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Niyi Akinnaso, Ph.D. , Associate Professor
E-mail Address:
niyi@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-4533
My educational and professional experiences
have benefited from a rich blend of African, European, and
American traditions, leading to a B.A. (with honors) in
English and an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Ife
(now Obafemi Awolowo University) in Nigeria; and a Ph.D. in
Anthropology (specializing in Linguistic Anthropology) from
the University of California at Berkeley. I obtained teaching
& research experiences at Ife, Berkeley, the University of
Wisconsin and the State University of New York. Here at
Temple, in addition to my base in linguistic anthropology, I
participate in the visual communication program as well as in
the university wide linguistics program. I teach courses and
specialized seminars in linguistic anthropology,
sociolinguistics, semiotics, and the ethnography of spoken,
written, and visual communication, drawing students from
various departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, the
College of Education, and the School of Communications and
Theater. My research involves cross cultural and
multi-disciplinary studies of names and naming practices;
ritual communication; the cultures of scholarship and
knowledge reproduction in literate and non-literate societies;
language policy and language education, with emphasis on the
role of language in the reproduction of knowledge and the
distribution of power and resources in multilingual societies.
I uphold the view that language has ideological and material
existence and must be analyzed in terms of the processes by
which societies, and groups within them, reproduce themselves.
Selected Publications:
1996 Vernacular literacy in modern Nigeria.
International Journal of the Sociology of Language 119,
43-68.
1994 Linguistic unification and language
rights. Applied Linguistics 15, 139-168.
1993 Policy and experiment in mother tongue
literacy in Nigeria. International Review of Education
39, 255-285.
1992 Schooling, language, and knowledge in
literate and nonliterate societies. Comparative Studies in
Society and History 34, 68-109.
1990 The politics of language planning in
education in Nigeria. Word 41, 337-367.
1989 Language education opportunities in
Nigerian schools. Educational Review 40, 89-103.
1985 On the similarities between spoken and
written language. Language and Speech 28, 323-359.
1981 The consequences of literacy in
theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. Anthropology and
Education Quarterly 12, 163-200.
1980. The sociolinguistic basis of Yoruba
personal names. Anthropological Linguistics
22, 275-304.
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Richard Chalfen, Ph.D.
(Emeritus)
E-mail Address:
rchalfen@temple.edu
Link to my web
page.
I am now Emeritus Professor of
Anthropology and reside in Boston, MA where I have been
appointed Senior Scientist for the Center on Media and Child
Health at Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School.
I continue to offer a summer seminar/workshop with Dr. Lindsey
Powell in Japanese Visual Culture at Temple University Japan
located in Tokyo. Given on both undergraduate and
graduate levels, this program enrolls a limited number of
students on a competitive international basis.
Prospective applicants should contact Dr. Powell at
lindseypowell@msn.com (For a paper on this program, see: http://www.temple.edu/herald/japanesevisualculture.htm)
My long term interests continue to include the
development and diversification of human mediascapes
accompanied by alternative systems of meaning that vary across
different interpretive communities where significance is
culturally structured and shared in different ways. I
have examined alternative pictorial human expression,
performance and communication. Images under study have
come from: past and contemporary settings; domestic,
international and cross-cultural contexts; public and private
domains; and mass- as well as home-media. Field research
has included work with Navajo adults living in Pine Springs,
Arizona, African-American teenagers and middle-class
Anglo-American teenagers from urban Philadelphia,
Japanese-Americans living in Los Angeles and Gallup, New
Mexico, and, most recently, Japanese families living in Tokyo.
In all cases, analysis has featured relationships between what
is expressed in visual ways and how people from different sociocultural backgrounds organize their own pictorial
communication.
Current interests center more on relationships
of applied visual anthropology and medical contexts, both
domestically and internationally. I continue research on
the social organization of Japanese amateur photography and
home media with new attention to Japan. While at Temple,
I became a member of both the Asian Studies and American
Studies faculties which allowed me to introduce new courses on
connections between U.S. and Japanese cultures. In turn,
I am attending more to the communication foundations of
pedagogical practices in Japanese and American classrooms with
applications to problems in international education.
Selected Publications:
2008 Shinrei Shashin: Photographs of Ghosts in Japanese Snapshots. Photography & Culture 1(1): 51-72.
2007a Amateur Photography and Movies.
Entry for _The International Encyclopedia of
Communications_, Wolfgang Donsbach, Editor. Boston, MA:
Blackwell Publishing.
2007b Combining the Applied, the Visual and the Medical:
Patients Teaching Physicians with Visual Narratives (with
Michael Rich). _Visual Interventions_, Sarah Pink (ed).
Oxford & New York: Berghan Books. Pp. 57-73.
2007c The Worth/Adair Navajo Experiment – Unanticipated
Results and Reactions.” _Memories of the Origins of Visual
Anthropology_ edited by Beate Engelbrecht (Peter Lang
Publishers, Frankfurt/M. et al, New York, Bern and
Brussels), pp. 165-75.
2007d If Tiles Could Talk…The Visual Life of a Senior
Ceramic Tiles Project. _Visual Studies_. Special Issue on
The Visible Curriculum, 22(1): 31-41.
2007e Photographs Answering Questions -- A Summer School in
Visual Sociology (with Patrizia Faccioli, John Grady, Doug
Harper, Pino Losacco and Charles Suchar). _Visual Studies_
22(1): 85-94.
2005a Looking at Japanese Society: Hashiguchi George as
Visual Sociologist. _Visual Studies_ 20(2):140-158.
2005b Le meta-immagini dei giornali nella cultura visiva
contemporanea (Newspaper Meta-Pictures in Contemporary
Visual Culture). _DESK_ 7(3): 17-19.
2004a Electronic Demonstration
Portfolios for Visual Anthropology Major. Journal of
Educational Media, 29(1):37-48.
2004b (November) Applying Visual
Research: Patients Teaching Physicians through Visual Illness
Narratives (with Michael Rich). In Special Issue of
Visual Anthropology Review (VAR) on "Applied Visual
Anthropology".
2002 Snapshots "R" Us: The Evidentiary
Problematic of Home Media. In Visual Studies
17(2): 141-49.
2001 Print Club Photography in Japan: Framing Social
Relationships. Visual Sociology (with Mai Murui),
16(1): 55-73. (also as: Print Club in Giappone: frame
che rappresentano frame. In Altre Parole - Idee per una
sociologia della comunicazione visuale, ed. Patrizia
Faccioli, Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli, pp. 219-52 (with Mai
Murui).
1999 Showing and Telling Asthma: Children
Teaching Physicians with Visual Narratives. Visual
Sociology (with Michael Rich), 14: 51-71.
1996 Through Navajo Eyes-An Exploration in
Film Communication and Anthropology. (revised/expanded 2nd
edition) Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press (with
John Adair and Sol Worth).
1992 Picturing Culture Through Indigenous
Imagery: A Telling Story. Film As Ethnography, Peter
Crawford and David Turton (eds.), Manchester: University of
Manchester Press, pp. 222-241.
1991 Turning Leaves: The Photograph
Collections of Two Japanese American Families.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
1987 Snapshot Versions of Life. Bowling
Green, OH: The Popular Press, also as Sorrida, Prego!
La Costruzione visuale della vita quitidiana, University
of Bologna Press (1996).
1981 A Sociovidistic Approach to Children's
Filmmaking: The Philadelphia Project. Studies in Visual
Communication 7(1):2-33.
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 Jonathan
Friedlaender, Ph.D. (Emeritus)
E-mail Address:
jfriedla@temple.edu
Link to my web
page.
Link to my Solomon Islands slide show.
I retired in 2003 from Temple, but until recently have continued with graduate student supervision in the Department. I remain active in publications. Past professional positions held include - Director, Physical Anthropology Program, National Science Foundation; Advisory Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation; Secretary, Anthropology Section, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Chair, Publications Committee, American Association of Physical Anthropologists; and various editorial positions for scholarly journals. My area of specialization is in human biological variation in the Southwest Pacific (Solomon Islands, New Britain and Papua New Guinea), where I've done fieldwork over the past 30 years, with support from the NSF, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and National Geographic Society. From the beginning (my Ph.D. thesis), my research has focused on revealing the extraordinary biological (genetic) diversity in Melanesia and attempting to interpret it and its causes, and we now have a very good picture of how that relates to Polynesian and East Asian origins.
Selected recent books and articles.
2008.
Hunley KL, Dunn M, Lindstrom E, Reesink G, Terrill A, Healey ME, Koki G, Friedlaender FR, and Friedlaender JS. Gene and language coevolution in Northern Island Melanesia. Public Library of Science-Genetics. October 2008.
Friedlaender, JS, Friedlaender, FF, Reed F, Kidd KK, Kidd JR, Chambers G, Lea R, Loo JH, Hodgson J, Koki G, Merriwether DA, Weber J. The Genetic Structure of Pacific Islanders. Public Libaray of Science – Genetics. January 2008, volume 4, issue 1, pp 173-190.
2007.
Friedlaender, JS, Editor. Genes, Language, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific. New York. Oxford University Press. (I am also author or co-author of 6 chapters in this volume).
