Ian Prattis

CURRICULUM VITAE

Ian Prattis: Professor of
Anthropology and Religion

	Department: Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University Ottawa, ON Canada, K1S 5B6 Tel : 613 520-2600 ext. 2593 E mail: iprattis@cyberus.ca Fax: 613 520 4062 Website: www.ianprattis.com
	1) Degrees / Employment / Honours
	2) Publications
	3) Talks Given
	4) Grants and Awards, Consulting
	5) Teaching, Areas of Interest

EDUCATION:

Degree Received / Year	Department	University
B.A. Honours / 1965	Anthropology	University College, London University
B. Litt / 1967	Institute of Social Anthropology	Balliol College, Oxford University
Thesis Topic: "Technological Change and its Implications in a Theory of Community Development." Supervisor: Rodney Needham
Ph.D / 1970	Anthropology and Sociology	University of British Columbia
Thesis Topic: "Dilemmas of Decision Making - Methodological Test Case in Economic Anthropology." Supervisors: Cyril Belshaw, Harry Hawthorne, Pierre Maranda

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

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1) Academic Appointments

Dates	Position	Institution
1969-70	Lecturer	Vancouver City College
1970	Sessional Lecturer	Simon Fraser University
1970	Sessional Lecturer	U.B.C.
1970-73	Assistant Professor	Carleton University, Ottawa
1973-74	Leave of Absence	Carleton University, Ottawa
1976	Associate Professor	Carleton University, Ottawa
1976-77	Visiting Professor	Stirling University, Scotland
1981-82	Leave of Absence	Carleton University, Ottawa
1985	Professor	Carleton University, Ottawa
1988-90	Sabbatical Research	Carleton University, Ottawa
1989	Research Associate	New School, New York
1990	Visiting Professor	U.B.C. (Summer School)
1996-97	Sabbatical in India

2003	Sabbatical Research on Buddhist Pilgrimage in India

2) Other Employment

1960-62	Assistant Community Development Officer	Sarawak, (V.S.O.)
1964	Director, Irrigation Project	Kata Zalongo, Greece
1976	Canadian Museum Contract, Quebec- Hebridean Project	Scotstoun, Quebec
1977-78	North Sea Oil Panel Contract	Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland
1981	Carpenter and Builders' Labourer	Barra, Scotland
1982	Skipper, M.V. "An Dobhran", Lobster Fishing and Charters	Barra, Scotland
1990 -	Meditation Teacher
1996-	Ordained as Tiep Hien	France, Thich Nhat Hanh
1997-	Ordained as Brahmacharya	India, Siddha Samadhi Yoga
2002-	Ordained as Dharmacharya	France, Thich Nhat Hanh
2004-	CEO	Friends for Peace www.friendsforpeace.ca

PROFESSIONAL HONOURS:

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	1960	Brooke Prize, Corby Grammar School (3 distinctions at Advanced Level, 2 distinctions at Scholarship level)
	1962-65	County Major Award (Northamptonshire County Council)
	1966	The Master's Award - Balliol College, Oxford
	1967	British Council Travelling Scholarship
	1967	U.B.C. Graduate Fellowship
	1968-70	Commonwealth Scholarship
	1980	Merit Award - Carleton University
	1986	Scholastic Achievement Award -- Carleton University

PUBLICATIONS

1. Refereed Scholarly Publications

a) Books

	1973	New Directions in Economic Anthropology. Special Edition of the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, August 1973.
	1985	Reflections: The Anthropological Muse. Washington: American Anthropological Association. September 1985.
	1997a	Anthropology at the Edge: Essays on Culture, Symbol and Consciousness. Lanham, M.D.: University Press of America.
	1997b	Leadership and Ethics. Bangalore, India: R.S.V.K. Press.
	2002	The Essential Spiral: Ecology and Consciousness After 9/11. Lanham, MD: University Press of America
	2007	Earth My Body, Water My Blood

b) Forthcoming Books 2007

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	2007	The Buddha At The Gate – and other essays.
	2007	Failsafe: Gaia, Science And The Buddha.

c) CDs

2005

Pine Gate Meditations. With Carolyn Hill. Ottawa: Precision Transfer Inc.

