Glenn Davis Stone

Glenn Davis Stone is Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Research at Washington University in St. Louis .

Scientific training

Glenn Davis Stone earned an MA in anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1982 . In 1988 he received a PhD in Philosophy in Anthropology from the University of Arizona.

academic career

From 1988 to 1993 Stone was an assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University . From 1993 to 1995 he worked there as an Associated Professor of Anthropology. He moved to Washington University in 1995 , where he was Associated Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Research. In addition, from 2001 to 2002 he worked as a research assistant at University College in London. Stone has been a professor of anthropology and environmental research at Washington University since 2004.

Research areas

According to his own statements, his research lies in the area of ​​ecological anthropology and political ecology . He examines the social and political aspects of agricultural systems, population growth and agricultural biotechnology . His research areas also include non-industrialized agriculture in Africa, India, North America and the Philippines, both in the present and from a historical perspective.

The Nigerian research by Stone dealt with the social and agricultural change in the Kofyar and Tiv -Ethnien during the last 40 years that were marked by a strong increase in population density. At the Kofyar, Stone analyzed the social organization of work and the landscape in an intensive and at the same time sustainable system. He carried out comparative research at the Tiv . An overarching goal of this research was to develop a more convincing concept for agricultural change that incorporates the cultural context and authorities into it.

The current research focus is on the ecological, social and political aspects associated with the introduction of genetically modified plants into developing countries. To do this, Stone completed a semester in a laboratory that specializes in the transformation of tropical plants.

In the context of a long-term study, he examined the aspects of information flow, agronomic know-how of farmers, intellectual property , and political ecology in connection with the introduction of genetically modified cotton in India . The primary field work on site took place in Andhra Pradesh .

Currently (2017) Stone is leading a research project on the subject of indigenous knowledge and technological change among rice and cotton growers in India and the Philippines . He also investigates the influence of golden rice . Another focus is on the new trend in North America to run small farms. Economic and ecological aspects of sustainability are just as much a subject of research as contemporary historical perspectives of smallholders in Appalachia. The political dimension of agricultural research and the agricultural intervention policy are the third priority topic.

In 2007 Stone started the Village India Program . Students are sent to Kalleda Village, Warangal District, Andhra Pradesh, India, under the guidance of Stone (2009-2010 Prof. Ken Botnick from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts) . The aim is on the one hand to impart knowledge of Indian village culture to the students and to give them the opportunity to conduct field studies themselves. On the other hand, the students at the local Pai Junior College give English courses because, according to Stone, one of the primary educational needs of the students there is learning the English language.

Honors

In 1999 he was awarded the Gordon Willey Prize for the best archaeological contribution. From 2011 to 2013, Stone was President of the Anthropology and Environment Society . In 2015 he was awarded the Edward W. Morley Medal by the Western Reserve Academy for his research on the anthropology of agricultural systems related to biotechnology. In 2016 Stone was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation .

Publications (selection)

• DG Stone: Non-Boserupian Ecology and Agricultural Risk: Ethnic Politics and Land Control in the Arid Southwest . American Anthropolis 101: 113-128. 1999
• GD Stone: Biotechnology and Suicide in India , Anthropology News, Vol 43 No. 5, May 2002 doi: 10.1111 / an.2002.43.5.5.2
• DG Stone: Biotechnology and the Political Ecology of Information in India . Human Organization 63: 127-140, 2004
• GD Stone: Social Constraints on biotechnology in Developing Countries . AGBioForum7 (1 & 2): 75-78. 2004
• GD Stone: Agricultural Deskilling and the Spread og Genetically Modified Cotton in Warangatal . Current Anthropology 48: 67-103. 2007 ( PDF )
• GD Stone: The Birth and the Death of Traditional Knowledge: Paradoxical Effects of Biotechnology in India . In: Biodiversity and the Law: Intellectual Property, Biotechnology an Traditional Knowledge, edited by Charles McManis, pp.207-238. Earthscan. 2007
• GD Stone: Anthropology of Genetically Modified crops . Annual Review of Anthropology 39: 381-400. 2010
• GD Stone: Field vs. Farm in Warangal: BT Cotton, Higher Yields, and Larger Questions . World Developement 39 (3): 387-398. 2011 ( PDF )
• DG Stone: Contradictions in the Last Mile: Suicide, Culture, and E-Agriculture in Rural India . Science, technology and Human Values ​​36 (in press). 2011 ( PDF )
• Dominic Glover, Sung Kyu Kim, Glenn Davis Stone: Golden Rice and technology adoption theory: A study of seed choice dynamics among rice growers in the Philippines , Technology in Society 60. 2020
• KR Kranthi, Glenn Davis Stone: Long-term impacts of Bt cotton in India in Nature Plants 6, (2020), pages 188-196. doi: 10.1038 / s41477-020-0615-5

• Settlement Ecology - The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture , University of Arizona Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8165-1567-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - Stone's résumé
2. ↑ Washington university website ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Website for the Village India Program
4. ^ Glenn Davis Stone - Research & Publications. In: Washington University in St. Louis . Retrieved February 8, 2017 . 
5. ^ Anthropology and Environment Society
6. ↑ Dr. Glenn Davis Stone '72 delivers Morley Medal speech. In: Western Reserve Academy. February 29, 2016, accessed February 8, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Glenn Davis Stone. (No longer available online.) In: Washington University at St. Louis - Department of Anthropology. Archived from the original on February 11, 2017 ; accessed on February 8, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation : Entry Glenn Davis Stone
• Fieldquestions , blog by Glenn Davis Stone