Friedlaender JS, Friedlaender FR, Hodgson JA, Stoltz M, Koki G, Horvat G, Zhadanov
S, Schurr TG, Merriwether DA. Melanesian mtDNA complexity. Public Library of Science – ONE. February 24, 2007.
Friedlaender JS, with contributions from Pilbeam D, Hrdy D, Giles E, Green R. William W. Howells – A biographical memoir. National Academy of Sciences Memoir. 1-18.
2006
Scheinfeldt L, Friedlaender F, Friedlaender J, Latham K, Koki G, Karafet T, Hammer M, Lorenz J. Unexpected NRY chromosome variation in Northern Island Melanesia. Molecular Biology and Evolution. Aug;23(8):1628-41. Epub 2006 Jun 5
Norton HL, Friedlaender JS, Merriwether DA, Koki G, Mgone CS, Shriver MD. Skin and hair pigmentation variation in Island Melanesia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Jun;130(2):254-68.
Friedlaender JS. William White Howells (1908-2005). Obituary. American Anthropologist. 108 (4): 936-939.
2005
Friedlaender JS, Friedlaender FR, Gentz F, Kaestle F, Koki G, Schurr TG , Schanfield M, McDonough J, Smith L, Cerchio S, Mgone CS, Merriwether.DA. Mitochondrial genetic diversity and its determinants in Island Melanesia. In: Pawley, Andrew, Attenborough, RobertGolson, Jack
Hyde, Robin. Papuan Pasts: Studies in the cultural, linguistic and biological history of the Papuan speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. p. 693-716
Merriwether DA, Hodgson JA, Friedlaender FR, Allaby R, Cerchio S, Koki G, Friedlaender JS. Ancient mitochondrial M haplogroups identified in the Southwest Pacific.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A. Sep 13;102(37):13034-9.
Friedlaender JS, Schurr T, Gentz F, Koki G, Friedlaender F, Horvat G, Babb P, Cerchio S, Kaestle F, Schanfield M, Deka R, Yanagihara R, Merriwether DA. Expanding Southwest Pacific mitochondrial haplogroups P and Q. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2005 Jun;22(6):1506-17
Friedlaender, JS. Why do the people of Bougainville look unique? Some conclusions from biological anthropology and genetics. In: Anthony Regan and Helga Griffin, (eds.), Bougainville Before the Crisis. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Canberra.*
Shriver MD, Mei R, Parra EJ, Sonpar V, Halder I, Tishkoff SA, Schurr TG, Zhadanov SI, Osipova LP, Brutsaert TD, Friedlaender J, Jorde LB, Watkins WS, Bamshad MJ, Gutierrez G, Loi H, Matsuzaki H, Kittles RA, Argyropoulos G, Fernandez JR, Akey JM, Jones KW. Large-scale SNP analysis reveals clustered and continuous patterns of human genetic variation. Human Genomics 2(2):81-89.
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Paul
B. Garrett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
email:
pgarrett@temple.edu
Telephone: (215) 204-7621
Mailing address:
Department of Anthropology, 025-21
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
U.S.A.
I am a linguistic anthropologist whose
research interests include the Caribbean region (and the
African diaspora more generally); language socialization;
language contact and contact languages (pidgins, creoles, and
others); processes of language change and shift; ideologies of
language; and the political economy of language and
communicative practices.
I graduated from Yale University in 1990 with
a B.A. magna cum laude in sociology, with a concentration in
African studies. I then worked for one year (1990-91) as an
education and training advisor at the African-American
Institute, a non-profit organization in New York City. Finding
myself irresistibly drawn back to academia, I returned to it
by entering the graduate program in anthropology at New York
University, where I subsequently completed my M.A. (1994) and
my Ph.D. (1999).
For the next two years (1999-2001) I was an
assistant professor in the Human Development Program at
California State University, Long Beach, where I also
maintained affiliations with the Departments of Anthropology
and Linguistics. I joined the Department of Anthropology at
Temple in Fall 2001.
My main program of research is based on
nineteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Caribbean
island of St. Lucia. First a French colony (1642-1814) and
then a British colony (1814-1979), St. Lucia has for the last
two decades been an independent nation-state. English is the
sole official language, but most St. Lucians today still speak
Kwéyòl, a French-lexified creole that became established
during the French colonial period. Kwéyòl and English have
been in sustained contact for several decades, and many St.
Lucians speak some variety (or varieties) of both languages.
But there are now indications that a process of language shift
is underway. My research explores this case of language
contact and its consequences, focusing on two interrelated
phenomena: the attrition or decline of Kwéyòl, and the
emergence of a strongly Kwéyòl-influenced variety of
non-standard English (which I refer to as Vernacular English
of St. Lucia, or VESL).
I investigate this case of language contact
and change, situating it in its broader sociocultural context
by examining language socialization practices: the culturally
specific, ideologically informed ways in which parents and
other caretakers interact verbally with young children, and
the ways in which children are taught, both explicitly and
implicitly, to use language. Using a longitudinal corpus of
naturalistic audio-video data collected in a rural village in
which the aforementioned processes of language change and
shift are currently underway, I compare the language and
social development of five children, two to four years of age,
in five different households. I am especially
interested in exploring the linkages between these
micro-level, locally constituted developmental processes and
various macro-level linguistic, socioeconomic, ideological,
and sociocultural transformations that are affecting St. Lucia
and St. Lucians today.
Selected Publications:
2000:
“‘High’ Kwéyòl: The Emergence of a Formal Creole Register in
St. Lucia.” In John H. McWhorter (ed.), Language Change
and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles (a volume in
the series Creole Language Library), pp. 63-101.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2002:
“Language Socialization: Reproduction and Continuity,
Transformation and Change”
(with Patricia Baquedano-López, University of California,
Berkeley). Annual Review of Anthropology 31:339-361.
2003: “An
‘English Creole’ that isn’t: On the Sociohistorical Origins
and Linguistic Classification of the
Vernacular English of St. Lucia.” In Michael Aceto & Jeffrey
Williams (eds.), Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (a volume in the series
Varieties of English around the World),
pp. 155-210. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2004:
“Language Contact and Contact Languages.” In
Alessandro Duranti (ed.), A Companion to
Linguistic
Anthropology, pp. 46-72. Oxford: Blackwell.
2005:
“What a Language is Good for: Language Socialization, Language
Shift, and the Persistence of Code-Specific Genres
in St. Lucia.” Language in Society 34(3):327-361.
2006:
“Language Socialization.” Elsevier Encyclopedia of
Language and Linguistics (second, completely revised
edition), Volume 6, pp. 604-613.
2006:
“Contact Languages as Endangered Languages: What is there to
lose?” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 21(1):175-190.
2006:
“Why do people fight over language?” In E.M. Rickerson & B.
Hilton (eds.), The Five-Minute Linguist, pp.
83-87. London: Equinox.
2007:
“Say it like you see it: Radio Broadcasting and the Mass
Mediation of Creole Nationhood in St. Lucia.” Identities:
Global Studies in Culture and Power 14(1):135-160.
2007:
“Language Socialization and the (Re)Production of Bilingual
Subjectivities.” In Monica Heller (ed.),
Bilingualism: A Social Approach (a volume in the series
Advances in Linguistics),
pp. 233-256. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2007:
“Researching Language Socialization.” Encyclopedia of
Language and Education (newly revised and expanded
edition), Volume 10. Heidelberg: Springer.
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 Judith
Goode, Ph.D., Full Professor
E-mail Address:
jgoode@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-7773
My research interests focus on urban
anthropology and the anthropology of social policy. I have led
team research in Philadelphia focused on class and racial
dynamics for over two decades and before that in Medellin
Colombia. (Like most early North Americanists, I began my
career outside the U.S.) I played a role in the development of
both urban anthropology and the critical anthropology of North
America. I helped found both what is now SUNTA (Society for
Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology) in the 1970s
and SANA (Society for the Anthropology of North America) in
the 1990s and was honored to serve as president of both. In
2000, I was proud to be awarded the SANA Prize for
Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Anthropology of
North America. I am also currently the Chair of the American
Anthropological Association Committee on Public Policy which
is working to make the voice of anthropology more central in
public debates on issues such as welfare, environmental
justice and health disparities. My major Philadelphia-based
field projects explore the intersection of race and class in
local neighborhoods as the city undergoes massive economic and
demographic transition. Since 1999, along with Susan Hyatt,
former postdoc Jeff Maskovsky and a group of graduate
students, I have been looking at the impact of different
government interventions on poor people's civic participation
in three neighborhoods. Earlier, I was supported by the Ford
Foundation in the Changing Relations Project which examined
new immigrants settling in a racially divided city. Earlier
projects included the use of food in maintaining ethnic
identity among fourth generation Italian American enclaves and
a study of the transition of supermarket workers to worker
ownership.
Selected Publications:
2002 (Forthcoming)"From New Deal to Bad Deal:
The Racial and Political Consequences of Welfare Reform" in
Catherine Kingfisher (ed.) Western Welfare in Decline:
Women's Poverty in the Age of Globalization. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press.
2001 New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography
of Politics, Policy and Impoverished People in the United
States: New York University Press. (co-edited with Jeff
Maskovsky).