d) Articles in Refereed Journals

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	1963	Kayan-Kenyah Bungan Cult, Sarawak Museum Journal V XI. July 1963.
	1972	Science, Ideology and False Demons, American Anthropologist, October 1972. V#74, 1323-1328.
	1973a	Strategizing Man, Man, March 1973. Vol. 8, 1, 46-58
	1973b	Metaphor and Entropy. Mediations, August 1973, 1, 1, 35-42.
	1973c	Gambling, Fishing and Innovation - A Cross-Situational Study of Decision Making. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. June 1973. XIV, 1-2, 75-88.
	1973d	Economic Structures and Cultural Continuity - a Consideration of Monopoly Control in the Eskimo Arts and Crafts Industry. Anthropologica N.S. XV, 2, 1973, 191-200.
	1973e	Competing Paradigms and False Polemics in Economic Anthropology. Anthropological Quarterly, 46, 4, 1973, 278-296.
	1973f	A Model of Shipboard Interaction on a Hebridean Fishing Vessel. Journal of Anthropological Research. 29, 3, Autumn 1973. 210-219.
	1974a	Status and Structure in a Hebridean Fishing Fleet. Maritime Studies and Management, 1, 4, April 1974, 190-206.
	1974b	Developmental Constraints on a case of Eskimo Entrepreneurship in Arctic Quebec. Arctic Anthropology VXI, 1, 74, 61-68.
	1974c	The Re-emergence of Affinal Links between Greenland and Canadian Eskimos. Arctic Circular. Autumn 1974.
	1975a	The Implications of Transportation Infrastructure on Regional Development in N. Norway and the Western Isles. Northern Studies, V6, 20-28, 1975.
	1975b	Discontinuities in Priorities and Policies in the Development of a Regional Fishery in Scotland. Maritime Studies and Management, July 1975, 3, 27-32.
	1975c	Fisheries Policy in Scottish Inshore Waters, Human Organization, Winter 1975.
	1975d	Bord na Gaidhealtachd - Gairm, Aireamh 90, 1975.
	1976a	Situational Logic, Social Organization and Highland Burma. Current Anthropology, March 1976. V17, 1, 97-104.
	1976b	Political Types and Ecological Zones: Highland Burma Revisited. Current Anthropology, September 1976. V17, 2, 533-34.
	1977	Economic Structures in the Highlands of Scotland, Fraser of Allander Institute, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, June 1977.
	1978a	Competing Technologies and Conservation in the Hebridean Lobster Fishery. Economic Development and Culture Change, January 1978, 561-575.
	1978b	Modernisation and the Problem of Abstractive levels - Situational Logic as a Means of Bridging Group Structural and Interpersonal Relationships. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1978, V. 37, 4. 381-394.
	1978c	200 Mile Economic Zones - Fishing Limits and the E.E.C. Journal of Maritime Studies and Management, 1979, V. 20, 2, 361-375.
	1978d	On Understanding Marginality. Crann Tara. Scotland's Radical Quarterly, November 1978.
	1979a	Structural Unemployment and Job Creation: A Case Study from the Western Isles of Scotland. Human Organization, V. 38, 3, Fall 1979, 294-300.
	1979b	The Survival of Communities. Current Anthropology, June 1979, V. 20, 2, 361-375.
	1980a	Ethnic Succession in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Anthropologica, N.S. Vol. XXII, 2, 1980, 215-234.
