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Fields of Specialization Ethnological theory, linguistics, semiotics, cognitive science, ecological anthropology, ethnobiology, systems theory, critical theory, nonequilibrium dynamics, and philosophy of science. Other Fields of Special Interest Economic anthropology; work and play; gender dynamics; ethnic minorities; fourth-world politics; new religions; demography; geography; human-alloanimal and -plant relations; tools, toys, and trash; technology and culture; deception; ethnoscience; and fieldwork methodology. Area Specializations Lapland, Fennoscandia, circum-Baltic, and circumpolar cultures, regions of pastoralism and nomadism, areas of high latitudes and high altitudes, including Mongolia.

Academic Degrees

• 1978 Ph.D., anthropology, Yale University
• 1970 M. Phil., anthropology, Yale University
• 1968 B.A., summa cum laude, anthropology, University of Hawaii

Teaching Experience and Academic Positions

• 1999-2002 Chair of Anthropology Section, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University
• 1988-1991 Chair of Anthropology Section, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University
• 1986- Associate Professor, Purdue University
• 1977-1986 Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Other Professional Experience

1953-1968 Net of twelve years of professional employment as actuarial assistant in offices of national consulting firms

Teaching Assignments

Besides specialized courses, including anthropological linguistics, semiotics, and qualitative and ethnographic methods, I teach basic courses focused on general anthropology, on language, and on culture.

Teaching Awards

• 1993 Departmental nomination for Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, School of Liberal Arts,
• 1991-1992 Departmental Teaching Award, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University Purdue University
• 1986-1987 Departmental Teaching Award, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University

Summer Institutes and Short Courses (14, not listed)

Experience in Fieldwork and Other Research (substantially abbreviated)

• 1995- Consultant on two mathematical education research projects, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
• 1996- Consultant and field research with alternative gardeners, community gardeners, refugee and immigrant gardeners, and industrial reclamation projects, varioius sites, in United States, Canada, and Europe
• 1988-1989-intermittent Field investigation of Saami responses to Chernobyl as revealed through discourse analysis of reindeer-breeding and sedentary residents in arctic Sweden.
• 1987-intermittent Participant observation research within and without the artificial life movement, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe Institute, and elsewhere.
• 1978, 1979-1980-intermittent Field demographic survey of nomadic and sedentary Saami, Guov'dageai'dno township of North Norway, 1700-1980 and thereafter.
• 1971-1976 Continuous period of ethnosemantic field research with seminomadic and settled Saami in North Norway, in connection with Ph.D. dissertation, Saami ethnoecology: Resource management in Norwegian Lapland.
• 1970-1971 Ethological research with captive primate family of Perodicticus potto.
• 1967-1968 Intensive study of Japanese religious sect, Honolulu, in connection with B.A. thesis, Impact of the death of a charismatic leader; incorporating anethnography of Tensho-Kotai-Jingu-Kyo.
• 1961 Summer project investigating acculturation among the Inuit of Ungava Bay, Province of Quebec.

Fellowships, Grants, Awards and International Travel Subsidies Accepted (selected, from 36)

• 1999 Purdue International Programs in Agriculture, faculty exchange seminar in Novgorod, Russia, funded by the U.S. Department of Education
• 1990 NEH Summer Institute, Perspectives on the ancient Indo-European world, University of Texas, Austin
• 1988 Visiting Fellow, The Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
• 1988 The Swedish Center for Working Life, subsidized travel to conference on Culture, Language, and Artificial Intelligence (Stockholm, Sweden)
• 1988-1989 Swedish Information Service grant for fieldwork research in Swedish Lapland on Saami discursive response to Chernobyl situation
• 1985 United-Nations-funded travel to United Nations University task force, conference on geophysiology (Basel, Switzerland)
• 1979 Purdue Research Foundation XL summer faculty grant
• 1979-1980 The American-Scandinavian Foundation King Olav V fellowship
• 1971-1973 Social Science Research Council research training fellowship
• 971-1974 National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation research improvement grant
• 1968-1971 National Defense Education Act Title IV Fellowship, Yale University
• 1968 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
• 1952-1953 Students' Cooperative Association scholarship, University of Washington
• 1952-1953 Whitman College scholarship applied to University of Washington

Thesis and Dissertation

• 1978 Saami ethnoecology: Resource management in Norwegian Lapland, Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University. (University Microfilms, 1979.) xxxv + 941 pp.
• 1968 Impact of the death of a charismatic leader; Incorporating an ethnography of Tensho-Kotai-Jingu-Kyo. B. A. thesis in anthropology, University of Hawaii. viii + 148 pp.

