Cognitive Anthropology . . . representative activities


Workshops (organized and led)

Gatewood, J.B. 2024. Installing and Using ANTHROPAC 4.983X to Do Consensus Analyses. Five-hour Zoom session for previous participants in SfAA/SAS cultural consensus analysis workshops. May 16.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2024. Cultural Consensus Analysis. Annual Meetings of Society for Anthropological Sciences and Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, March 29.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2023. Cultural Consensus Analysis. Annual Meetings of Society for Anthropological Sciences and Society for Applied Anthropology, Cincinnati, OH, March 31.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2022. Cultural Consensus Analysis. Annual Meetings of Society for Anthropological Sciences and Society for Applied Anthropology, Salt Lake City, UT, March 25 [done "virtually" due to COVID-19 pandemic].

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2021. Cultural Consensus Analysis. Annual Meetings of Society for Anthropological Sciences and Society for Applied Anthropology, Norfolk, VA, March 19 [done "virtually" due to COVID-19 pandemic].

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2019. Cultural Consensus Analysis. Annual Meetings of Society for Anthropological Sciences and Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR, March 22.

Gatewood, J.B. 2017. Cultural Consensus Analysis. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, May 25.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2017. Cultural Consensus Analysis. Annual Meetings of Society for Anthropological Sciences and Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, March 31.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2016. Cultural Consensus Analysis. Annual Meetings of Society for Anthropological Sciences and Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada, April 1.

Gatewood, J.B. 2015. Cultural Consensus Analysis: Theory and Applications. University of Bergen, Norway, May 21.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2015. Cultural Consensus Analysis. Annual Meetings of Society for Anthropological Sciences and Society for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh, PA, March 26.

Gatewood, J.B. 2012. Cultural Consensus Analysis: Theory, Method, and Applications. Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld University, Germany, June 21-22.

Publications

Gatewood, J.B. 2024. Thinking while doing: Active cognition in bartending. In Giovanni Bennardo, Victor 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, A., Mendoza Straffon, L., Gatewood, J.B., and Beller, S. 2023. The dual role of culture for reconstructing early sapiens cognition. Psychological Review. Advance Online Publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000462

Bender, A. and Gatewood, J.B. 2021. Knowledge is belief – and shaped by culture. [commentary on Jonathan Phillips, et al., “Knowledge before belief”]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44: E143.

Gatewood, J.B. 2015. Eastern Pennsylvania farmers’ perceptions of the factors most responsible for farming success. In Giovanni Bennardo, ed., Local Knowledge and Climate Change: Fieldwork Experiences, pp. 10-21. Working Paper #2 of the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University.

Gatewood, J.B. 2012. Cultural models, consensus analysis, and the social organization of knowledge. Topics in Cognitive Science 4: 362 371. [In special issue: Does Cognitive Science Need Anthropology? edited by Sieghard Beller, Andrea Bender, and Douglas L. Medin]

Cameron, C.M. and Gatewood, J.B. 2012. The numen experience in heritage tourism. In The Cultural Moment in Tourism, Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, and Steve Watson, eds. Pp. 235-251. New York: Routledge.

Gatewood, J.B. 2012. Conjoining cultural models and consensus analysis: Two examples and some nuts-n-bolts advice. In Giovanni Bennardo, ed., Cultural Models of Nature and the Environment: Self, Space, and Causality, pp. 104-122. Working Paper #1 of the Institute for the Study of Environment, Sustainability, and Energy. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University.

Gatewood, J.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.

Gatewood, J.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.

Gatewood, J.B. and Cameron, C.M. 2009. Belonger Perceptions of Tourism and Its Impacts in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Final report to the Ministry of Tourism, Turks and Caicos Islands.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2008. Employee Perceptions of Credit Unions: Implications for Member Profitability. Madison, WI: Filene Research Institute Monograph #162.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2006. Employee Perceptions of Credit Unions: A Pilot Study. Madison, WI: Filene Research Institute Monograph #1752-113.

Gatewood, J.B. and Cameron, C.M. 2004. Battlefield pilgrims at Gettysburg National Military Park. Ethnology 43, 3: 193-21.

Cameron, C.M. and Gatewood, J.B. 2003. Seeking numinous experiences in the unremembered past. Ethnology 42, 1: 55-71.

Gatewood, J.B. 2001. Reflections on the nature of cultural distributions and the units of culture problem. Cross-Cultural Research 35, 2: 227-241.

Gatewood, J.B. 2000. Distributional instability and the units of culture. Ethnology 39, 4: 293-303.

Cameron, C.M. and Gatewood, J.B. 2000. Excursions into the un-remembered past: What people want from visits to historical sites. The Public Historian 22, 3: 107-127.

Gatewood, J.B. 1999 & 2000. Culture...one step at a time, Parts 1 and 2. The Behavioral Measurement Letter, [Part 1] 6, 2: 5-10, (1999) & [Part 2] 7, 1/2: 20-24, (2000).

Cameron, C.M. and Gatewood, J.B. 1994. The authentic interior: Questing Gemeinschaft in post-industrial society. Human Organization 53, 1: 21-32.

Gatewood, J.B. 1985. Actions speak louder than words. In Janet Dougherty, ed., Directions in Cognitive Anthropology, pp. 199-219. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Gatewood, J.B. 1984. Familiarity, vocabulary size, and recognition ability in four semantic domains. American Ethnologist 11, 3: 507-527.