	1980b	Modes of Production in North Atlantic Maritime Communities. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Fall, 1980, Vol. 39, 2, 305-318.
	1980c	Policy Issues of Control, Dependency and Intervention in the North Atlantic Fishery. Anthropological Quarterly, October 1980. Vol. 53, 4, 245-253.
	1982a	Job Creation. Journal of Management Research, Vol. 4, 3, 1982, 6-20.
	1982b	Synthesis or a New Problematic in Economic Anthropology. Theory and Society Vol. 11, 2, March 1982, 205-228.
	1983	Culture and Consciousness, Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, Vol. 8, 2, May 1983
	1984	Man and Metaphor: An Exploration in Entropy and Coherence. Communication and Cognition, V. 17, 2/3, 1984, 187-205.
	1985a	(with J.P. Chartrand) Minority Language Bilingualism; The Case of Inuktitut in the Canadian North. Anthropologica Vol. 25, 1, 1985.
	1985b	Anthropological Poetics: Reflections on a New Perspective, in Anthropology After '84. Part II, Dialectical Anthropology, V 10, 1-2, July 1985.
	1987	Organizational Change and Adaptation: Community Co-operatives and Capital Control in the Western Isles of Scotland. American Anthropologist Vol. 89, 3, September 1987.
	1988	Prelude. Special Edition of the Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, November 1988, Vol. 13, 4.
	1990	(with J.P. Chartrand) The Cultural Division of Labour in the Canadian North. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 27, 1, 1990.
	1994a	(with Derek Blair) Exploitation in the Field. Anthropology and Humanism. Special Edition of Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly V.19, 1, 1994
	1995	(with Blair et alia) "Reflections" as Myth. Dialectical Anthropology, v.20, 1, 1995.
	1996	Reflexive Anthropology. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. (Editors) D. Levinson, M. Ember. H.R.A.F. N.Y.: Henry Holt & Company
	1998	Punk Palace in the Moonlight. Mindfulness Bell, No 22, Fall 1998
	1999	The Art of Listening. Journal of the Ottawa Buddhist Society, Vesak 99
	2000a	Surrender and a Lotus. Mindfulness Bell, Issue No. 26, Summer 2000
	2000b	Levels of Meditative Experience. The Chrysalis Reader. Special Edition on "Rocking The Ages." Volume VII, Autumn 2000.
	2001a	Understanding Symbolic Process. Journal of Ritual Studies. V 15, 1, January 2001
	2001b	Teachers and Guidance. The Chrysalis Reader, Special Edition on "Education." Volume VIII, Autumn 2001.
	2001c	Taking the Fifth - High School Murders and Mindfulness Practice. The Messenger. Swedenborg Foundation, May 2001-03-27
	2002	Mantra and Conciousness Expansion in India. Journal of Ritual Studies. V. 16, 2, 2002
	2003	Healing the Inner Child. Mindfulness Bell, Issue No. 33, Spring 2003
	2005a	Discovering Levels of Deep Listening. Mindfulness Bell, Issue No 35, Winter 2005
	2005b	Showdown at Punk Palace. Shambhala Sun September 2005
	2006a	Ambassadors of Peace. Resurgence Issue No. 236 May/June 2006
	2007	Failsafe in Consciousness: Gaia, Science and the Buddha. The Trumpeter Volume 23, Issue 1 (May 2007)

e) Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings

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	1968	Development Strategies and Voluntary Agencies, in Proceedings of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada, pp. 82-87, 1968.
	1975	A Model of Indigenous Control Over Resources, a Case Study from Arctic Quebec, in The Laverton Report on Aboriginal Development (121-150). Government Printer: Western Australia.
	1991	Science, Mythology and the Contemplative Tradition, in Proceedings of the First International Forum on New Science, University of Colorado, Fort Collins, 1991.

f) Chapters in Edited Books

	1973a	The State of the Arts in Economic Anthropology in Prattis, J.I., (ed.) New Directions in Economic Anthropology. CRSA August 1973, 193-199.
	1973b	Alternative Strategies for Politicizing the James Bay Issue in Berkes, F. (ed.): The James Bay Forum, McGill University.
	1978	Paradigms in Economic Anthropology (125-142) in K. Watson-Gegeo and S. Seaton (eds.). Adaptation and Symbolism, Essays Presented to Sir Raymond Firth. University Press of Hawaii.
	1979	Economic Development in Scotland's Highlands (3-46) in D. Simpson (ed.) Economic and Social Opportunities for Island and Coastal Communities. Glasgow: Strathclyde University Press, 1979.
	1980	Seven Generations: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Retention in an E. Townships Community (145-166) in L. Doucette (ed.) Cultural Retention and Demographic Change: Studies of the Hebridean Scots in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, Mercury Series.
	1981	Industrialisation and Minority Language Loyalty: The Example of Lewis (21-31) in E. Haugen, J.D. McClure and D.S. Thomson (eds.), Minority Languages Today, Edinburgh University Press, 1981.
	1982a	Aspects of Retail Distribution in Barra and Vatersay, (220-233) in J.G.L. Adams & J.D. McCallum; Distribution and Transport in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Glasgow University Press, 1982.
	1982b	Fishing Limits and Public Policy in the North Atlantic (132-147) in M. Firestone (ed.) Anthropological Studies in Great Britain. University of Arizona Press, 1982.
	1984	Modernisation and Minority Languages in J.C. Hansen, J. Naustdalslid and J. Sewel (eds.), Centre-Periphery: Theory and Practise. Bergen: Sogndal.
	1985	The Bear; Corridors; Lament for a Mariner; and Dialectics and Experience in Fieldwork in J.I. Prattis (ed.), Reflections: The Anthropological Muse. Washington: American Anthropological Association Special Publication.
	1986	Alternative Views of Economy in Economic Anthropology in J. Clammer (ed.) Beyond The New Economic Anthropology. London: MacMillan.
	1987	Bilingualism Policy and The Barra Feis in D. Gillies (ed.) Gaelic Language and Literature in the '80's. Philadelphia: Iona Foundation Publication.
	1989	Bilingualism and Cultural Festivals in B. Cox, J. Chevalier and V. Blundell (eds.): A Different Drummer: Readings in Anthropology. Ottawa: Carleton University Press.
	1991	"Parsifal" and Semiotic Structuralism in I. Brady (ed.) Anthropological Poetics. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield
	1997a	Also in B. Rutland (ed.) Gender and Narrativity, Carleton University Press 1997.
	1997b	(with D. Blair) Opening Ourselves up to the Voyage of Anthropological Practise. In J.I. Prattis, Anthropology at the Edge. University Press of America, 1997
	2002a	What if No-One Shows Up? In J. Lawlor (ed): Sangha Practice. Berkeley: Parallax Press
	2003	Punk Palace in the Moonlight. In Thich Nhat Hanh (ed): I Have Arrived, I Am Home: Celebrating Twenty Years of Plum Village Life. Berkeley; Parallax Press

g) Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals

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	1969	Review of S. Greer, The Logic of Social Enquiry. Social Forces 48, 3, 1969.
	1976	Review of J. Suckling, A Naive Model of a Stone Age Economy. Current Anthropology, September 1976, V17, 1, 112.
	1977	Review of P.G. Sadler and G.A. MacKay (eds.), The Changing Fortunes of Marginal Regions. Scottish Journal of Sociology, Nov. 1977
	1979a	Structural Anthropology in the Netherlands. American Anthropologist, Autumn, 1979
	1979b	Anthropological Studies of Factionalism. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology November 1979.
	1980	Anthropological Zoos and their Keepers. Current Anthropology, August 1980, V. 21, 4, 519-522.
	1981a	The Author's Ideology: A Dilemma for Maritime Studies. Economic Development and Cultural Change Vol. 30, 1, October 1981, 183-192.
	1981b	Review of R.N. Adams, Natural Selection, Energetics and Cultural Materialism. Current Anthropology, Vol. 22, 6, 617-618.
	1983a	Review of D. MacDonald, Power Begins at the Cod End. American Anthropologist Vol. 85, 1, March 1983.
	1983b	Barthing up the Wrong Tree. American Anthropologist.Vol. 85, 1, March 1983
	2001	A Sage For Our Times. Review of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “The Path of Emancipation. Resurgence, V 206, May/June 2001

h) Electronic Publishing - Television Courses at Carleton University

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CULTURE AND SYMBOL

- itv Cable 65, 1996.
- Canadian Learning Television - 2000

www.carleton.ca/socanth/54334/index.html

ECOLOGY AND CULTURE

- itv Cable 65, 2000
- Canadian Learning Television - 2001

www.carleton.ca/~iprattis

i) Films

	2000	“Voices On The Environment.” Directed & Produced by Ian Prattis. Ottawa. Carleton University itv productions.
	2001	"Interview With a Shaman." Directed and Produced by Ian Prattis. Ottawa. Carleton University itv productions
	2003a	“Peace Song Circle.” Directed by Ian Prattis, Produced by E Media Scouting, Ottawa
	2003b	“Peace Prayer Day.” Directed by Ian Prattis. Produced by E Media Scouting, Ottawa

