September 2004

Home Address: 15130 Old Mission Road

Oyama, B.C. Canada V4V 2A9

Phone 250-548-3544

E-mail: countsd@cablelan.net

Born: Columbia MS, USA, May 2 1934

Citizenship: Canadian

BA: University of Texas (Austin, TX) 1959 (Anthropology)

PhD: 1968 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois (Anthropology

Professional Employment: Professor of Anthropology, McMaster University, 1968-1996, Professor Emeritus 1996 - present. Chair, Department of Anthropology, 1979-85, 1989-92, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, 1992-93.

Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia 2001-present

Anthropological Field Research:

Papua New Guinea 1966-67, 1971, 1976-77, 1981, 1985.

North American RVers 1990, 1993-94, 1998.

Books:

2001 Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts. Over the Next Hill: an ethnography of senior RVers in North America. Second Edition. Peterborough: Broadview Press.

1996 Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts. Over the Next Hill: An Ethnography of RVing Seniors in North America. Peterborough: Broadview press.

1994 Pomponio, Alice, David R. Counts, and Thomas G. Harding, eds. Children of Kilibob: Creation, Cosmos and Culture in Northeast New Guinea, Pacific Studies Special Issue, Vol 17 #4, December, 1994. Institute for Polynesian Studies, Laie, Hawaii.

1992 Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts, eds. Aging and its Transformations: Moving Toward Death in Pacific Societies. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

1991 Counts, David R. and Dorothy Ayers Counts, eds. Coping with the Final Tragedy: Cultural Variation in Dying and Grieving, Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood Press.

1991 Brymer, Richard A, and David R. Counts eds. Deviance in Cross-cultural Perspective. Special issue of Anthropologica 33 (1-2). Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.

1969 Counts, David R. A Grammar of Kaliai-Kove. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu.

Chapters in Books:

2002 Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts. Talking to Ourselves or Getting The Word Back. Pp. 17-27 In Handle with Care: Ownership and Control of Ethnographic Materials, edited by Sjoerd R. Jaarsma,. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-5777-9 (paperback $22.95s).

1998 Counts, David R. and Dorothy Ayers Counts Fictive Families in the Field. Pp 142-153 In Fieldwork and Families: Constructing New Models for Ethnographic Research. Juliana Flinn, Leslie Marshall and Jocelyn Armstrong eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press

1994. Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts. When women win: Male-female disputing in Kaliai, West New Britain. Pp. 331-352. In Law and Anthropology. International Yearbook for Legal Anthropology, Volume 7. Eds. René Kuppe and Richard Potz. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff

1992 Counts, David R. and Dorothy A. Counts, "Exaggeration and Reversal: Clowning among the Lusi-Kaliai," in Mitchell, W., ed. Clowning as Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific. ASAO Monograph 13, University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 104 - 129

1991 Brymer, Richard A., and David R. Counts, Introduction In The Anthropology of Deviance, Anthropologica XXXIII: 3-16.

1991 Counts, David R. and Dorothy Ayers Counts, "Introduction", In Coping with the Final Tragedy: Cultural Variation in Dying and Grieving. David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts, eds., Baywood Publishing, Amityville, NY, pp. 1-5.

1991 Counts, David R. and Dorothy Ayers Counts, "Conclusion: Coping with the Final Tragedy", In Coping with the Final Tragedy: Cultural Variation in Dying and Grieving. David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts, eds., Baywood Publishing, Amityville, NY, pp. 277-293.

1991 Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts, "Loss and Anger: Death and the Expression of Grief in Kaliai", In Coping with the Final Tragedy: Cultural Variation in Dying and Grieving. David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts, eds., Baywood Publishing, Amityville, NY, pp. 277-293.

1990 Counts, David R., "Too Many Bananas, Not Enough Pineapple, and No Watermelon At All", In The Humbled Anthropologist: Tales from the Pacific. Philip R. DeVita, ed. Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, CA. pp. 18 - 24I

1989 Counts, David R., "Shadows of War: Changing Remembrance through Twenty Years in New Britain", in The Pacific Theater: Island Representation of World War II. White Geoffrey, and Lamont Lindstrom, eds. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI, pp. 187 - 204.

