DR. RICHARD REED
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Dr. Richard Reed
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Professor Reed studies the effects of deforestation on indigenous groups in the forests of South America. Over the last fifteen years, he has been working with Guarani villages on the frontier of expanding colonization and agriculture in Paraguay. In two books, Prophets of Agroforestry (1995) and Forest Residents and Forest Managers, (1997) Reed proposes indigenous models of land use as alternative strategies for sustainable development in forested regions.

Richard Reed is also studying fathers and childbirth. Beginning with the study of fathers' sympathetic childbirth in South America (couvade), he has moved to analyzing men's experience of pregnancy and birth in the United States. The work records men's stories and their experiences as they go through the rituals of becoming fathers (more on this may be found in the article here).

Prof. Reed teaches fieldwork in research methods in anthropology as well as Economic Anthropology and South American Indigenous Peoples. He is co-chair of the Women's Studies Program and advisor to ENACT (a student environmental organization) and the Trinity Anthropology Society.

For more information contact the Trinity University Sociology and Anthropology Department.

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Academic Offerings - Richard Reed

COURSES 
Number Name  Schedule
Anth-1301 Introduction to Anthropology Fall and Spring    
Anth-3353 Research Methods: Fieldwork  - Same as SOC 3353 Spring    
Anth-3118-1 Groupos Indigenas Y Destruccion Ambiental  -  Same as INTL. 3118 On Demand    
Anth-3367-1 South America Indigenous People Biannual
Anth-3364

Economic Anthropology

Biannual    
Anth2357 Humans and Their Environment Spring    
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Contact Information:

Richard Reed can be reached at:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Trinity University, 715 Stadium Drive
San Antonio, TX 78212
Office hours:  Cowles Life Sciences #316, M,W,F 8:00-10:00, T,TH 9:00-11:00

E-mail:  rreed@trinity.edu

Phone:  (210) 999-8324
fax:  (210) 999-8509
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Selected Publications:

"Two Rights Make A Wrong: Indigenous Groups in the Environmental Movement."
Applying Anthropology A. Podolefsky, A. and Brown, P. (eds.) 2000
"Cultivating the Tropical Forest: Using Indigenous Knowledge to Halt Tropical Deforestation."
In Conformity and Conflict, J. Spradley and D. McCurdy (eds.) 2000
"Forest Developers, Forest Protectors: Commercial Agroforestry by the Chiripá of Paraguay."
Journal of Culture and Agriculture. Spring 2000
"Indigenous Peoples, Tropical Reserves, and Anthropology".
Journal of General Anthropology. American Anthropological Association. 2000
"Birthing Fathers: Knaves-in-Waiting"
Midwifery Today. Vol. 51, 1999.
"Guaraní Suicide: A Report."
Hemisphere. 1999.
For further questions you may contact Dr. Reed or visit the Department of Anthropology and Sociology's Homepage.
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