Prof. Eugene Ruyle uses a paradigm that is significantly ecological anthropological.
Eugene E. Ruyle
Professor of Anthropology
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA 90840
(310) 985-5364
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.csulb.edu/~eruyle/
Selected Publications
"Genetic and Cultural Pools: Some Suggestions for a Unified Theory of Biocultural
Evolution." Human Ecology 1:201-215. (1973)
"Slavery, Surplus, and Stratification on the Northwest Coast: The Ethnoenergetics of
an Incipient Stratification System." Current Anthropology 14:603-631 (with CA* comment
by 14 scholars and reply). (1973)
"Mode of Production and Mode of Exploitation: The Mechanical and the Dialectical."
Dialectical Anthropology 1:7-23. (1974)
"Labor, People, Culture: A Labor Theory of Human Origins." Yearbook of Physical
Anthropology 20:136-163. (1976)
"Energy and Culture." In The Concepts and Dynamics of Culture. Edited by Bernardo
Bernardi. The Hague: Mouton Publishers. Pp. 209-237. (1977)
"Culture, Protoculture, and the Cultural Pool." (Comment on H.C. Plotkin and F.J.
Odling-Smee, "A Multiple-Level Model of Evolution and Its Implications for
Sociobiology.") The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4:251-252. (1981)
"Rethinking Marxist Anthropology." In Perspectives in U.S. Marxist Anthropology.
Edited by David Hakken and Hanna Lessinger. Boulder and London: Westview Press. Pp.
24-56. (1987)
"Anthropology for Marxists: Prehistoric Revolutions." Nature, Society, and Thought: A
Journal of Dialectical Materialism 1(4):469-499 (1988).
Current research project:
Social Thermodynamics
This represents an effort to combine ecological energetics with Marx's labor theory of
value. In one form or another, this has been the major focus of my professional life
since my undergraduate years at Berkeley.
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