2001 "Let's Get Our Act Together: How Racial
Discourses Disrupt Local Activism" in The New Poverty
Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Policy and Impoverished
People in the United States. New York: New York University
Press.
2001"How Urban Ethnography Contradicts Myths
About the Poor" In Gmelch, George and Walter Zenner,
Urban Life (4th edition) Waveland Press. pp. 279-295.
2000 Teaching Against Cultural Essentialism in
Anthropology." in Ida Susser and Thomas Patterson (eds.)
Cultural Diversity in America. New York: Blackwell, pp.
434-456.
1998 The Contingent Construction of Local
Identities: Koreans andPuerto Ricans in Philadelphia.
Identities, vol. 5:33-64.
1995 An Anthropological Critique of the
Culture of Poverty. In G.Gmelch and W.Zenner (eds.),
Urban Life, Prospect Heights Illinois: WavelandPress: 405-417.
1994 Women's (and Men's) Work Cultures and the
Transition to LeadershipAmong Supermarket Workers.
Frontiers, vol.14:143-168.
1994 Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations
in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City Philadelphia:
Temple University Press (co-author).
1992 "Transcending Boundaries and Closing
Ranks: How Schools Shape Social Relations" in Louise Lamphere
(ed.) Structuring Diversity Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
1988 Job Saving Strategies in the
Supermarket Industry: Worker Buyouts and QWL. Kalamazoo:
The Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (co-author).
1984 "Meal Formats, Meal Cycles and Menu N
egotiations in the Maintenance of an Italian-American
Community". In Mary Douglas (ed.) Food and the Social
Order. New York: Basic Books.
1977 Anthropology of the City.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall (co-author)
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Gordon Gray, Ph.D.,
Lecturer
E-mail Address:
gtgray@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-7513
My educational and professional career to date
has included four countries, and three distinct
anthropological traditions. I began studying for an MA (Honours)
in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh
(Scotland) in 1992. My thesis was on Leiden
(Netherlands) structural anthropology. As part of the
thesis, I did fieldwork and attended university classes in the
Netherlands. I completed my MA in 1996 and began my
doctorate at Napier University (also in Edinburgh) that same
year. My doctoral program was jointly supervised with
the University of Edinburgh. I was awarded my PhD in
2002; my dissertation was on Malaysian cinema.
While completing my PhD I tutored first year
anthropology classes at both the University of Edinburgh and
the University of Glasgow. I also lectured at
Napier and worked closely with the still image people there.
Last year (2003-2004) I taught at Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Canada. While there I taught courses on
visual methodology and urban anthropology as well as was
involved in ethnographic filmmaking with the Visual
Anthropology Unit. To date I have worked on three ethnographic
films in various capacities and am planning further film
projects.
At Temple I am primarily teaching visual
anthropology courses, including the Anthropology of
Photography, Anthropology of Feature Film and the capstone
course to the visual anthropology undergraduate program.
My fields of interest include modernity,
globalization, kinship, gender, urbanism, visual culture and
media and a area specialization in Southeast Asia. The
focus of my work, both written and filmed, is on understanding
the relationship between grand political/philosophical
concepts, like modernity, the real-world political and
economic manifestations of those concepts, and people's daily
lives. I have found that one of the most interesting and
productive arenas for the investigation of where and how this
relationship 'plays out' is in visual media.
Selected Publications:
Published:
1999 ‘Urbanism: The Symbol of Malay(sian) Modernity,’ in
Bozidar Jezernik (ed.) Urban Symbolism and Rituals:
Proceedings of the International Symposium Organised by the
IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology.
Oddelek za
etnologijo in kulturo antropolgijo, Filozofska fakulteta:
Ljubljana.
Forthcoming:
2007/8 ‘Shame and
the Fourth Wall: Some considerations for anthropology of the
cinema.’ In Yeoh Seng Guan & Zaharom Nain (eds.)
Mediating Culture & Power in Malaysia, Malaysian Studies
Series. Routledge Press.
Under Contract: 2008/9
Cinema: A Visual Anthropology. Book commissioned for the
Key Texts in Visual and Material Anthropology Series, Marcus
Banks (series editor). Oxford: Berg Publishers.
Published Book Reviews:
Anthropology
of Cross-Disciplinary Theoretical Fertilization.
Reviews of ‘Cinema & Semitics: Peirce and Film Aesthetics,
Narration and Representation.’ Johannes Erhat. Toronto: U
Toronto Press. 2005. and ‘Social Solidarity and the Gift.’
Aafke E Komter. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press. 2004.
Anthropology News 48 (6) 2007.
‘Media and
Nation Building: How the Iban Became Malaysian.’ John
Postill. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006 American
Anthropologist 109 (2) 2007.
‘Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: the Interbeing of
Cosmology and Community.’ J. A. Grim (ed.) Harvard
University Press: Cambridge, Mass. for Cosmos: The
Journal of the Traditional Cosmology Society 17 (1)
2001.
Unpublished research
report:
Challenges and
Opportunities: A Report on the Malaysian Film Industry.
Research report prepared for FINAS (National Film
Development Corporation) and the Economic Planning Unit
(Prime Minister’s Office), Kuala Lumpur 1998
Film Credits:
2007
Producer – Forty Years in the Making: Jonathan
Friedlaender’s Solomon Island Collection
2006
Producer - Minimal Risk: BSE and the Politics of Food
2005
Editorial Consultant/Assistant Editor – ShaktiMa No Veh
(The Sacred Play of ShaktiMa)
2005 Editor
– Black Like Me…?
2005 Writing
Credits – film series on religious diversity in St. John's,
NL
2004 Camera
and Sound – Burgeo Sand and Sea Festival
2004
Post-Production Assistant - Cutting a Path to a
Sustainable Forest
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 Leonard
Greenfield, Ph.D., Full Professor
E-mail Address:
green@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-1489
I was trained in human paleontology and
primatology at the University of Michigan. My research has
dealt primarily with the dentitions of living and fossil
primates and humans. My earliest work dealt with human origins
and the position of Miocene apes in relation to this issue.
More recently, I have examined interspecies variation in
canine size and form among living and fossil primates and have
expanded this functional analysis to human canines and to the
entire anterior dentition. This latter area of interest has
mushroomed beyond simple functional analyses to questions
about dental development and phylogeny of the anthropoids.
Part of this analysis included study of the deciduous canines
of anthropoid primates. During this phase of analysis I
discovered that there has been no systematic analysis of any
aspect of the deciduous dentition. To correct this problem I
have collected measurements of the deciduous dentitions of 75
primate species and will begin analyzing these data by next
year.
Selected Publications:
1996 Anterior dentition of adapids and
anthropoid origins. Folia Primatologica 27pp.
1992 Origin of the human canine: A new
solution to an old enigma. Yearbook of Physical
Anthropology 35:153-185.
1991 Polymorphic aspects of male anthropoid
canines. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
84:17-34.
1990 Canine reduction in early man: A critique
of three mechanical models. Human Evolution 5: 213-226.
1979 On the adaptive pattern of "Ramapithecus."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 50:527-548.
1983 Towards a resolution of the discrepancies
between phenetic and paleontological data bearing on the
question of human origins. In: New Interpretations of Ape
and Human Ancestry, R.L. Ciochon and R.S. Corrucini, eds.
Plenum, New York, pp.695-703.
1980 A late divergence hypothesis. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 52:351-36.
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 Patricia
K. Hansell, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer & Adjunct Graduate Faculty
E-mail Address:
phansell@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-1417
I received A BA in Psychology (1975), and a MA
(1979) and PhD (1988) in Anthropology, all from Temple
University. My major interests in anthropology lie in
prehistoric archaeology and in issues relative to the
transformation of hierarchical societies. I am also concerned
with the use (and abuse) of computer applications in
anthropology. Applications include (1) the creation and
maintenance of databases (text, numeric and geospatial), (2)
analyses of such databases (statistical and geospatial), (3)
mathematical and visual composition/display of data (CAD, 3-D
plots, photographic), (4) dissemination of anthropological
data via the internet and (5) role of computer technology in
education. The primary focus of my fieldwork is on Lower
Central America, particularly Panama and Colombia, and on the
Middle-Atlantic region of North America.
Selected Publications:
2004 Probabilistic surveys and the development
of predictive models: a test case from the Middle-Atlantic
(with A.Ranere). To be published in Archaeology Society of
New Jersey Bulletin. In preparation.
2004 The use of computers in archaeology.
To be published in the Journal of Archaeological Research
(at the invitation of the editors). In preparation.
2000 Starch grains reveal early root crop
horticulture in the Panamanian tropical forest (with D. R.
Piperno, I. Holst and A. Ranere). Nature 407(6806).
1998 Human settlement in a tropical context:
an 11,000 year record from Panama (with A. Ranere).
Proceedings of the XIII International Congress of Prehistoric
and Protohistoric Sciences, Forli, Italy, September 1996.
Vol 1.
1997 Reconstructing the settlement history of
La Mula-Sarigua, Central Pacific Panama: lessons for studying
the past. Archaeological Applications of GIS: Proceedings
of Colloquim III, UISSP XIIIth Congress, Forli, Italy,
edited by MacLaren North and Ian Johnson, Sydney University
Archaeological Methods Series, Vol. 5. University of Sydney,
Sydney.
