In 2010, a website was created by Prof. Tony Whitehead, which would help store his Working Papers for The Cultural Ecology of Health and Change (the CEHC), an applied ethnographic research system of conceptual frameworks and methodologies developed over his then 40 years professional career, straddling public health and anthropology. The idea was to make these papers globally until one could get back to completing them for peer review. Prof. Tony decided to formally retire four years later, and because of age, a lack of staff, and funding, work ceased on the papers and nothing else was done with regards the website. After fully retiring in 2017, however, one began writing essays for a memoir, which by 2020 had evolved into a possible Memoir/Monograph series (written with the collaboration of others).
That year, the Tony’s End of Life Project (the TELP), was initiated, which evolved in 2022 to a new project titled Transitioning from Tony’s End of Life Project (TELP) to Writing Blackness Academy Network (TELP to WBAN). The overall goal of TELP to WBAN is to revive the older work done by the author by recruiting former students and younger colleagues as collaborators to whom one could pass on his work to support them in the development of their own careers. This includes a reviving of the CEHC website, and its Working Papers. These papers, when completed, will be organized into a series of monographs under four titles:
(1) Evolution of the Cultural Systems Paradigm (CSP)
(2) Evolution of Ethnographically Informed Community and Cultural Assessment Research Systems
(EICCARS)
(3) Cultural Systems Approach to Project Planning, Implementation and Evaluation (CSAPPE)
(4) Ethnographic Assessment and Evaluation Systems (EAES)
The proposed panel will include discussions informed by materials from the essays being developed for each of these four CEHC Memoir/Monograph Series.
