James B Greenberg

Interests

Research

Dr. Greenberg has worked in peasant and fishing communities in Mexico, and has received numerous grants for borderlands research. His current research includes a project on the history of applied anthropology at the University of Arizona. "My research broadly examines the impact of global capital on development and on the well-being of both human populations and the ecosystems that sustain them. Specifically, my research looks both at the level of larger processes on the historical development of capital, and at the local variants of capital it has spawn. In pursuing these interests, I have focused on credit: looking at how it is culturally embedded and used as economic instrument, social relationship, and technology of power. At the level of local processes, my research examines the incorporation of local populations and local ecologies into wider systems, and how their inclusion in them changes their dynamics."

Teaching

Dr. Greenberg's teaching interests lie in political ecology, natural resource anthropology, economic anthropology, globalization, law and development, violence, urban anthropology, migration, household livelihoods, peasants, Latin America, and the borderlands.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Park, T. K. (2017). The roots of western finance: power, ethics, and social capital in the ancient world.. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books..
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  ContentsIntroduction and Overview1. Mesopotamian Roots of the Modern Financial System2. Mesopotamian Financial Innovations3. Financing Ancient Egypt’s Organizational Economy4. Finance and Social Capital in Classical Greece and Rome5. Justice to Altruism: Early Judaeo-Christian Finance6. Islamic Finances and the Eastern MediterraneanConclusion: Hidden Interests and the Anthropology of CreditAppendix: Technologies of Power and the Metrology of grain storage in the ancient Near East
• Park, T. K., & Greenberg, J. B. (2017). Hidden Interests in credit and finance: power, ethics and social capital across the last millennium. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield.
• Greenberg, J. B., & Biersack, A. (2012). Reimagining Political Ecology.
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  For this reprinting the editors each proof read it again, and corrected all errors found.;Your Role: Co-editor and chapter author.;Full Citation: Biersack, Aletta, and James B. Greenberg. Second Printing (2012). Reimagining Political Ecology, Duke University Press, with Aletta Biersack, 419 pp. First printing 2006.;Electronic: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon;
• Greenberg, J. B., Weaver, T., Alexander, W. L., & Browning-Aiken, A. (2012). Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico.
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  Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico details the impact of neoliberal practice on the production and exchange of basic resources in working-class communities in Mexico. Using anthropological investigations and a market-driven approach, contributors explain how uneven policies have undermined constitutional protections and working-class interests since the Mexican Revolution of 1910.Detailed ethnographic fieldwork shows how foreign investment, privatization, deregulation, and elimination of welfare benefits have devastated national industries and natural resources and threatened agriculture, driving the campesinos and working class deeper into poverty. Focusing on specific commodity chains and the changes to production and marketing under neoliberalism, the contributors highlight the detrimental impacts of policies by telling the stories of those most affected by these changes. They detail the complex interplay of local and global forces, from the politically mediated systems of demand found at the local level to the increasingly powerful municipal and state governments and the global trade and banking institutions.Sharing a common theoretical perspective and method throughout the chapters, Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico is a multi-sited ethnography that makes a significant contribution to studies of neoliberal ideology in practice.;Your Role: Second Editor, author of Preface, first author of Chapter 1, "The Neoliberal Transformation of Mexico; first author of Chapter 2, Theorizing Neoliberalism; author of Chapter 11; The Impact of Neoliberal Policies on Rural Producers in Mexico; first author of Chapter 12, Neoliberal Capital and the Mobility Approach in Anthropology; first author Chapter 15 Conclusion: Structural Adjustment, Structural Violence;Full Citation: Weaver, Thomas, James B. Greenberg, William L Alexander, Anne Browning Aiken (editors). 2012. Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico. Boulder: University of Colorado Press. Cloth, ISBN 978-1-60732-171-2;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Josiah McC Heyman (co-author of Chapter 12) is at the University of Texas, El PasoWilliam L Alexander (co-editor) is at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.;

