“This significantly expanded second edition is bound to become the quintessential reference book for every anthropologist engaged in active field research. With sixteen updated chapters and eight entirely new ones—on topics ranging from online ethnography to GIS to public anthropology—this volume is a treasure trove of sound methodological strategies imparted by leading figures in the discipline. A must-read for everyone from graduate students headed for the field to established academics and applied anthropologists.”
Book (Edited)
Bernard, H. Russell, & Gravlee, Clarence C. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology (Second Edition). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Journal Articles
Ruth, Alissa, Katherine Mayfour, Jessica Hardin, Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Amber Wutich, H. Russell Bernard, Alexandra Brewis, Melissa Beresford, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, H. J. François Dengah II, Clarence C. Gravlee, Greg Guest, Krista Harper, Pardis Mahdavi, Siobhán M. Mattison, Mark Mortiz, Rosalyn Negrón, Barbara A. Piperata, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, and Rebecca Zarger. (2022). Teaching Ethnographic Methods: The State of the Art. Human Organization 81 (4): in press.
Newsome, Faith A., Clarence C. Gravlee, and Michelle I. Cardel. (2021). Systemic and Environmental Contributors to Obesity Inequities in Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Groups. The Nursing Clinics of North America 56 (4): 619–34.
Brewis, Alexandra, Barbara A. Piperata, H. J. François Dengah, William W. Dressler, Melissa A. Liebert, Siobhán M. Mattison, Rosalyn Negrón, Robin Nelson, Kathryn Oths, Jeffrey Snodgrass, Susan Tanner, Zaneta Thayer, Katherine Wander, Clarence C. Gravlee. 2021. Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-Based Research. Field Methods 33 (4): 315–34.
Mullings, Leith, Jada Benn Torres, Agustín Fuentes, Clarence C. Gravlee, Dorothy Roberts, and Zaneta Thayer. 2021. The Biology of Racism. American Anthropologist 123 (3): 671–80.
Fuller, Kia, Clarence C. Gravlee, Christopher McCarty, Miaisha M. Mitchell, and Connie J. Mulligan. 2021. Stressful Social Environment and Financial Strain Drive Depressive Symptoms, and Reveal the Effects of a FKBP5 Variant and Male Sex, in African Americans Living in Tallahassee. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 176 (4): 572–83.
A tentative syndemic model of systemic racism, cardiometabolic disease, and COVID-19 in the United States (from Gravlee 2020).
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2020). Systemic racism, chronic health inequities, and COVID-19: A syndemic in the making? American Journal of Human Biology, 32(5), e23482.
Cardel, Michelle I., Xiaofei Chi, Yuan-I Min, Mario Sims, Solomon Musani, Akilah Dulin, Clarence C. Gravlee, Steven M. Smith, Mark D. DeBoer, Matthew J. Gurka. (2020). Experiences of discrimination are associated with worse metabolic syndrome severity among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, doi:10.1093/abm/kaaa050.
Rej, Peter, HEAT Steering Committee, Clarence C. Gravlee, Connie J. Mulligan (2020). Shortened telomere length is associated with unfair treatment attributed to race in African Americans living in Tallahassee, Florida. American Journal of Human Biology, 32(3): e23375.
Bartley, Emily J., Nadia I. Hossain, Clarence C. Gravlee, Kimberly T. Sibille, Ellen L. Terry, Ivana A. Vaughn, et al. (2019). Race/ethnicity moderates the association between psychosocial resilience and movement‐evoked pain in knee osteoarthritis. ACR Open Rheumatology, 1(1), 16–25.
Fuller, Kia C., Christopher McCarty, Cynthia Seaborn, Clarence C. Gravlee, and Connie J. Mulligan. (2018). ACE gene haplotypes and social networks: Using a biocultural framework to investigate blood pressure variation in African Americans. PLoS ONE. 13(9): e0204127.
Weller, Susan C., Ben Vickers, H. Russell Bernard, Alyssa M. Blackburn, Stephen Borgatti, Clarence C. Gravlee, Jeffrey C. Johnson. (2018). Open-ended interview questions and saturation. PLoS ONE, 13(6), e0198606–18.
Gravlee, Clarence C., Chad R. Maxwell, Aryeh Jacobsohn, and H. Russell Bernard. (2017). Mode effects in cultural domain analysis: Comparing pile sort data collected via internet versus face-to-face interviews. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 74(2):165-176.
Quinlan, Jacklyn, Laurel N. Pearson, Christopher J. Clukay, Miaisha M. Mitchell, P. Qasimah Boston, Clarence C. Gravlee, and Connie J. Mulligan (2016). Genetic loci and novel discrimination measures associated with blood pressure variation in African Americans living in Tallahassee. PLoS ONE 11 (12): e0167700.