1997 Modelling deforestation and population
growth: a view from prehistoric Central Panama (w/A.Ranere).
Archaeological Applications of GIS:Proceedings of Colloquim
III, UISSP XIIIth Congress, Forli, Italy, edited by
MacLaren North and Ian Johnson, Sydney University
Archaeological Methods Series, Vol. 5. University of Sydney,
Sydney.
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Michael
Hesson,
Ph.D., Lecturer
Michael Hesson received his A.B. with honors in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1993. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. After graduating, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania in the School of Arts and Sciences, in the Wharton School of Business, as well as at Temple University in the Department of Anthropology.
Research Statement:
My research investigates the process by which time, typically considered universal and homogenous, is recast as lived, social, time--inherently particular and invested with local meanings. The research examines Yucatec Maya speakers in the village of Betania, Quintana Roo, México. Using a combination of historical analysis, participant observation, and structured and unstructured interviews, as well as grammatical and discursive investigations of genres of Yucatec Maya writing and speech, my Ph.D. thesis traced the development of current Betanian temporal metaculture. Through an analysis of the Conquest of México and the major contemporary religious and politico-economic structures of temporality, as well as the competing discourses surrounding the Daylight Saving Time debate, the thesis shows that time is always constructed out of relationships that index and are indexed by specific socio-historical constellations. Thus time is inherently semiotic, and particularly deictic. The thesis concluded by arguing that the significance of this research for anthropology lies in a deeper appreciation of the semiotic constraints on temporality, while the importance to philosophical inquiry is in sketching an ethnographically nuanced indexical relation between Being and Time.
My current research is grounded in my recent fieldwork, although it has two distinct components. My first area of interest is examining the role of lived social time in constructing Yucatec identities outside of the village environment. Returning to Merida, with the support of the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan and others, I would like to examine temporal metaculture in an urban environment. Related to this, I also plan to carry out similar research in diasporic Yucatecan communities in the US. My second area of interest is to develop and publish a theoretical understanding of pitch and accent in Yucatec Maya.
Publications:
2005 La Calle de los Niños (Series: Antropo-visiones). Visual Anthropology Review 21(1-2):170a-172.
2005 Artes y Oficios Mexicanos (Series: Antropo-visiones). Visual Anthropology Review 21(1-2):170b-172.
2006 Henri Bergson. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Vol. 1. H. J. Birx, ed. Pp. 343-344. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
2006 Time in Anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Vol. 5. H. J. Birx, ed. Pp. 2197-2200. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
2006 Ethnohistory. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Vol. 2. H. J. Birx, ed. Pp. 854-857. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
In Preparation: "The “Now” of Mayaness: Time, Identity, and Cultural Deixis" for a special issue of the journal Pragmatics
Areas of Current Research: The anthropology of time, specifically Yucatec Maya temporal metaculture, Franciscan grammars of Yucatec Maya in the colonial period, phonology of Yucatec Maya.
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 Anastasia Hudgins, Ph.D., Lecturer
E-mail Address:
stasiah@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-7553
I
am a cultural anthropologist, trained at Temple University
where I earned my MA in 2000, a Women's Studies Certificate
in 2005, and my PhD in 2006. My research revolves around
issues of power, and its effects on communities. My
master's thesis is an auto-ethnography focusing on flight
attendants at a large commercial airline in the US, and how
they maintain self-identity in the presence of numerous
spurious outside readings and interpretations of them by
passengers and pilots. My dissertation examines the efforts
by three nongovermental organizations to effect a change
(whether health, community, or labor-related) among a
population of debt-bonded Vietnamese sex workers in
Cambodia.
My
research interests include critical medical anthropology,
the state, social policy, reproductive health, women and
work, bioethics, and public anthropology. I've taught
primarily in the Department of Anthropology, but also in the
Department of Sociology, and Women's Studies. Courses that I
teach at Temple
include Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of the Body,
Anthropology of Gender, American Culture, Introduction to
Women's Studies, Anthropology of the Family, Anthropology of
Modern Problems, Sociology of Reproductive Health, and
Fundamentals of Cultural Anthropology.
Publications:
“It
May Sound Feminist, but is it Pro-Woman? NGO Policy and Sex
Workers,” in Voices: A Publication of the Association for
Feminist Anthropology.” 2005. 9(1).
“Problematizing the Discourse: Sex Trafficking Policy and
Ethnography” in Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives, 2nd edition. 2007 Laura O’Toole, Jessica
Schiffman and Margie Kiter Edwards, eds. NYU Press. pp.
409-414.
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 Jayasinhji
Jhala, Ph.D. ,
Associate
Professor
E-mail Address:
jjhala@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-7727
http://astro.temple.edu/~jjhala
I am the director of our visual anthropology
media lab and director of our undergraduate track in visual
anthropology. I have been involved in interpreting culture on
film and video for the past twenty years. I have been educated
at the St Stephens College, Delhi, India, where I received a
BA in English Literature [1968], from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology I received a MVS [1983] and from
Harvard University I received a Ph.D [1991]. I've produced,
directed, filmed and edited over fifteen well received
ethnographic films, that illustrate the cultures of India and
the U.S. and speak to various issues in visual anthropology. A
Zenana and Tragada Bhavai [1981], Bharvad Predicament, Journey
with Ganapati [1983], Forgotten Headhunters and Apatani
Sacrifice [1978], Whose Paintings? [1995], Morning with Asch
[1997] and Conversation with a Collector: Dialogue with a
Docent [1998] have been seen by national and international
audiences. My written publications address issues about art
and anthropology, nomadism, religious worship, indigenous
interpretations of local culture, ethnographic filmmaking and
its reception, photography, Hindu marriage, and Rajput
ideology and politics. My research is concerned with the
interpretation of culture on various audio, visual and
audio-visual media and new conventions by which tomake visual
communication more effective. In addition, I am concerned with
visual ethnographers, their biographies and their practice. At
the present time I am working on several ethnographic films
that address themes of transhumance, Hindu domestic worship,
Rajput ideology and biography. Much of this material has been
gathered and structured in collaborations with Temple graduate
students [Cara Balog, Bruce Broce, Mathew Durrington, Joseph
Gonzales, Susanne Kempf, Robert Lazarsky, Milton Machuca,
Carey Million, Elizabeth Noznesky, Sam Pack, Lindsey Powell],
and undergraduate students [Richard Cousins, Ronn Asch] in
field research and media lab particpation in the US and in
India, and in collaboration with individuals and institutions
in both countries. I am the Director of the newly approved
Temple University Summer Program for India. This is intended
for undergraduates and graduate students alike and it is
designed to introduce them to an alien culture in a nurturing
environment. The URL is: http://isc.temple.edu/jjhala/templeindia/
Students can explore the various dimenions of the program by
looking it up as well as contacting the Temple University
International Program's Director Denise Connerty at 215 204
0727.
Publications:
Written Texts
1984. “Bharvad Predicament”. With Rakhi Jhala in Cultural
Survival
Quarterly's 'Nomads stopped in their tracks' issue. Cambridge,
Massachusetts. pp 35-38
1987. “Perceptions of the Self and the Other in Visual
Anthropology”.
With Rakhi Roy in Portrayal of People: Essays on Visual
anthropology in
India. New Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India. pp 1-20
1987. “An examination of the need and potential for Visual
Anthropology
in India.” With Rakhi Roy in Portrayal of People: Essays on
Visual
anthropology in India. New Delhi: Anthropological Survey of
India. pp 75-99
1989. “Videography as indigenous text and local commodity: the
ethical
dilemma in representing my People”, Anthropologia Visualis,
Montreal,
Canada. 1989.
1991. Film Review of Robert Gottlieb’s film Circles-Cycles
Kathak Dance
for Ethnomusicology. Vol. 35. No. 2 pp 311-312.
1993. Power and the Portrait : the Influence of the Ruling
Elite on the
Visual text in Western India. Visual Anthropology Vol. 6 .
171-188.
Harwood Academic Publishers.
1994. Book review of Peter Loizos's book 'Innovation in
Ethnographic
film for the American Anthropologist. Vol. 96 pp 982 - 984
1995. Book Review of Sunil Jannah's book 'Tribals of India'
for the
Visual Anthropology Review. Vol. 11 #2 Fall. pp 61-64
1996. 'The Unintended Audience: An Assessment of Yanamami
Culture
through the viewing of Ethnographic Films by the Multi-caste
Dhrangadhra
Audience of Western India', for the volume: The Construction
of the
Viewer: Media and the Anthropology of the Audience. Forlaget
Intervention Press. pp 207-228
1996. 'Avatar, Technicolor and the "Lucky" : Aesthetic Choice
and
Innovation in western India' in the Journal of Popular
Culture. Vol. 29.
1. pp 71-93.
1997. "Some speculations on the Concept of Indic Frontality
prompted by
questions on Portraiture," in Visual Anthropology . Vol. 9 No
2.
1997. Guide to Visual Anthropology: review of 52 Ethnographic
Films.
