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Niyi Akinnaso, Ph.D. , Associate Professor
(on leave fall
2007)
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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Deborah Augsburger,
Ph.D., Lecturer
E-mail Address:
augsburg@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-1425
I received my BA in History at Earlham College, entered the
University of Pennsylvania as a graduate student in
Linguistics, and then transferred to Penn's Anthropology
Department, where I received my doctorate in 2004. My
dissertation explores identity, language socialization, and
language shift in the ethnic Zapotec city of Juchitan, Oaxaca,
Mexico. I began teaching at Temple in 2003.
Research: I continue to be interested in the dynamics of
language use and language acquisition in multilingual
situations, particularly in regard to Spanish, and plan to
continue tracking the contested process of language shift and
the negotiation of local identities in the neighborhoods I
studied for my dissertation. I am also interested in the
application of linguistic anthropology methods (such as
discourse and narrative analysis) to problems in applied
medical anthropology. In this capacity I've collaborated
in exploring the connections between life story data and
depression in elderly, planning training sessions about
language barriers for pediatric residents, and am currently a
consultant on a Penn Institute on Aging research project
exploring cultural differences in understandings of
Alzheimer's research.
Courses taught at Temple include: Fundamentals
of Linguistic Anthropology (127), Fundamentals of Cultural
Anthropology (W120), Telling Stories (Methods and Theory in
Linguistic Anthropology [307/507]), Anthropology of Mass Media
(242), and History of Anthropological Thought (W301).
Publications:
2003 "Traduciendo a la Brujeria: 'Bruxos,
Hechizeros y Hechizeria' en el Vocabulario de Cordova."
[Witchcraft in Translation: Bruxos, Hechizeros y Hechizeria
in Cordova's Vocabulario] Escributa Zapoteca: 2500
Anos de Historia, Ma. Angeles Romero Frizzi (ed.).
INAH-CIESAS.
1999 "How Should Authenticity Count?
Language Purism and Number Terms in Isthmus Zapotec." In
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium About Language
and Society (SALSA), M. Brody, G. Liebscher and H. Ogren
(eds.). Austin, TX.
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Richard Chalfen, Ph.D.
(Emeritus)
E-mail Address:
rchalfen@temple.edu
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-1413
Link to my web
page.
I have been awarded the ESRC/CSRC Collaborative Transatlantic
Fellowship ‘Advancing Visual Methodology in Social Science’,
(coordinated by Jon Prosser at the University of Leeds, UK)
for the Fall, 2007. I will be lecturing at Leeds,
Manchester, Southampton and Cardiff and several London
locations.
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
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:
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
Office Telephone Number: 215-204-4501
Link to my web
page.
Link to my Solomon Islands slide show.
I spent my early years at Harvard -B.A. in
Classical Art History (Phi Beta Kappa - 1962, Ph.D. in
Biological Anthropology 1970), and was an Assistant to
Associate Professor there before coming to Temple in 1976. I
still teach occasional graduate courses in biological
anthropology, specializing in contemporary human graduate
biological variation, human genetics, evolutionary theory, and
epidemiology. 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. It is now apparent that people in the Solomons and
Island Melanesia are the descendants of some of the earliest
modern humans to enter the Australia-New Guinea area some
40,000 years ago when Neanderthals still occupied Western
Europe. Tying patterns of extreme genetic variation to those
of linguistic and artifact variation is part of what I do, so
that I necessarily talk to other kinds of anthropologists - I
am a practitioner of the four-field approach in anthropology.
In my current fieldwork and research in New Britain and Papua
New Guinea, I am collaborating with molecular anthropology
labs as well as linguistic anthropologists and archaeologists
of the Pacific. I also am very interested in the health
effects of rapid modernization, which means medical
anthropology. For example, we are analyzing our extensive
database on child and adolescent growth, looking for
distinctions in acceleration tied to nutritional differences
We are also currently working on the distribution of novel
viral strains in Papua New Guinea and the Solomons, that can
act as markers of ancient population movements.