Books, Monographs, and Special Issues

• Cultural shaping of violence, edited by Myrdene Anderson. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press (Forthcoming.).
• Semiotic perspectives on mathematics education, edited by Adalira Sáenz-Ludlow, Myrdene Anderson, Shea Zellweger, and Victor V. Cifarelli. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. (Forthcoming.)
• 1994 Refiguring debris-becoming unbecoming, unbecoming becoming, edited by Myrdene Anderson and Walter Randolph Adams. Special issue, The American Journal of Semiotics 11.1-2. New York: Peter Lang.
• 1994 Saami, reindeer, and gold in Alaska: The emigration of Saami from Norway to Alaska, by rnulv Vorren. Translated from the Norwegian (Samer, rein og gul i Alaska: Emigrasjon av samer fra Finnmark til Alaska; Vaasa Oy, Norway: Davvi Girji, 1989), by rnulv Vorren with Myrdene Anderson as consulting and translation editor. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.
• 1991 On semiotic modeling, edited by Myrdene Anderson and Floyd Merrell. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 1991 Self and society, stereotype and ethnicity, edited by Myrdene Anderson and Karen Larson. Special issue of Ethnos, 56.3-4. Stockholm: Ethnographic Museum of Stockholm.
• 1986 Human-alloanimal social and symbolic relations, edited by Myrdene Anderson. Special issue, Central Issues in Anthropology 6.2.
• 1979 The Saami in Norway: An analysis of the current minority situation in historical perspective. Monograph publication of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Ottawa: Government of Canada. xi + 240 pp.

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals (selected, from over 20)

• 2000 Sharing G. Evelyn Hutchinson's fabricational noise. Sign Systems Studies 28: 388-396. Tartu, Estonia: Tartu University Press.
• 1999 Ethnography as translation. Traduzione, edited by Susan Petrilli; special issue of Athanor (Semiotica, Filosofia, Arte, Letteratura) 10.2: 181-187, 1999/2000. Rome: Melterni Editions.
• 1998 Pricking trickster. The American Journal of Semiotics 14.1-4: 216-221.
• 1994 Trashing, and hoarding in words, deeds, and memory: A sampler from the Fourth World Saami. In Refiguring debris-becoming unbecoming, unbecoming becoming, edited by Myrdene Anderson and Walter R. Adams. Special issue, The American Journal of Semiotics 11.1-2: 237-249. New York: Peter Lang.
• 1991 Reindeer and magic numbers: The making and maintenance of the Saami stereotype. In Self and society, stereotype and ethnicity, edited by Myrdene Anderson and Karen Larson. Special issue of Ethnos, 56.3-4: 200-209. Stockholm: Ethnographic Museum of Stockholm.
• 1987 Transformations of centre and periphery for the Saami in Norway. Anthropologica 29: 109-130. Sudbury, Ontario: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Laurentian University. (Journal issue published in 1991.)
• 1986 From predator to pet: Social relationships of the Saami reindeer-herding dog. Central Issues in Anthropology 6.2: 3-11; Human-alloanimal social and symbolic
  relations; special issue edited by Myrdene Anderson. 1985 Discriminations concerning the article, "the", and capitalization. Culture 5.2: 95-96. (junior author Jack O. Waddell)
• 1984 A semiotic perspective on the sciences: Steps toward a new paradigm. Semiotica 44: 7-47. (senior author; with John Deely, Martin Krampen, Joseph Ransdell, Thomas A.Sebeok, and Thure von Uexkull.)
  (1986 Reprinted on pp. 17-46 in I think I am a verb, by Thomas A Sebeok and others; Topics in Contemporary Semiotics Series, edited by Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok; New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation.)
  (1987 Referenced as 87R6302 in Sociological Abstracts, Inc., 1987: 953.)
  (1988 Reprinted as "Global view of sciences and semiotics", chapter 28, pp. 741-784, in Semiotics in the individual sciences, part II, edited by Walter A. Koch; Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, 10/II; Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, 10; Bochum, Germany: Brockmeyer.)
  (1990 German translation as "Gesamtwissenschaft und Semiotik", chapter 28, pp. 802-849, in Semiotik in den Einzelwissenschaften, Halbband II, edited by Walter A. Koch; Bochumer Beitr"ge zur Semiotik, 8/II; Bochum, Germany: Brockmeyer.)
• 1984 Proper names, naming, and labeling in Saami. Anthropological Linguistics 26.2: 186-201. Bloomington: Department of Anthropology, Indiana University.
• 1983 Woman as generalist, as specialist, and as diversifier in Saami subsistence activities. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 10.2: 175-197; special issue on The study of women: new challenges, new directions. Arcata: Humboldt State University.
• 1982 Vectors of diversification and specialization in Saami society. Pp. 97-124 in Proceedings of the Symposium on Planned and Unplanned Change Among Nomadic Peoples, Part 2, Contemporary nomadic and pastoral peoples: Asia and the North, edited by Philip Carl Salzman. Studies in Third World Societies, 18. Williamsburg: William and Mary.
• 1978 Mobility and bilingualism in North Norway. Ethnos 44.3-4: 178-192. Stockholm: The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden.

