James D. Faubion.
Associate Professor of Anthropology. B.A. (1980) Reed College, M.A. (1984) University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. (1990) University of California, Berkeley. Ancient and modern Greek society and culture, modernization, social movements, millenarianism, social theory, the career and thought of Michel Foucault
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMPLETED WORKS
"Review of Jonathon Boyarin, ed., The Ethnography of Reading," American Ethnologist 24:2(1997), 460-61.
"Review of V. Argyrou, Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean: The Wedding as Contest," American Anthropologist 93:3(1997), 27-28.
PENDING PUBLICATIONS
Essential Works of Michel Foucault, Volume 2: Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (The New Press), in press.
"Figuring David Koresh," in Critical Anthropology Now, edited by George Marcus (SAR Press), forthcoming.
"Hermes Comes to Waco: Conspiracy (Theory), Millennialism, and the (End of) the Twentieth Century," in Late Editions, Volume 6: Conspiracy/Theories, edited by George Marcus (University of Chicago Press), forthcoming.
"Touring Patmos: Toward an Economics of Identity," in Islamic Views of the Occident, edited by J.-F. Leguil-Bayart (Oxford University Press), forthcoming.
"Outline for an Anthropology of Religion and Violence," ISLA Philosophy/Social Science 1, forthcoming.
"Documenting the Apocalypse: Mass Media, Millennialism, and the Risks of Mimesis," Hermès, forthcoming.
PRESENTATIONS
"Religion and Violence," Keten Project, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Culturelles; U.C. Berkeley; March (1997).
Kinship and Cosmopolitanism, conference organized and moderated at Rice University; Houston, Texas; April (1997).
"Documenter l'apocalypse: les médias, le prémillénairisme, et les risques de la mimesis" (Documenting the Apocalypse: Mass Media, Millennialism, and the Risks of Mimesis), invited paper presented at Médiation et Mimesis, a conference held at L'Université de Paris IV; Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; May (1997).
"The Reason in Unreason," lecture presented before the Rice Anthropology Department, Rice University; Houston, Texas; October (1997).
THESES
Laura A. Helper. Ph.D. "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On: An Ethnography of Race Relations and Crossover Audiences for Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll in 1950s Memphis
Pamela G. Smart. Ph.D. "Sacred Modern: An Ethnography of the Menil Collection"
RESEARCH
"Millennialism Today."
Eugenia Georges.
Associate Professor of Anthropology. B.A. (1970) Florida Presbyterian College, M.A. (1971) Tulane University, Ph.D. (1985) Columbia University. New reproductive technologies, women's health issues, medicalization of the life cycle, Greece, Latin America.
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMPLETED WORKS
"Cross-Cultural Cyborgs: Greek and Canadian Women's Discourses on Fetal Ultrasound," Feminist Studies, 23 (1997), 273-401, with Lisa Mitchell.
"Fetal Ultrasound Imaging and the Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Greece," in R. Davis-Floyd and C. Sargent, eds. Childbirth Across Cultures: The Social Production of Authoritative Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
"Dominicans," in American Immigrant Cultures. New York: Macmillan, 1997.
PENDING PUBLICATIONS
"Baby's First Picture: The Cyborg Fetus of Ultrasound Imaging," in R. Davis-Floyd and J. Dumit, eds., London: Routledge, with Lisa Mitchell, in press.
"Baby Talk: Rhetorical Constructions of Women and the Fetus in Greek and Canadian Pregnancy Guidebooks," in M. Lay and H. Longino, eds. Writing and Speaking the Body: Feminist and Rhetorical Studies of Reproductive Sciences and Technologies, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, with Lisa Mitchell) in press.
PRESENTATIONS
Chair and Discussant, "Transnational Migration I: Theorizing Latin American Transmigration," Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 18, 1997.
THESES
None.
RESEARCH
Reproductive life histories of three generations of Rhodian Women; comparative study of popular translations of medical knowledge in Greece and North America.
