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ALEXANDER H. BOLYANATZ

Professor of Anthropology

College of DuPage

425 Fawell Boulevard

Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137–6599

630.942.2433

email: bolyanat@cod.edu

Education

1994 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

1988 M.A. Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

1982 M.A. Sociology, University of Texas, Arlington

1978 B.A. Anthropology, Lawrence University

Positions Held

2008– Professor of Anthropology, College of DuPage

2005–2008 Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of DuPage

2004–2005 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of DuPage

2001–2004 Assistant Professor, Humanities Core Program, Benedictine University

1997–2001 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Wheaton College

1995–1997 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Wheaton College

1994–1995 Lecturer in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

Research and Teaching Interests

Anthropological Theory

Culture and Cognition

Evolutionary Psychology

Melanesian Ethnography

Psychological Anthropology

Religion and Society

Social Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

Current Project

“Culture and the Mind.” United Kingdom Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded research project headed by Steve Laurence, PI.

Books

2004 Pacific Romanticism: Tahiti and the European Imagination. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Press.

2000 Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of Matriliny Among the Sursurunga. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey.

Articles

1998 Where is Claes Pietersz Bay?: An Episode in the History of the Sursurunga of New Ireland. Ethnohistory 45:319–347.

1994 Defending Against Grief on New Ireland: The Place of Mortuary Feasting in Sursurunga Society. Journal of Ritual Studies 8:115–133.

1994 Legitimacy, Coercion, and Leadership Among the Sursurunga of Southern New Ireland. Ethnology 33:53–63.

Forthcoming Courtesy and Method in Ethnography. In Essays in Honor of Donald F. Tuzin. Canberra: Australian National University Press

Forthcoming New Ireland. In Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

2011 2010 Demonstrating Balanced Reciprocity and Fairness. In Strategies for Teaching Anthropology, 6^th ed. P. C. Rice, D. W. McCurdy, and S. Lukas, eds. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.

2010 2010 Does the Use of Money Affect Results in Experimental Games?: Comparing Cash and Betel Nut in Dictator and Ultimatum Games on New Ireland. In A Mosaic of Languages and Cultures: Studies Celebrating the Career of Karl J. Franklin, K. A. McElhanon and G. Reesink, eds. Pp. 327–350. Dallas: SIL International.

2007 2008 Rethinking the Arbitrariness of Language. In Strategies for Teaching Anthropology, 5^th ed. P. C. Rice and D. W. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 61–65. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.

2005 2006 Holding a “Witch Election.” In Strategies for Teaching Anthropology, 4^th ed. P. C. Rice and D. W. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 131–133. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.

1996 2004 Musings on Matriliny: Understandings and Social Relations Among the Sursurunga of New Ireland. In Gender, Kinship, Power. M.J. Maynes, A. Waltner, B. Soland, and U. Strasser, eds. Pp. 81–97. London: Routledge.

2001 Gender and Residence in Southern New Ireland. Notes on Anthropology 5:61–73.

1999 Culture and Cognition. Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2nd ed., D.G. Benner, ed. Pp. 305–307. Grand Rapids: Baker Books.

1998 Watching Our P’s and Q’s in Teaching Anthropology. Anthropology Newsletter 39(8):15.

1998 Economic Cooperatives, Development, and Matriliny in Papua New Guinea. Notes on Anthropology 2:31–49.

2010 The “Spiteful” Origins of Human Cooperation. With Frank W. Marlowe, J. Collette Berbesque, Clark Barrett, Michael Gurven, and David Tracer. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: published online before print 15 December 2010, doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2342.

2010 Markets, Religion, Community Size and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment. With Joseph Henrich (Corresponding Author),Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Clark Barrett, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, David Tracer, and John Ziker. Science 327:1480–1484.

2009 Homo Æqualis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games. With Abigail Margaret Barr (Corresponding Author), Jean Ensminger, Joe Henrich, Chris Wallace, H. Clark Barrett, Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, Richard McElreath, David Tracer, and John Ziker. Oxford University Department of Economics Discussion Paper #422. (Also available at Documento CEDE No. 2009-09. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1485862)

2008 More “Altruistic” Punishment in Larger Societies. With Frank W. Marlowe (Corresponding Author), J. Colette Berbesque, Abigail Barr, Clark Barrett, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Jean Ensminger, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Richard McElreath, and David Tracer. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 587–590.

2006 Costly Punishment Across Human Societies. With Joseph Henrich (Corresponding Author),Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Clark Barrett, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, David Tracer, and John Ziker. Science 312 (5781): 1767–1770.

2005 A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Role of Foot Size in Physical Attractiveness. With D. M. T. Fessler (Corresponding Author), D. Nettle, Y. Afshar, I. de Andrade Pinheiro, M. Borgerhoff Mulder, M. Cravalho, T. Delgado, B. Gruzd, M. Oliveira Correia, D. Khaltourina, A. Korotayev, J. Marrow, L. Santiago de Souza, and A. Zbarauskaite. Archives of Sexual Behavior 34:267–276.

1995 “Hegemony and Voice in

Papua New Guinea

.” Review of Constructing Inequality by R. C. Kelly and Voices of Conflict by A.J. Strathern. American Anthropologist 97:139–141.

