Curriculum Vitae,
2008
Eugene
Edward Ruyle
Emeritus Professor of
Anthropology
California State University,
Long Beach
Contact Information
6603 Whitney Street, Oakland, CA 94609
Tel: 510 428-1578 Email: eruyle@csulb.edu
Academic Web Page: http://www.csulb.edu/~eruyle/
Political and Personal Web
Page: http://www.cuyleruyle.com/
Employment History
1976-2006 California State
University, Long Beach, Department of Anthropology: Associate Professor (1976-81), Professor (1981-2002), Chair
(1983-86), Emeritus Professor in Faculty Early Retirement Program (FERP)
(2002-2006).
1970-1976 Assistant
Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
1964-1966 Caseworker, New
York City Department of Welfare
1960-1963 Correctional
Officer, San Quentin State Prison
1957-1969 U.S. Marine Corps
(enlisted)
Academic Preparation
1963 B.A.,
University of California, Berkeley (Anthropology)
1965 M.A., Yale
University (Anthropology) Thesis: "The Classification of Unilineal Descent
Groups."
1971 Ph.D.,
Columbia University (Anthropology) Also, Certificate in East Asian Studies,
Columbia University. Dissertation: "The Political Economy of the Japanese
Ghetto." (Based on 17 months of field research on Japanese outcastism in
Kyoto)
Academic Interests
General Anthropology,
Marxism, Biocultural Evolution, Political Economy, Development of
Anthropological Theory, Japan, China, Soviet Union.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Cultural
Anthropology, Radical Social Analysis, The Human Adventure; Japanese Culture
and Society, Chinese Culture and Society, Soviet Culture and Society, Peoples
of India, General Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Cultural Ecology, Economic Anthropology, Political
Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Development of Anthropological Theory.
Other University Activities
Active on the Academic
Senate, Financial Affairs Council (Secretary), California Faculty Association,
Asian Studies, Peace Studies Program, Peter Carr Peace Center., NAGPRA (Native
American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act) Committee.
Selected Fellowships, Grants,
and Awards
1967-68 NDFL Fellowship (Japanese)
1968-70 National Institute of Mental Health
Fellowship and Training Grant for field research on Japanese Outcastism.
1978 Fulbright
Research Fellowship for research on Japanese social movements. Research during
the summer of 1978 focused on the outcaste liberation movement, the peace
movement, and the anti-airport struggle at Sanrizuka.
1979 Participated
in Research Skills Development Institute, School of Social and Behavioral
Sciences, CSULB, June 4-22, 1979.
1980 Phi Beta
Kappa University Scholar. Lecture: "On the Origin of Patriarchy and Class
Rule."
1986 NEH Summer
Seminar for College Teachers on "Karl Marx as a Social Theorist."
University of Southern California. John Elliott, Director. June-August, 1986.
Political Activities
1982 Peace and
Freedom Party Candidate for U.S. Congress, 38th Congressional
District. Received approximately 7000 votes.
1985-2002 Active with our faculty union, the
California Faculty Association, and served as our localÕs delegate to the Los
Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO..
1989-1992 Editor and chief writer for The CFA
Organizer, the newsletter for the
Long Beach chapter of our faculty union, the California Faculty Organization.
1991-1996 Editor and chief writer for the Peter Carr
Peace Center News, an occasional newsletter of the Peter Carr Peace Center,
distributed in response to various events of interest to the Cal State Long
Beach community, such as the first Gulf War and the threatened destruction of
the National Register site of Puvungna on the CSULB campus.
1992-1995 Co-Editor for ChangeLinks: An Action
Calendar for Peace and Social Justice in the Greater Los Angeles Area..
1993-1996 Partisan
Anthropology with the Save Puvungna Coalition, working with local Indians in
their successful struggle to save their sacred site from bulldozers.
1999-2006
Co-Organizer of the Long Beach Area Peace Network (LBAPN), formed in response
to ClintonÕs bombing of Afghanistan and the Sudan.
2003-2006
Co-Editor of the LBAPN Peace Calendar, a monthly calendar of peace and justice
events in the Long Beach area.
Selected Publications,
Papers, Etc.
