January 2006

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dorothy Ellen Ayers Counts

Home Address:15130 Old Mission Road, Oyama, B.C. Canada V4V 2A9

Phone 250 548 3544, E-mail countsd@cablelan.net

Birth Date: January 8, 1937

Highest Degree: Ph.D.

Date Of Highest Degree: 1968

University: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

Dissertation Title: Political Transition in Kandoka Village, West New Britain: The Introduction of the Gloucester Local Government Council.

Professional Employment

1968 - 1996 Professor of Anthropology, University of Waterloo

 1974 - 75 Associate Chairman, Department of Sociology & Anthropology

1982 - 83 Acting Chairman, Department of Anthropology

1987 - 1993 Chairman, Department of Anthropology

1996 - present Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo.

1999 - May-December Research Officer and Team Leader, SPC Pacific multi-site study on the effects of violence against women on the health and safety of the family. Sponsored by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and the United Nations Population Fund.

2001-2005 Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELD RESEARCH:

1966-67, National Science Foundation pre-doctoral research grant (GS 1091) Title: Political Change in Northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea. US$3400

1971, Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant (2809) Title: Cargo Activity and Politico-economic Change Northwest New Britain, Territory of Papua and New Guinea. US$1,275

1971 Source: University of Waterloo Faculty Research Fellowship (039-8810-2275) Title: Political Change in Kaliai, West New Britian, Papua New Guinea.

1975-76 Canada Council Leave Fellowship (W75-0180) Title: Oral Literature in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. $3,856

1975-76 Canada Council Research Grant (S75-1754) Title: Language, Trade and Myth in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea $17,500 Role: Co-investigator

1981 SSHRCC research grant (410-81-9446) Title: Rural West New Britain and the Town of Kimbe, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. $29,804. Role: Co-investigator

1981 SSHRCC Leave Fellowship (451-81-2109) Title: The Process of Aging and Dying in Northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea. $11,500

1985. SSHRCC research grant (410-85-0372 ) Title: A Study of Oral Literature in Talasea, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea Role: Chief Investigator $10,995

1993-94 UW/SSHRCC Small Research Grant. Title: Full time RVing: a Retirement Alternative for the Active Elderly. $5,000

2003 American Philosophical Society. Title: Poverty and Domestic Violence in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Chief Investigator. $USD5,000

BOOKS:

2005. Claudia Gross, Harriet D. Lyons and Dorothy A. Counts, Editors. A Polymath Anthroologist: Essays in Honour of Ann Chowning. Research in Anthropology and Linguistics Monograph No. 6 Department of Anthropology University of Auckland.

2004 Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts. Revision and Reissue of The Tales of Laupu: Stories from Kaliai, West New Britain. Told by Jakob Mua Laupu, Benedik Solou Laupu, and Maria Sapanga. In English and Tok Pisin. Translated, transcribed, and with an Introduction by Dorothy Ayers Counts. Boroko: Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies.

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.

1999 Counts, Dorothy Ayers, Judith K. Brown, and Jacquelyn C. Campbell, eds. To Have and to Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating. Second edition of Sanctions and Sanctuary (1992) Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

1996 Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts. Over the Next Hill: an ethnography of senior RVers in North America. Peterborough: Broadview Press.

1992 Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts, eds. Aging and ts Transformations: Moving Toward Death in Pacific Societies. A.S.A.O. Monograph No. 10. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Originally published 1985, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.

1992 Counts, Dorothy A., J.K. Brown, J C. Campbell, eds. Sanctions and Sanctuary: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Beating of Wives. Boulder, Colorado: Westview 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.

1990 Counts, Dorothy Ayers, guest editor. Domestic Violence in Oceania. Special Issue: Pacific Studies 13 (3).

1982 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. The Tales of Laupu: Stories from Kaliai, West New Britain. Told by Jakob Mua Laupu, Benedik Solou Laupu, and Maria Sapanga. In English and Tok Pisin. Translated, transcribed, and with an Introduction by Dorothy Ayers Counts. Boroko: Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies.