Selected Publications:
RECENT ARTICLES:
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, Robert
Golson, 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, Hald 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.
2004 Friedlaender, JS "Commentary: Changing Standards
of Informed Consent: Raising the Bar." In Trudy Turner
(ed.), Ethics in Physical Anthropology. SUNY Albany
Press. 2003
Robledo R, Scheinfeldt L, Merriwether DA, Thompson F, and
Friedlaender JS "A 9.1 kb Insertion/Deletion
Polymorphism Suggests a Common Pattern of Genetic Diversity in
Island Melanesia". Human Biology (December).
Friedlaender, JS "Population Genetic Research in
the South Pacific". Cell Lines. Coriell
Institute, Camden (June). 2002
Friedlaender JS, Gentz F, Green K, and Merriwether DA
"A Cautionary Tale of Migration Detection: Mitochondrial DNA
Variation in Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands".
Human Biology 74(3):453-71. Yanagihara R,
Nerurkar VR, Scheirich I, Agostini HT, Mgone CS, Cui X, Jobes
DV, Cubitt CL, Ryschkewitsch CF, Hrdy DB, Friedlaender JS, and
Stoner G "JC Virus Genotypes in the Western
Pacific Suggest Asian Mainland Relationships and Virus
Association with Early Population Movements. Human
Biology (74(3):473-88. Cann HM, de Toma C,
Cazes L, Legrand MF, Morel V, Piouffre L, Bodmer J, Bodmer WF,
Bonne-Tamir B, Cambon-Thomsen A, Chen Z, Chu J, Carcassi C,
Contu L, Du R, Excoffier L, Ferrara GB, Friedlaender JS, Groot
H, Gurwitz D, Jenkins T, Herrera RJ, Huang X, Kidd J, Kidd KK,
Langaney A, Lin AA, Mehdi SQ, Parham P, Piazza A, Pistillo MP,
Qian Y, Shu Q, Xu J, Zhu S, Weber JL, Greely HT, Feldman MW,
Thomas G, Dausset J, and Cavalliu-Sforza LL "A Human
Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel". Science
296(5566):261-2. 2001
Merriwether DA, Kaestle RA, Zemel B, Koki G, Mgone CS,
Alpers M, and Friedlaender JS "Mitochondrial DNA
Variation in the Southwest Pacific." SS Paphia, R
Deka and R Chakraborty (eds.) Genomic Diversity:
Applications in Human Population Genetics. Plenum
Publishers, New York. pp153-180.
2000
Ryschkewitsch CF, Friedlaender JS, Mgone CS, Jobes D,
Agostini H, Chima S, Alpers MP, Koki G, Yanagihara R, and
Stoner GL "Human Polyomavirus JC Variants in Papua New
Guinea and Guam Reflect Ancient Population Settlement and
Viral Infection." Microbes and Infection, 2:987-996.
Kidd KK, Friedlaender JS, et al "Haplotypes
and Linkage Disequilibrium at the Phenylalanine Hydroxylase
Locus, PAH, in Global Representation of Populations."
American Journal of Human Genetics, 66: 1882-1899
1999 Merriwether DA, Kaestle FA, Zemel B, Koki G, Mgone C, Alpers
M, and Friedlaender JS "Mitochondrial DNA variation in
the Southwest Pacific." In: Papiha SS, Deka R,
Chakraborty R (eds)ditors. Genomic Diversity: Applications
in Human Population Genetics. New York: Plenum Publishers.
Jobes DV, Friedlaender JS, Mgone CS, Koki G,
Alpers MP, Ryschkewitsch CF, and Stoner GL "A
Novel JC Virus Variant Found in the Highlands of Papua New
Guinea Has a 21-Base Pair Deletion in the Agnoprotein Gene."
Journal Human Virology 2(6):350-8.
Weiss KM, and Friedlaender JF
"The Origins and Structure of Contemporary Genetic Variation
in the United States". Special Report Prepared at the
Request of Francis Collins, Director, National Institute of
Human Genome Research.