Benjamin Lee
Professor of Anthropologyy. B.A. (1969) The Johns Hopkins University, M.A. (1973) University of Chicago, Ph.D. (1986) University of Chicago.Executive Editor, Public Worlds Books (University of Minnesota Press) and Public Planet Books (Duke University Press). Grants: New Middle Class in China, from Ford Motor Company and Coopers & Lybrand ($500,000). Cultural and linguistic anthropology; contemporary China.
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMPLETED WORKS
Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity. Duke University Press, 1997. 376 pp.
PENDING PUBLICATIONS
"Creating the Nation", Public Culture, winter, 1997.
"Public Spheres and Public Cultures", Annual Review of Anthropology
PRESENTATIONS
"Semiotics of Modernity," Organized panel and presented paper at American Anthropological Association annual meeting; Washington, D.C.; November (1997).
THESES
None
RESEARCH
"New Middle Class in China." Ford Motor Company and Coopers & Lybrand.
George E. Marcus.
Professor and Department Chair, Anthropology. B.A. (1968) Yale University, Ph.D. (1976) Harvard University. Editor (with James Clifford), University of Wisconsin Press Series, New Directions in Anthropological Writing; Editor, Westview Press Series, Institutional Structures of Feeling; Editor, Late Edition Series, University of Chicago Press; Editorial Board Memberships, Consumption Markets and Culture (journal); Society & Space (journal); Theory, Culture and Society (journal); Qualitative Inquiry (journal); Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities; Ethnographic Inquiry (Smithsonian Institution Press Series); Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (Human Relations Area Files; Harvey Holt Publishing); Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Culture Theory and Comparative Cultural Studies. The ethnography of elite groups, of the emergence of middle-classes cross-culturally, and of intellectuals. Peoples and cultures of Oceania. Contemporary transnational cultural formations.
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMPLETED WORKS
Cultural Producers in Perilous States: Editing Events, Documenting Change at Century's End. Late Editions 4: Cultural Studies for the End of the Century. University of Chicago Press.
"Critical Cultural Studies As One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and In Engagement with Others, " in Cultural Studies and Sociology, edited by Elizabeth Long. Blackwell. pp. 399-425. (reprinted in Cultural Pluralism, Identity, and Globalization, edited by Luiz E. Soares. UNESCO/EDUCAM pp. 294-344)
"That Damn Book", a preface to the Italian and Japanese Editions of Writing Culture. Italian publisher: Meltemi. Japanese publisher: Kinokuniya Books.
"The Postmodern Condition and the Teaching of Anthropology," in The Teaching of Anthropology: Problems, Issues, and Decisions, edited by Conrad Kottak, Jane White, Richard Furlow, and Patricia Rice. pp. 103-112. Mayfield Publishing Company.
"The Uses of Complicity in the Changing Mise-en-Scene of Anthropological Fieldwork." Representations 59 (a special issue, The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond, edited by Sherry Ortner). pp. 85-108.
Book review of Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde by Georgina Born. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3(1): 165-66.
Book review of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America by Kathleen Stewart. Journal of Southern History. 63(3): 701-03.
PENDING PUBLICATIONS
Article on "Culture" in new edition of Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier, Inc. (Forthcoming).
Corporate Futures. Late Editions 5: Cultural Studies for the End of the Century, edited by George E. Marcus. University of Chicago Press. (Forthcoming)
Paranoia Within Reason: a Casebook of Conspiracy as Explanation at Century's End. Late Editions 6: Cultural Studies for the End of the Century, edited by George E. Marcus University of Chicago Press (Forthcoming).
Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, and Changing Agendas, edited by George E. Marcus. (Results of an advanced seminar held at the School of American Research in October, 1994). Santa Fe: SAR Press. (Forthcoming)
"Postmodernist Critique in the 80's, Nuclear Diplomacy, and the "Prisoner's Dilemma": Probing Family Resemblances" by George E. Marcus, included in the above SAR seminar volume.