1982 William Rodman and Dorothy Ayers Counts, eds. Middlemen and Brokers in Oceania. A.S.A.O. Monograph No. 9. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Lanham, MD.: University Press of America. Reprinted 1983.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

2005 Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. Kaliai. Pp. 183-188. In William Clements, ed. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife (Volume 2). Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press.

2005 Counts, Dorothy and David R. Counts Old Man Dog: The PNG Dog Who Mourned for His Master. In Claudia Gross, Harriet Lyons and Dorothy Counts (editors) A Polymath Anthropologist: Essays in Honour of Ann Chowning, Auckland, N.Z.: University of Auckland Press.

2004 Counts, David R. and Dorothy A. Counts. RVing. Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America. Charles Scribners Sons: New York

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).

1999 All men do it: Wife beating in Kaliai, Papua New Guinea. Pp. 73-86 In To Have and To Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating. Dorothy Ayers Counts, Judith K. Brown and Jacquelyn C. Campbell editors. (Second Edition of Sanctions and Sanctuary 1992) Urbana; University of Chicago Press.

1998 Counts, David R. and Dorothy Ayers Counts. Fictive Families in the Field. Pp 142-53 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. Pp. 88-103. In Clowning as Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific. William Mitchell, ed. ASAO Monograph 13. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

1992 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. The Fist, the Stick and the Bottle of Bleach: Wife Bashing and Female Suicide in a Papua New Guinea Society. Pp. 249-259. In Contemporary Pacific Societies: Studies in Development and Change. V. Lockwood, T. Harding, B. Wallace, eds. N.Y.: Prentice Hall.

1992 Counts, Dorothy A. Tamparonga: The 'big women' of Kaliai (Papua New Guinea). In In Her Prime: New Views of Middle-Aged Women. Judith K. Brown and Virginia Kerns, eds., pp. 61-74. Second edition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

1992 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. All Men Do It: Wife Beating in Kaliai, Papua New Guinea. In Sanctions and Sanctuary: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Beating of Wives. Boulder, Colorado: Westview press.

1991 Counts, David R. and Dorothy Ayers Counts. Conclusion Pp. 277-292. In Coping with the Final Tragedy: Cultural Variation in Dying and Grieving, David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts, eds. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood Press.

1991 Counts, David R. and Dorothy A. Counts. Introduction. Pp 1-4. In Coping with the Final Tragedy: Cultural Variation in Dying and Grieving, David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts, eds. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood Press.

1991 Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts. Loss and Anger: Death and the Expression of Grief in Kaliai. Pp 191-212. In Coping with the Final Tragedy: Cultural Variation in Dying and Grieving. David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts, eds. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood Press.

1991 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. Suicide in Different Ages From a Cross-cultural Perspective. Pp. 215-230. In Life Perspectives of Suicide: Time-Lines in the Suicide Process, Antoon Leenaars, ed. New York: Plenum Press.

1990 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. Abused Women and Revenge Suicide: Anthropological Contributions for Understanding Suicide. Pp. 95-106. In Current Concepts of Suicide. Philadelphia: The Charles Press, David Lester, ed.

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

1988 Counts, Dorothy A. Ambiguity in the interpretation of suicide -- female death in Papua New Guinea. Pp. 87-110. In Why Women Kill Themselves. David Lester, ed. Springfield IL: Charles Thomas.

1988 Counts, Dorothy A. Kaliai Children: Changes in Family Planning in a West New Britain Society. Pp. 163-178. In Reproductive Decision Making and the Value of Children in Rural Papua New Guinea. Nancy McDowell, ed. Boroko, Papua New Guinea: Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research.

1985 Counts, Dorothy A. Infant Care and Feeding in West New Britain. Pp. 155-170. In Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific. Leslie B. Marshall. New York: Gordon and Breach.

1985 Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. Introduction: Linking Concepts:Aging and Gender, Aging and Death. In Aging and Its Transformations. Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts, eds. A.S.A.O. Monograph No. 10. pp. 1-24. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.

1985 Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. I'm Not Dead Yet! Aging and Death, Process and Experience in Kaliai. Pp. 131-156. In Aging and Its Transformations. Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts, eds. A.S.A.O. Monograph No. 10. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.