Articles in Other Journals (selected, from over 20)

• 1996 On the menu, upon our plates, and then its taste in our mouths.. Pp.11-12 in The story of progress, edited by Gösta Arvastson and Mats Lindqvist. Studia Etnologica Upsaliensia 17.
• 1988 Why I became a scientist. In Seventy-five reasons to become a scientist: American Scientist celebrates its seventy-fifth birthday. American Scientist 76.3: 453. New Haven, Connecticut: Society of the Sigma Xi (1988 Excerpted by Eugene Garfield in Current Contents 20.50: 20.)
• 1986 Continuity and change in Lapland. Scandinavian Review, 74.4: 23-30.
• 1985 The Saami reindeer-breeders of Norwegian Lapland. American Scientist 73.6: 524-532, and cover. New Haven, Connecticut: Society of the Sigma Xi.
  (1986 Adapted in News of Norway 43.8: 59-62; Washington, D.C.: Royal Norwegian Embassy.)
• 1977 On coming and going in Saamiland. Bulletin of the Field Museum of Natural History 48.5: 6-11, 16-19, and cover.
• 1971 L'ethnobiologie. La Recherche 2: 1029-1038. Paris.

Book Chapters (selected, from over 35)

• 2001 A post-mortem on zero, zilch, ought, naught. In Trickster Two, edited by C.W. Spinks. New York: Atwood Publishers.
• 2001 Packaging time, spilling space. Pp. 1-10 in Semiotics 2000, edited by Scott Simpkins, C.W. Spinks, and John Deely. New York: Peter Lang.
• 2000 Y2K, a self-disorganizing trickster. Pp. 435-443 in Semiotics 1999, edited by Scott Simpkins, C.W. Spinks, and John Deely. New York: Peter Lang.
• 2000 Barnen som kulturbärare. Pp. 116-125 in Samisk etnobiologi: Människor, djur, og väkster i Norr, edited by Ingvar Svanberg and Håkan Tunon. (Studia
  Ethnobiologica 10.) Nora, Sweden: Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
• 1999 Musement in mathematical manipulation. In Semiotics across cultures; Proceedings of the Sixth Congress of the International Association for
  Semiotic Studies, Guadalajara, Mexico, July 1997. CD Publication. (co-authored with Adalira Saenz-Ludlow and Victor V. Cifarelli)
• 1998 Meaning of play as a human experience. Pp. 103-108 in Play from birth to twelve: Contexts, perspectives, and meanings, edited by Doris Pronin Fromberg and Doris Bergen. New York: Garland Publishing.
• 1998 Folklore, folklife, and other bootstrapping traditions. Pp. 29-39 in Hi-fives: A trip to semiotics, edited by Roberta Kevelson. New York: Peter Lang.
• 1996 The interpenetration of endogenous and exogenous in Saami reindeer raising. Pp. 91-101 in Ethnoveterinary research and development, edited by Constance M. McCorkle, Evelyn Mathias, and Tjaart Schillhorn van Veen. London: Intermediate Technology Publications.
• 1994 Breathing life into signs: Ways and means of semiosic transition and transformation. Pp. 15-24 in Origins of semiosis: Sign evolution in nature and culture, edited by Winfried Nöth. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 1993 State of the Saami people. Pp. 201-202 in State of the Peoples 1993: A human-rights report on societies in danger. Boston: Beacon Press.
• 1992 Concerning Gaia -Semiosic production of/in/by/for our planet. Pp. 1-13 in Biosemiotics, edited by Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok. The Semiotic
  Web 1991. New York: Praeger Publishers.