"Censorship in the Heart of Difference: Cultural Property, Indigenous Peoples' Movements, and Challenges to Western Liberal Thought", in Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation, edited by Robert Post. Published by the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. (Forthcoming)
Foreword to Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities and the Production of Danger, edited by Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey, Hugh Gusterson and Raymond Duvall. (Forthcoming)
"Notes on the Hyperninterest in Questions of Identity in Contemporary Social and Cultural Analysis, With Some Comments on Trends in Latin American Studies." ("Reflexiones sobre el hyperinteres en el concepto de Identidad en la teoria cultural y social contemporanea. Comentarios sobre tendencias en Estudios Latinamenticanos") in Proceedings from the Conference on Identity in the Andes, Jujuy, Argentina, August, 1994, edited by Alejandro Isla. (Forthcoming)
"Why Should Men Leave Great Fortunes to Their Children?": Class, Dynasty and Inheritance in America. (with Peter Dobkin Hall) in Economic Wealth and Inheritance in America, edited by Robert K. Miller, Jr. and Stephen J. McNamee. New York: Plenum Publishing. (Forthcoming)
"The Inevitability of "Activism " in the Continuing Pursuit of the Science of Anthropology," in Anthropology: Between Science and the Humanities, edited by Christopher Furlow. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. (Forthcoming)
"Giving and Taking Voice in the Multi-Sited, Fractured Spaces of Contemporary Ethnographic Inquiry," in Who Speaks? The Voice in the Human Sciences, edited by Sean Hand, Charles Martin dale, and Irving Velody. (Forthcoming)
"Sticking with Ethnography Through Thick and Thin," in volume on the Conference marking the 25th year of the School of Social Science , Institute for Advanced Study, edited by Clifford Geertz, Michael Walzer, and Joan Scott. Russell Sage and Princeton University Press. (Forthcoming)
"The Gift of 'The Gift'", in Wegmarken, edited by Werner Petermann, Jahrbuch Trickster (forthcoming, 1998)
"A Report on Two Initiatives in Experiments With Ethnography a Decade After the "Writing Culture" Critique." Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. (Forthcoming)
"Some Strategies For the Design of Contemporary Fieldwork Projects: Advice to New Students." Ethnologia (Forthcoming)
PRESENTATIONS
Australian Ficto-Criticism and the Future of Experimentalism in Ethnography, conference organized in connection with Late Editions 7, at Rice and Columbia University, February, 1997.
The "Artists in Trance" course and catalog-- a joint project of anthropology and the TransArt Foundation, bringing to Rice a group of Latin American artists influenced by Writing Culture in the 1980s, and now interacting with our department through discussions and performances of their art. A catalog with texts will be produced from this exchange. January-March, 1997.
"Reflections on the Dynastic Uncanny," international seminar on "Leadership and Succession in Elite Contexts, Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, held at the Palacio Fronteira, October 1997.
"Anthropology in the 1990s", graduate seminar, Department of anthropology, University of Lisbon, October, 1997
"Anthropology and its Patrons: Two Georges at the Getty" in the symposium "Historicisms, Presentisms and the Future of Anthropology: Papers in Honor of George W. Stocking Jr.," American Anthropological Association Meetings , November 1997
Organized and moderated seminar for the Baker Institute on "Social, Cultural, and Religious Factors that Affect the Supply of Oil from Central Asia," November, 1997.
Keynote address, "Voice in Ethnographic Research," at a conference to mark the tenth anniversary of the journal, History of the Human Sciences, University of Bristol, March 1997
The anthropology paper, "Ethnography Through Thick and Thin, delivered at the conference to celebrate 25 years of the Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, May, 1997
Organized and moderated, collective editorial meeting/conference in preparation for Late Editions 8, Para-sites: Further Conversations With Cultural Producers, May 1997.
Guest lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, August 1997
"Complicity in Fieldwork and Post-Apartheid South Africa, the Second Monica Wilson Lecture, University of Cape Town. August, 1997
"Anthropology Restructured by Political Change," seminar, University of Johannesburg, August, 1997.
Keynote Address, Report on Two Initiatives in Experiments With Ethnography, International Symposium in honor of Prof. Ina-Maria Greverus, "Reflecting Cultural Practice: the Challenge of Fieldwork," Institute for Cultural Anthropology, University of Frankfurt am Main , October 1997
THESES
Laura A. Helper. Ph.D. "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On: An Ethnography of Race Relations and Crossover Audiences for Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll in 1950s Memphis
Pamela G. Smart. Ph.D. "Sacred Modern: An Ethnography of the Menil Collection"
David M. Syring. Ph.D. "Places in the World A Person Could Walk: Auto Ethnobiographical Explorations of Family, Stories, Home, and Place"
RESEARCH.
