[2]: loc 151 Stocking senior moved frequently to take different academic positions, as well as to conduct research and undertake policy and applied work.
From 1949 to 1956 he was a member of the Communist Party,[2]: loc 50 taking a number of jobs in manufacturing and industry an attempt to organize workers.
[3] Stocking's work was a content analysis of articles written by academics and intellectuals, and was influenced by social-scientific thought current in the American Civilization program at the time.
Most notably, he was the editor in chief of the annual book series "History of Anthropology" published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
These differences, and the absence of the dingo in Tasmania, led Péron to conclude, in a memoir he presented to the Institut de France, that ‘la séparation de ces deux régions doit remonter à une époque beaucoup plus ancienne qu’on ne pourroit le soupçonner d’abord’ [‘the separation of these two regions must have dated from an époque very much more ancient than one could suspect at first’].
[5] Duyker pointed out that Stocking had mistranslated this crucial statement as: ‘before the epoch of the population of these countries’, to justify his erroneous assertion about Péron's belief in distinct human creations.
[6] Upon his death, an article in the Indian Country Today Media Network called Stocking "The Man Who Forced Anthropologists to Respect Native Cultures".
[7] In addition to the titles listed below Stocking has edited many works, been the editor of the series History of Anthropology, and contributed to many journals.