1985 Counts, Dorothy A. Sweeping Men and Harmless Women: Responsibility and Gender Identity in Later Life. Pp. 1-26. In Aging in the Third World: Part II, Publication No. 23. Jay Sokolovsky, ed. Studies in Third World Societies. Williamsburg, VA: College of William and Mary.

1985 Counts, Dorothy A. Tamparonga: The 'big women' of Kaliai (Papua New Guinea). Pp.49-64. In In Her Prime. Judith K. Brown and Virginia Kerns, eds. Bergin and Garvey.

1984 Counts, Dorothy A. Revenge Suicide by Lusi Women: An Expression of Power. Pp. 71-93. In Rethinking Women's Roles: Perspectives from the Pacific. Denise O'Brien and Sharon Tiffany, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1982 Rodman, William and Dorothy Counts. Introduction. Pp. 1-33. In Middlemen and Brokers in Oceania. William Rodman and Dorothy Ayers Counts, eds. A.S.A.O. Monograph No. 9.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Reprinted 1983 by Univ. Press of America, Lanham, Md.

1982 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. A Question of Legitimacy: Middlemen and Change in West New Britain. Pp. 117-148. In Middlemen and Brokers in Oceania. William Rodman and Dorothy Ayers Counts, eds. A.S.A.O. Monograph No. 9. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Reprinted 1983 by University Press of America, Lanham, Md.

1978 Counts, Dorothy. Christianity in Kaliai: Response to Missionization. Pp. 355-394. In Mission, Church and Sect in Oceania, J. Boutilier, S. Tiffany, D. Hughes, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

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

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.

1996 Introduction to Women, Age, and Power: The Politics of Age Difference among Women in Papua New Guinea and Australia (with Jeanette Dickerson-Putman. Pacific Studies Special Issue 19 (4): December 1996: 1-13.

1994 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. Snakes, adulterers, and the loss of paradise in Kaliai. Children of Kilibob, special issue of Pacific Studies, Alice Pomponio, David R. Counts and Thomas G. Harding guest editors. Pacific Studies 17: 109-151.

1992 Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts. "They're my family now." The creation of community among RVers. Anthropologica 34:153-182. 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. Deviance in Cross-cultural Perspective, special issue of Anthropologica 33 (1-2):99-110, Richard A. Brymer and David Counts, eds.

1991 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. Aging, Health, and Women in West New Britain. J. of Cross- Cultural Gerontology 6:277-285.

1990 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. Beaten Wife, Suicidal Woman: Domestic Violence in Kaliai, West New Britain. Special Issue: Domestic Violence in Oceania. Dorothy Ayers Counts, ed. Pacific Studies 13: 151-169.

1990 Dorothy Ayers Counts. Domestic Violence in Oceania: Conclusion. Special Issue: Domestic Violence in Oceania. Dorothy Ayers Counts, ed. Pacific Studies 13: 225-254.

1990 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. Domestic Violence in Oceania: Introduction. Special Issue: Domestic Violence in Oceania. Dorothy A. Counts, ed. Pacific Studies 13:1-6.

1987 Counts, Dorothy A. Female Suicide and Wife Abuse. Cross Cultural Perspective. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior 17(3):194-204.

1985 Counts, Dorothy A. Infant Care and Feeding in West New Britain. Food and Nutrition. History and Anthropology 3:155-170.

1984-85 Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. The Cultural Construction of Aging and Dying in a Melanesian Community. International Journal of Aging and Human Development 20:229-240.

1984 Counts, Dorothy A. Infant Care and Feeding in West New Britain. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 15(1):49-59.

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

1983 Counts, Dorothy E. Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in a Melanesian Society. Anabiosis 3:115-135.

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

1980 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. Akro and Gagandewa: A Melanesian Myth. Journal of the Polynesian Society 89(1):33-65.

1980 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. Fighting Back is Not the Way: Suicide and The Women of Kaliai. American Ethnologist 7(2):332-351.

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

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

1972 Counts, Dorothy. The Kaliai and the Story: Development and Frustration in New Britain. Human Organization 31:373-383.

