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(Ph D U Michigan,
1970; Prof) Cultural anthropology, human
ecology, economic anthropology,religion; Mesoamerica, North America,
Middle East (slees@hunter.cuny.edu)
Susan H. Lees specializes
in ecological and economic anthropology. The focus of her research
(and numerous publications) on farmers and farming communities
has been mainly upon power relationships related to irrigated
agriculture in changing historical contexts. She has engaged in
field research in Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and Israel during the
past 35 years. Her theoretical focus has been on environmental
crises and responses to them.
Recently, since 1998,
she has turned her attention to a new interest, the adjustments
of a fishing community in coastal Maine, to social, economic,
political, and environmental change. Her first project involves
the ways home based crabmeat producers on Deer Isle, Maine, are
responding to bureaucratic governmental regulation which threatens
to put them out of business. Explaining this means looking into
the context of rural gentrification, local knowledge, the control
of labor, and other issues.
Recent books and
articles:
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