Roy D'Andrade

Roy D’Andrade, Ph.D. is a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Connecticut.  Dr. D’Andrade’s research interests include culture and cognition, social theory, and quantitative methods, Dr. D’Andrade had recently completed a study of values among Americans, Japanese, and Vietnamese. Currently Dr. D'Andrade is working on the effects of value incongruity on subjective well-being. Specific to the Center for Culture, Health and Human Development, Dr. D’Andrade’s work involves issues of the way in which cultural models of health are organized and the way in which these models affect socialization practices.

Selected Publications

D'Andrade, Roy G. "Cultural Darwinism."  American Anthropologist  104:1:223-232, 2002.

D'Andrade, Roy G. "." In Finding Cultural Models in Talk: A Collection of Methods, Naomi Quinn (ed) Bombay: Palgrave 2005 pp 83-194.

D'Andrade, Roy G. "Violence without Honor in the American South," In Tournaments of Power, T. Aase, ed. Burlington: Ashgate (2002) pp 61-77.

D'Andrade, Roy G. Commentary on Searle’s ‘Social ontology: Some basic principles’: Culture and institutions," Anthropological Theory 6:1:2006, p 35-44.

D'Andrade, Roy G. A Study of Values: American, Vietnamese and Japanese, accepted by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, to be published by Palgrave.
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