Additional Information on Selected Books
Keith F. Otterbein
Professor
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Office: Fillmore, Room 374 Phone: (716) 645-0403 Email: keitho@buffalo.edu |
Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:30 - 3:30
Research Interests
Topics: Political Anthropology (law and war), Social Structure (family organization and folk housing)
Areas: Caribbean, West Africa, and American South
Methodologies: Cross-cultural research, Ethnographic research methods
Selected Publications
2004. How War Began. College Station, Texas A & M University Press.
1994. Feuding and Warfare: Selected Works of Keith F. Otterbein. Langhorne, Gordon and Breach.
1986. The Ultimate Coercive Sanction: A Cross Cultural Study of Capital Punishment. New Haven, Human Relations Area Files Press.
1975. Changing House Types in Long Bay Cays: The Evolution of Folk Housing in an Out Island Bahamian Community. HRAFlex Book No. SW1 001. New Haven, Human Relations Area Files Press.
1972/1977. Comparative Cultural Analysis: An Introduction to Anthropology. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (2nd edition 1977 major expansion)
1970/1985/1989. The Evolution of War: A Cross Cultural Study. New Haven, Human Relations Area Files Press. (2nd edition - new Preface and Index; 3rd edition - 2 new Appendices)
1966. The Andros Islanders: A Study of Family Organization in the Bahamas. Lawrence, University of Kansas Press.
Undergraduate Courses Offered
- APY 217 | Warfare
- APY 218 | Men, Women, and War
- APY 401 | History of Anthropology
- APY 403 | Comparing Cultures Worldwide
- APY 429 | Anthropology of Architecture
Graduate Courses Offered
- APY 509
- APY 581 | Comparing Cultures Worldwide
- APY 582 | Anthropology of Architecture
- APY 592
- APY 661 | History of Anthropology