1971 Counts, D.E.A. Cargo or Council: Two Approaches to Development in Northwest New Britain. Oceania 41:288-297.

1970 Counts, David R. and Dorothy E. The Vula of Kaliai: A Primitive Currency with Commercial Use. Oceania 41:90-105.

1963 Counts, Dorothy. Naming the Western States. Frontier Times, Vol. 38 (June-July)

NON-REFREED PUBLCATIONS, REPORTS

1999 Report on results of qualitative research, SPC Family Health and Safety Project. Presented to the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, the Government of Samoa, the United Nations Population Fund Representative Sub-Regional Office December 1999. (222 pages)

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

2002/3 Review of Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea. Michael French Smith. Anthropos 98: 611-612.

2000 Review of Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults. Andrew Lattas.. Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde 46:323-328.

1998 Review of Feinbeg, Richard and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo, eds. Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific: Essays presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. London. Pacific Studies 21 (3):107.

1991 Review of Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact, edited by M. Jolly and M. Macintyre. Anthropologica 33 (1-2):219-220.

1990 Review of Levinson, David. Family Violence in Cross Cultural Perspective. Man 25 (2):365-366.

1983 Review of Clifford, James. Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in The Melanesian World. Pacific Studies 7:157-160.

1983 Review of Metcalf, Peter. A Borneo Journey Into Death. Culture 3(1):138-139.

1982 Comment on Brown, J.K., Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Middle-Aged Women. Current Anthropology 23(3):149.

1980 Review of Greenfield, S. and A. Strickon. Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context. American Anthropologist 82:934-936.

1980 Review of Wagner, Roy. Lethal Speech. American Ethnologist 7 (4).

1978 Review of Conyers, Diana. The Provincial Government Debate: Central Control versus Local Participation in Papua New Guinea. Book Notes. American Anthropologist 80:489.

SYMPOSIA SESSIONS AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

March 26, 1993. The Legitimacy of Violence in the Pacific: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Co-organizer. ASAO Meetings, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

February 1992. The Legitimacy of Violence in Oceania. Co-organizer, working session. A.S.A.O., New Orleans, LA.

February 23, 1989. Domestic Violence in Oceania. Symposium at eighteenth annual meeting of the A.S.A.O., San Antonio, Texas.

May 6-7, 1988. Death and the Grieving Process: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. McMaster University (With David Counts).

June 3-5, 1984. Deviant Behaviour in Cross-Cultural Perspective. University of Waterloo. (With Richard Brymer, Robert Prus, David Counts.)

May 1984. Women and Work. Session at Canadian Ethnology Society (C.E.S.) meetings, Montreal, Quebec. (With Judith Brown.)

May 1983. Deviance in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Session at C.E.S. meetings, Hamilton, Ontario. (With Richard Brymer, David Counts.

March 1983. Aging, Gender and Dying. Symposium at twelfth annual meeting of the A.S.A.O., New Harmony, Indiana. (With David Counts.)

March 1977. Middlemen in Oceania. Symposium at sixth annual meeting of the A.S.A.O., Monterey, California. (With William Rodman.)

INVITED LECTURES

June 2004 Hanging Up the Keys. 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. Hanging Up the Keys. 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.

March 7, 2002 Domestic Violence in Oceania. Public lecture presented at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi (Awanuiarangi Maori University) Whakatane, New Zealand.

March 4, 2002 Where Are the Bones in their Noses? Anthropological Field Work Among Papua New Guinea Villagers and Fulltime RVers in North America.. Lecture to graduate and undergraduate students at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi (Awanuiarangi Maori University) Whakatane, New Zealand.

June 26, 2001 Hanging Up Your Keys. 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.

November 2, 2000 Domestic Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Guest lecture in Anth 213, Women in Comparative Perspective. Vernon Centre, OUC.

October 2000. Where are the Bones in Their Noses? Public Lecture for Anthropology Students Course Union. OUC, North Campus.

April 1994. Counts, Dorothy A. An anthropologist looks at RVing. Seminar given to Escapade (Escapees RV rally) Chico, CA.

February, 1994. Discussant: Symposium: Women, Age and Influence: The Politics of Age Differences Among Women. ASAO Meetings, San Diego, CA.