Wadsworth Academic Press
1998. "Shaping Gujarati Cinema: Recognizing the New in
Traditional
Cultures," in Visual Anthropology . Vol. 11 . pp 373 -385.
2000a. “ Picture Postcards as Complex Texts: The View from
Within an
Indian Esthetic and Historical Tradition,” Visual Anthropology
. Vol. 13
. pp 257-277.
2000b. “ Puja, Pujari and Prabhu: Religious worship in the
Hindu Home,”
Visual Anthropology . Vol. 13 . pp 103-128.
2001.”An exploration Rajputai and 'Maan' in the Rajput
imagination”. In
‘Rajasthan in the New Millennium Religion, Culture, History,
Society,
Polity and Economy’. Jaipur: Institute of Rajasthan Studies
Press.
2004a. In a time of Fear and Terror: Seeing, Assessing,
Assisting,
Understanding and Living the Reality and Consequences of
Disaster.
Visual Anthropology Review. Forth coming.
2004b. Lessons from a Birthday Celebration: Maharaja Gaj Singh
and the
wooing of tourist constituencies in Rajasthan. Forth coming.
2004c. Storytelling in the Digital Age: Alongside the Naliput
and among
the Here and There. In .Storytelling in the Digital Age’.
Ahmedabad:
National Institute of Design Publications. Forth coming.
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Mindie Lazarus-Black, Chair
Mindie Lazarus-Black, Professor
email: mindielb@temple.edu
tel: 215-204-1424
mail: Dept. of Anthropology
Rm. 209, Gladfelter Hall
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
I received my M.A. degree in Anthropology from New School University and my Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Before coming to the Department of Anthropology at Temple in 2008, I served as Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice, and Affiliate Professor of Anthropology, at University of Illinois at Chicago. My scholarship focuses on law and society research, domestic violence, and the history and ethnography of class, kinship, gender, and law in the English-speaking Caribbean. I have conducted fieldwork in Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, and in the United States to understand how and why law operates as a discourse and practice of rights and repression. My ethnographic projects have included a study of rape and sexual assault in the U.S., an investigation of family life and family law in the English-speaking Caribbean, and a cross-cultural examination of the making and implementation of domestic violence law. I am currently at work on a new project, “Lawyers Beyond Borders,” that explores the globalization of legal education and the practice of law. I am interviewing students, faculty, administrators, and alumni who are making law a transnational practice.
My teaching interests focus on topics in law and society, the anthropology of violence, and the English-speaking Caribbean. I care deeply about student research and writing, and strive to promote these as exciting learning experiences in my classes.
Books:
Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation .
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Legitimate Acts and Illegal Encounters: Law and Society in Antigua and Barbuda . Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
Contested States: Law, Hegemony, and Resistance . (Edited with Susan F. Hirsch)
New York: Routledge, 1994.
Family Business in Dallas: A Matter of Values . (Edited with Pan Lange)
Dallas: NEH Library Program, 1982 [oral histories]
Recent Articles:
“After Empire: Training Lawyers as a Postcolonial Enterprise.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism . 2008. 25:38-56.
“The Politics of Place: Practice, Process, and Kinship in Domestic Violence Courts.” (With Patty L. McCall) Human Organization . 2006. 65(2):137-152.
“The (Heterosexual) Regendering of a Modern State: Criminalizing and Implementing Domestic Violence Law in Trinidad.” Law & Social Inquiry . 2003. 28(4):979-1008.
“Law and the Pragmatics of Inclusion: Governing Domestic Violence in Trinidad and Tobago.” American Ethnologist . 2001. 28(2):388-416.
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Heather Levi
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Juris Milestone
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 Denise
O'Brien, Ph.D. ,
Associate Professor
(Emeritus) E-mail Address:
obriend@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-1204
I majored in anthropology and history at
Vassar College (A.B., 1959) and received my graduate training
in anthropology at Yale University (Ph.D., 1969). At Temple I
am part of the Women's Studies and Asian Studies programs as
well as the Anthropology Department. During time away from
Temple's main campus I have been a lecturer at Nankai
University (Tianjin, China 1982), a Fellow at the Humanities
Research Centre, Australian National University (1983-84), and
a professor and administrator at Temple University Japan in
Tokyo (1985-1991). My initial ethnographic fieldwork was with
a Dani population in the central highlands of West New Guinea
(Papua, Indonesia), a site to which I returned most recently
in 1996. My initial research focusing on social organization
and culture change, laid the foundation for a long standing
interest in ethnography as both a product and a process. In
the 1970s I began studying gender and remain concerned with
issues related to gender and power, particularly as they
surface in art and literature. I am committed to a
crosscultural perspective and my major area interests are in
Melanesia, Japan, and Indonesia. As a participant in the
department's visual anthropology program I regularly teach
courses on art, often in conjunction with a colleague from Art
History. My current research is on 10th and 11th century
Japanese women authors and on the use of Balinese images in
American advertising.
Selected Publications:
1993 Expressions of Power: Women's Writings in
Heian Japan. In: Configurations of Power: Holistic
Anthropology in Theory and Practice. Edited by John S.
Henderson and Patricia J. Netherly. Cornell University Press.
1984 Rethinking Women's Roles: Perspectives
from the Pacific. Edited by Denise O'Brien and Sharon W.
Tiffany. University of California Press.
1980 Blood and Semen: Kinship Systems of
Highland New Guinea. Edited by Edwin A. Cook and Denise
O'Brien. University of Michigan Press. Series in Pacific
Anthropology; Vern Carroll, Series Editor.
1977 Female Husbands in Southeast Bantu
Societies. In: Sexual Stratification: A Crosscultural View.
Edited by Alice Schlegel. Columbia University Press.
1969
The Economics of Dani Marriage: An Analysis of Marriage
Payments in a Highland New Guinea Society. Reproduced by
UNIPA - ANU - UNCEN PapuaWeb Project, 2002-2003.
Click here for information about my online version of
Anthropology C061, Cultures of the World
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David Orr, Ph.D., Lecturer
daveorr@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-9372
Originally trained as a classical
archaeologist and historian, I acquired the
american fields as my career progressed. My first
archaeological experience was working for the old River Basin
Surveys in Iowa and South Dakota as a member of the
Smithsonian Institution's Summer field crews. Later I
did archaeological work at Pompeii, Italy where I completed my
Ph.D. degree at the University of Maryland studying under
noted Pompeianist Wilhelmina Jashemski. My work was awarded a
Prix-de-Rome at the American Academy in Rome where I spent
most of 1971-73. I taught at the University of Pennsylvania
from 1973-78 in the Department of American Civilization where
I co-directed two summer field schools in historical
archaeology with John Cotter and introduced the first graduate
course in Industrial Archaeology in 1974. In 1977 I left to
become the Regional Archaeologist of the old Mid-Atlantic
Region of the National Park Service where, after numerous
reorganizations, I still hang my hat. Now called the Northeast
Region, I occupy an office in the Department as part of a
cooperative agreement between Temple University and the
National Park Service.
In the National Park service I built a fairly
ambitious program in archaeology and introduced scores of
highly successful public archaeology programs. I excavated and
published work I directed at Gettysburg , Fredericksburg,
Petersburg, Jamestown, Independence, New River Gorge, Valley
Forge, and numerous other sites. At the same time I began
teaching at the University of Delaware part-time where I
taught historical archaeology and battlefield archaeology,
along with courses on material culture theory and Pompeii.
During this period I received an NEH grant to teach at Hagley
Museum in Delaware. I also began my lifetime interest in
Philadelphia: I co-founded the Oliver Evans Chapter of the
Society for Industrial Archaeology and served as its first
president and recently co-founded the Philadelphia
Archaeological Forum and am still serving as its first
president. I plan on teaching a course on Philadelphia soon. I
have been interested in vernacular architecture (published
several articles, one listed below), industrial archaeology,
popular culture (wrote several book chapters on topics as far
ranging from icons and protest materials to the "World of
Ronald McDonald") and Battlefield Archaeology. I have long
been an enthusiast for Remote sensing and have regularly used
geophysical prospecting as routine parts of archaeological
surveys I have directed. I have also had a lifetime interest
in my Ph.D. dissertation topic: Roman Household Worship and
have lately broadened this focus on domestic religion across
space and time.
I have produced two major exhibits and have
been involved in numerous media productions: the most recent
being the History Channel and Discovery Channel's programs on
the work I directed at Valley Forge.
I have received the National Park service's
Crystal Owl Award, the highest award for interpretation and a
special award from the Department of Justice for my work in
prosecuting archaeological vandals in the parks. This year I
was given a lifetime achievement in preservation award for my
work in Delaware by Delaware. My courses have always
emphasized the holistic approach to the understanding of
social change. Material evidence for man includes not only the
monumental and obvious but the ephemeral and subtle as well.
This approach embraces the study of "signs" as well.
Finally, I am fascinated by the broader
heritage questions implicit in our work as anthropologists
such as "who owns the past?" and "Why should we record and
preserve it?" Throughout my career as a public servant I
have constantly faced these kinds of issues. My current
position in the National Park Service charges me with
developing programs for the interpretation of archeology and
the proper management of archeological resources.