Kagawa Singer, Marjorie, William W. Dressler, Sheba George, and NIH Expert Panel (Claudia R. Baquet, Ronny A. Bell, Linda Burhansstipanov, Nancy J. Burke, Suzanne Dibble, William Elwood, Linda Garro, Clarence C. Gravlee, Peter Guarnaccia, Michael L. Hecht, Jeffrey Henderson, Dan Hruschka, Roberto Lewis-Fernández, Robert Like, Charles Mouton, Hector F. Myers, J. Bryan Page, Rena Pasick, Bernice Pescosolido, Nancy Schoenberg, Bradley Stoner, Gregory Strayhorn, Laura Szalacha, Joseph Trimble, Thomas S. Weisner, David Williams) (2016). Culture: the missing link in health research. Social Science & Medicine, 170, 237–246.
Boulter, Alexis C., Jacklyn Quinlan, Aida Miro-Herrans, Laurel N. Pearson, Nubiana L. Todd, Clarence C. Gravlee, and Connie J. Mulligan (2015). Interaction of Alu polymorphisms and novel measures of discrimination in association with blood pressure in African Americans living in Tallahassee. Human Biology, 87(4), 295-305.
Participants in the 2015 NSF-funded Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee (HEAT) Ethnographic Field School
Gravlee, Clarence C., Szurek, Sarah M., & Mitchell, M. Miaisha (2015). Integrating methods training and community-based participatory research: The NSF-supported ethnographic field school in Tallahassee, Florida. Practicing Anthropology, 37(4), 4–8.
Boston, P. Qasimah, Mitchell, M. Miaisha, Collum, Kourtney, & Gravlee, Clarence C. (2015). Community engagement and health equity. Practicing Anthropology, 37(4), 28–32.
Szurek, Sarah M., & Gravlee, Clarence C. (2015). Introduction to the Special Issue. Practicing Anthropology, 37(4), 2–3.
Gravlee, Clarence C., P. Qasimah Boston, M. Miaisha Mitchell, Alan F. Schultz, and Connie Betterley. (2014). Food store owners’ and managers’ perspectives on the food environment: an exploratory mixed-methods study. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 1031.
Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, Chad R. Maxwell, Aryeh Jacobsohn. (2013). Mode effects in free-list elicitation: Comparing oral, written, and web-based data collection. Social Science Computer Review, 31(1), 119-132.
Non, Amy L., Clarence C. Gravlee, Connie J. Mulligan. (2012). Education, genetic ancestry, and blood pressure in African Americans and Whites. American Journal of Public Health, 102(8), 1559-1565.
Reyes-García, Victoria, Clarence C. Gravlee, Thomas W. McDade, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner, and TAPS Bolivian Research Team. (2010). Cultural consonance and body morphology: Estimates with longitudinal data from an Amazonian society. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 143(2), 167-174.
Godoy, Ricardo, Colleen Nyberg, Dan T. A. Eisenberg, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, Eliezer Shinnar, William R. Leonard, Clarence C. Gravlee, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Thomas W. McDade, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, and TAPS Bolivian Research Team (2010). Short but catching up: Statural growth among native Amazonian Bolivian children. American Journal of Human Biology, 22(3), 336-347.
Along the Maniqui River, El Beni, Bolivia, as part of the TAPS Research Team.
Godoy, Rircardo, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, Colleen Nyberg, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Thomas W. McDade, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, and Clarence C. Gravlee (2010). Why no adult stunting penalty or height premium? Estimates from native Amazonians in Bolivia. Economics & Human Biology, 8(1), 88-99.
Reyes-Garcia, Victoria, Clarence C. Gravlee, Thomas W. McDade, Tomas Huanca, Williams R. Leonard, and Susan Tanner (2010). Cultural consonance and psychological well-being: estimates with longitudinal data from an Amazonian society. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 34(1), 186–203.
Gravlee, Clarence C., Amy L. Non, and Connie J. Mulligan. (2009). Genetic ancestry, social classification, and racial inequalities in blood pressure in Southeastern Puerto Rico. PLoS ONE 4 (9): e6821.
Godoy, Ricardo, Victoria Reyes-García, Clarence C. Gravlee, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade, Susan Tanner, and the TAPS Bolivia Study Team (2009). Moving beyond a snapshot to understand changes in the well‐being of Native Amazonians: Panel evidence (2002-2006) from Bolivia. Current Anthropology, 50(4), 563-573.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2009). How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 138: 47–57.
Gravlee, Clarence C., David P. Kennedy, Ricardo Godoy, and William R. Leonard. (2009). Methods for collecting panel data: What does cultural anthropology have to learn from other disciplines? Journal of Anthropological Research 65(3):453-483.
Gravlee, Clarence C. and Elizabeth Sweet. (2008). Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology, 1977-2002. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 22(1):27-51.
Godoy, Ricardo, Elizabeth Goodman, Clarence C. Gravlee, Richard Levins, Craig Seyfried, Mariana Caram, and Jha Naveen (2007). Blood pressure and hypertension in an American colony (Puerto Rico) and on the USA mainland compared, 1886-1930. Economics & Human Biology 5(2), 255-279.
Zenk, Shannon N., Amy J. Schulz, Gabriela Mentz, James S. House, Clarence C. Gravlee, Patricia Y. Miranda, Patricia Miller, and Srimathi Kannan. (2007). Inter-rater and test-retest reliability: Methods and results for the neighborhood observational checklist. Health & Place 13:452-465.
