Background
Hatch, Elvin James was born on September 20, 1937 in Tulare, California, United States. Son of Raymond K. and Elvera (Anderson) Hatch.
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Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand
( Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and per...)
Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath the social hierarchy. Hatch describes a cultural theory of social hierarchy that defines not only the local system of social rank, but personhood as well. Because people define respectability differently, a crucial part of Hatch's approach is to examine how these differences are worked out over time. The concept of occupation is central to Hatch's analysis, since the work that people do provides the skeletal framework of the hierarchical order. He focuses in particular on sheep farming and compares his New Zealand community with one in California. Wealth and respectability are defined differently in the two places, with the result that California landholders perceive a social hierarchy different from the New Zealanders'. Thus the distinctive "shape" that characterizes the hierarchy among these New Zealand landholders and their conceptions of self reflect the distinctive cultural theory by which they live.
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Theories of Man and Culture
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This unusual and ambitious book summarizes, compares, and contrasts the ideas of ten prominent anthropologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Theories of Man and Culture by Hatch, Elvin (1974) Paperback
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- Biography of a Small Town (Book by Hatch, Elvin J.)
- Culture and Morality: The Relativity of Values in Anthropology (Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Philosophy)
- Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand by Elvin Hatch (1994-04-12)
Elvin James Hatch
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Bachelor, Fresno State College, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968.
Career
Lecturer anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1967-1968; assistant professor anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968-1974; associate professor anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1974-1979; professor anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1979; chair department anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1978-1984. Member editorial committee University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986-1991, co-chair editorial committee, 1988-1991.
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Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand
( Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and per...)
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Theories of Man and Culture
( This unusual and ambitious book summarizes, compares, a...)
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Culture and Morality: The Relativity of Values in Anthropology
(Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Philosophy)
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Biography of a Small Town
(Book by Hatch, Elvin J.)
- Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand by Elvin Hatch (1994-04-12)
- Theories of Man and Culture by Hatch, Elvin (1974) Paperback
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Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand
Membership
Member American Anthropol. Association.
Connections
Married Deanna Elizabeth Fries. Children: Kristen Lee, Catherine Anderson.
