THEODORE D. GRAVES, Ph.D.

Personal Data:

     Born June 2, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts
     Married, four grown children, five grandchildren

Education:

     1954 BA in History and Political Science, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
     1957 MA in Anthropology (minor in Psychology) University of Colorado, Boulder
     1962 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

     Dr. Graves is a retired professor of anthropology and social psychology who has conducted field research in the American Southwest, Latin America, East Africa, and the South Pacific. He has taught at the University of Colorado, UCLA, University of East Africa (Tanzania) and the University of Auckland (New Zealand). He has published numerous articles, books and monographs in the fields of psychological anthropology, urban anthropology, medical anthropology, and applied anthropology.

     For a full list of his publications, click here.

     Dr. Graves is best known for his interdisciplinary, behavioral science approach to cross-cultural research, which is fully explicated in his recently published two-volume work on Behavioral Anthropology (2002).

     What Is Behavioral Anthropology? In simplest terms, cultural anthropologists study norms of appropriate behavior; behavioral anthropologists study what people actually do. Although Dr. Graves is interested in systematically measuring the typical ways of life which characterize distinct ethnic groups, his main focus has been on the causes, correlates and consequences of within-group variation in their behavior, and in changes over time.

     Behavioral Anthropology - Toward an Integrated Science of Human Behavior - I is an intellectual autobiography in which each chapter deals with a specific methodological issue, such as research design, the role of theory, various strategies for measuring behavior, measuring psychological variables, measuring situational variables, samples and surveys, and both simple and complex methods of data analysis and interpretation. The book provides a clear presentation of the unique features of his approach, including the way it gives a focus to an ethnographic study, and the role of "culture" in his analyses.

     Studies in Behavioral Anthropology - II is a collection of fifteen of Dr. Graves' research reports, most co-authored with his colleagues, which illustrate this distinctive way of conducting cross-cultural research. Each essay is carefully tied to the chapters in Volume I, which includes additional data where appropriate. His goal in this series is to provide useful supplemental readings for anthropological courses in research methodology, to convey the challenge and excitement of conducting systematic behavioral science research cross-culturally, and to offer a compelling rationale for its importance.

     To view the Table of Contents for Volume I, click here.

     To read Chapter 1 of Volume I, click here.

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     To order Volume II, click here.

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