Halpern, Joel

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Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
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    Songs and Chants from a Serbian Village
    (1956) Halpern, Joel; Halpern, Barbara
    The following notes, collected while making a community study in the region of Sumadija, central Serbia, in 1953-1954, present a glimpse of village chants and songs and describe the circumstances under which they are sung. The intent here is simply to illustrate their position in the total peasant culture and not to analyze their musical form and content.
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    Conflict in Laos: the Politics of Neutralization
    (1965-08-01) Halpern, Joel
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    Observations on the Social Structure of the Lao Elite
    (1961-07-01) Halpern, Joel
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    Arctic Gold, Alaska
    (1951-03-01) Halpern, Joel
    To armchair travelers, especially in the United States, few places have a stronger allure than far-off Alaska. Now that the "wild and woolly" west is really alive only so far as it serves to accentuate our historical heritage, this land of the far north has become our last frontier. To the geologist, mineralogist, and, I might add, even to the layman, one of the most interesting features of the territory is its large placer gold deposits. Every American boy has heard of the Nome gold rush, and the more literarily adventurous have undoubtedly delved into the sagas of Jack London. Like most lands which have been glorified in the popular mind, many erroneous notions have arisen about Alaska. While I am still a green-horn as far as the North is concerned, my picture of this territory has, since my brief visit to Alaska, changed considerably. Part of what is said here is a reflection of this change of mind.
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    Peasant Society: Economic Changes and Revolutionary Transformation
    (1967) Halpern, Joel; Brode, John
    This is the fourth in the series of articles on peasants in the Biennial Review (see also 150, 137, 10). It places particular stress on publications that tend to generalize and synthesize. A main emphasis is to see peasant studies from the viewpoint of other disciplines, as well as from the perspective of the societal context in which American anthropology itself exists. Specific geographical areas are dealt with in concluding summaries.
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    Time and Social Structure: a Yugoslav Case Study
    (1984-10-01) Halpern, Joel
    Cyclical and linear time perspectives on family household structures are defined. They are utilized in a case study of the father-son dyad in a central Serbian village over the past 150 years. This relationship is critical to understanding the transitions in the South Slav extended family household, the zadruga. Data are based on oral recall and on vital, tax, and census records. Linear time measures include vital rates such as declining fertility and mortality as well as decreasing household size. Cyclical time measures, which have not varied in the period studied, include age at marriage and age of parent at birth of first child. All these elements are shown to affect the continued existence of extended house hold structures and condition their alteration from predominantly lateral extension including collateral kin to units of linear form emphasizing relations across three, and even four, generations. Analyzing these temporal processes is seen as a way of understanding the dynamics behind notions of stability and change in social structures.
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    Laotian Educational Statistics
    (1961) Halpern, Joel