Victor C. de Munck

Associate Professor/Chair

CV COURSES TAUGHT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Department  Address 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz, New York 12561 Phone: (845) 257-2985 Fax: (845) 257-2984 E-Mail: email@newpaltz.edu

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COURSES TAUGHT

• Cultural Anthropology 
• Research Methods
• Cognitive Anthropology
• Culture, Self, and Meaning
• Cultures of South Asia
• Love, Sex and Marriage: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
• Social Organization  
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My main research interest is in the relationship between the individual (as a psycho-biological entity), Culture (as a collective system of meaning), society (as a social network-structure), identity (as the means individuals orient themselves to their behavioral environment), cutlral models (as the basic units of culture) and action (as constit:uted of the interaction between the above with the environment).

1.  What are cultural models?
2.   How do we study the interaction between the self and society as mediatedby     culture?
3.   How do we study the interaction between different systems?
4.   How do we study cultural processes?
5.   How do we affect change in world views?

• Waite, B. R., and Suess, 2006, Why Webpages Work, New York, Journal of Awesome Things, October 2006 Issue (http://www.awesomethings.com/brian.html)
  

• Waite, Zebra Publications, 2006, Clicking Around, New York, Everything Digital, December 2009 Issue