Chapters

• Greenberg, J. B., & Mandache, L. A. (2017). Neoliberal Policies and the Reshaping of the US-Mexico Border: the Case of Arizona. In Anthropological Visions of the U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region. Carlos Velez-Ibanez and Josiah McHeyman eds.(pp 198-227). Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
• Greenberg, J. B. (2012). The Impact of Neoliberal Policies on Rural Producers in Oaxaca, Mexico (Chapter 11). In Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico. University of Colorado Press.
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• Greenberg, J. B., & Heyman, J. M. (2012). Neoliberal Capital and the Mobility Approach in Anthropology (Chapter 12). In Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico. University of Colorado Press.
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  ;Your Role: First author;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Josiah McC Heyman (University of Texas, El Paso);
• Greenberg, J. B., Weaver, T., Alexander, W., & Browning-Aiken, A. (2012). Conclusion: Structural Adjustment, Structural Violence (Chapter 15). In Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico. University of Colorado Press.
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  ;Your Role: First and Primary author;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: William Alexander (University of North Carolina, Wilimington);
• Greenberg, J. B., Weaver, T., Alexander, W., & Browning-Aiken, A. (2012). Preface. In Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico. University of Colorado Press.
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  ;Your Role: First and primary author: YesCollaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: William Alexander (University of North Carolina, Wilmington;
• Greenberg, J. B., Weaver, T., Alexander, W., & Browning-Aiken, A. (2012). The Neoliberal Transformation of Mexico (Chapter 1). In Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico. University of Colorado Press.
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  ;Your Role: First and primary author.;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: William Alexander (University of North Carolina, Wilimington);
• Greenberg, J. B., Weaver, T., Alexander, W., & Browning-Aiken, A. (2012). Theorizing Neoliberalism (Chapter 2). In Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico. University of Colorado Press.
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  ;Your Role: First and primary author;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: William Alexander (University of North Carolina, Wilimington);

Journals/Publications

• Greenberg, J. B. (2016). Good Vibrations, Strings Attached: The Political Ecology of the Guitar.. Sociology and Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 4(5), pp. 431 - 438, 14 ms pages SA-19606271-20160302-195076.pdf.
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  This article uses my twenty year odyssey into the world of guitar collecting and dealing to examine the political ecology of the guitar from forests to construction: delving both into its environmental impacts and attempts to protect endangered species, it focuses on the impact of two pieces of legislation have on guitar making, the international guitar trade, and guitar ownership: the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); and the Lacey Act Amendments of 2008. In so doing, it examines the underlying problems (deforestation, endangered species, illicit trade in wood, and unfair trade advantages) that these pieces of legislation were meantto address; and the politicization of these efforts that has the US Congress deadlocked. This account also analyzes the practical difficulties that legal compliance presents, and finally proposes what alternatives may be reasonable. Key Words: political ecology, deforestation, CITES, illegal wood trade, endangered species, Lacey Act, unfair trade.
• Greenberg, J. B. (2013). Microfinance, Law, and Development: A Case Study in Mali.. Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol.30(No 1), 135-162.
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  Since the early 1980s microfinance has become one of the basic tools used in efforts to reduce poverty, particularly by targeting women. Because the poorest of the poor are often dispersed in remote areas, efforts to reach them frequently face the last mile problem. Two diverging approaches organizations have taken to this problem. One is to follow the path centralization, and so achieve the economies of scale necessary to reach the poor. The other is a decentralized approach that helps local communities to form self-help groups. Microfinance, however, is based on is based on some very shaky assumptions: 1) that the poor lack access and want affordable credit; 2) the poor are natural entrepreneurs; and 3) that even small loans can make a difference. This article compares these two approaches, and then uses ethnographic data on microfinance in Mali to reveal its limitations. In Mali, the cards are stacked against small entrepreneurs, particularly in small villages. Women, for example, must balance their domestic duties against any moneymaking activities in which they may engage. Like their capital, their time is limited. As a result, women tend to produce the same kinds of good, taking them to local markets where prices are poor because they seldom produce enough to go to afford to travel to more distant markets where prices may be better. Even should they turn a profit, because their earnings are seldom keep separate from household finances, when emergencies arise their earnings are often used meet these expenses, decapitalizing their microenterprises. These data show that while microfinance may not be engine that will lift people out of poverty, it does allow for income smoothing, and thus provides a more stable platform for development. So while microfinance may not be a panacea for the poor, the small changes it does produce are very real and are greatly appreciated.;Your Role: Sole author;

