Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona

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Research Professor/ Associate Director Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1978.

Research interests: Mexico’s indigenous peoples; political ecology; peasants in Latin America and Mexico, economic anthropology, complex society, urban anthropology, peasant studies, borderlands, conflict studies

Area studies courses: History and Theory in Applied Anthropology, Law and Development, Mesoamerican Indians

Selected Publications

Greenburg, J.  Forthcoming 2005. “The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California. In Imagining Political Ecology, eds. Aletta Biersack and James B, Greenberg, eds.  Dirham: Duke University Press.

Greenburg, J.  “Medio Mileno de Crédito entre los Mixes de Oaxaca.”  Cuardernos del Sur (Mexico).

Greenberg, J. 1997.  “A Political Ecology Assessment of Structural Adjustment Policies: The Case of the Dominican Republic.”  Culture and Agriculture 19 (3): 84-93.

Greenberg, J. 1989.  Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico.  Tucson: University of Arizona Press.