February, 1994. Discussant: Symposium: The Legitimacy of Violence. ASAO Meetings, San Diego, CA.

February 7, 1992. Southern Ontario Women's Research Colloquium, Wife Abuse in Cross-Cultural Perspective, with a Focus on the South Pacific."

April 30, 1991. "'They're My Family Now'": Retired RV Nomads and the Construction of Community." Seminar delivered to the Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Frederickton, N.B.

February 9, 1990. "Beaten Wife, Suicidal Woman: Wife Bashing and Suicide in West New Britain. Address to the 14th Annual Symposium of the McMaster Anthropology Society. Symposium Topic: The Anthropology of Gender in the 90s: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives.

January 16, 1986. Death Roots: Ghosts, Guilt and Grief.Public Lecture in the Sixth Annual Arts Lecture Series, University of Waterloo.

October, 1981. A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Suicide. Paper delivered to the Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, B.C.

September, 1981. Family, Fertility, Reproductive Decisions, and the Value of Children. Paper delivered to the Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, Boroko, Papua New Guinea.

September 1981. Changes in Family Fertility, Kaliai, West New Britain. Paper delivered to a Workshop on Population and Planning for the Future. Sponsored by the Papua New Guinea Ministry of the Environment and the government of West New Britain Province. Kimbe, West New Britain.

 March 1974. Akro and Gagandewa and The Death of Bruno Lecture Series, S.U.N.Y. College, Brockport.

PAPERS READ AT CONFERENCES: INVITED PAPERS

Counts, Dorothy Ayers. April 2000 Overview of Global Domestic Violence. Paper delivered at conference: Violence: Shredding Social Fabrics, Destroying Global Health. University of Iowa. April 15, 2000.

Counts, Dorothy Ayers. April 2000 Violence Against Women is A Growth Industry: A cautionary tale. Paper delivered at conference: Violence: Shredding Social Fabrics, Destroying Global Health. University of Iowa. April 16, 2000.

Counts, David and Dorothy Ayers Counts. 1996 Quests, Pilgrimages and Home Bases: Life cycle movement for RV nomads. Paper delivered, session on Secular Pilgrimage in North America, American Anthropological Association. Session sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of North America. Session organizer Jill Dubisch. November 22, 1996.

Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts. Research with RVers. Symposium given at Escapade (Escapees Rally), Chico, CA. April, 1994.

Counts, Dorothy Ayers Discussant: Symposium: Women, Age and Influence: The Politics of Age Differences Among Women. ASAO Meetings, San Diego, CA. February, 1994.

Counts, Dorothy Ayers Discussant: Symposium: The Legitimacy of Violence. ASAO Meetings, San Diego, CA. February, 1994.

Counts, Dorothy. Discussant: Women, Age and Influence: The Politics of Age Differences Among Women. ASAO Meetings, Kailua-Kona,Hawaii, March 24, 1993.

Counts, Dorothy. Discussant. Session on Women and Development in the Pacific. ASAO. New Orleans, LA. Feb. 1992.

Counts, David and Dorothy Counts. Images of Elderly RVers. Delivered at conference, Images of Aging, sponsored by the Cultural Studies Program, Trent University. Peterborough, Ontario. May 23, 1992.

Counts, Dorothy Ayers. When Women Win. Delivered at session on Law in Papua New Guinea: Ideal and Practice. Organized by Jean Zorn, CUNY Law School at Queens College. American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, DC. November 19, 1989.

Counts, Dorothy Ayers. Changing Perceptions of Aging, Death and Dying in South Pacific Societies. Delivered at roundtable on The Meanings of Death -- Global Perspectives. Conveners Victor W. Marshall and J.W. Riley. The World Congress of Gerontology, the XIV Meeting of the International Association of Gerontology, Acapulco, Mexico, June 19-23, 1989.

Counts, Dorothy A. Aging, Health, and Women in West New Britain. Delivered at session on Human Aging Processes: Cultural Context and Aging, organized by Jay Sokolovsky, 12th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Zagreb, Yugoslavia. July 25, 1988.

