Richard Newbold Adams (1924–2018)
Author of Social change in Latin America today : its implications for United States policy
About the Author
Works by Richard Newbold Adams
Social change in Latin America today : its implications for United States policy (2015) — Author — 34 copies
Cultural surveys of Panama-Nicaragua-Guatemala-El Salvador-Honduras (Pan American Sanitary Bureau. Scientific publications, no. 33) (1976) 2 copies
United States university cooperation in Latin America: A study based on selected programs in Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Mexico 1 copy, 1 review
Associated Works
Plantation systems of the New World; papers and discussion summaries — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Adams, Richard Newbold
- Birthdate
- 1924-08-04
- Date of death
- 2018-09-11
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Michigan (BA)
Yale University (MA)
Yale University (PhD) - Occupations
- professor (anthropology)
- Organizations
- University of Texas, Austin
Michigan State University
Ford Foundation
American Anthropological Association (president)
Latin American Studies Association (president)
Society for Applied Anthropology (founder, president) - Awards and honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Places of residence
- Austin, Texas, USA
Guatemala
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA - Place of death
- Panajachel, Guatemala
- Burial location
- cremated, ashes scattered
Members
Reviews
En esta obra, Adams propone que la estructura del poder social se basa en el control de los flujos de energía dentro de una sociedad; analiza cómo las relaciones de dominación y dependencia se configuran a través de sistemas energéticos y modelan el desarrollo cultural, económico y político de los grupos humanos.
La red de la expansión humana : un ensayo sobre energía, estructuras disipativas, poder y ciertos procesos mentales en la evolución de la sociedad humana / Richard Newbold Adams ; traducción de Megan Thomas. by Richard N. Adams
Esta obra examina la expansión de la sociedad humana a través de los conceptos de energía, poder, estructuras disipativas y procesos mentales. El autor sostiene que la sociedad es un sistema de poder que se basa en el control de flujos energéticos, y argumenta que un mayor control de la energía-materia-información conduce a una mayor concentración de poder.
United States university cooperation in Latin America: A study based on selected programs in Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Mexico by Richard N. Adams
"The Textile Engineering Project of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering and the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Peru)"--pp. 170-176.
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Statistics
- Works
- 28
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 111
- Popularity
- #175,483
- Rating
- 3.0
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 19
- Languages
- 2