2006 Review of Tattoo: An Anthropology. Makiko Kuwahara. Oxford: Berg. The American Historical Review 111:1494–1495.

2005 Review of Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments. Glyndwyr Williams, ed. Suffolk: The Boydell Press. The American Historical Review 110:1512–1514.

2005 Review of The Myth of the Noble Savage. Ter Ellingson. Berkeley: University of California Press: 2001. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11:589–592.

1997 Review of Articulating Change in the “Last Unknown” by F. K. Errington and D. B. Gewertz. Pacific Studies 19:151–153.

1996 With Thomas N. Headland. Review of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change by M.L. Goldberger, B.A. Maher, and P.E. Flattau, eds. Notes on Linguistics 75:38–40.

1994 “Matriliny and Mortuary Feasting Among the Sursurunga of New Ireland,

Papua New Guinea

.” Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.

1988 “Leadership, Exchange and Coffee in the New Guinea Highlands: The Impact of a Cash Crop on Traditional Social Institutions.” M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.

1982 “The Image of Limited Good and A.V. Chayanov: An Ethnometaphysical Comparison.” M.A. thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Arlington.

1989–1992 Ph.D. dissertation research in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea

1983–1986 Sociolinguistic research in Papua New Guinea under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics

2009 “Playing the Ultimatum Game in Class.” Invited paper delivered to the session entitled “Strategies in Teaching Anthropology.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, 2–6 December 2009.

2007 “Challenging Sound-Meaning Arbitrariness in Language.” Invited paper delivered to the session entitled “Strategies in Teaching Anthropology.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, 28 November–2 December 2007.

2007 “Cultural Anthropology.” Invited comments delivered to the session entitled “Current Issues in Anthropology: Five Field Update.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, 28 November–2 December 2007.

2006 “Community, Relativism, and Economic Determinism.” Paper delivered to the Community College Humanities Association Central Region Conference, Chicago, 9–11 November 2006.

2005 “Holding a Witch Election.” Invited paper presented to the session entitled “Strategies in Teaching Anthropology 2005,” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, 30 November–4 December 2005

1999 Participant in Roundtable Discussion entitled “Teaching Psychological Anthropology as Part of a Liberal Arts Curriculum,” 5^th biennial meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Albuquerque, 22–25 September 1999.

1996 “The Pacific Origins of the ‘Noble Savage’: A Historical Accident and its Aftermath.” Paper presented to the session entitled “Theoretical Retrospectives,” 95^th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 20–25 November 1996.

1994 “Fathers, Cash, and the ‘Matrilineal Puzzle’ on Southern New Ireland.” Paper presented to the session entitled “What Do Melanesians Want?: Desire, Development and Visions of Social Transformation in the Contemporary Pacific,” 93^rd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, 30 November–4 December 1994.

1993 “The Cultural Construction of Household Membership in Southern New Ireland.” Paper presented to the session entitled “The Politics of

Residence,” 92^nd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, 17–21 November 1993.

1993 “The Logic of Matriliny.” Paper Presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego, 8 November 1993.

1992 “‘My Son Married My Mother’: Affinal Kin Terminology Among the Sursurunga of Southern New Ireland.” Paper presented to the session entitled “Studies in Kinship,” 91^st annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 2–6 December 1992.

1992 “The Place of Grieving on New Ireland.” Paper presented to the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 11 March 1992. Also presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Queensland, 8 March 1992.

1992 “Patrifiliation, Residence, and Matrilineal Descent.” Paper presented to the conference entitled “Matriliny and Patriliny in Historical and Comparative Perspective,” University of Minnesota, 30 March–2 April 1992.

1989 “Differentiated Responses to Evangelization: A Case Study from Irian Jaya.” Paper presented to the session entitled “Christianity and Colonialism,” 87^th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, 16–20 November 1989.

2009 Member, Program Committee, Community College Humanities Association National Meeting

2007 Member, Program Committee, Community College Humanities Association Central Regional Meeting

2006–2007 Chair, Grade Appeals Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences Division, College of DuPage

2006 Presenter, Academic Diversity: Ethnicity in the Classroom to Social and Behavioral Sciences Division Faculty, College of DuPage

2005–2008 Spokesperson for Anthropology Program at College of DuPage for annual events: Majors Fair, Junior/Senior Night, College Faire

1999–2001 Chair, Enrollment Management and Student Life Committee, Wheaton College

2006 Senior Analyst for Chuck Thomas Creative (Branding/Marketing Consultant, St. Charles, Illinois)

1996 Chair of the session entitled “Theoretical Retrospectives,” 95^th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 20–24 November 1996.

1993 Co-organizer and co-chair of the session entitled “The Politics of Residence,” 92^nd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, 17–21 November 1993.

2009 Outstanding Faculty, Social and Behavioral Sciences Division, College of DuPage

2011 United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Intention to Fund) for “Somatic, Technological, and Social Determinants of Perception and Action,” Daniel M. T. Fessler (UCLA), PI

2008 Arts and Humanities Research Council for “Culture and the Mind;” Stephen Laurence (University of Sheffield), PI

2002 National Science Foundation for “The Roots of Human Sociality;” Jean Ensminger (Cal Tech) & Joe Henrich (Emory University), PIs

1989 Research Grant from the Office of Graduate Studies and Research, University of California, San Diego