Presentations

• Greenberg, J. B. (2017, March). A Tensor Theory of Credit and a History of Western Finance. Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, MN: Political Ecology Society.
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  PARK, Thomas and GREENBERG, James B. (U Arizona) A Tensor Theoryof Credit and a History of Western Finance. A multidimensional view of creditshould include its impact on various parties, institutions, and fields. We maywant to talk about the impact of credit on poor country development in the1980s or the role of risky credit on the health of financial institutions in the 21stcentury. Tensors were developed in physics to evaluate the effects of forces; aforce exerted at a particular angle on a metal would cause stress with both atensile and shear component. We imagine a vocabulary for credit that allowsus to recognize the multidimensional impacts of credit and their resultantramifications. tpark@email.arizona.edu (F-164)
• Greenberg, J. B. (2017, May). Greenberg, James. (2017) “Reflections on Mauss: from the Gift to Credit and Purchased Gifts.”. Keynote address at the Chaire Singleton Symposium, The social link in relation to the movement of goods, people and capital: Un nouveau regard sur le "don" / A new look at the “gift.” Video by the Laboratoire d’anthropologie perspective, Université Catholique de Louvain.. Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain, Belgium, 3 - 5 May: Chaire Singleton Symposium.
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  Greenberg, James. (2017) “Reflections on Mauss: from the Gift to Credit and Purchased Gifts.” Keynote address at the Chaire Singleton Symposium, The social link in relation to the movement of goods, people and capital: Un nouveau regard sur le "don" / A new look at the “gift.” Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain, Belgium, 3 - 5 May. Video by the Laboratoire d’anthropologie perspective, Université Catholique de Louvain. Published in vimeo: https://vimeo.com/217133839
• Greenberg, J. B. (2016, July.). Dangerous Groups and Perilous Ideas: Notes toward and anthropological understanding of terrorism.. International Conference: Political Ecologies of Conflict, Capital and Contestation.. Wageningen the Netherlands.: Wageningen University..
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  AbstractWe are living in dangerous times. Increasingly armed conflicts involve non-state actors. Whether we label them as freedom fighters, ethnic militias, or terrorists, this phenomena raises profound questions not just about causes and contexts, but how anthropology thinks about these matters. While headlines focus on "terrorism," this phenomena needs to be understood within a family of related phenomena. In this paper I use a political ecology approach and draw upon a host of related literatures in anthropology that includes the anthropology of war, blood feuding, violence, armies, terrorism, gangs and organized crime, messianic and revitalized movements, secret societies, cults, ritual and religion to explore 1) how do groups recruit their members and reshape their souls to the point of being willing to die for them 2) as this would seem to involve ideological work, I propose to explore how secular or sacred ideas are fashioned into a perilous set of ideas that form a central credo.
• Greenberg, J. B. (2015, March). The Road Not Taken: Medieval Credit in the Iberian Peninsula. Society for Applied Anthropology. Pittsburgh: Political Ecology Society.
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  The Road Not Taken: Medieval Credit in the Iberian PeninsulaDuring the Middle Ages Iberia was made and remade bystruggles between Muslims and Christians that ultimately changed Iberia’splace within international patterns of trade. This paper takes a political ecologyapproach to explore why this occurred, and why the development of capitalismseems to have taken a very different path from that being followed in IslamicIberia, one not heavily influenced by Islamic methods of trade, finance andcredit, or its sophisticated system of commercial law, despite the fact that byunder Islamic rule, Christians, Muslims, and Jews often did business together,and by the 10th century had developed a thriving international trade withthe middle east and beyond that had made Cordoba the most populace andprosperous city in Western Europe
• Greenberg, J. B. (2016, Spring). Credit and Its Uses in Development: Some Lessons from Anthropology and Economic History. Society for Applied Anthropology / Political Ecology Society. Vancouver, BC: Political Ecology Society.