"Non-profit Organizations" in non-Western contexts
"Art Collectors and Cultural Influence"
Roderick J. Mcintosh.
Professor of Anthropology. B.A. (1973) Yale University; M.Litt. (1975) University of Cambridge; Ph.D. (1979) University of Cambridge. Editorial Board Position: Archaeology . Research: African and Old World comparative prehistory, intellectual history of prehistoric archaeology, ethnicity and specialization, origins of institutions of authority and specialization, urbanism (comparative urban developments in the Middle Niger of Mali and the Middle Senegal Valley), palaeoclimate and human response to climate change, international art market
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMPLETED WORKS
"Mali's many shields of its past", Non-Renewable Resources . 6 (4)(1997): 111-129 (with Boubacar Diaby and Téréba Togola)
"Agricultural beginnings in Sub-Saharan Africa" in (ed.) Joseph O. Vogel. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa . Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. (1997): 409-418.
"Archaeological research in francophone Africa", in (ed.) Timothy Murray. Editor. The History of Archaeology: An Encyclopaedia . New York: Garland Press.(1997).
"History of Africa to c. Seventh Century", in (ed.) John Middleton. The Encyclodedia of Sub-Saharan Africa . New York: Simon & Schuster.(1997): Vol. 2, pp. 311-318
"Jenne and the Saharan Borderlands", in (ed.) John Middleton. The Encyclodedia of Sub-Saharan Africa . New York: Simon & Schuster.(1997): Vol. 2, pp. 405-410
"L'origine de Djenné, d'après les traces archéologiques", in (ed.) Joseph Brunet-Jailly, DJENNE Bamako: Editions Donniya. (1997):
"A civilization under siege", US / ICOMOS Newsletter (U.S. Committee, International Council on Monuments and Sites). Special Issue, No. 1 (January/February 1997): 2-4 (with S.K.McIntosh, Téréba Togola, and Boubacar Diaby)
"Saharan climates" (Review of Climats anciens du Nord de l'Afrique by Robert Vernet), Journal of African History 38 (1)(1997): 148-149.
"Recherche et sauveguarde à Djenné-Djeno, la campagne 1996-1997", Djenné Patrimoire Informations, No. 3, (1997): 5-6.
PENDING PUBLICATIONS
"African originalities", Archaeology 50. (March/April 1998).
"The Great Zimbabwe story", Archaeology . 50 (May/June).
"Clustered cities of the Middle Niger: Alternative Routes to authority in prehistory", In (eds.) David M. Anderson and Richard Rathbone. Early African Town . London: Routledge (1998).
"Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns", in (ed.) S.K.McIntosh, Pathways to Complexity: An African Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1998).
The Peoples of the Middle Niger. Island of Gold. ( Oxford: Blackwell )(1998).
Global Change in History and Prehistory (edited with S.K. McIntosh and J. Tainter). Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
Atlas Archéologique de la Moyenne Vallée du Fleuve Sénégal , (ed.) H. Bocoum.
Ch. 5. Les procesus d'accumulation anthropique dans la Moyenne Vallée du Fleuve Sénégal , les exemples de Cubalel et de Sinçu-Bara (with Hamady Bocoum and Susan Keech McIntosh)
Ch. 7. La distribution des sites et sa signification (with Alioune Deme)
Ch. 8. La production matérielle des populations de l'âge du fer dans la Moyenne Vallée du Fleuve Sénégal : Architecture et habitat
Ch.9. Les sites de l'âge du fer dans leur contexts ouest-africain: Interprétation du point de vue de l'analyse spatiale
"Débusquer la Voyoucracie". Preface to Le Trou Noir, by Michel Brent
"Clustered cities and alternative courses to authority in prehistory", in (ed.) Robert E Murowchick, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Cheng-hwa Tsang and Robin D.S. Yates. Festschrift for K.C. Chang. Taipei: Academia Sinica and Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
PRESENTATIONS
"The ancient city of Jenne, Mali" Smithsonian Institution. Series entitled Echoes from the Desert: Caravan Cities and Trade Routes of Africa, Washingtob, D.C., 1997 (Oct)
"Museum attitudes towards the illicit traffick of art objects in the U.S.A.", ICOM (International Council of Museums). Workshop on the Protection of the African Heritage (Africom Programme), Amsterdam. 1997 (Oct.)