OTHER SCHOLARLY OR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

1. Papers Presented

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	1965	Community Development in Sarawak - Fact or Fiction. Presented at the U.N. Intern Program, Geneva 1965.
	1969a	Methodology in Social Science, and the Experimental Significance of Fieldwork. Presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, March 1969.
	1969b	Development Strategies and Dilemmas. Presented to the Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Kingston November 1969.
	1969c	Natural Science Models and Social Science Methodology. -Some Models of Muddles. Presented at N.W.A.A., Victoria, February 1969.
	1970	Dilemmas of Decision Making - A Micro Approach to Theory. Presented at N.E.A.A., Ottawa, May 1970.
	1971a	Bears, Barbers, Tappers and Trappers - a consideration of Man's Evolutionary Endpoint. Presented at N.E.A.A., Albany, New York.
	1971b	The Application of Decision Models to Problems in Economic Anthropology and Sociology. Presented to the Department of Anthropology, SUNY Oswego, May 1971.
	1972a	The Value of False Polemics in Economic Anthropology. Presented to the Department of Social Anthropology, Edinburgh University, May 1972.
	1972b	The Rationality Debate in Economic Anthropology. Presented at AAA, Toronto, Fall 1972.
	1973a	Philosophical Implications of Levi-Strauss' Structuralism. Presented to N.E.A.A., Burlington, April 1973.
	1973b	Political Implications of the James Bay Project. Presented to the James Bay Committee, University of Montreal, April 1973.
	1973c	Competing Paradigms in Economic Anthropology. Presented to C.S.A.A., Kingston, 1973.
	1975	Situational Logic, Social Structure and Highland Burma. Presented to Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, January 1975.
	1976a	A Symbolic Interpretation of Adaptation and Evolution. Presented to Department of Sociology and American Arts Centre, University of Exeter, May 1976.
	1976b	False Polemics, Nature of Assumptions and Economic Man - the Scope of Economic Anthropology. Presented to Department of Economics, Stirling University, November 1976.
	1977a	Socio-Economic Change in a Gaelic speaking community in Quebec. Presented to Centre of Canadian Studies and School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University, March 1977.
	1977b	Policy and Development in North Atlantic Maritime Societies. Presented to Department of Ethnology, Lund University, Sweden, May 1977.
	1977b	Policy and Development in North Atlantic Maritime Societies. Presented to Department of Ethnology, Lund University, Sweden, May 1977.
	1978	Structuralism. Presented to Carleton University, November 1978.
	1980a	Masks, Symbols and the Unconscious, with M. Webber et al. Presented to Carleton University, January 1980.
	1980b	The Economic Perspective of Oppression. Presented to St. Paul's University, Ottawa, February 1980.
	1980c	Modes of Production, with J. Chevalier. Presented to Carleton University, March 1980.
	1980d	A Dependency Model of B.C. Land Claims. With S. Clark, presented to C.E.S. meeting, Montreal, February 1980.
	1980e	Symbol and Consciousness. Presented to C.E.S. meeting Montreal, February 1980.
	1980f	Problems of Household Adaptation in Marginal Fishing Communities in the North Atlantic. Paper presented to N.E.A.A. meetings, Amherst, March 1980.
	1981a	Ethnic Identity and Minority Language Use. C.E.S. meeting, Ottawa, March 1981.
	1981b	Land Claims and Native Research. C.E.S. meeting, Ottawa, March 1981.
	1981c	Policy Issues of Resource Control in the North Atlantic. Society for Applied Anthropology, Edinburgh, April 1981.
	1981d	Applied Anthropology in Canada. Society for Applied Anthropology, Edinburgh, April 1981.
