Carrier, James G(olden)

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CARRIER, James G(olden)

CARRIER, James G(olden). American, b. 1947. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, lecturer, 1980-84, senior lecturer in anthropology and sociology, 1985-86, department head, 1984-86; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, lecturer in sociology, 1987-94; University of Durham, Durham, England, lecturer in anthropology, 1994-99; University of Edinburgh, reader in anthropology, 1999-2000l Oxford Brookes University, research asspciate in anthropology, 2002-. Conducted field work in Papua New Guinea, 1978-79. Publications: Learning Disability: Social Class and the Construction of Inequality in American Education, 1986; (with A. Carrier) Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State, 1989; (with A. Carrier) Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society: Ponam's Progress in the Twentieth Century, 1991; Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism Since 1700, 1994. EDITOR & CONTRIBUTOR: History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology, 1992; Occidentalism: Images of the West, 1995; (with J. Friedman) Melanesian Modernities, 1996; Meaning of the Market, 1997; (with D. Miller) Virtualism, 1998; Confronting Environments, 2004. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to scholarly journals. Address: Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Ln, Oxford OX3 0BP, England. Online address: [email protected]