Present
Position:
Retired
Past
Positions:
Director of
Workshops, Ann Templeton Studios. Dr. Mendonsa, who paints under the
name
“gino,” works in oil, acrylics and watercolor.
Staff Writer,
Southwest Living Magazine
Adjunct
Professor
of Anthropology, University of Colorado - Boulder
Research
Associate, Centre for African Studies, Cambridge University, UK
Professor and
Senior Instructor, Anthropology Dept., University of
Colorado–Denver.
Applied
anthropologist, Action Anthropology, Inc. Doing training seminars and
consulting
for Fortune 500 companies on cross-cultural communication.
Board member,
Mali
film project, Women's Studies Center, BYU.
Adjunct
Associate
Professor, Anthropology Dept., BYU.
Director,
African
Studies, Brigham Young University.
Director,
International Negotiating Institute, a division of QCI, International, a
management training company. Published over 50 articles on business
negotiation
and cross-cultural business. Wrote 12 workbooks and created numerous
multi-media
presentations. Involved in sales, marketing and promotional activities.
Specialties include:
International
business practices, negotiation, TQM principles and The Learning
Organization.
Professor of
Anthropology, UCLA. Taught social anthropology. Wrote grants and carried out
research projects in Portugal and Africa. Acted as a development consultant
for
aid agencies doing third world development projects. Wrote and published The
Politics of Divination and thirty journal articles.
Lecturer in
Anthropology, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria. Taught sociology and social
anthropology. Conducted research in Nigeria and Ghana.
Interspersed
with
my graduate studies I was a Lecturer in Anthropology/Sociology, University
of
Wisconsin.
Education:
1970-1973 –
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. Ph.D., Social anthropology.
Thesis
advisor- Professor Meyer Fortes. Studied with Professor Sir Edmund Leach and
Professor Sir Jack Goody.
1964-1969 –
BYU,
Provo, Utah. B.Sc., Anthropology. M.Sc., Sociology.
Research
Projects
1970-71
Ethnographic research among the Sisala of Ghana
Summer, 1975
Ethnographic research among the Sisala of Ghana
Summer, 1977
Ethnographic research among the Sisala of Ghana
1979-80
Ethnographic research among the fishermen of Nazaré, Portugal.
May-August,
1998
Research on women’s roles and farming among the Sisala of Ghana. Also shot
film
footage which is being edited into three ethnographic films entitled: Sisala
Divination: The Mystic Tradition (completed) and Emerging Sisala Women. A
third
film is planned, Changing Sisalaland.
May-August,
1998
Supervised an ethnographic field school with seven students from BYU in
Northern, Ghana.
In addition to
the
three films, I helped supervise the filming of the Bambara Women of Mali
project, Women's Research Center, BYU.
Applied
Anthropology Training Courses Created
July, 1984 to
present – Negotiating Overseas (a course with numerous country modules);
Win-Win
Negotiation; Partnering Skills for Buyers and Suppliers; The Learning
Organization; Total Quality Management; Beyond Total Quality Management;
Supplier Certification. Wrote many business articles on international
business
practices and negotiation.
Countries
Where
Worked
Brazil,
Portugal,
England, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Moçambique,
Swaziland,
India, Puerto Rico, Germany, Italy and the USA.
Publications:
1969 Reward
and
deviance at Brigham Young University. A master’s thesis in sociology, BYU,
Provo, Utah.
1973a
"Sisala
Marriage". Lambda Alpha Journal of Man. 5, 2, 39-73.
1973b. Review
of
The Myth of the Bagre by Jack Goody. Man 8:1:126-7.
1975a
"Traditional
and Imposed Political Systems among the Sisala of Northern Ghana."
Savanna 4, 2,
103-115.
1975b
"Characteristics of Sisala Diviners." In A. Bharati (Ed.) The
Realm of
Extrahuman Agents and Audiences. No. 56 in Vol. 96, World Anthropology. The
Hague: Mouton.
1975c
"The Journey
of the Soul in Sisala Cosmology." Journal of Religion in Africa.
7:1-9.
1975d
"Functions,
Contingent and Universal. Man 10:3:474-476.
1976a
"Elders,
Office-Holders and Ancestors among the Sisala of Northern Ghana."
Africa
46:57-65.
1976b
"The value
of Children in Sisala Society: Implications for Demographic Change."
Paper
presented at the XVth International Seminar on Family Research, Lome, Togo,
January.
1976c
"Aspects of
Sisala Marriage Prestations." Research Review 9, 3:23-56.
1977a
"The Soul
and Sacrifice among the Sisala." Journal of Religion in Africa
8:1-17.
1977b
"The
Explanation of High Fertility among the Sisala of Northern Ghana." In:
The
Persistence of High Fertility: Population Prospects in the Third World.
(Ed.) J.
Caldwell, pp. 225-258. Canberra: Australian National University
Press.
1977c
"The
applicability of intermediate technology in the African
Savannah: A
case
for Northern Ghana." Proceedings of the First International Conference
on Energy
Use Management, New York: Pergammon Press.
1977d
"The need
for a new development economics" Anthro-Tech: A journal of speculative
anthropology, 1:3:12-15.
1978a
"Sacrifice
in Sisala-land: A Test of an Economic Hypothesis."
Savanna
6:129-140.
1978b
"Etiology
and divination among the Sisala of Northern Ghana."
Journal of
Religion in Africa 9:33-50.
1979a
"The
Position of Women in the Sisala Divination Cult" In: The New Religions
of Africa
by B. Jules-Rosette (Ed.). Norwood, NJ, Ablex Publishing Corporation, pp.
57-66.