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  "Credit and Its Uses in Development Some Lessons from Anthropology and Economic History." Credit continues to be one of the basic tools in development. This paper address the oversimple and narrow treatment of credit in economics which has tended to focus on a few technical dimensions of credit such as interest rates and risk, leaving aside its many other social, political, and cultural dimensions. It is just these omitted dimensions that we as anthropologist find fascinating. Unfortunately, credit has not received the attention it deserves by anthropologist. This paper explores some of the lessons that may be learned from studies in economic history and anthropology about the hidden cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions that are often hidden in credit arrangements
• Greenberg, J. B. (2014, March). Neoliberal Policies and the Reshaping of the US-Mexico Border: the Case of Arizona. Society for Applied Anthropology. Albuquerque: Society for Applied Anthropology.
• Greenberg, J. B. (2014, Spring). Good Vibrations: No Strings Attached.. Society for Applied Anthropology / Political Ecology Society. Albuquerque: Political Ecology Society.
• Greenberg, J. B. (2012, 2013-03-01). Wall Street to Main Street: The Anthropology of the Credit Crisis. Society for Applied Anthropology/ Political Ecology Society. Baltimore.
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  The credit crisis that began in the subprime mortgage market in 2007 has unfolded like a bad Vampire movie draining the life-blood of millions of innocent victims who have lost their homes, and have seen their pensions, stocks, securities and other investments lose value. Mad and hurt, many have looked for villains in all of this to blame. Blaming individuals, although satisfying some deep-seated need to hold someone accountable, is not particularly satisfying as an explanation. This paper looks at a variety of explanations of this crisis, and argues that in many ways it is the story of a perfect storm to which multiple systemic problems contributed: complex architecture of financial markets, regulatory failure, imperfect information, strategies of risk management, and globalization to name but a few.;Refereed: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Greenberg, J. B. (2011, 2011-03-01). Of Snails: Political Ecology, Livelihoods, and Marine Resources on the Oaxaca Coast. Political Ecology Society/ SFAA. Seattle.
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  Plicopurpura columellaris, a marine snail that lives rocks along the Mexico's Pacific Coast is an endangered species. This paper sums up the work that an interdisciplinary team did in the Summer of 2011 and explores the political ecology of human pressures on this snail along the Oaxacan coast.;Your Role: Sole author;Submitted: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Greenberg, J. B., & Guerin, C. (2011, 2011-10-01). Good Vibrations: The Guitar as Design, Craft and Function, University of Arizona Museum of Art Exhibit. Exhibit and Events. University of Arizona Museum of Art.
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  Greenberg, James B. and Charles Guerin (2011) Good Vibrations: The Guitar as Design, Craft and Function, University of Arizona Museum of Art Exhibit, Oct 21, 2011 to January 15 2012. (I helped Charles Guerin organize this exhibit by not only lending 33 guitars from my collection, but also suggest luthiers and collectors here in Arizona who he could approach to participate. For the exhibit I wrote the descriptions for each of the guitars I provided on display, and provided mp3 recordings, of each. As well I wrote a poster on the Evolution of the Classical Guitar). I also helped arrange for Panel Discussions and at least one concert using guitars from my collection. http://artmuseum.arizona.edu/exhibitions/Good_Vibrations.shtml;Your Role: In additon to lending 33 guitars from my collection, writing text, and providing mp3 recordings, I helped Charles Guerin, the director to contact other luthiers and collectors that would lend instruments and participate in panel discussions and helped arrange concerts using guitars from my collection. ;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
• Greenberg, J. B., & Stake, S. E. (2011, 2011-03-01). Lessons Learned: Perceptions of Tuberculosis in Juquila District of Oaxaca, Mexico.. Society for Applied Anthropology/ Political Ecology Meetings. Seattle.
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  This paper looks at tuberculosis in Oaxaca, Mexico, a state with a high percentage of indigenous population. In July 2010, the authors carried out a rapid assessment of tuberculosis in Oaxaca. The aim of this assessment was to 1) examine the official data on the incidence of tuberculosis in the State of Oaxaca; 2) describe the standard practices for medical treatment of tuberculosis in Oaxaca; 3) and, by focusing on the district of Juquila-a particularly poor region with a large indigenous populations-examine how its social and cultural context bear upon issues of prevention and control.;Your Role: First and primary author;Submitted: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Greenberg, J. B., & Weaver, T. (2011, 2011-03-01). TB and indigenous Migrant populations along the Arizona-Sonora Border. University of Arizona, Tucson.