• 1991 The conduct of artificial life: A quest for artificial death? Pp. 195-209 in On semiotic modeling, edited by Myrdene Anderson and Floyd Merrell. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 1991 The reemergence of emergence in trash, transdisciplinarity, and neogeocentrism. Pp. 131-146 in Time, rhythms, and chaos in the new dialogue with nature, edited by George P. Scott. Ames: Iowa State University Press.
• 1991 Dynamics of Saami territoriality within the nation-states of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Pp. 55-90 in Pastoral and nomadic territoriality, edited by Aparna Rao and Michael J. Casimir. Oxford: Berg Publishers. (co-authored with Hugh Beach, first author, and Pekka Aikio,third author)
• 1990 Biology and semiotics. Chapter 11, pp. 254-281, in Semiotics in the individual sciences, part I, edited by Walter A. Koch; Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, 10/II; Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, 10; Bochum, Germany: Brockmeyer. (1990 German translation as "Biologie und Semiotik", chapter 14, pp. 373-392, in Semiotik in den Einzelwissenschaften, Halbband I, edited by Walter A. Koch; Bochumer Beitrage zur Semiotik, 8/I; Bochum, Germany: Brockmeyer.)
• 1989 Dialectics of emergence and hierarchization in culture-cum-nature. Pp. 442-455 in The Nature of Culture, edited by Walter A. Koch. Bochum, Germany: Brockmeyer.
• 1989 Cosmological semiotics: Rhymes and reasons in the cosmos. Pp. 21-30 in Das Ganze und seine Teile / The whole and its parts, edited by Walter A. Koch (Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, 19). Bochum: Brockmeyer.
• 1989 Modeling self-organization. Pp. 14-23 in Semiotics
• 1988, edited by Terry J. Prewitt, John Deely, and Karen Haworth. Lanham, New York, and London: University Press of America. (coauthored with Stanley N. Salthe)
• 1988 Thinking through tinkering: Tinkering through thought. Pp. 31-41 in Semiotics 1987, edited by John Deely. Lanham, New York, and London: University Press of America.
• 1987 The division of production, distribution, and consumption in Saami society, in Women in pastoral production, edited by Gudrun Dahl. Special issue of Ethnos 52.1-2: 8-27. Stockholm: The Ethnographic Museum of Stockholm
• 1987 On a motivated semiotic. Pp. 321-327 in Semiotics
• 1986, edited by John Deely and Jonathan Evans. Lanham, New York, and London: University Press of America.
• 1986 Cultural concatenation of deceit and secrecy. Chapter 19, pp. 323-348, in Deception: perspectives on human and non-human deceit, edited by Robert W. Mitchell and Nicholas Thompson. Albany: SUNY Press.
• 1986 Folk natural history: Crossroads of language, culture, and environment. Chapter 9, pp. 185-217, in The real-world linguist: linguistic applications in the 1980's, edited by Peter C. Bjarkman and Victor Raskin. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
• 1985 Projection of organicism and mechanicism in the shadow of Gaia. Chapter 2, pp. i-ii, 1-27, in Is the earth a living organism?, edited by Michael J. Cohen and Jim Swan. Proceedings of a symposium convened by and published by The National Audubon Society, held at Amherst, Massachusetts, 1-6 August 1985. Sharon, Connecticut: National Audubon Society Expedition Institute.

