Louise Lamphere

Mailing Address:
Department of Anthropology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

Phone: 505-277-4524 (work)     Fax: 505-277-0874 (office)
Email: lamphere@unm.edu

 Major Influences on Professional Life:

Michelle  Zimbalist Rosaldo- co-author with me of Women, Culture and Society; Feminism- important in influencing the kind of work I did after about 1970, including my interest in working class women; research on industrial work places; David Aberle- his work on the Navajo had a great deal of influence on my early research and writing on the Navajo.

 Subfields of interest within Anthropology: 

Work and Family, Kinship, Feminist Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Immigration, Southwest- Navajo kinship and family structure Southwest.

Interests in the Anthropology of Work:
Women's work in manufacturing setting, Work and Family issues- the gender division of labor in the household, Political Economy of the Work Place, Participative Management Structures in the work place, Work and Family issues for new immigrants.

Regions of specialization and Languages:
U.S, especially the Southwest; some Navajo.

Major Publications:
2005 Providers and Staff Respond to Medicaid Managed Care, edited by Louise Lamphere and Nancy Nelson. Speical Issue Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

1997 Situated Lives, edited by Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragone and Patricia Zavella. Routledge.

1995 Newcomers in the Work Place, edited by Louise Lamphere, Alex Stepick, and Guillermo Grenier. Temple University Press.

1994 Sunbelt Working Mothers (with Patricia Zavella, Felipe Gonzales, and Peter Evans). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

1987 From Working Daughter to Working Mothers. Cornell University Press.

Other Relevant Information (Current research, interests, goals):
Current research: I recently supervised an ethnographic team which examined the impact of Medicaid Managed Care in New Mexico. The team is publishing their articles in a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly. My introduction emphasizes the impact of increased bureaucratization on women workers in health care clinics, emergency rooms and small doctors offices. I am completing a biography of three generations of women in a Navajo family entitled Weaving Together Women's Lives.