Research in Haiti

2004 (With M. Bannister) Peasants, agroforesters, and anthropologists: A 20-year venture in income-generating trees and hedgerows in Haiti. Agroforestry Systems 61:383-397.
2004 (With G. Smucker). The uses of children: A study of trafficking in Haitian children. Report prepared for USAID / Haiti. 175 pp.
2004 La niñez en peligro: Un estudio sobre la trata de niños haitianos. Translation from the English of the preceding report. Translated by Gerald Murray and Maria Alvarez.
1997 A Haitian peasant tree chronicle: Adaptive evolution and institutional intrusion. In Reasons for Hope, A. Krishna, N. Uphoff, and M. Esman, eds. West Hartford, Ct.: Kumarian Press
1995 The volunteer niche in post-embargo Haiti. Report prepared for Peace Corps, Washington, D.C.
1994 The Tree Project: Guidelines for reincorporation of high volume wood tree planting in rural Haiti. Report prepared as a member of USAID’s Environmental Task Force. Port-au-Prince: Pan American Development Foundation
1993 La organización de proyectos rurales en ambientes de represión política: El caso de los árboles hiaitianos. Invited paper presented at the Caribbean Conference on Alternative Production, Work, Management, and Organization. Havana, Cuba, Dec.5 — Dec. 11, 1993.
1993 Institutional systems and community systems: Observations on child survival activities in Haiti. Port-au-Prince: USAID/Haiti and Datex.
1991 The tree gardens of Haiti: From extraction to domestication. In D. Challinor & M. Hardt Frondorf (Eds.), Social forestry: Communal and private management strategies compared (pp. 35-44). Washington, D.C.: School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.
1991 The phantom child in Haitian Voodoo: A folk-religious model of uterine life. In K. Davis & E. Farajaje-Jones (Eds.), African Creative Expressions of the Divine. Washington, D.C.: Howard U. Press, pp. 4-26
1991 Campesino, árbol, e Iglesia: Un proyecto de reforestacion intermediado por la Iglesia. Estudios Sociales (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) 84: 73-85.
1990 ‘Bon-dieu’ e os ritos de passagem no Haiti rural: determinantes estruturais da teologia e dos rituais pos-coloniais. Estudos Afro-Asiaticos (Brazil) 19:5-28. Translation of 1985.
1990 Land tenure and trees in the Central Plateau: Anthropological guidelines for project design in Haiti. Port-au-Prince and Wash. D.C.: Organization of American States. (160 pp.)
1990 The protection of trees or the production of trees?: The World Bank’s Haiti portfolio. Wash., D.C.: World Bank.
1989 The domestication of wood in Haiti: A case study in applied evolution. In A. Podolefsky amp; P.J. Brown (Eds.), Applying anthropology: An introductory reader (pp. 148-156). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield. (Reprinted from 1987). Reprinted from the 1987 article below.
1989 Programming tree flows in Haiti: A case study. Cambridge, MA: Case Study #1 of the Coolidge Center for Environmental Leadership. 17 pp.
1989 Anthropology and the tree planting transition in Haiti. Paper presented at the Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. November 19, 1989.
1988 Technology without literacy: Agrarian innovation in rural Haiti. Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society 7 (5‑6): 615‑20.
1987 The domestication of wood in Haiti: A case study in applied evolution. In R. Wulff & S. Fiske (Eds.), Anthropological praxis (pp. 223-240). Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (Was included in an anthropological reader in 1989. See above.)
1987 Land tenure and agroforestry in Haiti: A case study in anthropological project design. In J.B. Raintree (Ed.), Land, trees, and tenure: Proceedings of an international workshop on tenure issues in agroforestry (pp. 323‑328). Nairobi and Madison: Int’l Council for Research in Agroforestry and Land Tenure Center, U. of Wisconsin.
1986 Seeing the forest while planting the trees: An anthropological approach to agroforestry in rural Haiti. In D.W. Brinkerhoff & J.C. Garcia‑Zamor (Eds.), Politics, projects, and peasants: Institutional development in Haiti (pp. 193‑ 226). N.Y.: Praeger.
1986 Watersheds, hillside agriculture, and erosion control in Haiti: The feasibility of a project design. Wash. D.C.: Development Alternatives, Inc.
