Department of Anthropology

PROFESSOR, Recreation, Park and Tourism Management & ANTH

EDUCATION:

1969    B. S., Purdue University (Psychology)
1980    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (Anthropology)
            Thesis: Concept and Behavior in a Tlaxcalan Religious Officeholding System.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:        

Expressive culture, especially play, games, and ritual, the relationship of expressive activities to other aspect of culture, the evolution of play and games, expressive aspects of technology, time use, cognitive anthropology, cross-cultural comparative research, research methods.

FIELDWORK:

Mexico, China, Western Pennsylvania

COURSES TAUGHT:

RPTM 433W  Research and Evaluation in Recreation and Parks
LEST   501      Leisure Studies Foundations
LEST 597C     Leisure and Culture               

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Yarnal, C., Kerstetter, D., Chick, G., & Hutchinson, S. (2007).  The Red Hat Society:  An Exploration of Play and Masking in Older Women’s Lives.  Play and Culture Studies (in press).

Chick, G., Li, C. L., Zinn, H. C., Absher, J. D., & Graefe, A. R.  (2007).  Ethnicity as a Construct in Leisure Research: A Rejoinder to Gobster.   Journal of Leisure Research, 39, 554-556.

Li, C. L., Chick, G., Zinn, H. C., Absher, J. D., & Graefe, A. R.  (2007).  Ethnicity as a Variable in Leisure Research.  Journal of Leisure Research, 39, 514-545.

Kyle, G. & Chick, G. (2007).  The Social Construction of a Sense of Place.  Leisure Sciences, 29, 3, 209-225.

Roberts, Jr., J. M., & Chick, G.  (2007).  Culture and behavior:  Applying log-linear models for transitions between offices in a Mexican festival system.  Social Science Research, 36, 313-328.

Ling, P., Chick, G., Godbey, G., & Dong, E.  (2007).  Leisure Lifestyles and Constraints in Urban China:  A Six-City Comparative Study. In H. Donohoe & W. J. Li (Eds.).  Leisure in Context:  Implications for Human Development and Wellbeing.  Hangzhou, PRC:  Zhejiang University Press, pp. 109-117.

Chick, G.  (2006).  Leisure and Cultural Identity.  In E. Jackson (Ed.), Leisure and the Quality of Life: Impacts on Social, Economic and Cultural Development.  Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang University Press, pp. 164-178.

Chick, G.  (2006).  Anthropology of Leisure.  In S. Shaw & C. Rojek (Eds.), Handbook of Leisure.  Basingstoke, UK:  Palgrave Macmillan, Pp. 41-54.

Morais, D. B., Lee, S. H., Hou, J. S., Lin, C. H., Yarnal, C., & Chick, G. (2005). Heritage tourism and shared national identities: Examining meanings and impacts in Li-Kang, Taiwan. Proceedings of the Recent Developments in Tourism Research Conference, Faro, Portugal (on CD).

Chick, G., & Dong, E.  (2005).  Cultural Constraints on Leisure.  In Constraints on Leisure. E. Jackson (Ed),  State College, PA:  Venture Publishing, Pp. 169-183.

Chick, G. & Gonzalez, L.  (2005).  Case Studies in Cultural Control:  John M. Roberts’ “Four Southwestern Men.”  Cross-Cultural Research, 39, 322-346.

Kyle, G. T., & Chick, G. E.  (2004).  Enduring leisure involvement: The importance of relationships.  Leisure Studies, 23.  243-266.

Cohen, J., Gijón-Cruz, A. S., Reyes-Morales, R. G., & Chick, G.  (2003).  Understanding transnational processes through the analysis of migration in the central valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico.  Field Methods, 15, 36-385.

Kyle, G. T., & Chick, G.  (2002).  The social nature of leisure involvement.  Journal of Leisure Research, 34, 426-448.

Chick, G.  (2002).  Cultural Consonance in a Mexican Festival System.  Field Methods, 14, 26-45.

Chick, G. & Loy, J. W.  (2001).  Making Men of Them:  Male Socialization for Warfare and Combative Sports.  World Cultures, 12, 2-17.

Chick, G.  (2001).  Culture-Bearing Units and the Units of Culture: An Introduction.  Cross-Cultural Research, 35, 91-108.

Chick, G.  (2001).  What is Play For?  Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Play.  Play and Culture Studies, 3,3-25.

Chick, G.  (2000).  Writing Cultures Reliably: The Analysis of High Concordance Codes.  Ethnology, 39, 365-393.