Friedlaender JS "Genes, People and
Property: Furor Erupts over Gene Patenting". Invited
Guest Editor, Cultural Survival Quarterly. Summer
Issue.
BOOKS:
1987 JS Friedlaender (editor and
author/coauthor of 9 of 15 chapters) The Solomon Islands
Project: A long-term study of health, human biology, and
culture change. The Clarendon Press, Oxford U. Press
1976 E. Giles and JS Friedlaender (editors)
The Measures of Man: Methodologies in Biological Anthropology.
Festschrift in honor of William White Howells. Peabody
Museum Press, Cambridge.
1975 JS Friedlaender Patterns of Human
Variation: The demography, genetics, and phenetics of
Bougainville Islanders. Harvard University Press,
Cambridge.
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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
Kwéyňl, a French-lexified creole that became established
during the French colonial period. Kwéyňl 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 Kwéyňl, and the
emergence of a strongly Kwéyňl-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’ Kwéyňl: 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. Courses I plan to teach in AY 2007-2008: Fundamentals of Cultural Anthropology, Fundamentals of Linguistic Anthropology, Cultures of the World, Peoples and cultures of Latin America
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 Kara
C. Hoover, Ph.D., Lecturer
E-mail Address:
khoover@temple.edu
Office Telephone: 215-204-1517
I received my PhD from Southern Illinois University in
bioanthropology. My dissertation research focused on the
interaction of dental stress markers using human remains
from the largest and most significant port city of the late
Roman Empire, Portus. This research was funded in part by a
SIUC Dissertation Research Award. I received my MA from
Florida State University where my thesis research focused on
the sexual dimorphism of carpal and tarsal elements for the
purposes of sex identification in forensic and
archaeological settings. I held faculty posts at Georgia
State University and Emory University before coming to
Temple in the Fall of 2005. I have conducted extensive lab
fieldwork in Italy, Japan, and North America.
I am interested in human health and adaptation on the
phenotypic and genotypic levels. I am working on several
projects. I collected bioarchaeological data on health,
adaptation, and dispersal patterns of Pacific Rim
populations in Japan in 2004 funded by NSF/Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science Invitational Fellowship. The
results of this research are under review for publication. I
am also currently finishing the analysis of human remains
from the Quaker Hills Quarry excavated in 2007 by the
Pennsylvania Bureau of Historic Preservation. This site is
one of a small number Shenks Ferry (ca 1000-1500 CE) sites
excavated. Lastly, I recently submitted a collaborative
grant on my newest interest in human variation in olfactory
genes. This is an under-researched area with great potential
to address questions about the effects of natural selection
on these genes as modern humans migrated from Africa and
adapted to new environments.
Courses I offer at Temple are Introduction to Anthropology,
Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Fundamentals of
Biological Anthropology, Origins of Cultural Diversity,
Evolutionary Biology, Human Population Genetics, Medical
Anthropology, and Methods in Physical Anthropology.
Publications:
Hoover, KC 2007 Fluctuating asymmetry as a
measure of developmental stress at the Mohr Site. JMAA
23:123-133.
Hoover KC, Corruccini RS, Macchiarelli R,
Bondioli L. 2005 Exploring the Relationship between Dental
Stress Markers: Hypoplasia and Odontometric Asymmetry.
American Journal of Human Biology 17:752.764.
Hoover KC. 2004. The Liminoid. In: Salamone
F, editor. Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals, and
Festivals (Religion and Society). New York: Routledge.
Hoover KC. 2006. Review: The Settlement
of the American Continent: A Multidiscplinary Approach to
Human Biogeography. Edited by Michael C. Barton,
Geoffrey A. Clark, David R. Yesner, and Georges A. Pearson.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131:445.
Hoover KC. 2006. Review: Ice Age by
Stephen Mithen. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
130:278-279.
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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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 Denise
O'Brien, Ph.D. ,
Associate Professor
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
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