Daniel Bates

For the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, see Daniel Moore Bates.

Daniel G. Bates is an anthropologist and human ecologist. He is professor emeritus of anthropology at Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY. He is also the editor-in-chief of Human Ecology.[1]

Education and early research

Between 1968 and 1971, Bates conducted ecological fieldwork in Turkey and the Middle East.[2] He received his PhD from University of Michigan in 1971.[3] His doctoral dissertation The Yoruk of Southeastern Turkey: A Study of Social Organization and Land Use was based on fieldwork in Turkey with the Yörüks.[4] It was published in 1973 by University of Michigan Press as Nomads and Farmers: A Study of the Yörük of Southeastern Turkey.[5]

Career

Bates' research focuses on the intersection of anthropology, ecology and human culture. Much of his early research focused on nomadic groups in Turkey and West Asia,[6] including adaptive culture, intergroup exchange, systems of pastoralism,[7] and marriage patterns among the Yörük.[8][9] He has also done research on ethnic minorities in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.[10]

In 1976, Bates was invited by Susan H. Lees to co-edit the journal Human Ecology, after Andrew P. Vayda retired from the role.[11] That year, he also Bates co-authored Anthropology: Decisions, adaptation, and evolution with Fred Plog and Clifford J. Jolly.[12]

He co-edited Case Studies in Human Ecology with Lees in 1996, which was a collection of studies previously published in Human Ecology.[13] In 1998, he published Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture and Politics.[14] Between 1998 and 2002, he also taught at Istanbul Bilgi University.[4]

Bates co-authored Human Adaptive Strategies An Ecological Introduction to Anthropology (2023) with Judith Tucker and Ludomir Lozny.[15]

Works

• Cultural Anthropology (3rd Edition)
• Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture, and Politics (3rd Edition)
• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East (2nd Edition)
• Human Adaptive Strategies
• Human Ecology. Contemporary Research and Practice. Springer 2010

External links

• faculty of Department of Anthropology, Hunter College
• Human Ecology

References

1. "Editor-in-Chief, Daniel G. Bates — Hunter College". www.hunter.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
2. Bates, Daniel G. (2022), "The Role of the State in Peasant-Nomad Mutualism", Man in Adaptation, pp. 285–296, doi:10.4324/9780429337949-24, ISBN 9780429337949, retrieved 2023-02-17
3. "Daniel Bates". guide.americananthro.org. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
4. "Daniel G. Bates - Anthropology - iResearchNet". Retrieved 2023-02-17.
5. "Nomads and Farmers: A Study of the Yörük of Southeastern Turkey – Books". Retrieved 2023-02-17.
6. Magnarella, Paul J. (1976-01-01). "Some trends and consequences of modernization in turkey". Reviews in Anthropology. 3 (1): 68–72. doi:10.1080/00988157.1976.9977215. ISSN 0093-8157.
7. Bates, Daniel G.; Lees, Susan H. (December 1977). "The Role of Exchange in Productive Specialization". American Anthropologist. 79 (4): 824–841. doi:10.1525/aa.1977.79.4.02a00040. ISSN 0002-7294.
8. Bates, Daniel G. (1974). "Normative and Alternative Systems of Marriage among the Yörük of Southeastern Turkey". Anthropological Quarterly. 47 (3): 270–287. doi:10.2307/3316980. ISSN 0003-5491. JSTOR 3316980.
9. Bates, Daniel G.; Conant, Francis; Kudat, Ayse (1974). "Introduction: Kidnapping and Elopement as Alternative Systems of Marriage". Anthropological Quarterly. 47 (3): 233–237. ISSN 0003-5491. JSTOR 3316977.
10. Bates, Daniel G. (1994-11-01). "What's in a name? Minorities, identity, and politics in Bulgaria". Identities. 1 (2–3): 201–225. doi:10.1080/1070289X.1994.9962505. ISSN 1070-289X.
11. Bates, Daniel G. (2012-02-01). "On Forty Years: Remarks from the Editor". Human Ecology. 40 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1007/s10745-012-9461-z. ISSN 1572-9915. S2CID 254540987.
12. Bean, Susan S. (April 1979). "Linguistic Anthropology: How is the study of language part of anthropology? A review of language and linguistics in introductory textbooks - Victor Barnouw, An introduction to anthropology: Ethnology. Homewood, Ill.: The Dorsey Press, 1978. - Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, Anthropology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. 1973. - Marvin Harris, Culture, people and nature. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.1975. - William A. Haviland, Anthropology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1974. - Roger M. Keesing and Felix M. Keesing, New perspectives in cultural anthropology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1971. - Conrad Phillip Kottak, Anthropology: The exploration of human diversity. New York: Random House. 1978. - Fred Plog, Clifford J. Jolly and Daniel G. Bates, Anthropology: Decisions, adaptation, and evolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1976. - James P. Spradley and David McCurdy, Anthropology: The cultural perspective. New York: John Wiley and Sons. 1975". Language in Society. 8 (1): 101–109. doi:10.1017/S0047404500006023. ISSN 1469-8013. S2CID 250438553.
13. Schwerin, Karl H. (April 1998). "Case Studies in Human Ecology . Daniel G. Bates , Susan H. Lees". Journal of Anthropological Research. 54 (1): 106–109. doi:10.1086/jar.54.1.3631682. ISSN 0091-7710.
14. Anderson, E.N. (2002-01-01). "New Textbooks Show Ecological Anthropology Is Flourishing". Reviews in Anthropology. 31 (3): 231–242. doi:10.1080/00988150213691. ISSN 0093-8157. S2CID 144724118.
15. "Human Adaptive Strategies: An Ecological Introduction to Anthropology". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2023-02-17.