Professor Emeritus Harold C. Conklin (born 1926) is an anthropologist

Anthropology

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 who has conducted extensive ethnoecological

Ethnoecology

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 and linguistic

Linguistics

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 field research in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

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 (particularly the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

) and is a pioneer of ethnoscience

Ethnoscience

Ethnoscience has been defined as an attempt "to reconstitute what serves as science for others, their practices of looking after themselves and their bodies, their botanical knowledge, but also their forms of classification, of making connections, etc." .-Origins of Ethnoscience:Ethnoscience’s...

, documenting indigenous ways of understanding and knowing the world. Minnesota State University

Minnesota State University, Mankato

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's E-Museum describes his anthropological contribution as follows:

"Conklin was one of the world's leading authorities in the field of ethnoscience .. He was a pioneer in doing research on the indigenous systems of tropical forests and terraced agriculture... Mindoro (the Hanunoo) and Luzon (the Ifugao) in the Philippines were his main field sites Through his research in the Philippines, Conklin is responsible for amassing one of the largest ethnographic collections from that area. His collection is at Yale

Yale University

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, where he was curator from 1974 until 1996, when he retired."

Publications

Some of Harold Conklin's publications include:

• (1955a) "Hanunóo Color Categories" Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 11, No. 4. pg. 339-344
• (1955b) The Relationship of Hanunoo Agriculture to the Plant World
• (1956) "Tagalog Speech Disguise" Language, Vol. 32, No. 1. pg. 136-139.
• (1957) The Relation of Hanunoo Agriculture
• (1959a) "Facts and Comments. Ecological Interpretations and Plant Domestication" American Antiquity, Vol. 25, No. 2. pg. 260-262
• (1959b) "Linguistic Play in Its Cultural Context" Language, Vol. 35, No. 4. pg. 631-636.
• (1963) The Study of Shifting Cultivation. Washington: Technical Publications
• (1967) An Ethnoecological Approach to Shifting Agriculture
• (1980) Ethnographic Atlas of Ifugao
  Ifugao
  Ifugao is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Covering a total land area of 262,820 hectares, the province of Ifugao is located in a mountainous region characterized by rugged terrain, river valleys, and massive forests...
  
  : A Study of Environment, Culture, and Society in northern Luzon
  Luzon
  Luzon is the largest island in the Philippines. It is located in the northernmost region of the archipelago, and is also the name for one of the three primary island groups in the country centered on the Island of Luzon...
  
  
• (1986) "Symbolism and Beyond. Hanunóo Color Categories" Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 42, No. 3, pg. 441-446.

Material on-line

• Conklin, Harold. C (1949) "Bamboo Literacy on Mindoro" Pacific Discovery Vol 3. Pg 4-11 Accessed 12 August 2009
• Conklin, Harold. C (1957) "Hanunóo agriculture: An Example of Shifting Cultivation in the Philippines" Unasylva. Vol. 11, No. 4 Accessed 12 August 2009

External links

• "Bibliographical Note: Harold Conklin" Cordillera Northern Luzon ArchiveAccessed 10 August 2009
• "Harold C. Conklin" Minnesota State UniversityAccessed 10 August 2009
• "Harold C. Conklin, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology (Ph.D. Yale University, 1955)" Yale University Anthropology FacultyAccessed 10 August 2009
• "Biography" Yale UniversityAccessed 10 August 2009
• Review of Conklin, Harold C., (2007) Fine Description: Ethnographic and Linguistic Essays Accessed 10 August 2009