Review Articles (selected, from 15)

• 1998 Apoptosis, the eradication of old ideas, and the persistence of weeds. Review essay based on Signs of meaning in the universe, by Jesper Hoffmeyer (Advances in Semiotics, Thomas A. Sebeok, general editor; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996) (translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland, En snegl p vejen: Betydningens naturhistorie; Copenhagen: Munksgaard/ Rosinante, 1993). Semiotica 120.3/4: 231-241.
• 1988 Food and sex. Based on: (1) Microcosmos: four billion years of evolution from our microbial ancestors, by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan; New York: Summit Books, 1986; (2) Origins of sex: three billion years of genetic recombination, by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. Semiotica 72.3-4: 361-374. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 1987 The quest for coordinates in space and time. Based on: (1) The dance of life: the other dimension of time, by Edward T. Hall; Garden City, New York: Anchor Press, Doubleday, 1984; (2) The anthropology of space: explorations into the natural philosophy and semantics of the Navajo, by Rik Pinxten, Ingrid van Dooren, and Frank Harvey; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. Reviews in Anthropology 14.1: 78-89. (coauthored with O. Michael Watson)

Book Reviews (unlisted, 25 items)

Symposia Organized (selected, from 50 items)

• 2000 The Containing and Connecting Sign, Shaping Space, Time, and Habit (Insides and Outsides II). In 25th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Purdue University, September-October 2000.
• 2000 Abduction, Mathematics, and Metaphor. In 25th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Purdue University, September-October 2000.
• 1997 The Cultivation of Contested Spaces: Gardens of Verses, Gardens of Versus (Gardening II), and The Themeparking of the World: Re-enchantment, Re-creation, Re-engineering, Re-feudalization. In 74th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Milwaukee, April 1997.
• 1996 Continuity? Closure!/Re-Membering through Body and Space as Correction, Completion, Hoard (Body VI). In 73rd Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Covington, Kentucky, March 1996.
• 1996 Cultural Shaping of Violence. In 95th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 1996.
• 1995 Same and Different: The Construction of Anthropology in Scandinavia and North America. In 94th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 1995.
• 1995 The Story of Progress. In 94th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 1995.
• 1995 Musement to Meaning: Body and Mind (Body V). In 20th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, San Antonio, October 1995.
• 1994 Beyond, Beneath, and Behind the Verbal: Back to the Body of Dance (Body III). In Fifth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Berkeley, June 1994.
• 1993 Probing, and Being Probed By, Gregory Bateson. In 70th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Beloit, Wisconsin, March 1993.
• 1993 Technology and Tradition, Purity and Pollution in Nordic Culture. In 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 1993.
• 1992 Conservation, Dissipation, and the Other Five (at least) Lively Sins (Sins I). In 17th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Chicago, October-November 1992.
• 1992 Inside Identity and Outside Otherness: Recomposing Narratives of Identity and Difference in Fennoscandia. In 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 1992.
• 1991 Approaching 1992 Along Europe's Northern Rim: Assimilated and Assimilating. In 90th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 1991.
• 1990 Bringing in the Trash (II): Discrimination of Incorporation and Discard in Dynamical Systems. In 15th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Norman, Oklahoma, October 1990.
• 1990 Nordic Drinking Patterns. In 89th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November-December 1990.
• 1988 Evolutionary Ecology and the Human Condition: 1, The ecological theater and the sociocultural evolutionary play; 2, Dialectics of international and transdisciplinary paradigms; 3, Futures for human society. In 12th quinquennial International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, July 1988.
• 1987 Tools and Toys: Human Implementation in Evolutionary and Cross-cultural Perspective (Tools and Toys II). In 153rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicago, February 1987.
• 1985 Neoteny in Biology and Culture: Analogue, Homologue, or/and Metaphor? In 61st Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Louisville, April 1985.
• 1985 Autotelic Activities. In Northeastern Regional Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Albany, November 1985.
• 1984 Human-alloanimal Social Relations (II): Care and Curing. In 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, November 1984.
• 1983 Explorations with Systems Thinking (II). Symposium for the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 1983.