1979b
"Economic,
Residential and Ritual Fission of Sisala Domestic Groups." Africa
49:61-79.
1979c
"Agricultural development: When cooperation fails?" RAIN (Royal
Anthropological
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland). April, Issue 31:4-5.
1980 "The
Failure
of Modern Farming in Sisala-land, Northern Ghana."
Human
Organization
39:275-279.
1981 "The
Status
of Women in Sisala Society." Sex Roles: A Journal of Research
7:607-625.
1982a The
Politics
of Divination. Berkeley: University of California Press..
1982b. Turismo
e
estratifição na Nazaré (Tourism and stratification in Nazaré [Portugal]).
Análise social xviii:2:311-29.
1985 Win-Win
Negotiation
1987
Negotiating
Overseas
1988-Feb*
"Countermeasures to the Seller's Pressure Tactics". Utility
Purchasing and
Stores.
April "Be
a
winner: How to negotiate overseas". Automation Weekly.
Aug "Como
Negoçiar
en el Exterior". Notivest.
Aug "How
to do
business in Latin America". Purchasing World.
Sep
"Tactics to
use when Negotiating". Manager's Magazine.
"Tactics
for
Negotiating". Industrial Glass Digest.
"Negotiating – the
Key to Professional Success". Marketing Mix.
Fall
"Eleven
‘Commandments’ of negotiation’". Virginia Review.
Oct
"Global Trade:
It's negotiable". The Packer Weekly.
Oct
"Coming to
terms with ‘Rubber Time: Marketers who understand the culture will achieve
the
greatest success in a developing country’.
Business
Marketing
74:10:66-69.
Nov
"Steps to
Successful Negotiations". Small Business Report.
Nov
"Tactics to
use when Negotiating". Canadian Manager.
Fall
"Eleven
`Commandments' of Negotiation". Virginia Review.
1989-1993
Spoke to
thousands of business professionals throughout the world on management
practices, TQM, supplier certification, negotiation, cross-cultural
communication. A frequent keynote & after-dinner speaker. Taught &
coordinated
hundreds of workshops.
Sample
workbooks
include:
1990
Understanding
the Americans
1991a
Persuasive
Negotiating Skills
1991b
Understanding the Italians
1992a Creating
Lasting Buyer/Supplier Relations
1994
"Supplier
Reduction for Better Quality". Quality Digest May. 87-88.
1996
"Flying
through a Bored Mind". The Galley Proof. Third Quarter:6-7.
1999
"Blood on the
tractor". Anthropology and Humanism. June issue. 24:1:63-64.
2000a.
Ethnographic film: Sisala Divination: The Mystic Tradition. PBS.
2000b. 2000.
What
does anthropology have to offer in the solution of the world's problems –
Are we
kidding ourselves? High Plains Applied Anthropologist
20:2:185-192.
2000c. Fishing
For
Clues: A Murder Mystery. (Fiction). New York:
Writer’s Club
Press.
2000d. The
Politics of Divination. (reprint). Lincoln, NE: Author’s Choice
Press.
2001a.
Continuity
and Change in a West African Society:
Globalization's
Impact on the Sisala of Ghana. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic
Press.
2001b.
Ethnographic film: Emerging Sisala Women. BYU Motion Picture Studies,
Women’s
Studies Center and Utopia Production, Inc.
2002a. West
Africa. A college textbook. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
2002b. The
Song of
the Bird. Fiction about Africa. Anthropology and Humanism.
2004. A note
on
Issues of Family in Northern Ghana and Modern Day America.
Cambridge
Anthropology 23:4:75.
2006. "A
New
Mexico Encounter," Southwest Living, pp. 28-29
2007.
Color and Beyond, with
Ann
Templeton. Albuquerque: Fresco Art Publications.
2007. Portrait
of
a dog as a young artist and other short stories. New York:
2008. The
Scripting of Domination in Medieval Catalonia: An Anthropological View.
Durham,
NC: Carolina Academic Press.
*My business
publications are too numerous to list. This is a sample to give you a
general
idea of the subjects. I have been quoted in the following business
publications:
Global trade
executive Journal of commerce
The purchasing
professional Boardroom reports
Business west
Phoenix business journal
The United
States
banker Design engineering
Mid-Atlantic
purchasing Applied artificial intell. reporter
Automotive
executive Corporate accounting
Glass industry
Building services contractor
Handling &
shipping management Arizona business gazette
Chemtech
Utility
purchasing & stores
Electrical
apparatus Florida shipper
Canadian
poultryman Machine design digest
Great lakes
boating Tooling & production
BOMI
newsletter
Laundry news
Branch bankers
report Food promotions
Milwaukee area
purchaser Sling technology
ABC
communication
world Direction monthly
TE&M
monthly
Production Supervisor’s Bulletin
APAA marketing
report Good packaging magazine
Refrigeration
monthly Elevator world
Distribution
Industrial distribution
CAS retailer
Minnesota tooling & machining
Home lighting
&
accessories Diesel Equip. superintendent
Industrial
machinery news Dartnell Sales/Mktg. newsletter
Canadian
packaging
Air condition., heating, refrig. D.
Die-casting
management Utility, purchasing & stores
Electronics
business Electronics today
IABC
communications world Public relations news
The brewers
bulletin Daily commercial news
Ohio valley
retailer Gifts & decor journal
The engineer
of
California Material handling wholesaler
Administrative
management Maryland purchasing journal
Purchasing
management digest Rubber & plastics news
Kansas/Neb
beverage news Wire rope news
Shop monthly
Production engineering
Elastomerics
monthly
D. F.
technology
monthly
The Ragan
Report
Engineering
monthly
Western HVACR
news
Western cleaner/laundry news