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  This paper describes the challenges that TB among indigenous migrants from Mexico pose to health providers along the Arizona, Sonora border, and provides comparative perspectives using data from Oaxaca.;Your Role: First author and presenter.;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Greenberg, J. B., Dunn, B., Guerin, C., & Barraza-Diaz., M. (2011, 2011-12-01). Good Vibrations: The Guitar as Design, Craft and Function, Panel Discussion and Demonstration. Good Vibrations: The Guitar as Design, Craft and Function. UA Museum of Art.
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  Panel Discussion and Demonstration University of Arizona Museum of Art, Dec 2, 2011. Video in 13 parts. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGgcJO9ol2c).;Your Role: Panel participant, discussant of Historical guitars from my collection, being demonstrated.;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with undergraduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Brian Dunn is a luthier;Type of Presentation: University;
• Greenberg, J. B., Weaver, T., & Alvarez-Hernandez, G. (2011, 2011-03-01). TB, Health, and Migration on the US-Mexico Border. Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings. Seattle.
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  Undocumented workers and their families often slip through the cracks of underfunded public health programs that are ill prepared to find TB patients who do not want to be found for fear of deportation. This binational study examines tuberculosis among migrant workers on the US-Mexico border in Arizona and Sonora. We review the social, cultural, epidemiological, economic, and political factors that underlie diagnosis and treatment that contribute to high rates of this disease. The goal of this pilot study is to develop binational collaboration and contribute to the reduction of the burden of tuberculosis in this population by recommending policies that address TB screening, treatment and education in indigenous Mexican migrant communities in Sonora and Arizona.;Your Role: Second author;Submitted: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Dr. Gerardo Ă;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Greenberg, J. B. (2010, 2010-03-01). World Bank, Structural Adjustment, and the Political Ecology of Mexico.. Political Ecology Society. Merida, Yucan.
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• Greenberg, J. B., & Weaver, T. (2010, 2010-10-01). A Bi-national Pilot Study of the Burden of TB on Indigenous Mexican Migrants in Arizona and Sonora.. 10th Binational Policy Forum on Migration and Health. Guanajuato, Mexico.
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  Invited paper.;Your Role: second author;Invited: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Greenberg, J. B., Baro, M., Boyer, M., & Duebel., T. (2010, 2010-03-01). Saving for Change In Mali, Lessons Learned from a Savings Led Microfinance Model and Implications for Sustainable Development Program.. Society for Applied Anthropology. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  ;Your Role: second author;Refereed: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Greenberg, J. B. (2009, 2009-03-01). Credit, Savings, and Livelihood in Mali. Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe.
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  As part of panel on "Contextualizing Microfinance" that I organized and chaired.This paper explores the uses of credit and savings among polygamous households in rural Mali. It provides analysis of the internal dynamics of the ménage, how credit resources are allocated between the ménage and its subunits, and theimplications for livelihood.;Refereed: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Greenberg, J. B. (2008, 2008-03-01). BARA's Contributions to Political Ecology. Society for Applied Anthropology. Tampa.
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  Part of session organized with my students in Anthropology 507;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Greenberg, J. B. (2008, 2008-08-01). Anthropology, Social Entrepreneurship, and Connectivity: Putting. I.T. Together: The BARA-B2B Partnership. Global Social Benefit Incubator Workshop. Sta Clara University.
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  Presentation on Social Metrics for Social Entrepreneurs ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Greenberg, J. B., & Weaver, T. (2008, 2008-03-01). Prevalencia y transmision de Tuberculosis entre los Tarahumara. International Consortium for the Study of TB. Chihuahua, Chihuahau, Mexico.
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  Presented in Spanish;Your Role: Second author;Invited: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;