Papers Delivered at Professional Meetings (selected, from over 100)

• 2000 Time capsules. In 77th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 2000.
• 1999 What's physical and what's occupational? Folk models of therapies fixing the body, in cross-cultural perspective. In 76th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Chicago, April 1999.
• 1998 Transplanting people and plants: Cultural diversity celebrated with new refugee community gardeners in San Jose, California. In Towards a New Millennium in People-Plant Relationships, the International People-Plant Symposium, Sydney, Australia, July 1998. (co-authored with John Dotter)
• 1995 Play in evolutionary and developmental perspective. In World Play Conference, sponsored by the International Council for Children's Play and The Association for the Study of Play. Salzburg, Austria, June 1995.
• 1996 Body and soil: The public lives of private gardens. In 73rd Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Covington, Kentucky, March 1996.
• 1996 Noxious weeds, noxious folks. In People-Plant Interactions in Urban Areas: A National Symposium, San Antonio, May 1996.
• 1996 Tourism and practical everyday metaphysics. Values and the paradigms. In Paradigms in Tourism Research: International Research Symposium/Paradigmatologie, ISA Research Committee 50. JyvÜskylÜ, Finland, 4-7 July 1996.
• 1996 Spatial continuities and discontinuities; but, what happened to time? In Annual Meeting of the German Semiotic Society, Amsterdam, 5-9 August 1996. (with Floyd Merrell)
• 1995 Still-life-moving-death. In Einstein Meets Magritte; An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Human Action and Society; Brussels, Belgium, 28 May - 3 June 1995.
• 1994 Saami women: Containers, connectors, contesters. In Northern Women, Northern Lives: International Conference on Women in the Circumpolar North, Fairbanks, June 1994.
• 1993 Problems of Gaia in evolutionary biology. In Octavian discussion at the annual meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, July 1993.
• 1990 A semiotics of/in/by/for culture: Beyond taxonomies. Invited address for the First Bi-Annual Meeting, Culture as Semiotics--Semiotics of Culture, Odense, Denmark, November 1990.
• 1988 Saami, reindeer, and magic numbers. In 87th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, November 1988.
• 1986 Expansion, contraction, fencing and other frontier phenomena. In International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Intercongress, Alexandria, Egypt, January 1986.
• 1986 On the evolution of Saami ethnicity. In 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Decorah, Iowa, May 1986.
• 1985 Women, pigs, pumpkins, cars and other protected species: Some hows, whys, and maybes of neoteny. In 61st Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1985.
• 1984 Saami demography, ecology, crisis, and response in mid-nineteenth-century Kautokeino. In11th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Ethnology Society, Montreal, May 1984.
• 1984 Which came first, the tool or the toy? in 150th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York, May 1984.
• 1984 Discovery, invention and innovation: Tools, toys and trash in an evolutionary perspective. In Second Colloquium ofVarenna on The Theory of Invention; Como, Italy, June 1984.
• 1983 The theater and play of Saami deception: Humans, dogs, reindeer, and other uncertainties in the Fennoscandian arctic. In105th Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Baton Rouge, February 1983.
• 1983 The Saami "CSV": Acronym stew as political fare. In 10th Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society, Hamilton, Ontario, May 1983.
  1983 Saami in Norway: Transformations of center and periphery. In 11th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Vancouver, B.C., August 1983.
• 1982 Semiotics of starvation. In 58th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthroplogical Society, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1982.
• 1982 Tools and toys: Cultural styles of implementation. In 9th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Ethnology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, May 1982.
• 1982 Cultural concatenation of deceit and secrecy. In Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Duluth, August 1982.
• 1981 Saami rights to the 'land and water' of Saami culture. In Annual Meeting of Society for Applied Anthropology, Edinburgh, April 1981.
• 1981 Vectors of diversification and specialization in Saami society. Invited paper for the Seminar on Planned and Unplanned Change among Contemporary Nomadic and Pastoral Peoples, at the Intercongress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Amsterdam, April 1981.
• 1978 Diversification of women's subsistence activities in Saami society. In 77th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, November 1978.

Papers Delivered in Other Venues (over 40 , not listed)

Other Professional Meeting Activities and Consultations (over 140, not listed)

Professional Service and Recognitions

Numerous elected offices and other service to profession.