1973 "Genetic
and Cultural Pools: Some Suggestions for a Unified Theory of Biocultural
Evolution." Human Ecology
1:201-215. (1973)
1973 "Slavery,
Surplus, and Stratification on the Northwest Coast: The Ethnoenergetics of an
Incipient Stratification System." Current Anthropology 14:603-631 (with CA* comment by 14 scholars and
reply). (1973)
1973 "Ghetto
and Schools in Kyoto, Japan." Integrated Education: Minority Children
in Schools 11(4&5):29-34. (1973)
1974 "Mode
of Production and Mode of Exploitation: The Mechanical and the
Dialectical." Dialectical Anthropology 1:7-23. (1974)
1976 Signed
articles on "Capitalism," "Communism,"
"Exploitation," Imperialism," "Revolution,"
Socialism," and "Surplus," and unsigned articles on
"Economic Determinism," "Primitive Communism," and
"State and Revolution," in Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Phillip Whitten and David E. Hunter. New
York: Harper and Row. (1976)
1976 "Labor,
People, Culture: A Labor Theory of Human Origins." Yearbook of Physical
Anthropology 20:136-163. (1976)
1977 "Energy
and Culture." In The Concepts and Dynamics of Culture. Edited by Bernardo Bernardi. The Hague: Mouton
Publishers. Pp. 209-237. (1977)
1977 "A
Socialist Alternative for the Future." In Cultures of the Future. Edited by Magoroh Maruyama and Arthur Harkins. The
Hague: Mouton Publishers. Pp. 613-628. (1978)
1978 "Junenburi
no Buraku Mondai." ("The Outcaste Problem after Ten Years.")
(Interview in Japanese.) Buraku
78/9:44-59. (September 1978)
1979 "Capitalism
and Caste in Japan." In New Directions in Political Economy: An
Approach from Anthropology. Edited
by Madeline Barbara Leons and Frances Rothstein. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press. Pp. 201-233. (1979)
1979 "Conflicting
Japanese Interpretations of the Outcaste Problem (Buraku Mondai)." American
Ethnologist 6:55-72. (1979)
1981 "Culture,
Protoculture, and the Cultural Pool." (Comment on H.C. Plotkin and F.J.
Odling-Smee, "A Multiple-Level Model of Evolution and Its Implications for
Sociobiology.") The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4:251-252. (1981)
1987 "Rethinking
Marxist Anthropology." In Perspectives in U.S. Marxist Anthropology. Edited by David Hakken and Hanna Lessinger. Boulder
and London: Westview Press. Pp. 24-56. (1987)
1988 "Anthropology
for Marxists: Prehistoric Revolutions." Nature, Society, and Thought: A
Journal of Dialectical Materialism
1(4):469-499 (1988).
1988-89 "On Protosocialist Nations." University
of Dayton Review 19(2):109-125
(Summer 1988-89).
1993 "Comment
on Roscoe: 'Practice and Political Centralization: A New Approach to Political
Evolution.'" Current Anthropology 34:131-132 (1993).
1993-99 Various
articles and papers on the Puvungna Sacred Site Struggle on the Cal State Long
Beach campus, including:
ÒLies,
Bribes and Archaeology.Ó CrossRoads
36: 21-22 (November 1993);
ÒPuvungna Sacred Site Threatened.Ó On
Indian Land (Winter 1993/1994);
ÒCampus Officials, Indians at Odds Over Archaeological Site.Ó Newsletter of
the Society for California Archaeology
March 1994;
ÒLet My People Grow! Partisan
Anthropology and the Struggle to Save Puvungna and the Organic Gardens.Ó Paper
presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, November 30, 1994, Atlanta, Georgia
ÒArchaeology As A Political Weapon: The
Story Of Puvungna.Ó Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern
Anthropological Society, Miyako Hotel, San Francisco, Saturday, April 8, 1995;
Ò Refugees in Their Own Land: The
Gabrielino/Tongva Indians of Southern California.Ó Paper presented at the Conference on Human Rights Violations
& Refugees Plight. National and International dimensions. California State
University, Long Beach. April 19, 1995;
ÒPuvungna Struggle Continues.Ó Long
Beach Citizen News. Vol 21, No. 6, pp. 8, 7. April-May 1995;
ÒPuvungna Struggle Continues.Ó Paving
Moratorium Update and Auto-Free Times.