Gravlee, Clarence C., Shannon N. Zenk, Sachiko Woods, Zachary Rowe, and Amy J. Schulz. (2006). Handheld computers for systematic observation of the social and physical environment. Field Methods 18(4):382-397.
Schulz, Amy J., Clarence C. Gravlee, David R. Williams, Barbara A. Israel, Zachary Rowe. (2006). Discrimination, symptoms of depression, and self-rated health among African American women in Detroit: Results from a longitudinal analysis. American Journal of Public Health 96(6):1265-1270.
Interaction of socioeconomic status and culturally ascribed color, from Gravlee et al. (2005) American Journal of Public Health.
Gravlee, Clarence C., William W. Dressler, and H. Russell Bernard. (2005). Skin color, social classification, and blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Public Health 95(12):2191-2197.
Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, and Clarence C. Gravlee. Race and ethnicity in public health research: Models to explain health disparities. Annual Review of Anthropology 34:231-252.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2005) Ethnic classification in southeastern Puerto Rico: The cultural model of "color." Social Forces 83(3):949-970.
Gravlee, Clarence C. and William W. Dressler. (2005). Skin pigmentation, self-perceived color, and arterial blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Human Biology 17(2):195-206.
Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard (2003). Boas’s Changes in Bodily Form: The immigrant study, cranial plasticity, and Boas’s physical anthropology. American Anthropologist 105(2):326-332.
Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard (2003). Heredity, environment, and cranial form: a re-analysis of Boas's immigrant data. American Anthropologist 105(1):125-138.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2002). Mobile computer-assisted personal interviewing (MCAPI) with handheld computers: the Entryware system 3.0. Field Methods 14(3):322-336.
Book Chapters
Kuzawa, Christopher W. and Clarence C. Gravlee. (2016). Beyond genetic race: Biocultural insights into the causes of racial health disparities. New Directions in Bicultural Anthropology (pp. 89–105), edited by Molly K. Zuckerman and Debra L. Martin. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Bernard, H. Russell and Clarence C. Gravlee. (2015). Introduction: On Method and Methods in anthropology. in H. R. Bernard and C. C. Gravlee (Eds.), Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology (Second Edition, pp. 1-17). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2013). Race, biology, and culture: Rethinking the connections. In J. Hartigan (Ed.), Anthropology of Race: Genes, Biology, and Culture (pp. 21–41). Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2011). Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology. In: A Companion to Medical Anthropology, edited by Merrill Singer and Pamela Erickson (p. 69-91). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Wutich, Amber and Clarence C. Gravlee. (2010). Water Decision-Makers in a Desert City: Text Analysis and Environmental Social Science. In I. Vaccaro, E. A. Smith, S. Aswani (Eds.), Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research Design (p. 188-211). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Encyclopedia Article
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2008). Life Expectancy. In: Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, edited by John H. Moore (Vol. 2, pp. 265-269). Detroit: MacMillan Reference USA.
Letters, Commentaries, Book Reviews
Mullings, Leith, Jada Benn Torres, Agustín Fuentes, Clarence C. Gravlee, Dorothy Roberts, and Zaneta Thayer. (2021). The biology of racism. American Anthropologist, 123(3), 671–680.
Tsai, Jennifer, Cerdeña, Jessica P., Khazanchi, Rohan, Lindo, Edwin, Marcelin, Jasmine R., Rajagopalan, Aishwarya, Sandoval, Raquel Sofia, Westby, Andrea, & Gravlee, Clarence C. (2020). There is no “African American Physiology”: the fallacy of racial essentialism. Journal of Internal Medicine, 288(3), 368–370.
Non, Amy and Clarence C. Gravlee (2015). Biology and culture beyond the genome: Race, racism, and health. American Anthropologist, 117(4), 737–738.
Non, Amy L., Clarence C. Gravlee, and Connie J. Mulligan. (2010). Questioning the importance of genetic ancestry as a contributor to preterm delivery and related traits in African Americans. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, e12.
Gravlee, Clarence C. and Connie J. Mulligan. (2009). Re: Racial Disparities in Cancer Survival Among Randomized Clinical Trials Patients of the Southwest Oncology Group [Letter]. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 102(4):280.
Gravlee, Clarence C. Book reviews: Human biology of Afro-Caribbean populations. American Journal of Human Biology 19(4):598.
Gravlee, Jocelyn R., Daniel J. Van Durme, and Clarence C. Gravlee (2007). Conflicting evidence on splints for carpal tunnel syndrome – Reply. American Family Physician, 76(4), 500.
Op-Ed and Essays
Mendenhall, Emily and Clarence C. Gravlee. (2021). How COVID, Inequality, and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic. Scientific American, August 26.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2021). How whiteness works: JAMA and the refusals of white supremacy. Somatosphere, March 27.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2020). Racism, not genetics, explains why Black Americans are dying of COVID-19. Scientific American, June 7.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2020). I teach Race and Racism at UF, but don’t want it to be mandatory. Gainesville Sun, June 7.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2020). It’s about racism, not race, when coronavirus hits communities of color hard. Tampa Bay Times, April 16.