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Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences; Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Social and Cultural Analysis
Ph.D. 1971, Harvard.
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Research Interests: Sociocultural anthropology history, society; island Southeast Asia, US Latinos and Latin America.
Affiliations: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Selected Works:
Editor, Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia : Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands, University of California Press, 2003.
Editor, of Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, (with Jon Inda), Blackwell’s, 2001.
Editor, Creativity/Anthropology (with Smadar Lavie and Kirin Narayan), Cornell University Press, 1993a.
Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis, Beacon Press, 1989.
Editor, The Incas and the Aztecs, 1400-1800 (with George Collier and John Wirth), Academic Press, 1982a.
Ilongot Headhunting. 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History, Stanford University Press, 1980a.
Current News / Projects
Updated July 2009 In July, 2008, I upgraded myself by attending the five-day Tepoztlan Insitute about an hour outside Mexico City. About sixty Latin and North American scholars gathered to discuss their recent papers which had been posted on the net. It was stimulating and enjoyable.
In November, 2008, I gave a paper at the UAM-Ixtapalapa in Mexico City. It was part of the 20th anniversary celebration of their Ph.D. program in anthropology. My paper was “Ethnographic Sketches of the Day of Barak Obama’s Election.” At the AAA meetings in San Francisco I gave a paper, “What is a Telling Detail in Ethnography and Poetry?” It was part of a panel comparing ethnography with different literary genres.
In January, 2009, I gave a paper on narrative as an instance of intangible heritage at a UNESCO conference in Oaxaca, Mexico. The four-day conference included the presentation, being a discussant for a panel, and comments from the floor.
In April, 2009, I gave two papers at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies meeting held at Rutgers. One was a plenary presentation, “Chicano Studies Since the Late 1960s,” and the other was “The Relations of Chicano and Puerto Rican Studies to Latino Studies.” In addition, there was a panel at these meeting to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of my book, Culture and Truth. There was a second panel on Culture and Truth at NYU’s Hemispheric Institute.
In May, 2009, I gave the keynote address for the 40th anniversary of MEChA, Stanford’s Chicano student organization, which was on the role of MEChA in the Chicano movement since the late 1960s.
In late spring and summer 2009 a Danish playwright, Mads Mazanti Jensen, had a play he had written based “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage,” an essay from Culture and Truth, performed in a theater in Copenhagen. I’ve been in correspondence with him as he developed this play. An unusual fate for an anthropological essay.
In August, 2008, I took a workshop on bringing a poetry book manuscript to the next level. This manuscript is now seeking a publisher, no easy task in poetry. It has been entered in contests and has been a semi-finalist and a finalist (which makes it six of 600, only one gets published). I also read with Javier Huerta at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.
In September, 2008, I read for the journal Many Mountains Moving at the Asian American Writers’ Center. On New Year’s Day I read at the Poetry Project’s marathon. In April, 2009, I read with Jerome Rothenberg on the Zinc Bar. At the end of April I gave a talk with Sylvia Molloy, “The Arts of Self-Translation in Poetry,” at NYU’s King Juan Carlos Center as the opening panel of the conference, “Translating Others, Translating Self.”
I am also beginning two book projects. One is a set of new and a selection of already published essays in anthropology. The other is a memoir with Juan Flores on fathers and sons, that is, on our fathers.
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