Others

• Greenberg, J. B. (2012, Fall). Impact Evaluation of the Saving for Change Program in Mali, 2008-2012.
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  This joint report presents the results of a large-scale, mixed methodology study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the impacts of the Saving for Change program in Mali. Longitudinal research was conducted from 2008-2012 by two complementary research teams: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) led a quantitative randomized controlled trial (RCT) in 500 villages and the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the University of Arizona led a qualitative study of 16 purposively selected villages within that larger sample. The main findings presented here indicate that while SfC's impact is moderate overall, it is nevertheless significant in helping the poorest of the poor, and we believe that SfC holds the promise for greater impacts over a longer period of time. Two of the most encouraging findings in terms of program impact are that SfC has had a significant effect on the accumulation of assets - both financial assets and livestock - and on households' ability to smooth consumption over the year, resulting in improved household food security as measured by the Freedom from Hunger (FFH) indices. We find weak and limited evidence for increased entrepreneurial activity and the quantitative and qualitative evidence diverges on SfC's impact on social capital and intra-household decision-making.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : Marie-Blanche Roudaut is a research assistant at Tango International. Tara Deubel is an assistant professor at Oakland UniversityLori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch, Bram Thuysbaert are researchers at Innovations for Poverty Action;Full Citation: Impact Evaluation of the Saving for Change Program in Mali, 2008-2012: A joint summary report submitted by: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of ArizonaInnovations for Poverty Action;Status: Report completed;
• Greenberg, J. B., Baro, M., Deubel, T., Boyer, M., & Roudaut, M. (2012). Final Qualitative Impace Evaluation of 'Saving for Change' Community Microfinance Program in Mali..
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  This report presents the results of the final phase of a longitudinal, qualitative study conducted by the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the University of Arizona over a four-year period from 2008-2012. The purpose of the larger study is to assess the operation and village level impacts of the Saving for Change (SfC) community microfinance program in Mali, West Africa. This study had two main objectives; the first was to conduct additional qualitative research in five villages of eight that were visited by BARA in 2009 in the RCT expansion zone to determine the impacts and evolution of SfC program over the three-year period of the impact study. The second objective was to conduct complementary qualitative research on a select number of households in 10 villages that have participated in IPA's high frequency surveys. In addition, this study also focused on gaining a better understanding of the value that households attribute to the SfC program in contrast to a range of other available financial tools, including tontines and other sources of savings and credit that exist at the village level in the communities studied.;Your Role: I wrote the critical sections on Livelihood Stategies, Coping Stategies, Uses and Impacts of SfC loans and Profits, and Credit in Malian Villages.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Tara Deubel is a assistant professor at Oakland University; Marie-Blanch Roudaut is a research assistant at Tango International.;
• Greenberg, J. B., Weaver, T., Alexander, W. L., & An, . (2012). Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico (ebook).