Selected Publications:
"Pear Valley et al: An Excursion into the Analysis of Southern
Vernacular Architecture" with Bernie Herman. In
Southern Folklore Quarterly. Dec. 1975.
"Roman Domestic Religion: The Evidence of the
Household Shrines". In Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romische
Welt, edited by Wolfgang Haase, II, 16, 2.pp. 1557-91 (The
crux of my dissertation). 1978.
The People of Minisink: Papers from the
1981 Delaware Water Gap Symposium. Co-edited with Doug
Campana. National Park Service. 1981.
"The Ethnography of Big Mac" in Ronald
Revisited, edited by Marshall Fishwick. Bowling Green.
1983.
"The Discovery of the Taylor House at the
Petersburg National Battlefield" with Bruce Bevan and Brooke
Blades. In Historical Archaeology 18, 2. 1984.
The Scope of Historical Archaeology: Essays
in Honor of John Cotter. Co-editor with Daniel Crozier.
Produced by the Laboratory of Anthropology, Temple University.
1984.
"The Archaeology of Trauma: An Introduction to the Archaeology
of the American Civil War." In Clarence Geier and Susan
Winter, editors, Look to the Earth: Historical Archaeology
and the American Civil War. University of Tennessee Press.
1994.
"Snakes on Pompeian Household Shrines." In Wilhelmina
Jashemski and Frederick G. Meyer, The Natural History of
Pompeii. Cambridge University Press. 2002.
"Pompeii: A Site for All Seasons." In Ancient Muses:
Archaeology and the Arts, edited by John H. Jasmeson
et al. University of Alabama Press. 2003.
"Samuel Malkin in Philadelphia." In Ceramics in
America 3, edited by Rob Hunter. New England University
Press, 2003.
"Huts and History: The Archaeology of America's Military
Camps", with Clarence Geier. University of Florida. 2004
(forthcoming).
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Anthony Ranere, Ph.D, Full Professor
ranere@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-1423
I received a
B.A. from Harvard (1964), an M.A. from Idaho State
University (1968) and a Ph.D. from the University of
California at Davis (1972), all in anthropology. Most of my
recent archaeological field work has been in Mexico and
Central America (Panama), but I have also worked in the
Middle Atlantic (Pennsylvania & New Jersey), the Canadian
Prairies, the Rockies, the Great Basin, Pakistan and the
Andes. My general research interests include lithic
technology, paleoecology, spatial analysis and evolutionary
theory. More specifically, I am interested in the peopling
of the Americas (particularly tropical America), early
hunter-gatherer adaptations to the humid tropics, and
agricultural origins in the American tropics. A great deal
of my field research has been in Panama, where I've
conducted long term research in collaboration with
colleagues at Temple and at the Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute (STRI), Balboa, Panama. One of our
projects involves computer simulation of population growth,
deforestation, upland soil erosion and lowland sedimentation
using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software. I teach
courses in spatial analysis (emphasis on GIS), application
of evolutionary theory in archaeology, lithic technology
(emphasis on experimental replication and microwear
analysis), research design, field and laboratory methods,
and the prehistory of tropical America.
Selected Publications :
2007 Late
Pleistocene and Holocene environmental history of the Iguala
Valley, Central Balsas Watershed of Mexico (with D. R.
Piperno, J. E. Moreno, J. Iriarte, I. Holst, M. Lachniet, J.
G. Jones, and R. Castanzo. Proceedings of the
National Academy of
Sciences 104(29):
11874-11881 (July 17, 2007).
2007 Starch
Grain Evidence for the Preceramic Dispersal of Maize and
Root Crops into Tropical Dry and Humid Forests of Panama
(with Ruth Dickau and Richard G. Cooke). Proceedings of
the National
Academy of Sciences:
104(9):3651-3656 (February 27, 2007).
2007 Starch
fossils and the domestication and dispersal of chili peppers
(Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas (with Linda Perry,
Ruth Dickau, Sonia Zarrillo, Irene Holst, Deborah M.
Pearsall, Dolores R. Piperno, Mary Jane Berman, Richard G.
Cooke, Kurt Rademaker, J. Scott Raymond, Daniel H.
Sandweiss, Franz Scaramelli, Kay Tarble, and James A.
Zeidler. Science 315(5812):986-988 (February 16,
2007).
2006 The
Clovis Colonization of Central America. Paleoindian
Archaeology: A Hemispheric Perspective, edited by J.
Morrow and C. Gnecco. Gainesville: University of Florida
Press, pp. 69-85.
2003 Late
Glacial and Early Holocene Occupation of Central American
Tropical Forests (with Richard G. Cooke). In Under the
Canopy. The Archaeology of Tropical Rain Forests, Julio
Mercader, editor. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
219-248 (chapter 7).
2000 Starch grains
reveal early root crop horticulture in the Panamanian
tropical forest (with Dolores Piperno, Irene Holst and
Patricia Hansell). Nature 407:894-897 (October 19,
2000).
1997 Modelling
deforestation and population growth: a view from prehistoric
Central Panama (with Pat Hansell). Archaeological
Applications of GIS. Proceedings of Colloquium II, UISPP
XIIIth Congress,
Forli, Italy,
September 1996. Edited by MacLaren North & Ian Johnson.
Sydney University Archaeological Methods Series Volume 5.
1996 Stone Tools and
Cultural Boundaries in Prehistoric Panamá: An Initial
Assessment (with Richard G. Cooke). Paths to Central
American Prehistory, edited by F. Lange. University
Press of Colorado, Niwot, Colorado. pp. 49-78.
1992 Prehistoric Human
Adaptations to the Seasonally Dry Forests of Panama (with
Richard G. Cooke). World Archaeology 24(1):114-133.
1980 Adaptive
Radiations in Prehistoric Panama (co-edited with Olga F.
Linares). Peabody Museum Monographs, No. 5, Harvard
University.
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Christie Rockwell, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
Email address:
lrockwel@temple.edu
Office/Lab Telephone: 215-204-8738/3464
RESEARCH: I am broadly interested in
the evolution of human female
reproductive function.
TRAINING and AFFILIATIONS: BA,
Anthropology, Kenyon College. MA, Anthropology,
California State University Hayward. PhD., Biological
Anthropology, University of California Davis. NRSA
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Cardiovascular and
Pulmonary Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center.
NRSA
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, University
of Maryland School of Medicine.
Selected Publications:
In Press Rockwell
LC, Dempsey EC, Moore LG. Chronic hypoxia
diminishes the proliferative response of
guinea pig uterine artery vascular smooth
muscle cells in vitro. J High Alt Med
Biol.
In Press Rockwell, LC. Book Review.
Grandmotherhood: The Evolutionary
Significance of the Second Half of Female
Life, Eckart Voland, Athanasios Chasiotis,
and Wulf Schiefenhoel
eds. American Anthropologist 108
(3): TBA.
2006 Koos RD and Rockwell LC. The
Microvasculature of the Endometrium. In
Microvascular Research: Biology and
Pathology, (D Shepiro, ed.), Academic
Press/Elsevier: San Diego. Pp. 58- 94.
2004 Rockwell, LC. Book Review. On
Fertile Ground: A Natural History of
Reproduction by Peter T. Ellison. Human
Biology 76:947-951.
2003 Rockwell LC, Vargas E, Moore LG.
Human physiological adaptation to
pregnancy: inter- and intraspecific
perspectives. American Journal of Human
Biology 15:330-341.
2002 Rockwell LC, Pillai S, Olson CE, and
Koos RD. Inhibition of vascular
endothelial growth factor/vascular
permeability factor blocks
estrogen-induced uterine edema and
implantation in rodents. Biology of
Reproduction 67:1804-1810.
2000 Rockwell LC, Keyes LE, and Moore LG.
Chronic hypoxia diminishes
pregnancy-associated DNA synthesis in
guinea pig uteroplacental arteries.
Placenta, 21:313-319.
1999 Pillai S, Rockwell LC, Sherwood OD,
and Koos RD. Relaxin stimulates uterine
edema via activation of estrogen
receptors: Blockade of its effects using
ICI 182,780, a specific estrogen receptor
antagonist. Endocrinology, 140:
2426-2429.
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Raquel Romberg, Ph.D.,
Senior Lecturer
& Adjunct Graduate
Faculty
E-mail Address:
rromberg@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-7574
My
teaching and research interests combine sociocultural and
visual anthropology, centering mainly in the
Caribbean, Latin America, and the Afro-Americas. I focus on
the political economy of culture and in performance
perspectives on vernacular religions and expressive culture in
relation to colonialism, modernity, globalization, and
nation- and state-building processes.
In Witchcraft and
Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in
Modern Puerto Rico (University of Texas press, 2003) I
take an ethnohistorical and ethnographic approach to Puerto
Rican brujería (witch-healing), arguing that magic
and spirits are an organic part of modernity. Not an
anachronism but a vital aspect of the experiences of
brujos (witch-healers) and their clients, who respond to
the new opportunities opened by welfare-capitalism,
consumerism, the transnational flow of ritual experts and
commodities, as well as multiculturalism and the production
of heritage, in ways that are both economically and
spiritually viable.
