Joseph K. Long

Long delayed , this work recently was published by the Universidad de Antioquía.

Returning home in 1954 , Gutierrez de Pineda redirected her research and teaching toward medical anthropology and anthropology of the family , topics which had received little attention from Colombian anthropologists.Her monographs on ethnomedicine ( La Medicina Popular en Colombia , 1961 , and Medicina Tradicional en Colombia , 2 vols , 1985 ) , and her teaching at the Medical School of the National U , led to election as Honorary Member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Anthropology of the family , however , was her favorite subject , for which she is most widely known.As Professor of Anthropology at the National U she studied the diverse forms of family found in Colombia , in the process establishing investigative and conceptual bases for all Colombians struggling for civil and sexual equality.She denounced the behavior of men guilty of family violence.In 1967 , she was awarded a second Guggenheim for Familia y Cultura en Colom bia ( l968 ).This research culminated in Estructura , Función y Cambio de la Familia en Colombia ( 1975 ) , which predicted many of the changes family types underwent during the subsequent 20 years.Her latest research , undertaken jointly with Roberto , will be published as Miscegenación y Cul tura en la Colombia Colonial , 1750-1810.

Gutierrez de Pineda was recognized nationally.In 1967 she appeared on the cover of the weekly news magazine , El Tiempo , as the Colombian Woman of the Year , and in l997 President Ernesto Samper bestowed on her the Cruz de Boyacá , the highest Colombian decoration.Despite her prodigious research schedule she always found time to devote to her husband , four sons and six grandchildren , all of whom survive her , as well as to a wide international circle of colleagues.
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Born in 1937 , Long received his PhD at UNC-Chapel Hill ( 1973 ) and an MS in Physical Anthropology at the U of Kentucky ( 1964 ).He had earned a BA at SMU ( 1959 ) where he served as an Instructor and Assistant Professor ( 1971-74 ).He then went to Plymouth State College of the U of New Hampshire , where he advanced to professor in 1980 and Emeritus status in 1992.

Long was a four-field applied anthropologist , with archaeological and sociocultural emphases.His fascination with the Southeast ( The Hadden Village Site , Kentucky Archaeological Association Monograph 3 , 1974 ) continued throughout his life.During recent years he served as a board member for the Duncan Cultural Center in Greenville , KY. His 6 , 000 piece collection is planned for donation to the Smithsonian Institution.His doctoral dissertation , Jamaican Medicine : Choices Between Folk Healing and Modern Medicine ( 1974 ) led him into medical anthropology ( Shamanism , Trance and Hallucino gens , in The Realm of the Extrahuman , Vol 1 , A Bharati , Ed , 1976 , pp 301-13 ) and parapsychology.He became active in developing an integration of parapsychological research findings into anthropology ( see his edited Extra sensory Ecology : Parapsychology and Anthropology , 1977 ).He was a consultant in the Psi-SEARCH Ex hibition of the California Museum of Science and Industry and the Smithsonian Institution ( 1973-75 ).

Long organized sessions on parapsychologial anthropology at AAA meetings beginning in Mexico City in 1974 and Los Angeles in 1978.But Long was also among anthropologists leading an attack on Casteneda , questioning his veracity and credibility at the AAA meeting in Los Angeles.He suffered an injury in 1979 prior to a visiting appointment at the U of California-Irvine in the Student Recommended Faculty Program.Medical mismanagement produced a variety of iatrogenic complications and heavy medication slowed his career.

Long continued as the central figure in the founding of what became the AAA section Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness.He served as President of its predecessors : the Association for Transpersonal Anthropology ( 1980-81 ) and the Association for the Anthropological Study of Consciousness ( 1984-86 ).Long was the program chair for several conferences held in conjunction with the Southwestern Anthropological Association in the early 1980s.He was the first editor of the Anthropology of Consciousness ( 1989-92 ).Long was also an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( 1967 ).

In commemoration of Long's contributions through exploration of Pilot Rock Cave , Thomas G Barr , Jr reverently named Pseudanopthalmus longi , a blind cave beetle , after Long.