No. 7, p. 16. Arcata, California. Summer 1995;
ÒNative Peoples in Southern California Demand: Save Puvungna!Ó Turning
the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Activism, Research, and Education. Vol .8, No. 2, pp. 4-5. Burbank, California. Summer
1995;
ÒLies,
Bribes, and Archaeology: The Story of Puvungna.Ó Paper presented at the 94th
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 16, 1995,
Washington, D.C. :
ÒCSULB Lawsuits Raise Ethical Issues for
Anthropologists.Ó Anthropology Newsletter. December 1995, pp. 15-16.;
ÒIndian Spirituality, White Man's Law: The Story of
Puvungna.Ó Paper presented at the Symposium, A Living Anthropology in Service
to the World, Second Annual Symposium of the California Institute of Integral Studies.
San Francisco, Saturday, February
17, 1996;
ÒAnthropology and Indigenous
Populations.Ó Paper presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
Sunday, November 24, 1996, San Francisco;
ÒSacred
Sites In Urban Settings: The Case Of Puvungna.Ó Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Anthropology of Religion Section of the American Anthropological Association
held jointly with the Central
States Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 15-18, 1998, and
at the Conference on Organized ReligionsÕ Influence on Politics and Global
Socio-Economic Issues: Causes and
Consequences. California State University, Long Beach. Wednesday, April 21,
1999
1998 "The Communist Manifesto in the Light of
Current Anthropology." Paper Presented at the International Conference to
Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto. Social
Emancipation 150 Years After The Manifesto. Havana, Feb. 17-20, 1998
1998 "CommentÓ in ÒThe Making of Chumash
Tradition.Ó. Current Anthropology
39 (4) 487-491. (Criticism of ÒAnthropology and the Making of Chumash
Tradition.Ó By: Haley, Brian D.; Wilcoxon, Larry R.. Current Anthropology, Dec
97, Vol. 38 Issue 5, p761-794, 34p)
2000 "CommentÓ on Boxt & Raab: ÒPuvunga and
Point Conception: A Comparative Study of Southern California Indian
Traditionalism,Ó Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology Vol. 22, No. 1
2001 "The Two Faces of Capitalism:
Underdevelopment and Overdevelopment." Unpublished manuscript, written
about 2001.
2004 "With Marx and Jesus: Toward an Ecumenical
Communism." Unpublished mansucrpipt, written in 2004.
2005 "Hobbits and Humans." Unpublished
response to Richard York's article, "Homo Floresiensis and Human Equality:
Enduring Lessons from Stephen Jay Gould," in the March 2005 issue of
Monthly Review.
Ongoing Research Projects
Social
Thermodynamics:
This represents an effort to combine ecological energetics with Marx's labor
theory of value. In one form or another, this has been the major focus of my
professional life since my undergraduate years at Berkeley.
The Human
Adventure: From Ancestral Communism to the Seventh Generaltion .
Unpublished book manuscript, used
as a textbook for my course, Anth 311 IC The Human Adventure. The latest version
was completed in 1991. As I was preparing to revise this in response to
comments of potential publishers, the Puvungna Sacred Site Struggle began and
occupied most of my time. Now in process of revision
Partisan
Anthropology with the Puvungna Sacred Site Struggle;
Since January 1993, I have spent considerable time working with the local
Indian community, the Save Puvungna Coalition, California's Native American
Heritage Commission, and the ACLU in the struggle to save the sacred site of
Puvungna on the Cal State Long Beach campus. My writing associated with this
struggle has included several editions of the Peter Carr Peace Center News
(which have been distribution as informational literature by the Coalition), a
number of lengthy memos to state officials and CSULB administrators, articles
in various newspapers, and papers at scholarly meetings. I hope to turn this
into a book, tentatively titled, Lies Bribes, and Anthropology: The True
Story of My Encounter with Puvungna and My Recovery from Western Civilization.