| Ethnology, ecology,
and history of Lowland South America; , ethnomusicology and performance
studies; symbolic and semiotic anthropology; nationalism and ethnicity;
critical studies of culture, power, and history. |
Anth 410F
Anthropology pf Religion
Anth
310E/470E People and Cultures of
Latin America
Anth 480
Senior Seminar
Anth
482 Internship in Editorial Practice
Anth
500D Theory and Method in Sociocultural Anthropology
Anth 500E History of Anthropological Theory
Anth 521
Seminar in Ethnology of Latin America
Anth
560 Comparative Social Organization
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Selected Publications 2002
Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language
Family and Culture Area in Amazonia. Jonathan D. Hill and
Fernando Santos-Granero, eds. Univ. of Illinois Press.
2001 The varieties of fertility cultism in Amazonia: a
closer look at gender symbolism in Northwestern Amazonia. In
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative
Method , edited by T. Gregor and D. Tuzin, pp. 45-68. Univ.
of California Press.
2000 Colonial transformation in Venezuela. Ethnohistory
47:747-754.
1999 Nationalisme, Chamanisme et Histoires Indigenes
au Venezuela. Ethnologie Française XXIX(3): 387-396.
Special issue on “Ethnicité, Nation, Musées
en Situation Post-Coloniale.” Gerard Collomb, Editor.
1999 Indigenous peoples and the rise of independent nation-states
in lowland South America. In The Cambridge History of
Native Peoples of the Americas: South America, Vol. III, Part
2, edited by F. Salomon and S. Schwartz, pp. 704-764. Cambridge
Univ. Press.
1998 Language contact and ritual hierarchy: toward a comparative
regional understanding of eastern Tukanoan and Arawakan ethnohistory.
In Historia y Etnicidad en el Noroeste Amazonico,
edited by A. Zucchi and S. Vidal, pp. 143-162. Universidad
de los Andes y Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas.
1998 Violent encounters: ethnogenesis and ethnocide in
long-term contact situations. In Studies in Culture Contact:
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by J.
Cusick. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern
Illinois Univ.
1996 History, Power, and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the
Americas, 1492-1992, edited by J. Hill. Univ. of Iowa
Press.
1994 Alienated targets: military discourses and the disempowerment
of indigenous Amazonian peoples in Venezuela. Identities:
Global Studies in Culture and Power 1:7-34.
1993 Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The
Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society. Univ.
of Arizona Press.
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