William Rathje

William Rathje

William Laurens Rathje (born 1 July, 1945) is an American archaeologist. He is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, and is consulting professor of anthropological sciences at Stanford University. [http://anthro.web.arizona.edu/people/display_fac_details.php?id=13 University of Arizona, Affiliated Faculty] , accessed November 29, 2007] [ [https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=view/faculty/Affiliated+Faculty Stanford Department of Anthropology, Affiliated Faculty] , accessed November 28, 2007] He was the longtime director of the Garbage Project, which studied trends in discards by field research in Tucson, Arizona and in landfills elsewhere.

Rathje received his Ph. D in anthropology from Harvard University in 1971. His academic interests have been archaeology, early civilizations, modern material culture studies, and Mesoamerica. He first became known as director of the National Geographic-sponsored Cozumel Archaeological Project (Harvard/U of Arizona: Feb-June 1973) --which established Cozumel's significance as an Olmec and Mayan port of trade.

With his students at the University of Arizona, Rathje began "Le Projet du Garbàge" in 1973, sorting waste at Tucson's landfill. Early results showed that Tucson residents discarded 10 per cent of the food they purchased and that middle-income households wasted more food than the poor or wealthy. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913924,00.html "Truth in Garbage," "Time Magazine," January 26, 1976] , accessed November 29, 2007]

He received the 1990 Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "his innovative contributions to public understanding of science and its societal impacts by demonstrating with his creative 'Garbage Project' how the scientific method can document problems and identify solutions." [ [http://archives.aaas.org/people.php?p_id=347 AAAS History & Archives] , accessed November 29, 2007]

Dr. Rathje lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Works

*"Lowland Classic Maya Socio-Political Organization Degree and Form Through Time and Space." Thesis (Ph.D.), Harvard University, 1971
*"A Study of Changing Pre-Columbian Commercial Systems," with Jeremy A Sabloff and Judith G Connor, Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1975. ISBN 0873659023
*"Household Archaeology." with Richard R. Wilk, "American Behavioral Scientist," 25. 6 (1982): 617-39.
*"Household Refuse Analysis: theory, method, and applications in social science," with Cheryl K Ritenbaugh and Projet du Garbàge. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1984. OCLC 16674732
*"Household Garbage and the Role of Packaging: the United States/Mexico City household refuse comparison," with Michael D. Reilly and Wilson W. Hughes. Tucson, Ariz.: Solid Waste Council of the Paper Industry, 1985. OCLC: 40356239
*"Rubbish," "Atlantic Monthly," (1989): 1-10.
*"Once and Future Landfills," "National Geographic," May 1991.
*"Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage," New York: Harpercollins, 1992. ISBN 0-06-016603-7
*"Use Less Stuff: Environmentalism for Who We Really Are," with Robert M Lilienfeld, New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. ISBN 0449001687
*"The Perfume of Garbage: Modernity and the Archaeological." "Modernism/Modernity." 11. 1 (2004): 61-83.

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