph Series, 1988-1990. University of Arizona Press, Human Ecology Monograph Series, Editorial Committee Member, 1986-1997. SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS: International Mountain Society. Board Member, 1992-1997. American Anthropological Association. Program Committee 1988-1989. American Ethnological Society. Councillor, 1988-1991. Society for Economic Anthropology. Board Member, 1984-1987. Social Science Research Committee. Latin American Doctoral Fellowship Screening Committee, 1986- 1987. Inter-American Foundation. Dissertation Fellowship Selection Committee, 1981-1983; Master's Fellowship Selection Committee, 1983-1987. CONSULTING EXPERIENCE: 1997-present International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University. Consultation on programs for applications of climate forecasts to agriculture, fisheries and hydrology. Particular emphases on Peru, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Indonesia.   1992 Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Development of teaching and research programs in sustainable development at the Center for Resource Studies.   1991 Ford Foundation and Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences. Development of a research workshop on minority peoples, sustainable agriculture and mountain environments.  Yunnan, China.  1991.   1981-1985 Inter-American Foundation:     1982. Evaluation of Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (Institute of Peruvian Studies), Lima, Peru.     1982. Evaluation of technical and economic development projects, La Paz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Potosí, Bolivia.     1983. Evaluation of an agricultural development project in the context of  severe drought.  Potosí, Bolivia.     1984. Evaluation of Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Económica y Social  (Center for Economic and Social Studies), La Paz and Cochabamba, Bolivia.   1980-1982 Small Ruminant Collaborative Research Support Program (US Agency for International Development and a consortium of land grant colleges):       1980. Ecological and anthropological aspects of small-scale livestock  production.  Columbia, Missouri.     1982. On-site evaluation of ecological field research.  Piura, Peru.   1979-1982 Instituto del Mar del Perú (Peruvian Marine Institute) and Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations):  development of an artisanal fisheries assessment program in Lake Titicaca, Peru.  1979-1982.   MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: American Anthropological Association American Association for the Advancement of Science American Ethnological Society International Association for the Study of Common Property International Mountain Society Latin American Studies Association Royal Anthropological Institute Society for Anthropology and Environment Society for Cultural Anthropology Society for Culture and Agriculture Society for Economic Anthropology Society for Latin American Anthropology COURSES TAUGHT: Department of Anthropology Societies and Cultures of Latin America Rural Transformations of the Post-Colonial World Anthropological and Historical Approaches to the Study of Consumption History and Memory Peasant Society and Culture Anthropology and Globalization Division of Environmental Studies Introduction to Environmental Studies Cultural Ecology Laboratory and Field Methods in Cultural Ecology Graduate Group in Ecology Human Ecology Advanced Topics in Cultural Ecology Conservation and Sustainable Development Anthropological and Ecological Perspectives on Map-making Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives on Food Systems Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives on Human Carnivory Comparative Study of Irrigation Systems Human Adaptation to Mountain Ecosystems Cultural Ecology of Fishing Communities Climate and Society Graduate Group in International Agricultural Development Social Systems and Agricultural Development Program in Nature and Culture Comparative Perspectives on Nature and Culture REFERENCES: Available upon request   Main - CV - Publications - Books - Courses - Contact Info - Graduate Students bsorlove@ucdavis.edu