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Worshipppers at the shrine of Saint Caralampio,
Comitán, Chiapas

Research by subdiscipline: Cultural Anthropology     
(since 1990; please see C.V. for full details.)

Articles and Chapters     
(includes selected recent refereed abstracts):

• 1991 Expert Systems (sr. author with Edward Brent, Louanna Furbee), Sage Press, Newbury Park, CA. MONOGRAPH.
  
  
• n.d. Acceptability of Indigenous and Western Methods of Curing by Herders in the Southern Andes (In Spanish), Benfer RA Jr., Furbee NL. Boletín de Lima, in press.
  
  
• 1996 The Emergence of color Cognition from Color Perception (fourth author with N. Louanna Furbee, Kelly Maynard, J. Jerome Smith, Sarah Quick, and Larry Ross) J. of Linguistic Anthropology 6:1-18.
  
  
• 1996 Expert Systems and the Representation of Knowledge (senior author with Louanna Furbee and Edward E. Brent Jr.) American Ethnologist 23:416-420.
  
  
• 1996 Science and Antiscience, Anthropology Newsletter April:75-76.
  
  
• 1996 Can Indigenous Knowledge be Brokered without Scientific Understanding of the Community Structure and Distribution of that Knowledge? (senior author with Louanna Furbee), Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor 4:29-30.
  
  
• 1995 Multiple Linear Discriminant Function, Multidimensional Scaling, and Individual Pathways for Developing Knowledge Based Systems, pp. 464-466 in Proceedings of PACES '95, Ed. by Fan-Lun Xiong, Jae Kyu Lee, and Riichiro Mizoguchi, Publishing House of Electronics Industry, Beijing, China.
  
  
• 1995 A Methodology for Combining Cognitive and Behavioral Research: The Lari Soils Project in Peru, (junior author with David Guillet, Louanna Furbee, and Jon Sandor) , pp. 71-81 . In Indigenous Knowledge Systems: The Cultural Dimension of Development, ed. by M. Warren, J. Slikkerveer, and D. Brokensha
  
  
• 1994 A Beginning Guide to Expert Systems: II. Implicit Knowledge (junior author with Louanna Furbee), CAM 6:3-4.
  
  
• 1993 A Beginning Guide to Expert Systems: I. Knowledge Trees (senior author with Louanna Furbee), CAM 5:10-12.
  
  
• 1992 Representing Partly Shared Knowledge in Expert Systems of Terrace Agricultural Systems (senior author with Louanna Furbee), Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on Expert Systems in Agriculture, pp. 35-41, International Academia Publisher, Huangshan, China.
  
  
• 1992 The Value of Expert Systems in Improving Agricultural Production in China, the Institute of Intelligent Machines, Academica Sinica, Heifei, P.R. China. REPORT.
  
  
• 1991 Cognitive Factors Influencing Women to Seek Care during Pregnancy (third author with Fisher, Mary Jo, Bernard Ewigman, James Campbell, Louanna Furbee, and Steven Zweig), Family Medicine 23:443-426 (with Editorial).
  
  
• 1990 Knowledge Acquisition—Lessons from Anthropology, AI Applications in Natural Resource Management 4:19-26 (senior author with L. Furbee; reprint of Benfer and Furbee 1989).

Submitted Manuscripts

• Reflexive Construction
• Personal Epistemology

Field Work      

• August 1990, collection of ethnographic materials for the expert systems of field management project, Lari, Perú, L. Furbee, director.
  
  

Research Support     

• 1991 Postdoctoral Fellowship (Eileen Jackson), C-5-32671, Expert System Simulation of Nursing Home Care, NIH, $21,600.