1989 Counts, David R. and Dorothy Ayers Counts, "Complementarity in Medical Treatment in a West New Britain Society", In A Continuing Trial of Treatment: Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea. Stephen Frankel and Gilbert Lewis, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht, 1989, pp. 277 - 294.

1985 Counts, Dorothy E. and David R. Counts, "I'm Not Dead, Yet! Aging and Death: Process and Experience in Kaliai", In Aging and Its Transformations, Dorothy Counts and David Counts, eds., ASAO Monograph # 10, University Press of America, Lanham, Md., 1985, pp. 131 - 156.

1985 Counts Dorothy E. and David R. Counts, "Introduction: Linking Concepts; Aging and Gender, Aging and Death", In Aging and its Transformations, Dorothy Counts and David Counts, eds., ASAO Monograph # 10, University Press of America, Lanham, Md., 1985, pp. 1 - 24.

1979 Counts, David R., "Adam Smith in the Garden", In Exploring the Visual Art of Oceania, S. M. Mead, ed., University Press of Hawaii, pp. 335 - 342.

1974 Counts, D. and D., "The Kaliai Lupunga: Disputing in the Public Forum", In Contention and Dispute, A. L. Epstein, ed., ANU Press, Canberra, 1974, pp. 113 - 151.

Articles in refereed Journals:

2004 Counts, Dorothy A. and David Counts. The good, the bad, and the unresolved death in Kaliai. Social Science and Medicine 58:887-897.

1992 Counts, Dorothy A. and David R Counts, "They're My Family Now" The creation of community among RVers. Anthropologica XXXIV 153-182. Reprinted in Janet Giltrow, 1995 Academic Reading. Peterborough ON: Broadview Press. Pp 52-85.

1991 Counts, Dorothy E. and David R. Counts. 'People Who Act like Dogs:' Adultery and Deviance in a Melanesian Community. In Deviance in Cross-cultural Perspective, special issue of Anthropologica 33 (1-2):99-110, Richard A. Brymer and David Counts, eds.

1984-5 Counts Dorothy E. and David R. Counts, "Cultural Construction of Aging and Dying in a Melanesian Community", International Journal of Aging and Human Development 20 (3): 229 - 240.

1983 Counts, Dorothy E., and David R. Counts, "Father's Water Equals Mother's Milk: The Conception of Parentage in Kaliai, West New Britain," Mankind 14: 46-56.

1983-84 Counts, David R. and Dorothy E. Counts, Aspects of Dying in Northwest New Britain, In Special Section: Dying in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Peter H. Stephenson, ed. Omega 14:101-112.

1983 Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts. Father's Water Equals Mother's Milk: The Conception of Parentage in Kaliai, West New Britain. In Concepts of Conception: Procreation Ideologies in Papua New Guinea. Dan Jorgenson, ed. Special Issue of Mankind 14:46-56.

1977 Counts, Dorothy E.A, and David Counts, Independence and the Rule of Money in Kaliai: Oceania 48:30-39.

1976-77 Counts, David R., The Good Death in Kaliai , Omega, 7 (4): 367-372. (reprinted in Death and Dying: Views from Many Cultures, edited by Richard A. Kalish, Baywood Publishing, New York, 1980.

1976 Counts, David R. and Dorothy E. Counts, Apprehension in the Backwaters. Oceania 46:283-306.

1970 Counts, David R., and Dorothy E. Counts. The Vula of Kaliai: A primitive currency with commercial use. Oceania 41:90-105.

Invited Lectures

June 24, 2002. Community on the Road. Public lecture presented at RV Owners Lifestyle Seminar. Okanagan University College, Faculty of Industrial Trades and Services, KLO Campus, and Recreation Vechicle Dealers Association of British Columbia. Kelowna, B.C.

June 24, 2002. RV Clubs: Why Join? Public lecture presented at RV Owners Lifestyle Seminar. Okanagan University College, Faculty of Industrial Trades and Services, KLO Campus, and Recreation Vechicle Dealers Association of British Columbia. Kelowna.