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John B. Gatewood

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

jbg1@lehigh.edu
Education:

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978

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Research Areas

Additional Interests

  • Cognitive Anthropology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cultural Ecology (Fisheries)
  • Applied/Commercial Anthropology
  • Tourism Studies
  • Research Methods
  • Contemporary North America
  • Cultural Consensus Analysis
  • Caribbean

Biography

John B. Gatewood joined Lehigh University’s faculty as an assistant professor in fall of 1978 in what was then the Department of Social Relations. He retired in 2018 as professor emeritus of anthropology. He was educated in the four-field tradition of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D., 1978) and has published and taught in all four subfields of anthropology during his 40-year, interdisciplinary career at Lehigh. His principal research interests are cognitive anthropology, cultural ecology (fisheries), tourism, applied/commercial anthropology, and research methods. Within cognitive anthropology, his primary interests are cognition-in-action and the social organization of knowledge, both of which are relevant to and benefit from cognitive science more generally.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & WORKSHOPS

Research Monographs

Gatewood, John B. and Catherine M. Cameron. 2009. Belonger Perceptions of Tourism and Its Impacts in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Final report to the Turks and Caicos Islands Ministry of Tourism. 124pp. 
(Available at:  http://www.lehigh.edu/~jbg1/Perceptions-of-Tourism.pdf )

Gatewood, John B. and John W. Lowe. 2008. Employee Perceptions of Credit Unions: Implications for Member Profitability. Madison, WI: Filene Research Institute. 71pp.
(Available at: http://www.lehigh.edu/~jbg1/Credit-Unions-2008.pdf )

Gatewood, John B. and John W. Lowe, with Carolyn E. Kelly. 2006. Employee Perceptions of Credit Unions: A Pilot Study. Madison, WI: Filene Research Institute. 55pp.

Articles / Chapters

Gatewood, John B. 2024. Thinking While Doing: Active Cognition in Bartending. In Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, and Stephen Chrisomalis, eds., Cognition In and Out of the Mind: Advances in Cultural Model Theory, pp. 123-158. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bender, Andrea, Larissa Mendoza Straffon, John B. Gatewood, and Sieghard Beller. 2023. The Dual Role of Culture for Reconstructing Early Sapiens Cognition. Psychological Review. (Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000462)

Bender, Andrea and John B. Gatewood. 2021. Knowledge Is Belief – and Shaped by Culture [commentary on Jonathan Phillips, et al., “Knowledge before Belief”]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44: E143.

Gatewood, John B. 2012. Cultural Models, Consensus Analysis, and the Social Organization of Knowledge. Topics in Cognitive Science 4(3): 362-371. [In special issue: Does Cognitive Science Need Anthropology? Sieghard Beller, Andrea Bender, and Douglas L. Medin, eds.]

Cameron, Catherine M. and John B. Gatewood. 2012. The Numen Experience in Heritage Tourism. In Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, and Steve Watson, eds., The Cultural Moment in Heritage Tourism: New Perspectives on Performance and Engagement, pp. 235-251. London: Routledge.

Gatewood, John B. 2011. Personal Knowledge and Collective Representations. In David Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor de Munck, and Michael Fischer, eds., A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology, pp. 102-114. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Gatewood, John B. 2011. Socially Distributed Cognition. In Patrick C. Hogan, ed., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, pp. 779-781. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Cameron, Catherine M. and John B. Gatewood. 2008. Beyond Sun, Sand, and Sea: The Emergent Tourism Programme in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Journal of Heritage Tourism 3(1): 55-73.

Gatewood, John B. and Cameron, Catherine M. 2004. Battlefield Pilgrims at Gettysburg National Military Park. Ethnology 43(3): 193-216.

Cameron, Catherine M. and Gatewood, John B. 2003. Seeking Numinous Experiences in the Unremembered Past. Ethnology 42(1): 55-71.

Gatewood, John B. 2001. Reflections on the Nature of Cultural Distributions and the Units of Culture Problem. Cross Cultural Research 35(2): 227-241.

Gatewood, John B. 2000. Distributional Instability and the Units of Culture. Ethnology 39(4): 293-303.

Cameron, Catherine M. and Gatewood, John B. 2000. Excursions into the Un-Remembered Past: What People Want from Visits to Historical Sites. The Public Historian 22(3): 107-127.

