Josiah McC. Heyman, Ph.D. (City University of New York, 1988) Chair, Professor of Anthropology Department of Sociology and Anthropology Old Main, Room 110 El Paso, TX 79968-0558  PHONE: (915) 747-7356  FAX: (915) 747-5505  E-MAIL: jmheyman@utep.edu

Major Publications (* = Refereed Journal or Book)

Books and Edited Journal Issues

*2004    Josiah McC. Heyman and Hilary Cunningham, eds.,“Movement on the Margins: Mobilities and Enclosures at Borders,” special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11(3) Fall 2004

*1999    States and Illegal Practices, edited by Josiah Heyman (Oxford: Berg Publishers).

*1998    Finding a Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy: An Anthropological Perspective, American Ethnological Society, Monographs in Human Policy Issues.  (Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association).

*1991    Life and Labor on the Border: Working People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, 1886-1986 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).

Major Article/Book Chapter Length Works

*2005 “Eric Wolf’s Ethical-Political Humanism, and Beyond,” Critique of Anthropology 25(1): 13-26.

*2004    “The Anthropology of Power-Wielding Bureaucracies,” Human Organization 63(4): 487-500.

2004    Josiah McC. Heyman and Howard Campbell, “Recent Research on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” (Review Essay), Latin American Research Review 39 (3): 205-220.

*2004    Hilary Cunningham and Josiah McC. Heyman, “Introduction: Mobilities and Enclosures at Borders,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11 (3): 289-302.

*2004    “Ports of Entry as Nodes in the World System,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11 (3): 303-327.

*2004    “The Political Ecology of Consumption: Beyond Greed and Guilt,” in Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon, eds., Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales and Social Groups, Rutgers University Press, pp. 113-132.

*2004    “Conclusion: Understandings Matter,” in James G. Carrier, ed., Confronting Environments: Local Understanding in a Globalizing World, Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, pp. 183-195.

*2003    “The Inverse of Power,” Anthropological Theory, 3 (2): 139-56.

*2002  "U.S. Immigration Officers of Mexican Ancestry as Mexican Americans, Citizens, and Immigration Police," with “CA* Commentary” and a “Reply by the Author” Current Anthropology 43(3): 479-507.

*2001 "Working for Beans and Refrigerators: Learning About Environmental Policy from Mexican Northern-Border Consumers," in Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences, edited by Maurie J. Cohen and Joseph Murphy, Amsterdam: Pergamon Press, pp. 137-55.

*2001     "United States Ports of Entry on the Mexican Border," Journal of the Southwest, 43(4): 681-700.  Republished (2004) in Andrew Grant Wood, ed., On the Border: Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico, Lanham, MD: Scholarly Resources, pp. 221-240.

*2001    "Class and Classification on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Human Organization 60(2): 128-140.

2001    "On U.S.-Mexico Border Culture," Journal of the West 40(2): 50-59.

2001    “Consumption in Developing Societies,” in Social and Cultural Development of Human Resources, edited by Tomoko Hamada, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers/UNESCO, no pagination [on-line]. Available at <http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/consumpt.htm>

*2000     “Respect for Outsiders?  Respect for the Law?  The Moral Evaluation of High-Scale Issues by US Immigration Officers,” Curl Prize Essay, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 6(4): 635-652.

*1999    “United States Surveillance over Mexican Lives at the Border: Snapshots of an Emerging Regime,” Human Organization 58(4): 429-37.

*1999    “Why Interdiction? Immigration Law Enforcement at the United States-Mexico Border,” Regional Studies 33(7): 619-30.

*1999   Josiah McC. Heyman and Alan Smart “States and Illegal Practices: An Overview,” in States and Illegal Practices, edited by Josiah Heyman, Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 1-24.

*1999    “State Escalation of Force: A Vietnam/US-Mexico Border Analogy,” in States and Illegal Practices, edited by Josiah Heyman, Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 285-314.

*1998    “State Effects on Labor Exploitation: The INS and Undocumented Immigrants at the Mexico-United States Border,” Critique of Anthropology, 18(2): 157-80.

*1997    James G. Carrier and Josiah McC. Heyman, “Consumption and Political Economy,” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, N.S., 3(2): 355-73.

*1997    “Imports And Standards Of Justice On The Mexico-United States Border,” in Benjamin S. Orlove, ed., The Allure of the Foreign: Post-Colonial Goods in Latin America, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press), pp. 151-84.

*1995    “Putting Power into the Anthropology of Bureaucracy: The Immigration and Naturalization Service at the Mexico-United States Border,” with “CA* Commentary” and a “Reply by the Author” Current Anthropology, 36(2):261-87

*1995    “In the Shadow of the Smoke Stacks: Labor and Environmental Conflict in a Company Dominated Town,” in Jane Schneider and Rayna Rapp, eds., Articulating Hidden Histories: Anthropology, History, and the Influence of Eric R. Wolf, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press), pp. 156-74.

*1994    “The Mexico-United States Border in Anthropology: A Critique and Reformulation,” Journal of Political Ecology, 1:43-65.   On-line at  <http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_1/HEYMAN.PDF>

*1994    “Changes in House Construction Materials in Border Mexico: Four Research Propositions about Commoditization,” Human Organization, 53(2):132-42.

*1994    “The Organizational Logic of Capitalist Consumption on the Mexico-United States Border,” Research in Economic Anthropology, 15:175-238.

*1993    “The Oral History of the Mexican American Community of Douglas, Arizona, 1901-1941,” Journal of the Southwest, 35(2):186-206.

*1990    “The Emergence of the Waged Life Course on the United States-Mexico Border,” American Ethnologist, 17(2):348-59.