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/romwit.html
In my second book
manuscript Embodied Spirituality: The Healing Drama and
Poetics of Divination and Magic (under contract,
University of Texas Press), I address the dramatic,
sensorial, and discursive aspects of healing and magic,
arguing that the performance of divination and magic is in
itself transformative and healing. Embodied in sacred speech
and in a profusion of heightened gestures, postures, dance
steps, and sounds, the moral economy of magic and divination
creates a sensuous poetic drama, which, in the words of
healers, “can open even the more entangled paths.” In this
manuscript I experiment with visual and textual modes of
ethnographic representation that mimic in various ways the
drama and poetics of healing, magic, and divination
rituals.
These two
projects are based on archival, media, and ethnographic
research I conducted in Puerto Rico from mid-1995 to the end
of 1996, particularly but not solely in the metropolitan
areas of Loíza and Canóvanas around San Juan, on the
north-east side of the island. I worked with healers and
their clients during consultations, in particular, with
Haydée, a bruja (witch-healer), who allowed me to be
her apprentice. I also did fieldwork at various Spiritist
centers, home altars, and botánias (stores that sell
religious paraphernalia).
My
research was funded by the Ford Summer Travel and Research
Dissertation Proposal Development Grant, and the Penfield
Scholarship in Diplomacy, International Affairs, and Belles
Lettres. A Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Institute
for Global Studies in Culture, Power and History at Johns
Hopkins University, and a research grant from Temple
University provided funding for the production of my
manuscripts.
I
received my PhD. in folklore and folklife from the
University of Pennsylvania (1998), and a MA (magna cum
laude) and BA in sociology and anthropology from Tel Aviv
University. Before coming to Temple in 2002, I taught at
Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College, and the
University of Pennsylvania.
Selected courses:
Fieldwork
and Ethnography (undergraduate/graduate)
Theory
and Method in Anthropology: Globalization and Localization
(undergraduate/graduate)
Problems
in Ethnology: Research Proposal Development (graduate)
Cruising
the Caribbean from Colonization to Tourism
People of
Latin America: Cuba and Puerto Rico, “Two Wings of a
Single Bird?”
Spirits
in Exile: Afro-Latin Religions in the Americas and the
Caribbean
Fundamentals in Cultural Anthropology
The
Anthropology of Culture Change
The
Anthropology of Folklore: Nationalism, Identity, and
Heritage
Selected
Publications
2007
Today, Changó is Changó, or How Africanness Becomes a Ritual
Commodity in Puerto Rico. Western Folklore
Winter/Spring 2007: 75-106.
2005
Glocal Spirituality: Consumerism, and Heritage in an
Afro-Caribbean Folk Religion. In Franklin W. Knight And
Teresita Martínez Vergne (eds.)
Caribbean Societies and
Globalization.
University of North Carolina Press, pp. 131-156.
2005
Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude. New West
Indian Guide 79 (3 & 4):175-218.
2003a
Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business
of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico.
University of Texas Press. (http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/romwit.html) (Second
printing 2005)
2003b
From Charlatans to Saviors: Espiritistas, Curanderos, And
Brujos Inscribed in Discourses of Progress and Heritage.
Centro Journal 15 (2): 146-173. (www.centropr.org)
1998
Whose Spirits Are They? The Political Economy of Syncretism
and Authenticity. Journal of Folklore
Research 35 (1): 69-82.
1996
Saints in the Barrio: Shifting, Hybrid and Bicultural
Practices in a Puerto Rican Community.
Multicultural Review 5 (2): 16-25.
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Michael
Stewart, Ph.D., Associate Professor
E-mail Address:
michael.stewart@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-6188
Home Office Telephone Number: 609-758-7838
My field and scholastic training is in the prehistoric and historic archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, although I have also worked in the Northwestern United States. My B.A. in Anthropology is from the University of Delaware, and I have a M.A. and PhD from Catholic University. I have extensive experience in cultural resource management (over 20 years) and believe that it can be a venue for conducting significant research, as well as serving public interests and education.
The American Indian prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, especially the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic sections of this area, are the focus of my ongoing research. The archaeology of this region provides excellent opportunities to examine more "world-class" problems, and my field work and publications attempt to take advantage of this. My particular interests include: -the ways in which hunting and gathering groups adjusted to dynamic, shifting environments following the last ice age, as they colonized the area for the first time in human prehistory; - the waxing and waning of socially complex behavior of hunting and gathering societies between 2500 BC and AD 900, including burial ceremonialism, the re-organization of traditional forms of work, trade and exchange; - the adoption of a farming way of life (ca. AD 800/900), and all of its social implications and ramifications. From a more technical perspective I am interested in the use of geo- and environmental sciences in understanding how archaeological deposits are formed, and the recreation of paleoenvironments, a necessary step in evaluating cultures in context. American Indian pottery technology is also a special focus of my research.
I maintain an active field program in the Delaware Valley with summer field schools that focus on different aspects of Native American archaeology. In 1997 we began a long-term study of Hendricks Island, part of the Delaware Canal State Park in Pennsylvania. Research here is contributing to all of the issues that I've outlined above, and provides Park staff with the information they need to manage cultural resources in the area. A multi-year investigation of the Manna Site in the Delaware Water Gap is providing new insights into the use of plant resources through the Woodland period (ca. 1000 BC to contact with Europeans). In collaboration with Temple graduate students, I currently am examining the raw materials used in American Indian pottery production, manufacturing techniques, pottery design, and the age, type and location of sites on which pottery is found. These studies provide insights into technology, settlement movements, trade, social and cultural interactions through time. Another ongoing collaborative project involves dating and understanding the prehistoric origins and use of maize (corn) in the Delaware valley and broader Middle Atlantic Region. We have been re-analyzing older archaeological collections, collecting new data through excavations, and examining dietary signatures in human bone and dog bone. In order to better understand the nature and impact of the physical environment during the transition to a farming way of life, I and colleagues from other institutions are analyzing oxygen isotopes in mussel shells from archaeological deposits for what they imply about water temperature and climate.
Grants related to my various research endeavors have enabled me to fund undergraduate and graduate student participation/training in field research every year for the past 7 years. I am especially proud of the fact that my students have presented papers at regional and national conferences, and had their work published.
Select Publications:
2007 Assessing Current Archaeological Research in the Delaware Valley. Archaeology of Eastern North America 35:161-174.
2005 A Summary of Archaeological Explorations of Hendrick Island. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 60:13-19.
2005 Interpreting Variability in Prehistoric Rockshelter Assemblages: The Walters Shelter, 36MR42. In Upland Archaeology in the East: Symposia VIII and IX, edited by Carole Nash and Michael Barber, pp.103-119. Archaeological Society of Virginia Special Publication 38-7, Richmond.
2004 Changing Patterns of Native American Trade in the Middle Atlantic Region and Chesapeake Watershed: A World Systems Perspective. North American Archaeologist 25(4):337-356.
2003 A Regional Perspective on Early and Middle Woodland Prehistory in Pennsylvania. In Foragers and Farmers of the Early and Middle Woodland Periods in Pennsylvania, edited by Paul Raber and Verna Cowin, pp.1-33. Recent Research in Pennsylvania Archaeology, Number 3, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg.
2002 Archaeology: Basic Field Methods. Kendall/Hunt Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa.
1999 The Indian Town of Playwicki. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology, Volume 15, pp.35-54.
1998 Prehistoric Ceramics of the DelawareValley. Special Publication of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey and the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
1994 Prehistoric Farmers of the SusquehannaValley: ClemsonIsland Culture and the St. Anthony Site. Occasional Publications in Northeastern Anthropology, Number 13. Archaeological Services, Bethlehem, Connecticut.
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 Charles
A. Weitz, Ph.D., Associate Professor
E-mail Address:
weitz@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-1424
Link to
my web page.
I received my bachelor's degree in
Anthropology at the University of California, and Masters and
Ph.D. degrees in Biological Anthropology from the Pennsylvania
State University. My primary research interests concern the
adaptability of living humans to environmental stresses. Since
1990, I have participated in a study of the developmental
adjustments that indigenous Tibetan and migrant Han
populations make to high altitude hypoxia. This research is
being conducted in Qinghai Province, P.R.C. I also have
conducted studies on the affects of modernization on activity
pattern, cardiovascular function and exercise capacity in the
Solomon Islands; on the affect of disease and nutritional
changes on fertility and mortality in Peshawar, Pakistan; on
aging, activity pattern, cardiovascular function and exercise
capacity at high altitude in Nepal; on the demographic
structure of high altitude populations in Nepal; on the
relationship between altitude and fertility/mortality in Nepal
and India; and on the relationship between morphology and
total body cooling among indigenous and migrant populations at
high altitude in Peru. I teach courses on human growth,
environmental physiology and human bio-cultural adaptability.
Recent publications on
research at high altitude in China:
Weitz CA, Garruto RM, Chin C-T, Liu J-C, Liu
R-L, He X. 2000a. Growth of Qinghai Tibetans
Living at Three Different High Altitudes. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology, 111:69-88.