Counts, Dorothy A. Beaten Wife, Suicidal Woman: A Cross Cultural Phenomenon. Paper delivered at annual meeting of American Association of Suicidologists. Atlanta, GA. April 1986.

Counts, Dorothy A. Tamparonga: Big Women of Kaliai. Delivered at a symposium on Cross-cultural Perspectives on Middle-Aged Women. J.K. Brown, Organizer. Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. December, 1982.

Counts, David R. and Dorothy A. Language, Myth, and Archaeology: A West New Britain Intersection. Delivered to Northwest Anthropological Association Meetings, session on Migrations in Oceania as Seen from Archaeology and Oral History, Vancouver, B.C. April, 1982.

Counts, Dorothy A. Infant Care and Feeding in Kaliai, West New Britain. Paper delivered at working session on Infant Care and Feeding in the Pacific. Annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, (A.S.A.O.), Hilton Head, South Carolina. March, 1982.

Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. Father's Water Equals Mother's Milk: The Conception of Parentage in West New Britain. Paper delivered at a working session on Conception Theory in Oceania. Annual meetings of the A.S.A.O., Hilton Head, South Carolina. March, 1982.

Counts, Dorothy A. Is Revenge Suicide Political Strategy or Deviant Behaviour? Delivered at Symposium, Women in Oceania. A.S.A.O. Ninth Annual Meeting, Coral Gables, Florida. February 1980.

Counts, Dorothy A. Fighting Back is not the way: Suicide, Psychological Aggression, and Kaliai Women. Delivered at working session on Women in Oceania, A.S.A.O. Eighth Annual Meeting, Coral Gables, Florida. February 1979.

Counts, Dorothy A. Middlemen and Change in Kaliai, delivered to A.S.A.O. Seventh Annual Meeting, Monterey, California. March 1977.

Counts, Dorothy A. Christianity in Kaliai, delivered to a symposium on Missionization in the Pacific, A.S.A.O. Fifth Annual Meeting. West Palm Beach, Florida. March 1975.

Counts, Dorothy A. Apprehension in the Backwaters: Part II: The Cultists, delivered to a symposium on Colonialism and Political Change in the Pacific, Third Annual Meeting of A.S.A.O. Orcas Island, Washington. March 1973.

Counts, Dorothy A. The Local Government Councillor and His Role: The Response to Economic and Political Change in a New Britain Village, delivered to a Conference on Recent Research in the Bismarck Archipelago. Santa Cruz, California. June 1970.

PAPERS READ AT CONFERENCES: VOLUNTEERED PAPERS

Counts David and Dorothy Ayers Counts. Images of RVers: Views of Nomadic Retirees. Delivered at symposium, Ideologies and Identifies in Transition and Confusion, Organizer Peter Stephenson. Canadian Anthropological Society (CASCA), York University, Toronto, Ont. May 8, 1993.

Counts, David and Dorothy Ayers Counts. Fictional Families in the Field. Delivered at session, Field Work and Families. ASAO Meetings Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. March 24, 1993.

Counts, David and Dorothy Ayers Counts. New Hamlets in Old Patterns. Session Regional Histories in Oceania. ASAO Meetings, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, March 27, 1993.

Counts, Dorothy. Space, Place, and Community Among RV Nomads. Delivered at session on Space and Place. Organizer Karen Szala-Menoek. CASCA Meetings, London, Ontario. May 10, 1991.

Counts, Dorothy and David Counts. "On the Road Again: RV Living as a Retirement Alternative." Delivered at North East Anthropological Association Meetings, Waterloo, Ontario. March 15, 1991.

Counts, Dorothy. Snakes, Adulterers and the loss of Paradise in Kaliai. Delivered at symposium on Children of Kilibob. Organized by Ali Pomponio at 20th A.S.A.O., Victoria, B.C. March 21, 1991.

Counts, David A. and Dorothy Counts. Exaggeration and Reversal: Clowning among the Lusi of Kaliai. Delivered at symposium on Clowning and Carnival in Oceania, organized by William Mitchell. 18th Annual Meeting, A.S.A.O. San Antonio, Texas. February 24, 1989.

Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. Loss and Anger: Death and the Expression of Grief in Kaliai. Delivered at conference, Death and The Grieving Process: Cross-cultural Perspectives, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. May 6-8, 1988.

Counts, Dorothy A. Belated Awareness: Thoughts on the Anthropological Perception of Domestic Violence. Delivered at 1988 meetings of A.S.A.O., Savannah, Georgia. February, 1988.

Counts, Dorothy A. Is Wife Beating Deviant Behavior? Delivered at 1986 meetings of A.S.A.O., New Harmony, Indiana.

Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. People Who Act Like Dogs: Adultery and Deviance in a Melanesian Community. Delivered at conference, Deviant Behaviour in Cross-Cultural Perspective, June 3, 1984.

Counts, Dorothy A. Our Hands are the Same. Delivered to symposium on Women and Work. May, 1984 meetings of the CES, Montreal, Quebec.

Counts, Dorothy A. Adultery and Conflict in a West New Britain Community. Session on Aggressiveness and Hostility, P. Brown, organizer, delivered to March, 1984 meetings of A.S.A.O.

Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts Two Suicides: An Inquiry into the Situational Context of Deviance. Delivered at C.E.S. meetings. Hamilton, Ontario. May 1983.

Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. The Cultural Construction of Aging and Dying. Delivered at Canadian Ethnology Society (C.E.S.) meetings, Vancouver, B.C. May, 1982.

Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. I'm Not Dead...Yet! Aging and Dying in Kaliai. Presented in symposium on aging, gender and dying, A.S.A.O. March, 1982.

Counts, Dorothy and David R. Counts. Linking Concepts: Aging, Gender and Dying: A Theoretical Overview. Delivered in symposium on aging, gender, and dying, Annual Meeting of A.S.A.O., Hilton Head, South Carolina. March, 1982.

Counts, Dorothy A. I Thought of my Mother and I Wept for Her. Delivered at Working Session, Folk Narrative and Social Structure, A.S.A.O. Tenth Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. February 1981.

OTHER

2006 Review of SSHRCC Grant Application (File Number: 410-2006-1368)

2004 (October) David Counts & Dorothy Counts. Lecture at Capsule College: Full-time Rving. Vernon, B.C.

2003 (October) Dorothy Counts & David Counts. Lecture at Capsule College: Life in a Papua New Guinea Society. Vernon, B.C.

2002 Review of manuscript, Immigration, Isolation, and (Community) Identity: An Ethnographic Look at Domestic Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the United States, Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

1998 - present Manager, West New Britain Website. http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/WNB/WestNewBritain.html

September - November 1998. Consultant to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association. University lecture tour on RVing as a retirement alternative. Lectures at Case Western Reserve U.;,SUNY College at Buffalo; SUNY Albany; U of Maryland Baltimore County; Wake Forest, U; of North Carolina Charlotte, U. of South Carolina, Columbia; U. of Southern Florida, St. Petersburg; Georgia State U.; U. of Southern Mississippi; Milsaps College; U. of Arkansas, Little Rock; Vanderbilt U.; U of Tennessee, Knoxville; U. of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Southwest Missouri State.

OTHER: MEDIA INTERVIEWS 1998

Sunday September 27, interview with Jennie Laidman of the Toledo Blade;

Mon, Sept 28: Toledo, OH: interview with channel 24 (NBC) aired at 6:00 p.m. ad channel 13 (ABC) aired 5:00 p.m.;

Saturday Oct 3: Grand Island/Niagra Falls KOA, 9:00 -10:00 a.m. CTD, 1 hour telephone interview with KCMO-Kansas City, MO. Talk-radio show called Around the Campfire. Host Steve Francis;

Wed Oct 7: Anne Hughes of Fox news showed up at 10 a.m. followed by a photographer, Steve Jacobs, from the Times Union and a reporter from the Times Union came to the lecture. His story was picked up on AP wire service.

Tuesday, Oct 13: ABC TV (WMAR Channel 2) Baltimore, Jamie Costellos morning show.

Thurs. Oct 15 Winston Salem, NC: Interview 4:00 p.m. Dusty Dunns Show, WSJS Talk radio, 20 minutes.