THESES
None
RESEARCH
"Archaeological research and site preservation at Jenne-jeno, Mali", World Monuments Fund
"Global Change in History and Prehistory", USDA-U.S. Forest Service (Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station)
Susan Keech McIntosh.
Professor of Anthropology and Director, Scientia. B.A. (1973) University of Pennsylvania, M.A. (1979) Cambridge University, Ph.D. (1979) University of California, Santa Barbara. Editorial Board, Journal of World Prehistory, African Archaeological Review, Antiquity. Contributing Editor, Journal of Archaeological Research. West African archaeology, with emphasis on the Iron Age and the emergence of complex societies, archaeological heritage and cultural property, human osteology.
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMPLETED WORKS
"Urbanism in Sub-Saharan Africa", in (ed.) Joseph O. Vogel, Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. Walnut Creek, Ca: Altamira Press (1997):461-465.
"A civilization under siege", US/ICOMOS Newsletter (U.S. Committee, International Council on Monuments and Sites), Special Issues, No. 1 (January/February 1997):2-4, with R.J. McIntosh, T.Togola, B. Diaby.
"Exploratory archaeology at Jenné and Jenné-jeno, Mali". Sahara vol 8:19-28, with R.J.
McIntosh, P. Sinclair, T. Togola, and M. Petren. (1996, appeared in 1997)
PENDING PUBLICATIONS
Pathways to Complexity: African Perspectives (edited volume). Cambridge University Press.
Global Change in History and Prehistory (edited with R.J. McIntosh and J. Tainter). Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
"A tale of two floodplains: comparative perspectives on the emergence of complex societies and urbanism in the Middle Niger and Senegal Valleys". P. Sinclair, ed., Proceeding of the Second World Archaeological Congress Intercongress, Mombasa. Routledge &Kegan Paul, in press.
"Tools for understanding transformation and continuity in Senegambian society:A.D. 1500-1900". C. DeCorse, ed. West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives Smithsonian Press, in press.
"Middle Niger Cultures," Grove Dictionary of Art (MacMillan) (with R.J.McIntosh), in press.
"Ceramic sequences in the Middle Senegal Valley". To appear in Atlas Archéologique de la Moyenne Vallée du Sénégal, H. Bocoum, ed. Dakar: IFAN , in press.
"The History of Archaeological Research on the Sudanic Kingdoms". The Encyclopedia of the History of Archaeology, T. Murray, ed., Garland Press, forthcoming
"West African Iron Age pottery studies from an Americanist Perspective: a ceramic manifesto", African Archaeological Review, forthcoming.
"Floodplains and the development of complex society: comparative perspectives from the West African semi-arid tropics", E. Bacus (ed.), Complex Society in the Tropics, Routledge, forthcoming.
PRESENTATIONS
None
THESES
None
RESEARCH
"Archaeological research and site conservation at the World Heritage site of Jenné-jeno, Mali". World Monuments Fund.
"Global Climate Change and Human Response in History and Prehistory". USDA -
U. S. Forest Service.
Kathryn A. Milun.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology. B.A. (1978) University of Minnesota, M.A.(1988) University of Minnesota, Ph.D. (defended 1991) University of Minnesota. Cultural studies, critical theory, film, law, contemporary Native American issues, feminist theory, the post-Communist transformation of Eastern Europe, 20th-century literature, cultural studies of science/medicine.