Weitz CA, Garruto RM, Chin C-T, Liu J-C, Liu
R-L, He X. 2000b. Morphological Growth of Han Boys
and Girls Born and Raised at Sea level and at High Altitude in
Western China. American Journal of Human Biology,
12:665-681.
Weitz CA, Garruto RM, Chin C-T, Liu J-C, Liu
R-L, He X. 2002. Lung Function of Han Chinese Born And
Raised Near Sea Level and at High Altitude in Western China.
American Journal of Human Biology, 14:494-510.
Garruto RM, Chin C-T, Weitz CA, Liu J-C, Liu
R-L, He X. 2003. Hematological Differences During Growth
Among Tibetan and Han Chinese Born and Raised at High Altitude
in Qinghai, China. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, 122:171-183.
Weitz CA, Garruto RM, Chin C-T, Liu J-C, He X.
2004a. Morphological Growth and Thorax Dimensions
Among Tibetan Compared To Han Children, Adolescents and Young
Adults Born and Raised at High Altitude. Annals of
Human Biology, 31:292-310.
Weitz CA, Garruto RM. 2004b. The
Growth of Han Migrants at High Altitude in Central Asia.
American Journal of Human Biology, 16:405-419.
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 Sydney
D. White, Ph.D., Associate Professor
E-mail Address: sydneyw@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-7774
Dr. White received her B.A. in
Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in 1979, and her Ph.D. in
Medical Anthropology from the University of California at
Berkeley (joint degree Medical Anthropology Program with the
University of California at San Francisco) in 1993.
Dr. White is a
sociocultural anthropologist, a medical anthropologist, and a
scholar of contemporary China. Her key overarching
specializations and interests are in the critical
anthropologies of modernity, globalization, and policy, and
her work emphasizes both poststructuralist/ Foucauldian
approaches—particularly with respect to understanding the
state and various governmentalities—and political economy/
Marxist approaches to understanding the state and various
globalizations—including capitalisms, socialisms, and other
historical “civilizing projects.” Her work has also always
been directed towards public anthropology objectives.
Within the
broader contours of sociocultural anthropology, her research
engages a variety of dimensions in the politics of cultural
identities, encompassing the anthropologies of ethnicity, race
& nationalism, gender & sexuality, and many other dimensions
of social difference, including class and rural/ urban
divides. Her China research has particularly focussed on the
ways in which minority nationality, gender, and peasant
statuses have informed both nation-building projects of the
state and individual experiences of citizenship within the
People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Within medical anthropology, her
research engages a variety of dimensions of critical medical
anthropology, encompassing medical pluralism/ comparative
medical systems, the anthropology of the body, and the
critical medical anthropologies of biomedicine, Chinese
medicine, public health, and science and technology studies.
Her China research has particularly focussed on the
contemporary hybrid practice of “integrated Chinese and
Western medicine,” on the politics of public health in the
rural PRC, and on the gendered politics of medical knowledges
and policies in the PRC.
Graduate
level courses that Dr. White offers in the Department include
medical anthropology, the anthropology of the body, the
anthropology of gender and sexuality, the anthropology of
modern China, the anthropology of Chinese medicines, and the
history of anthropological theory (a required course for
sociocultural anthropology graduate students in the
Department).
Dr. White’s first major fieldwork research
project, based on her dissertation research, has been one that
examines what the responses to Maoist and post-Mao minority
and medical policies by the Naxi minority people of southwest
China’s Lijiang basin reveal both about the state’s shifting
distinctive narrative of socialist Chinese modernity and about
how Naxi of various social statuses have positioned themselves
in response to this shifting state narrative of modernity.
Dr.
White has published numerous research articles based on this
research (see below), and is currently finalizing her book on
this project, entitled Narratives of Modernity in Socialist
China: Naxi Identities, Medical Practices, and the State in
the Lijiang Basin, 1949-1990. The new research project
that she is currently undertaking in Kunming, China is
entitled “PRC National Identity and Official & Popular Culture
Narratives of Biomedicine, Chinese Medicine, and Epidemiology
as Reflected in Responses to HIV/ AIDS and Other Infectious
Diseases.”
Research publications:
1997 "Fame and
Sacrifice: The Gendered Construction of Naxi Identities." Modern
China
23(3): 298-327 (July).
1998a "State Discourses, Minority
Policies, and the Politics of Identity in the Lijiang Naxi
People's Autonomous County," Nationalism and Ethnic
Politics
4(1&2): 9-27. Special Issue: Nationalism and Ethnoregional
Identities in China. Spring/Summer 1998.
1998b "State Discourses, Minority
Policies, and the Politics of Identity in the Lijiang Naxi
People's Autonomous County." (Reprinted.) Nationalism and
Ethnoregional Identities in China, William Safran, ed.
London: Frank Cass. Pp. 9-27.
1998c "From 'Barefoot Doctor' to
'Village Doctor' in Tiger Springs Village: A Case Study of
Rural Health Care Transformations in Socialist China,"
Human Organization 57(4): 1-9. Winter 1998.
1999
"Deciphering 'Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine' in the
Rural Lijiang Basin: State Policy and Local Practice(s) in
Socialist China." Social Science and Medicine
49(10:1333-1347.
2001a
"Medicines and Modernities in Socialist China: Medical
Pluralism, Naxi Identities, and the State in the Lijian
Basin." In Healing Powers: Traditional Medicine,
Shamanism, and Science in Contemporary Asia, Linda H.
Connor and Geoffrey Samuel, eds., Bergin and Garvey. Pp. 171-194.
2001b "From 'Barefoot Doctor' to
'Village Doctor' in Tiger Springs Village: A Case Study of
Rural Health Care Transformations in Socialist China."
Reprinted in Duane A. Matcha, ed., Readings in Medical
Sociology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Pp. 225-271.
2002
"Town and Village Naxi Identities in Southwest China's Lijiang
Basin." In China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of
the Middle Kingdom, Susan D. Blum and Lionel M. Jensen,
eds., University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 131-147.
2003
"Naxi Identities, Therapeutic Practices, and the State in the
Lijiang Basin: Narratives of Modernity in Socialist China."
In Guojia, Shichang, yu Mailuohua de Zugun (State, Market,
and Ethnic Groups Contextualized), Chiang Bien and Ho
T'sui-p'ing, eds., Taipei, Taiwan: Anthropology Group,
Ethnology Research Institute, Central Research Academy.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sinology,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Pp. 279-338
2003 Entry/ article on
“Lijiang Naxi (7000 words),” Encyclopedia of Medical
Anthropology, edited by Carol and Melvin Ember. Human
Relations Area Files, Yale University: Kluwer/ Plenum.
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Jessica Winegar, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
Email address:
winegar@temple.edu
Office/Lab Telephone: 215-204-1413
My primary research interests center on visual and
material culture, the culture industries, nationalism,
neoliberalism, social class, gender, value, and the Middle
East. I have explored how understandings of history and
anxieties about social and economic change are articulated
through cultural production and consumption, in particular
through competing definitions of culture and culturedness.
I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Egypt among visual
artists, arts administrators, and collectors, which resulted
in the publication of Creative
Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary
Egypt (Stanford, 2006) and a
number of articles. The book is an ethnographic study of
the intense debates over cultural authenticity and artistic
value that occur in a postcolonial society undergoing market
liberalization. It examines how cultural elites reckon with
the legacies of colonialism, socialism, and modernism in
order to produce meaningful, yet competing, versions of
national visual culture in a context where “culture” itself
is becoming increasingly globalized and commodified.
My second research project is a historical and
ethnographic study tracing the emergence and work of the
culture concept in Egypt, focusing on how it is used to
create social solidarities and hierarchies attached to
various political projects. I am especially interested in
the crucial role that different versions of the culture
concept play in the construction of secular and religious
affiliations and subjectivities.
I received a PhD in Anthropology from New
York University in 2003. I subsequently enjoyed
postdoctoral fellowships at Berkeley’s Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities and
Anthropology Department, and at the School for Advanced
Research in Santa Fe.
I am a founding member of the Task Force on
Middle East Anthropology, a group dedicated to increasing
the relevance, visibility, and application of
anthropological perspectives on the Middle East.
www.meanthro.org
Representative publications:
Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture
in Contemporary Egypt. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2006.
“Cultural Sovereignty in a Global Art Economy: Egyptian
Cultural Policy and the New Western Interest in Art from the
Middle East.” Cultural Anthropology 21(2):173-204,
2006.
“Framing Egyptian Art: Western Audiences, Islam, and
Ancient Egypt.” In Peripheral Insider: Perspectives on
Contemporary Internationalism in Visual Culture. Khaled
Ramadan and Stine Hoxbroe (eds). Copenhagen: University of
Copenhagen Press, 2007.
“Of Chadors and Purple Fingers: U.S. Visual Media
Coverage of the 2005 Iraqi Elections,” Feminist Media
Studies 5(3):391-395, 2005.
“Academics and the
Government in the ‘New American Century’: a conversation
with Rashid Khalidi.” Co-authored with Lori A. Allen and
Lara Deeb. Radical History Review, 93:240-259, 2005.
“Women, Gender, and Visual Arts: Egypt.” Encyclopedia
of Women & Islamic Cultures. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
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