	1981e	(1) The Comparative Sociology of the North Atlantic; (2) Political Economy of Native Land Claims in Canada, (3) Language Loyalty and Industrialisation in the Western Isles. Presented to the 6th International Seminar on Marginal Regions, Bergen, Norway, August 1981.
	1981f	The Political Economy of Canadian Land Claims. Presented to Department of Anthropology. Boston University March 1981.
	1981g	Plenary Speaker - the Role of Theory in Applied Anthropology. Presented to Society for Applied Anthropology, Edinburgh, April 1981.
	1983a	Unemployment and Value Shifts in Industrial Societies. Papers presented to N.E.A.A. meetings, Syracuse, New York, 1983.
	1983b	Anthropology and Poetry. American Anthropological Association. Chicago, November 1983.
	1984	Dialectics and Experience - A Radical Critique of Methodology in Anthropology. Presented to Faculty of Social Science, S.U.N.Y. Oswego March 1984.
	1985a	Symbol and Dialectics. N.E.A.A. Lake Placid, April 1985.
	1985b	The Violation of Women. C.E.S. Toronto, May 1985.
	1986	The Cultural Division of Labour in the Canadian North - The Case of the Inuit. Keynote address given to CES conference on Multiculturalism, Edmonton, May 1986, University of Alberta.
	1988	Mythology and Man's Vision Quest. Presented to International Conference on Gender and Narrativity, Carleton University: The Centre for Textual Analysis, Discourse and Culture (T.A.D.A.C.)
	1990a	The Environment - Issues of Inner Ecology. Presented to Scottish Cultural Centre, Vancouver, April 1990.
	1990b	The Dolphin Factor. Presented to Department of Anthropology, U.B.C., Vancouver, July 1990.
	1993a	Sacred Dance and Cultural Bridges. Presented to CSAA, Ottawa, June 1993.
	1993b	Reflections: Some Unfinished Business. Presented to CSAA, Ottawa, June 1993.
	1994a	British Columbia: Cosmologies and Enigmas. Presented to Federal Treasury Board, Real Estate Division, February 1994.
	1994b	Sacred Dance and Shamanic Transformation. Presented to Society for Anthropology of Consciousness Meetings. Tempe, Arizona, April 1994.
	1995a	Death Breaths and Drivers. Presented to Anthropology of Consciousness Meetings. Berkeley, San Francisco, March 1995.
	1996	Tribal Epistemologies. Presented to American Philosophical Association. Seattle, Washington. April 1996.
	1997	Leadership and Ethics. Presented to S.S.Y. conference on Business and Leadership. Bangalore, India. May 1997.
	1998a	Symbolic Process in Ritual. Presented to Calgary University, March 1998.
	1998b	Metaphor, Vibration and Form. Presented to SAC conference, Portland, U.S.A., March 1998.
	1998c	Epistemology and Consciousness Studies. Presented to Carleton University and SUNY Potsdam conference. Ottawa, Museum of Civilization, March 1998
	1998d	Modelling the Symbol. Presented to Tuscon 3 - Science of Consciousness Conference, Tuscon, U.S.A., May 1998.
	1999a	Mantra and Consciousness in India. Presented to SAC conference, Berkeley U. California, March 1999
	1999b	Meditation for Gaia. Presented to Spirit at Work conference, Ottawa, May 1999
	1999c	The Art of Listening. Presented to Ottawa Buddhist Society, Ottawa, May 1999
	1999d	The Foundations of Buddhism - Four Talks. Presented to Ottawa Buddhist Society, Ottawa September/November, 1999
	1999e	Jagged Edges - Environmental Crises and Meditation. Presented to the Rideau Environment Action League, Smiths Falls, November 1999
	1999f	The Four Immeasurable Minds. Presented to the Ottawa Buddhist Society, Ottawa, December 1999
	2000a	Sacred Sound, Mantra and Consciousness. Presented to SSSI conference on The New Ethnography. Tampa Bay, Florida, January 26 -20, 2000
	2000b	Yes, It Can Happen Here - Mindfulness Practice in Schools. Presented to Education Dept, UBC conference on Learning Love. Vancouver May 4 - 6, 2000
