Clarence (Lance) Gravlee

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Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee (HEAT)

African American Health in Tallahassee

Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS)

Boas's immigrant data online

Marvin Harris's standardized faces

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Journal Articles

Peer-Reviewed

Gravlee, Clarence C., David P. Kennedy, Ricardo Godoy, and William R. Leonard. (2009). Methods for collecting panel data: What does cultural anthropology have to learn from other disciplines? Journal of Anthropological Research 65:in press.Gravlee et al. 2009

Gravlee, Clarence C. and Elizabeth Sweet. (2008). Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology, 1977-2002. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 22(1):27-51.Gravlee and Sweet 2008

Godoy, R., Goodman, E., Gravlee, C. C., Levins, R., Seyfried, C., Caram, M., et al. (2007). Blood pressure and hypertension in an American colony (Puerto Rico) and on the USA mainland compared, 1886-1930. Economics & Human Biology 5(2), 255-279.

Zenk, S. N., A. J. Schulz, G. Mentz, J. S. House, C. C. Gravlee, P. Y. Miranda, P. Miller, and S. Kannan. (2007). Inter-rater and test-retest reliability: Methods and results for the neighborhood observational checklist. Health & Place 13:452-465.

Gravlee, Clarence C., Shannon N. Zenk, Sachiko Woods, Zachary Rowe, and Amy J. Schulz. (2006). Handheld computers for systematic observation of the social and physical environment. Field Methods 18(4):382-397. Gravlee et al. 2006

Schulz, Amy J., Clarence C. Gravlee, David R. Williams, Barbara A. Israel, Zachary Rowe. (2006). Discrimination, symptoms of depression, and self-rated health among African American women in Detroit: Results from a longitudinal analysis. American Journal of Public Health 96(6):1265-1270.

Gravlee, Clarence C., William W. Dressler, and H. Russell Bernard. (2005). Skin color, social classification, and blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Public Health 95(12):2191-2197.Gravlee et al. 2005

Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, and Clarence C. Gravlee. Race and ethnicity in public health research: Models to explain health disparities. Annual Review of Anthropology 34:231-252.

Gravlee, Clarence C. (2005) Ethnic classification in southeastern Puerto Rico: The cultural model of "color." Social Forces 83(3):949-970. Gravlee 2005

Gravlee, Clarence C. and William W. Dressler. (2005). Skin pigmentation, self-perceived color, and arterial blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Human Biology 17(2):195-206.

Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard (2003).  Boas's Changes in Bodily Form: The immigrant study, cranial plasticity, and Boas's physical anthropology. American Anthropologist 105(2):326-332.

Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard (2003). Heredity, environment, and cranial form: a re-analysis of Boas's immigrant data. American Anthropologist 105(1):125-138.

Gravlee, Clarence C. (2002). Mobile computer-assisted personal interviewing (MCAPI) with handheld computers:  the Entryware™ system 3.0.  Field Methods 14(3):322-336.


Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

Gravlee, C. C. (2008). Life expectancy. In J. H. Moore (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. (Vol. 2, pp. 265-269). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.

Under Review

Brody, Howard, Linda M. Hunt, and Clarence C. Gravlee. Making sense of race. In Rethinking inequalities and differences in medicine, edited by M. Ramsey and L. R. Churchill.


Abstracts

Mode effects in the collection of pile sorts: face-to-face versus Internet-mediated data collection (first author, with Chad R. Maxwell, Aryeh Jacobsohn, Veronica McClain, and H. Russell Bernard. Society for Anthropological Sciences, San Antonio, TX, Feb. 21-23, 2006.

Meaning, social structure, and individual well-being in Puerto Rico. American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, Nov. 14-19, 2006.

Psychophysiologic correlates of cultural consonance in urban Puerto Rico. Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, March 28-April 2, 2006.

Operationalizing race as a cultural construct: Linking ethnography and measurement in health research (second author, with Linda Gordon). Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, March 28-April 2, 2006.

Testing the effects of eliciting free lists orally and over the Internet (first author, with H. Russell Bernard).  Society for Cross-Cultural Research and Society for Anthropological Sciences, Savannah, GA, Feb. 23-25, 2006.

Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology and public health: Patterns, promises, and pitfalls. Invited session, Exploring the intersection of race, human variation and health, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2005.

An empirical evaluation of oral versus written free list elicitation. (first author, with H. Russell Bernard). Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, April 5-10, 2005.

Handheld computers for systematic observation of the social and physical environment: The Neighborhood Observational Checklist (first author, with S.N. Zenk, S. Woods, Z. Rowe, and A.J. Schulz). American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 6-10, 2004.

Perceived discrimination, depression, and self-rated general health among African American women in Detroit: Longitudinal findings from the Eastside Village Health Workers Partnership (first author, with A.J. Schulz, D.R. Williams, B.A. Israel, and Z. Rowe). American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 6-10, 2004.

Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology, 1977-2002. Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Dallas, TX, March 30-April 4, 2004.

Operationalizing race in applied social science: emic and etic dimensions. Society for Applied Anthropology, Abstracts of the 2003 Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March 19-23, 2003.

Operationalizing “race”: skin color and blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Anthropological Association, Abstracts of the 101st Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 20-24, 2002.

Genetic and environmental influences on cranial form: a re-analysis of Boas’s immigrant data. Human Biology Association, 27th Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY, April 12-14, 2002.

Skin color, blood pressure, and the contextual effect of culture. Society for Applied Anthropology, Abstracts of the 2002 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 6-10, 2002.

Consensus and ambiguity in the cultural construction of ethnicity in Puerto Rico. American Anthropological Association, Abstracts of the 100th Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, Nov. 28-Dec 2, 2001.

Emics and etics of "race" and "ethnicity." American Anthropological Association, Abstracts of the 98th Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, Nov. 17-21, 1999.

Speaking of "Ausländer": the ascription of ethnicity in Germany. American Anthropological Association, Abstracts of the 97th Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2-6, 1998.

Black, white, other: the formation of ethnic and racial categories in the US. Society for Applied Anthropology, Abstracts of the 1998 Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 21-26, 1998.


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