Busy Bodies (working title). Book drafted with C. Darrah and  J.M. Freeman.

[Chapter] In press: [2004] “Family Making and Busyness: Ritual Performances as Accompaniments to Everyday Life.” With C. Darrah and J. Freeman. Chapter to be included in Bradd Shore’s edited volume on Ritual in American Families that Work.

“Rites of Production: Technopoles and the Theater of Work.” Submitted to Anthropology of Work Review.

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Rarely asked and often assumed, this book addresses the question,
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“What is the difference that culture makes?”

Silicon Valley, the paramount producer of the information revolution, has become the icon for a lifestyle saturated with digital devices.  Most books on the region focus on Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial reputation, but this book is the result of an anthropological expedition into the everyday lives of people living in, and connected to Silicon Valley.  These people use technology to create cultural realities and transform their cultural identities into tools. A specialized high-tech economy has drawn people to the region, and created an unparalleled concentration of  “techies.”  Technology permeates everyday life and the very metaphors of community.  The economy has also drawn people from all over the world, creating a complex cultural mix, ranging from Cambodian culinary entrepreneurs to Midwestern process engineers.  The region is not only a bellwether of technological research and production, but a laboratory for the creation of a complex society.  Within schools, workplaces and homes identities emerge, engage, erode, transform and are recreated to coalesce into a larger community of communities. The two strands of technological saturation and identity complexity intertwine to produce many different choices.  These choices play out in how technology is used, work is done, community is made and family is lived.  People juggle these choices, often informed by the same pragmatic instrumental reasoning that characterizes high-tech workplaces.  The 21st century lifestyle of Silicon Valley—saturated by information technologies, struggling to manifest civic life from deeply diverse identity ommunities—illustrates the social and cultural dilemmas of the near future. 

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This is the study of the status of intellectuals in the People’s public of China during and after the events of Tiananmen Square. Currently intellectuals find themselves on the cusp of change as the socialist state monopoly on academia, scientific and technical research is yielding to market pressures. Universities must be, at least partially, self-sustaining. Entrepreneurial niches, outside of state control, are opening for intellectuals as industry privatizes. The entire society has shifted its focus from ideology to material wealth. These dramatic changes have forced choices on China’s “thought workers.” English-Lueck, in conducting over a hundred interviews, highlights the choices and constraints of establishment Chinese intellectuals at the end of the 20th century as they establish a new identity for themselves, and perhaps even for China. 

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Health in the New Age: 
A Study in California Holistic Practices .

An examination of the history and social organization of the holistic health movement, based on participant-observation and interviews, as well as literature search. The learning dynamics of practitioners, particularly novices, and their individual perceptions of the futures are also explored.

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A guide for academic and scientific writing for Chinese scholars going abroad, designed to be used by a multi-cultural teaching team.

Designed for use in the interdisciplinary class, Man and the Natural Environment, concentrating on the themes of culture history, environmental adaptation, worldview and cultural contact in California, Nevada, Utah and Baja California. It consists of a collection of articles with explanations, introductions and exercises.

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Article

(2003) “Shock-absorbing and Sense-making. American Families and a Public Anthropology.” With C.N. Darrah and J.M. Freeman. Anthropology News. February 2003.

Article

(2003). “Secrets of Silicon Valley” Visual Review. Anthropology of Work Review. 2003. In press.

Reports

2003 Contributed to “Personal Health Ecologies and Strategies for Health Management.” with Erika Jackson and Leah Cook. Rod Falcon and Leah Spaulding, authors. Institute for the Future Publication SR-815.

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(2003). “Success and Survival in Silicon Valley,” feature article for Center for Educational Planning Santa Clara County Office of Education, with S. Valade, S. Swiger, and G. Narvaez. Educational Outlook, Spring 8(2): 1-7.

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(2003, Spring).  “Success and Survival in Silicon Valley,” excerpts from a report to the Center for Educational Planning Santa Clara County Office of Education, with S. Valade, S. Swiger, and G. Narvaez.  Educational Outlook, Spring 7(3): 4.

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(2003, January).  “Trusting Strangers: Work Relationships in Four High-Tech Communities,”  with A. Saveri and C. Darrah a. Invited and refereed article.  Information, Communication and Society, 5 (1): 90-108.

Reports

(2002).  “Success and Survival in Silicon Valley, An Ethnography of Learning Networks,” with S. Valade, S. Swiger, and G. Narvaez.  Center for Educational Planning Newsletter.  A Report to the Center for Educational Planning Santa Clara County Office of Education.

Article

(2002, December).  “Artifacts: An Archaeologist’s Year in Silicon Valley, by Christine Finn,” review. Wired Magazine, December 9(12): 206.

Video

(2002).  “Departmental Secretary Training.”  Karl Lueck Designs production.

Report

(2001).  Final Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on Families and Work: An Ethnography of Dual Career Families (Grant #98-6-21).  With  J.M. Freeman and C. Darrah (primary author).

Report

(2001, June).  Contributed to “Networks-in-Use:  Young People in the World of Abundant Connectivity.”  Global Innovations Forum.  Institute for the Future Publication SR-738.

Article

(2001, Spring).  “Doing Good: Work as Mission in Silicon Valley and Beyond,” introduction to the issue as Guest Editor. Anthropology of Work Review. Spring Edition 22 (1): 1-3.