Gatewood, J.B. 1983. Loose talk: Linguistic competence and recognition ability. American Anthropologist 85, 2: 378-387.

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

Gatewood, J.B. 1978. Fishing, Memory, and the Stability of Culture Complexes. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Conference Papers / Lectures

Gatewood, J.B. 2024. Playing pool: Head and hand working together. 20th Meeting, Society for Anthropological Sciences, Santa Fe, NM.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2016. Developing, validating, and delivering a cultural model of credit unions: A tale of two applied studies. 12th Meeting, Society for Anthropological Sciences, Vancouver, Canada.

Gatewood, J.B. 2015. Eastern Pennsylvania farmer's thinking about causality (and luck) -- preliminary findings. 11th Meeting, Society for Anthropological Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.

Gatewood, J.B. 2014. Criteria for regarding group-group differences in cognition as “cultural” differences. 10th Meeting, Society for Anthropological Sciences, Albuquerque, NM.

Gatewood, J.B. 2014. Consensus analysis’s un-discussed sampling issue: How many questions are needed to establish credible assessments of respondent-by-respondent similarity? 10th Meeting, Society for Anthropological Sciences, Albuquerque, NM.

Gatewood, J.B. and Cameron, C.M. 2011. Residents' support of tourism in the Turks and Caicos Islands: Self-interest or altruism? 110th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Quebec.

Gatewood, J.B. 2011. Conjoining cultural models and consensus analysis: Two examples and some nuts-n-bolts advice. Invited Presentation, (NSF-sponsored Workshop) Cultural Models of Nature and the Environment: Space, Self, and Causality, Giovanni Bennardo, organizer, Northern Illinois University, September 2-3.

Gatewood, J.B. and Cameron, C.M. 2010. Consensus analysis and subcultural variation: Examining the second consensus factor. 109th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2010. A distinctive role for cognitive anthropology within cognitive science. 6th Meeting, Society for Anthropological Sciences, Albuquerque, NM.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2009. Perspectival diversity and consensus analysis. 108th Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Gatewood, J.B. 2009. Two methodological issues concerning consensus analysis: Counter-balancing items and interpreting the 2nd factor. 5th Meeting, Society for Anthropological Sciences, Las Vegas, NV.

Gatewood, J.B. and Cameron, C.M. 2008. Temporal scale and degree of consensus as variables in cultural model research: Residents’ understandings of tourism in the Turks and Caicos Islands. 107th Meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Gatewood, J.B. and Cameron, C.M. 2008. Conjoining cultural models and consensus analysis: Variations in residents' understandings of tourism in the Turks and Caicos Islands. 4th Meeting, Society for Anthropological Sciences, New Orleans, LA.

Gatewood, J.B. and Cameron, C.M. 2007. A cultural model of tourism in the Turks and Caicos Islands. 106th Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.

Gatewood, J.B. 2006. A walk on the wild side (of cognition). Cognitive Science Group, University of Connecticut, March 17.

Gatewood, J.B. 2006. Whose cultural model is it? The need for ex post facto validity checks. 2nd Meeting, Society for Anthropological Sciences, Savannah, GA.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2005. The blind men and the credit union: A socially distributed cultural model. Biennial Meeting, Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, CA.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W. 2005. Cultural models and multiple perspectives: Employees' understandings of credit unions. 1st Meeting, Society for Anthropological Sciences, Sante Fe, NM.

Gatewood, J.B. and Lowe, J.W.G. 2004. The blind men and the credit union: A socially distributed cultural model. 103rd Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Gatewood, J.B. 2004. The blind men and the credit union: Adventures with a socially distributed cultural model. Conference on Cultural Models (Giovanni Bennardo, organizer), Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University.

Gatewood, J.B. and Cameron, C.M. 2002. Visitor impressions of Gettysburg National Military Park. 101st Meeting, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Gatewood, J.B. 2001. Active cognition in bartending. 100th Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.

Gatewood, J.B. and Cameron, C.M. 2000. Measures of numen-seeking at Gettysburg National Military Park. 99th Meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Gatewood, J.B. and Murray, D.E. 1999. Differential knowledge concerning students in an academic institution: The relative effects of interaction patterns, network position, status-role, institutional experience, and independent invention. 98th Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.

Gatewood, J.B. 1998. Some formal contrasts between language and other forms of behavior-action. 97th Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Gatewood, J.B. 1996. Ignorance, knowledge, and dummy categories: Social and cognitive aspects of expertise. 95th Meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Gatewood, J.B. and Cameron, C.M. 1995. Semantic models and survey research: What do respondents respond to? 82nd Meeting, Northeastern Anthropological Association, Lake Placid, NY.

Gatewood, J.B. 1994. Personal knowledge and collective representations. 93rd Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Gatewood, J.B. 1993. Intracultural variability and problem-solving. 92nd Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.

Gatewood, J.B. 1991. Taking orders, making drinks: Active cognition in bartending. 50th Meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology, Charleston, SC.

Other Activites

Director (2004-2009 and spring 2013), Cognitive Science Program, Lehigh University.

Production Editor (1993-2001), CogSci News (the newsletter of Lehigh's Cognitive Science Program)
Editor (1988-1993), CogSci News (the newsletter of Lehigh's Cognitive Science Program)

Organizer/coordinator (1985-1987), initiative to form an interdisciplinary program in cognitive science at Lehigh University.


Last updated August 29, 2024, by JBG1@Lehigh.edu