	2000c	The Gayatri Mantra; Performance and Understanding. Presented to Carleton University Symposium: Knowledge and Ritual. Ottawa, May
	2000d	1.For a Future To Be Possible 2. The Mindful Practice of Love 3. Taking Care of Ourselves, Taking Care of the Planet. Presented to the Mindfulness Practice Center, Vancouver, April 29 - May 5, 2000
	2000e	Cultures That Dance Their Myths. Keynote Lecture to Festival of Dance conference. Carleton University, August 6 - 11, 2000
	2000f	Environmental Crises and Meditation. Presented to Carleton University Padeia Retreat, Quetico, Ontario. August 19 - 26, 2000
	2000g	Stress Management Through Meditation. Presented to Ottawa Public Library, September 27, 2000-09-28
	2000h	Taking the Fifth - High School Murders and Mindfulness Training. Presented to Retreat for Educators. Pendle Hill Research Institute, Philadelphia, October 11 - 15, 2000
	2001a	Stress and Mindfulness Practice. Presented to St Ann's Health Care Centre, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, May 3, 2001
	2001b	Sacred Dance in the New Millenium. Presented to AGM Canadian Sacred Dance Guild. Ottawa, May 27, 2001
	2001c	Engaged Buddhism. Presented to Diversity in Faith Conference. Ottawa, May 30 - 31, 2001
	2001d	Taking Care of Violence in Schools, Homes and the Workplace. Presented to American Educators Group conference. UMASS at Amherst, August 13 - 18, 2001
	2002a	Healing and New Leadership post 9/11. Presented to Temenos Conference Center Pa. February 15, 2002
	2002b	Taking Refuge in Jesus, Taking Refuge in the Buddha. Presented to Knoxville Mindfulness Community. Tennessee, February 21, 2002
	2003a	The Buddha At The Gate. Presented to Institut Des Hautes Etudes Bouduques. Meyrac, France. January 14, 2003-03-03
	2003b	The Buddha and Gandhi - Value Models for a New Globalization Presented to RSVK India, Bangalore, India.
	2003c	Ecology and Consciousness After 9/11. Presented to Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX. Distinguished Speaker Series, April 4, 2003
	2003d	War and Peace in the 21st Century. Presented to Houston Peace and Justice Centre, Houston April 6, 2003
	2003e	The Art of Deep Listening. Presented to Nova Scotia Mindfulness Communities, St Ann’s Health Care Centre, Cape Breton, N.S., May 2, 2003
	2003f	Celebrating Peace Through Prayer. Presented to Bells Corners United Church, September 21, 2003
	2004a	Lotus in a Sea of Fire – Mindfulness Under Difficult Circumstances. Presented to Findhorn Foundation, Findhorn, Scotland July 2, 2004-07-28
	2004b	Engaged Buddhism and Current Politics. Presented to Boston Mindfulness Communities. Boston September 11, 2004
	2005a	Public Talk “Buddhism and the Environment” Ottawa City Hall January 16, 1.00pm
	2005b	Public Talk “Engaged Buddhism” Santosha Yoga Center, Feb 1
	2005c	Public Talk “On Death and Dying” April 13. Orlando, Florida 6.00pm – 8.00pm at Vitas Healthcare Corporation
	2005d	Public Talk “Guidelines on How to be with Death and Dying in the Health Care Profession” April 14 Orlando Florida, Vitas Corp.
	2005e	Public Talk “Preparation Through Mindfulness Practice for Death” April 18. To Central Florida Assoc for Death Education and Counseling. Orlando, Fl
	2005f	Public Talk: “Foundation Teachings in Buddhism” 7.00pm – 9.00pm, Tuesday September 27, Warren Wilson College Ashville, NC Contact: Ryan Boyle rboyle@warren-wilson.edu
	2006a	Public Talk: “Mindfulness in Schools” Elizabeth Wyn Wood Secondary, Ottawa, 10.00am – 11.00pm
	2006b	Public Talk: “Buddhism and Every Day Living” Orlando, Florida, April 8, 2006 Tibet-Butler Nature Reserve
	2006c	Public Talk: “Failsafe in Consciousness” Orlando, Florida, April 9, 2006 Fish Lake Sangha Day of Mindfulness
	2007	Public Talk – Our Internal Climate Change. Orlando Florida Mindfulness Community April 14, 2007