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  Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico details the impact of neoliberal practice on the production and exchange of basic resources in working-class communities in Mexico. Using anthropological investigations and a market-driven approach, contributors explain how uneven policies have undermined constitutional protections and working-class interests since the Mexican Revolution of 1910.Detailed ethnographic fieldwork shows how foreign investment, privatization, deregulation, and elimination of welfare benefits have devastated national industries and natural resources and threatened agriculture, driving the campesinos and working class deeper into poverty. Focusing on specific commodity chains and the changes to production and marketing under neoliberalism, the contributors highlight the detrimental impacts of policies by telling the stories of those most affected by these changes. They detail the complex interplay of local and global forces, from the politically mediated systems of demand found at the local level to the increasingly powerful municipal and state governments and the global trade and banking institutions.Sharing a common theoretical perspective and method throughout the chapters, Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico is a multi-sited ethnography that makes a significant contribution to studies of neoliberal ideology in practice.;Your Role: Second Editor, author of Preface, first author of Chapter 1, "The Neoliberal Transformation of Mexico; first author of Chapter 2, Theorizing Neoliberalism; author of Chapter 11; The Impact of Neoliberal Policies on Rural Producers in Mexico; first author of Chapter 12, Neoliberal Capital and the Mobility Approach in Anthropology; first author Chapter 15 Conclusion: Structural Adjustment, Structural Violence;Full Citation: Weaver, Thomas, James B. Greenberg, William L Alexander, Anne Browning Aiken (editors). 2012. Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico. Boulder: University of Colorado Press. Ebook, ISBN 978-1-60732-171-9http://www.amazon.com/Neoliberalism-Commodity-Production-Mexico-ebook/dp/B008C1GJZY;Electronic: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;
• Greenberg, J. B., & Stake, S. E. (2010). Tuberculosis in Oaxaca: Problems of prevalence, prevention, treatment and implications for migrant..
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  This study documents the prevalence of TB in Oaxaca and looks at the cultural factors influencing the diagnosis and treatment among the Chatino, an indigenous population and high rates of migration to the USA. Its central findings are summarized in the PIMSA report. ;Your Role: First author;Full Citation: Greenberg, James B. and Soni E. Stake. (2010). Tuberculosis in Oaxaca: Problems of prevalence, prevention, treatment and implications for migrant. Working paper for the PIMSA Project. ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Greenberg, J. B., Weaver, T., & Ă, G. (2010). Binational Assessment of the Disease Burden of Tuberculosis in Mexican Indigenous Migrant Communities in Sonora and Arizona..
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  This binational study examines tuberculosis among undocumented workers on the US-Mexico border in Arizona and Sonora. We review the social, cultural, epidemiological, economic, and political factors that underlie diagnosis and treatment that contribute to the high rates of this disease. The goal of this pilot study is to develop binational collaboration and contribute to the reduction of the burden of tuberculosis in this population by recommending policies that address TB screening, treatment and education in indigenous Mexican migrant communities in Sonora and Arizona.;Your Role: Second author;Full Citation: Weaver, Thomas, James B. Greenberg, Gerardo Ă;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Gerardo Ă;
• Greenberg, J. B., Baro, M., & Boyer, M. (2009). Phase II Evaluation Report of Saving for Change in Mali.
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  ;Your Role: Second author;Full Citation: 2009. Phase II Evaluation Report of Saving for Change in Mali. Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Commissioned by Oxfam America, Freedom from Hunger and the Stromme Foundation Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 104 p. With Mamadou Baro, Micah Boyer. ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;
• Greenberg, J. B., & Hackenberg, R. (2008). BARA Oral History Project.
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  Report contains 47 CDs of interviews with current and former BARA/BER faculty, and graduate students. Each CD has a web style interface of several pages with annotations summarizing each track of the interview.;Your Role: first author;Full Citation: James B. Greenberg and Robert Hackenberg, 2007. BARA Oral History Project. Wenner Gren. ;Electronic: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;