1985 Bon‑Dieu and the rites of passage in rural Haiti: Structural determinants of postcolonial religion. In T. Bruneau, M. Mooney,& and C. Gabriel (Eds.), The Catholic Church and religions in Latin America (pp. 188-231). Montreal: Centre for Developing‑Area Studies,
1985 Haitian peasants, cash flows, and felt needs: Integrating “process” and “product” in project design. Westport, Ct.: Save the Children. (25 pp.)
1984 The wood tree as a peasant cash‑crop: An anthropological strategy for the domestication of energy. In A. Valdman & R. Foster (Eds.), Haiti‑‑today and tomorrow: An interdisciplinary study (pp. 141‑160). N.Y: University Press of America.
1983 Los campesinos plantadores de árboles en Haiti.Ahora 22 (April): 40‑48. (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic).
1983 Voodoo in Haiti. Scuwiff (College University of Dublin) 1 (1): 11‑12.
1983 Agroforestry outreach: An approach to tree planting in rural Haiti. Zurich: Helvetas.
1983 Haiti Agroforestry Outreach Project: The Church as an instrument of environmental restoration in Haiti. Port-au-Prince: Pan American Development Foundation. (8 pp.)
1982 The groupman of Gros Morne: An experiment in Haitian peasant organization. Port‑au‑Prince: Catholic Relief Service.(40 pp.)
1981 Peasant tree planting in Haiti: A social soundness analysis. Port‑au‑Prince: USAID. (33 pp.)
1981 Socialization for scarcity: Child feeding practices and beliefs in a Haitian village. Port‑au‑Prince: USAID. (Written with María Alvarez. 250 pp.) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12
1980 Population pressure, land tenure, and Voodoo: The economics of Haitian peasant ritual. In E. Ross (Ed.), Beyond the myths of culture (pp. 295‑321). New York: Academic Press
1980 Haitian peasant contour ridges: The evolution of indigenous erosion control technology. Development discussion paper #86, Harvard Institute for International Development. Part 1 Part 2
1979 Terraces, trees, and the Haitian peasant: An assessment of 25 years of erosion control in rural Haiti. Port‑au‑Prince: USAID (265pp.)
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1978 Hillside units, wage labor, and Haitian peasant land tenure: A strategy for the organization of erosion control. Port‑au‑Prince: USAID. (35 pp.)
1978 Land tenure, land insecurity, and planned agricultural development among Haitian peasants. Port‑au‑Prince: USAID. (90 pp.)
1977 The evolution of Haitian peasant land tenure: A case study in agrarian adaptation to population growth. Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, Department of Anthropology.
1977 Folk healers of Petit‑Goave, Haiti: A model for incorporating traditional healers into the modern health delivery system. Port‑au‑Prince and Toronto: International Development Research Centre. (65 pp.)
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1976 Women in perdition: Ritual fertility control in Haiti. In J. Marshall & S. Polgar (Eds.), Culture, natality, and family planning (pp. 59-68). Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina.
1976 Truths and untruths in village Haiti: An experiment in Third World survey research. In J. Marshall & S. Polgar (Eds.), Culture, Natality, and Family Planning (pp.241-262). Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina. (Written with K. Chen).
1975 Haitian bean circuits: Cropping and trading maneuvers among a cash oriented peasantry. In Sidney W. Mintz (Ed.), Working papers in Haitian society and culture (pp. 85‑126). New Haven: Antilles Research Program, Yale U. (Written with Maria D. Alvarez).
1973 Childbearing, sickness and ritual healing in a Haitian village. Port‑au‑Prince: Division d’Hygiène Familiale. (With Maria D. Alvarez, 223 pp.)
1973 La commercialisation des haricots en Haiti: Une étude exploratoire. Port‑au‑Prince: Instituto Internacional de Cooperación Agrícola. (With Maria D. Alvarez, 31 pp.)
1973 Aspectos de la actual organización económica y social de los campesinos de la llanura baja de Gonaives, Haiti. Port‑au‑Prince: Instituto Internacional de Cooperación Agrícola. (33 pp.)
1972 The economic context of fertility in a rural Haitian community. Columbia U.: International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction. (83 pp.)
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