Article

(2001, Spring).  “Silicon Missionaries and Identity Evangelists.” Anthropology of Work Review. Spring Edition 22 (1): 7-12.

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(2001, March).  Article reproduction: “Technology and Social Change: The Effects on Family and Community.”   Family Focus On . . . The Electronic Media, Issue FF9.  National Council on Family Relations,  Minneapolis, MN.

Reprint

(2000, December).  Chapter reproduction: “Living with Technology.”  In Anthropology and Middle Class Working Families: A Research Agenda.  Edited by M. M. Overbey and K.M. Dudley.  Washington D.C. American Anthropological Association. Originally in the American Anthropologist Newsletter in December 1998.  With C. Darrah and J.M. Freeman.

Report

(2000, September).  Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Update for Sloan Program on Working Families for 2001 Families and Work: An Ethnography of Dual Career Families Project. C. Darrah, primary author, with J.M. Freeman.

Video

(2000).  “Rapid Ethnography Interview Training.”  Karl Lueck Designs production.

Report

(2000).  Report to the National Science Foundation on Work, Identity and Community in Silicon Valley, Award #9810593.  Described project activities and findings for a community-wide ethnographic study of Silicon Valley.

Article

(2000).  “Silicon Valley Reinvents the Company Town.”  Invited and refereed article. Futures, 32: 759-766.

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(2000).  Chapter in Book: “Technology and Social Change: The Effects on Family and Community.” In Gone Today, Here Tomorrow: Millennium Previews, Best of Australian Business Network Report 1997-1999.  Richard Slaughter Ed., St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Prospect Media.

Report

(1999, June)  Contributed to “Metamorphosis: Changes and Challenges for 21st-Century Organizations.”  The Outlook Project. Institute for the Future 
Publication SR-672.

Article

(1998, December).  “Living with Technology.”  Invited feature article in the Anthropology Newsletter. 39 (9) December. With C. Darrah and J.M. Freeman.

Reprint

(1998, September/October).  Article reproduction: “Technology and Social Change: The Effects on Family and Community,” Consortium of Social Science Associations Congressional Seminar (sponsored by Ford Foundation), reprinted in the Australian Business Network Report on Learning, Leadership and the Future.  Vol. 6, Number 8, September/October.

Reprint

(1998).  Article reproduction: “Technology and Social Change: The Effects on Family and Community,” Consortium of Social Science Associations Congressional Seminar (sponsored by Ford Foundation), reprinted in the Wills and Probate Bulletin (Melbourne, Australia), Volume 13.

Report

(1998, August). “Notes on observations at the TECH Museum of Innovation by anthropology students 1997-1998.” Submitted to the TECH Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA.

Article

(1998, June).  “Technology and Social Change: The Effects on Family and Community, ”Consortium of Social Science Associations Congressional Seminar (sponsored by Ford Foundation), June, Published proceeding.

Report

(1998, June).  Report to the TECH Museum of Innovation. “Update on Activities.” San Jose, CA.

Report

(1997, February).   Contributed to “Managing Corporate Communications in the Information Age.”  Institute for the Future Publication SR-619.

Article

(1997). “The Infomated Households Project.” Practicing Anthropology. 19 (4): 18-22. With Chuck Darrah and A. Saveri.

Report

(1996, July). “Notes on observations at the TECH Museum of Innovation by anthropology students 1995-1996.”  Submitted to the TECH Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA.

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(1995, July). Contributed to “Why consumers buy new media: Lessons from infomated households.” Unpublished Report. Menlo Park: Institute for the Future.

Article

(1994). “Turner and Frontier Values: Optimistic Postindustrial Enclaves in China and Silicon Valley.” Comparative Civilizations Review. 31: 106-123.

Article

(1994). “Neighbors and Neibu: An Anthropological Reflection a Pre-departure Program in China.” International Journal of Intercultural Relations. Volume 18, No. 1: 85-98.

Chapter in Book

(1994).  “Taijiquan and Qigong” in Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture. Wu Dingbo and Patrick Murphy eds. Pp. 137-153. New York: Greenwood Press.

Report

(1993). “Update: The Tech Project--Issues, Implications and New Directions.” A bulletin on anthropology in The Tech compiled October 1993. Co-authored with C. Darrah.

Report

(1992, Fall). “Anthropology in The Tech: Report on Fall 1992 Activities” in March 1993 and the accompanying summary “The Tech Project: Issues, Implications, and New Directions: A Summary of Anthropology in ”The Tech,”  Co-authored with C. Darrah.

Article

(1990). China 2020: Looking Forward. Futures Research Quarterly. 6(3): 5-12.

Article

(1985). Millennialism in the Holistic Health Movement. Cultural Futures Research. 8(1): 29-43.

Report

(1977- 1982). Authored descriptive and analytical portions of the archaeological reports for projects in Central Coastal and Sierran California, especially concerning laboratory/field methods, curation, shell or historic analysis for SIERRA NATIONAL FOREST, UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE, PIII ASSOCIATES [Dinkey], and the SOCIAL PROCESS RESEARCH INSTITUTE [Tecolote II, SBa 1731, SBa 1733, SBa 1203, SBa 1529]. 

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