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Welcome! You have reached the website of Steve Froemming. I am a sociocultural anthropologist. You can learn more about me by following the links, but for starters, here's a brief autobiography. I was born in central Minnesota (USA) in 1952. My father is a retired homebuilder, cabinetmaker, mason, and farmer, my mother a homemaker and retired stainer and carpenter's aide. I am the oldest of nine. I did my undergraduate work in art at St. John's University (Collegeville, MN), my graduate work in anthropology at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), and my doctoral research in an Andean village in the Department of Cusco, Peru. My research interests include collective action, reciprocal exchange, decision making processes, peace and conflict resolution, ethnicity, indigenous technologies and knowledge systems, and indigenous textile design. I have had the fortune over the years to live in a variety of rural and urban settings in the U.S., Peru, and Spain, and call many places home. I met my wife, who is Basque, in Cusco, and we maintain our main home near her family's place in Idiazabal, Spain. We have two children, Jon and Beņat, fraternal twins born in January 2003. This website is in the early stages of development, so if you find things of interest, be sure to check back. Currently, you will find my curriculum vitae, excerpts from my doctoral thesis, syllabi of a few of the courses I have taught, a list of freeware programs of interest to students, and a crossword puzzle, the latter to test how much you might know of the Quechua language, probably without ever having set foot in the altiplano. Please contact me with your comments, questions, and suggestions.
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