Tu, Oct 20, 9:45 p.m. Interview with BBC producer David Bottomly live show on North America (011-44-181-624-9507).

Tu Oct 27, Atlanta, ABC, Channel 11 Todd Brock's Peachtree Morning show. 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Oct 28, Birmingham, AB: Emily Stroud of Channel 11 (NBC) interview, to run Nov 20 on tailgaters

Nov 4. Little Rock AR: U of A at Little Rock. 11:00 a reporter and cameraman from the local NBC affiliate KARK filmed during Hans Baers upper division class on anthropological theory.

Monday, Nov 16: CBS TV interview at 10: a.m. After the 7:30 p.m. lecture interview with NPR reporter (KSMU) who attended the lecture.

Wed Nov 18 St. Louis, MO. Fox TV interview 8:30. 11:15a.m., interview with Jean Shepard, ABC affiliate.

Wed Nov 20 Springfield, IL: Interview with Journal Leader reporter Ralph Loos.

Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts 1998 (November). Home is where they park it. Anthropology Newsletter 39 (8):9-10.

October - November 1997. Consultant to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association. University lecture tour on RVing as a retirement alternative. Lectures at University of Rochester, Cornell University, Trinity College, Temple University, George Mason University, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland University, Ohio State University, DePauw University, University of Indiana at Indianapolis, Southern Illinois University, University of Memphis.

July 30, 1998. NBC Nightly News: Living Longer/Living Better.

April 23 1997. Vision TV. Consultants for production of "The Ways We Live: On the Road." Twenty minute documentary on RVing communities. Asterisk Productions, Victoria BC.

Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. 1996 (January) Happy Campers. Anthropology Newsletter 37(1):8.

October 15, 1996. CTV, W-5.The Winnebago Tribe. Eight minute report on our research.

September 8, 1996. CBC television, Sunday Report, interview. Brief coverage of our research and book. Kelly Crowe, reporter.

September 6, 1996. CBC television, Calgary evening news, interview. Brief coverage of our research and book.

September 5, 1996. CBC Radio interview, The Homestretch (host Daryl Zerr), Calgary, AB

November 1995. Radio Interview, AARP for National Public Radio. Subject: research on RVing for retired persons. With David Counts. (November 16, 1995)

TV Interview, DC Morning News, Fox. Subject: research on RVing. With David Counts. (November 17, 1995)

May 1995: Consultant to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Assn. Media Tour on RVing as a retirement alternative. Interviews for TV and newspapers. With David Counts

April 1995 (April 27) Interview, Morningside. With David Counts

Counts, Dorothy and David Counts. 1993 RV-ing From the Ivory Tower: We can hardly wait. RV Traveller for the Canadian Camper 17(1):30-31, 34, 37-38.

1993 RV-ing From the Ivory Tower: Our way of life worth looking at. RV Traveller for the Canadian Camper 16(4):30-31, 49.

March 1992. Consultant for PBS station KTCS channel 9 documentary: Death the Trip of a Lifetime. With David Counts

Seminars on RV research given at the following SKP parks (these seminars informed our potential consultants as to the nature of our research as well as being educational and entertaining for park residents):

The Ranch, Lakewood, NM. October, 1993

Rainbow's End, Livingston, TX. November, 1993

North Ranch, Congress, AZ. March, 1994.

Pair-a-Dice, Pahrump, NV. March, 1994

Park of the Sierra, Coarsegold, CA. April, 1994.

Counts, David and Dorothy Counts. 1992 RVING From the Ivory Tower. RV Traveller for the Canadian Camper 16(2):30-31, 54.

Counts, Dorothy A. and David R. Counts. 1992 Interview, The Senior Report. TVO. April 12, 1992.

Counts, Dorothy A., David R. Counts and Deborah Truscott. 1992 RVing; The Unexplored Alternative Retirement. Poster presentation at Guelph-McMaster Workshop on Gerontological Research. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. May 13, 1992.

Counts, Dorothy A. And David R. Counts. July 2005 Interview: CBC Radio: The Roundup. DCVITA, January 2006.htm