Richard W. Stoffle

Office: Emil Haury 317A Phone: 520-621-6282
Richard Stoffle
Email:
rstoffle@email.arizona.edu
Degree:
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 1972
Affiliation:

Research Anthropologist, Bureau of Applied Research and Anthropology

Interests:
Cultural anthropology, social impact assessment, developmental anthropology, Native Americans, Caribbean, industrial anthropology, fisheries, ethnobotany, satellite imagery.
Classes:
ANTH 206 Native Peoples of the Southwest
ANTH 307 Ecological Anthropology
ANTH 421/521 Ethnology of North America

Current Research:

Native American consultation on Nevada Test Site; Native American Consultation on Nellis Airforce Base; consultation with Tohono O'odham nation on natural resource management; cultural resource study of Grand Staircase Escalante and consultation with Kaibab Paiute Tribe; consultation on NAGPRA issues with Kumeyaay tribe of Southern California.


Recent Major Publications:

2004 (with M. Nieves Zedeño, Amy Eisenberg, Rebecca Toupal and Alex Carroll) Shifting risks: Hoover Dam Bridge impacts on American Indian sacred landscapes. In Facility Siting: Risk, Power, and Identity in Land Use Planning, A. Boholm and R. E Löfstedt (eds.). Pp. 127-143. London: Earthscan.
2004 (with A. Carroll and N. Zedeño) Landscapes of the Ghost Dance: Cartography of Numic Ritual. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 11(2):127-156.
2003 (with N. Zedeño) Tracking the Role of Pathways in the Evolution of a Human Landscape. In Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation , M. Rockman and J. Steele (eds.). Pp. 59-80. London : Routledge.
2003 (with R. Arnold) Confronting the Angry Rock: American Indian Situated Risk from Radioactivity. Ethnos 68(2): 230-248.
2001 (with N. Zedeño) Historical Memory and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Southern Paiute Homeland. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 23(2): 229-248.
2001 When Fish is Water: Food Security and Fish in a Coastal Community in the Dominican Republic. In Understanding the Cultures of Fishing Communities: A Key to Fisheries Management and Food Security, ddited by Russ McGoodwin, pp. 219 – 245. Rome, Italy: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations; FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 401.
2000

(with L. Loendorf, D. C. Austin, D. B. Halmo, and A. Bulletts) Ghost Dancing the Grand Canyon, Southern Paiute Rock Art, Ceremony, and Cultural Landscapes. Current Anthropology 41(1): 11- 38.

1999 (with D. Halmo and M. Evans) "Puchuxwavaats Uapi (To know about Plants): Traditional Knowledge and the Cultural Significance of Southern Paiute Plants." Human Organization 58(4): 416-429.

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