Cameron, Catherine M. and John B. Gatewood. 1994. The Authentic Interior: Questing Gemeinschaft in Post‑Industrial Society. Human Organization 53(1): 21-32.

Gatewood, John B. 1993. Ecology, Efficiency, Equity, and Competitiveness. In Steven L. Goldman, ed., Competitiveness and American Society, pp. 123-155. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press.

Gatewood, John B. and Pamela M. Mace. 1990.  Hard Work versus Patience: Simulation of Fishing Strategies in Nova Scotian Herring Purse Seining. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 2(4): 329-352.

Gatewood, John B. and Bonnie J. McCay. 1990. Comparison of Job Satisfaction in Six New Jersey Fisheries: Implications for Management. Human Organization 49(1): 14-25.

Gatewood, John B. 1989. Competition for Cultural Images: Fisherman versus Logger in Southeast Alaska. Maritime Anthropological Studies 2(2): 87-104.

Gatewood, John B., Catherine M. Cameron, and Bennett Eisenberg. 1989. Problems in Determining the Audience Composition of a Multi-Day Festival from Survey Data. Cultural Anthropology Methods Newsletter [now, Field Methods] 1(1): 3-5.

Gatewood, John B. 1985. Actions Speak Louder than Words. In Janet W. D. Dougherty, ed., Directions in Cognitive Anthropology, pp. 199-219. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Gatewood, John B. 1984. A Short Typology of Ethnographic Genres, or Ways to Write about Other Peoples. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 9(4): 5-10.

Gatewood, John B. 1984. Familiarity, Vocabulary Size, and Recognition Ability in Four Semantic Domains. American Ethnologist 11(3): 507-527.

Gatewood, John B. 1984. Cooperation, Competition, and Synergy: Information-Sharing Groups among Southeast Alaskan Salmon Seiners. American Ethnologist 11(2): 350-370.

Gatewood, John B. 1983. Loose Talk: Linguistic Competence and Recognition Ability. American Anthropologist 85(2): 378-387.

Gatewood, John B. 1983. Deciding Where to Fish: The Skipper's Dilemma in Southeast Alaskan Salmon Seining. Coastal Zone Management Journal 10(4): 347-367.

Gatewood, John B. and Robert Rosenwein. 1981. Interactional Synchrony: Genuine or Spurious? A Critique of Recent Research. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 6(1): 12-29.

Workshops Presented

2024     “Installing and Using ANTHROPAC 4.983X to Do Cultural Consensus Analyses.” Five-hour Zoom session for previous participants in SfAA/SAS workshops on cultural consensus analysis. May 16.

2024     (with John W. Lowe) “Cultural Consensus Analysis.” Sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Santa Fe, NM. March 29.

2023     (with John W. Lowe) “Cultural Consensus Analysis.” Sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Cincinnati, OH. March 31.

2022     (with John W. Lowe) “Cultural Consensus Analysis.” Sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT. March 25.

2021     (with John W. Lowe) “Cultural Consensus Analysis.” Sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Norfolk, VA. March 19.

2019     (with John W. Lowe) “Cultural Consensus Analysis.” Sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Portland, OR. March 22.

2017     “Cultural Consensus Analysis: Theory and Applications.” Invited Workshop, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL. May 25-26.

2017     (with John W. Lowe) “Cultural Consensus Analysis.” Sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Santa Fe, NM. March 31.

2016     (with John W. Lowe) “Cultural Consensus Analysis.” Sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Vancouver, Canada. April 1.

2015     “Cultural Consensus Analysis: Theory and Applications.” Invited Workshop, University of Bergen, Norway. May 21.

2015     (with John W. Lowe) “Cultural Consensus Analysis.” Sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA. March 26.

2012     “Cultural Consensus Analysis: Theory, Method, and Applications.” Invited Workshop, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, Germany. June 21-22.

Teaching

Courses Taught

Introductory Anthropology (four-field)            Cognitive Anthropology

Introductory Cultural Anthropology                 Culture and Personality

Introductory Physical Anthropology                Linguistics

Human Nature and Cultural Diversity              Archaeological Methods

North American Indians                                      Human Evolution

Cultures of the Pacific                                          Theories of History and Culture

Kinship and Social Organization                       Research Methods and Statistics

Environment and Culture                                   Computer Applications

Environment and the Consumer Society       Field School in Caribbean Anthropology

Anthropology of Fishing                                    [ a variety of Seminars and Readings courses ]