2. Research Grants and Awards

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	1972	Canada Council Research Grant, Problems of Modernisation in the W. Isles of Scotland, $6,000.
	1973-74	Canada Council Research Grant, Comparative Development of Fisheries in the Marginal Areas of Norway, Scotland, Atlantic Canada. $20,000.
	1976	Canadian Museum of Man Research Contract. Quebec - Hebridean Project. $8,000.
	1977-78	North Sea Oil Panel Research Contract. Oil Impact on Lewis. $20,000.
	1980-81	N.A.T.O. Fellowship. Resource Use in Marginal North Atlantic Communities 312,000 Belgian Francs.
	1988-90	Sabbatical Research Grant, Carleton University. Paradigm Shift in Science. $40,000
	2000-01	Development Grant, Carleton University. Development of “Culture and Ecology” as an itv course. $9,000

3. Consulting

	1972	Highlands and Islands Development Board, Scotland. Topic: Regional Economic Development.
	1973	Canadian Arctic Producers Ltd., Ottawa. Topic: Marketing and Company Structure.
	1976	Highlands and Islands Development Board, Scotland. Topics: Fisheries Development, Unemployment.
	1976	Gitksan Carrier Tribal Council, Hazelton, B.C. Topics: Land Claims Research Planning, Leadership Training.
	1976	Canadian Museum of Man, Ottawa Topic: Ethnic Change in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
	1977-78	North Sea Oil Panel, U.K. Topic: Oil Industry Impact on the Island of Lewis, N.W. Scotland.
	1980	N.A.T.O., Brussels. Topic: Resource Use in Marginal North Atlantic Communities.
	1985-92	Tungavuk Federation of Nunavut, Iqaluit, Ottawa. Topic: Leadership and Management Training.
	1988-89	Ekos Research Associates, Ottawa. Topics: Evaluation of Government of Ontario Youth Employment Programs.
	1989-92	Friends of the Earth, Ottawa; Pollution Probe, Ottawa. Topic: Environmental Issues and Public Education.
	1993	Hesquiat Tribal Council, Vancouver Island, B.C. Topic: Education Modules for Land Claims Process.

TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses

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	Culture and Symbol (Instructional Television Course) 1996- Selected Problems in the study of New World Indians and Inuit 1982-85, 87, 90 Introductory Anthropology 1970-74 Introductory Sociology/Anthropology 1978-80, 1982-84 Anthropological Methods 1980, 1981 Economic Anthropology 1970-73, 1982, 1990-92 Theory and Methodology in Anthropology 1970-73, 1974-76, 1982-85, 1990-94 Issues in Canadian Native Studies 1980-83, 1990-93 North Atlantic Maritime Societies (Stirling University, Scotland) 1976 Current Theoretical Issues in Social Anthropology (Stirling University, Scotland) 1976 Kinship Systems (Stirling University, Scotland) 1976 The Ethnographic Enterprise 1984-86 Social Systems of Non Western Societies 1974-76, 1982, 1983 Introduction to North American Aboriginal Populations 1982-84 Honours Anthropology Practicum 1985-88 Anthropological Poetics 1987-88 Social Organization and Culture 1990 (U.B.C.) Cultural Adaptations to the Environment 1997- 99 Ecology and Culture (Instructional Television Course) 2000 - Comparative Meditation Systems 1998-
	GRADUATE COURSES
	Epistemology in Social Science 1985-1988 Explanatory Frameworks in Anthropology 1979-81 Modes of Production and Social Formations 1980 - 81 Structural Analysis and Formal Models 1975, 1978 - 79 Anthropological Methods 1979-81 Sign and Symbol 1992- 1995, 2000 - Ecological Analysis 1993-95, 1997- 99 Applied Anthropology and the Environment 2000 - Anthropology of Consciousness 1998- 99
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	Decision Theory and Formal Analysis Advanced Economic Anthropology Peasant Society Maritime Adaptations Marxist Anthropology Ethnicity Methodology and Epistemology in Fieldwork Gender and Dialectics Medical Anthropology Postmodern Anthropology Traditional Ecological Knowledge Symbolic Anthropology Neo-Shamanism The Modern Ritual Process Symbolic Appropriation Sweat Lodge Symbolism Social Structure Spirit in the Workplace
	MAIN AREAS OF INTEREST
	World Peace and Planetary Change Environmental Studies Futurology and the Post Industrial Society Bilingualism and Minority Cultures, Ethnicity Native Land Claims, Applied Anthropology Symbolic Anthropology and Paradigm Shift in Science Hermeneutics, Mythology and Poetics Consciousness Studies Neuroplasticity Gaia Theory