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMPLETED WORKS
None
PENDING PUBLICATIONS
Interrupted Journeys: The Cultural Politics of Indian Reburial, with Pemina Yellow Bird (University of Minnesota Press)
Pathologies of Modern Space: Cultural Studies of Empty Space (under review with University of Chicago Press)
"Modern and Postmodern Sovereignty: The Demise of the Colonial Doctrine of Terra Nullius and the Emergence of Post- and Neocolonial Space" for submission to Journal of Law and Society
"Agoraphobia: A History of Modern Public Space from the Perspective of the Unassimilated" for submission to Cultural Critique
"The State of Archives: Modern Knowledge and Indigenous Peoples" for submission to Public Culture
"Native American Repatriation Legislation As Race Conscious Civil Rights: A Case Study" in progress for submission to Harvard Civil Rights Law Review
Translation of Argirus Historia by Albert Gerei (Hungarian) (manuscript in circulation)
PRESENTATIONS
"Emergent Literatures as a Research Program in the Age of Post-Theory" Modern Language Association, Toronto, 1997
"Cultural Studies of Empty Space" Department of Anthropology, Rice University 1997
THESES
Laura A. Helper. Ph.D. "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On: An Ethnography of Race Relations and Crossover Audiences for Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll in 1950s Memphis
RESEARCH
"The Legal Mediation of Scientific and Cultural Values in the North Dakota Indian Reburial Dispute." National Science Foundation (continuing)
An edited volume of essays on post-communist popular culture in Eastern Europe
Julie M. Taylor.
Associate Professor of Department. B.A. (1966) Harvard University, D.Phil. (1974) Oxford University. Aesthetics and politics, national and transnational cultures, historical discourse, post-colonial culture, and Latin America (Southern Cone).
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMPLETED WORKS
"Accessing Narrative: The Gaucho and Europe in Argentina." Cultural Critique. Fall, 1997, pp 215-245
PENDING PUBLICATIONS
Paper Tangos. Public Planet Series. Duke University Press. March 1998.
"A Juridical Frankenstein." In The Killing State, Austin Sarat, ed. Oxford University Press, 1998.
PRESENTATIONS
"The Myth of the Myth of Evita Perón." Lecture sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Presidency, Argentina. Historico-cultural Exposition on Eva Peron, Buenos Aires, June 7, 1997
"The Juridical Frankenstein: Death at the Hands of the State." Conference on Capital Punishment in Law and Culture." Amherst College, Amherst Mass. April 4-6, 1997
"Narrativo, Exclusion, y Terror." Seminars. Centro para Investigacion y Educacion Popular, Bogota. Feb. 24 - Mar. 1, 1997.
THESES
Pamela Smart. Ph.D. "Sacred Modern: An Ethnography of the Menil Collection"
RESEARCH
Death in the Hands of the State: Police in Argentina (Funding: Program for Law, Jurisprudence, and Political Thought Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts)
Stephen A. Tyler.
Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics. B.A. (1957) Simpson College, M.A. (1962) Stanford University, Ph.D. (1964) Stanford University. Associate Editor, Journal of Anthropological Research. Associate Editor, "Studies in Cognition and Formal Analysis." India, Dravidan language and culture, cognitive studies, hermeneutics, rhetoric, postmodernism.
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMPLETED WORKS
Review of Aroma, the Cultural History of Smell, by Constance Classen, David Howes, and Anthony Synott. London: Routledge, 1994. American Anthropologist, 76 (1997), 552-557.
Review of Word, Sound, and Image; the Life of the Tamil Text. by Saskia Kersenboom. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1995. Journal of Anthropological research, 64 (1997), 231-232.
PENDING PUBLICATIONS
"Encounters with Bateson," Trickster, forthcoming.
"Them Others, Without Mirrors," Paideuma, in press.
"The Unreadable: Reply to Abdel Hernandez," Artists in Trance, forthcoming.
PRESENTATIONS
"Possible Ethnographies," keynote address at international symposium, "Rethinking Ethnography: Debating with Stephen Tyler." Institut für Ethnologie und Afrika-Studien, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany, June 1997.
THESES
David M. Syring. Ph.D. "Places in the World A Person Could Walk: Auto Ethnobiographical Explorations of Family, Stories, Home, and Place"
RESEARCH
Ethnorhetorics and Postmodernism. Joint Project with Dr. Ivo Strecker, Institut für Afrika-Studien, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Continuing research on Koya Language and Culture, Comparative Dravidian Linguistics, and Postmodernism.