Tribe.net. Local Connections chycho http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#13cf84b6-657c-4396-bff1-f076f06f3a6b 2007-12-13T05:26:41Z 2007-12-13T05:26:41Z

Wade Davis ... i don't know too many but Wade is hands down one of my favorite teachers here is one of his talks from TEDTalk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7vK0pOvKI "In this stunning talk, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, many of which are disappearing, as ancestral land is lost and languages die. (50 percent of the world's 6000 languages are no longer taught to children.) Against a backdrop of extraordinary photos and stories that ignite the imagination, Davis argues that we should be concerned not only for preserving the biosphere, but also the "ethnosphere," which he describes as "the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness." An anthropologist and botanist by training, Davis has traveled the world, living among indigenous cultures. He's written several books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow and Light at the Edge of the World. (Recorded February 2003 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 22:44)"

chycho 2007-12-13T05:26:41Z Odokemi http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#bb12739e-8cea-4544-bf6f-41b3257d0c63 2007-12-10T21:40:12Z 2007-12-10T21:40:12Z

Zora Neal Hurston & Karen McCarthy Brown

Odokemi 2007-12-10T21:40:12Z Kyle http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#18d7c6d1-4add-452e-ae0e-467ac5008fc3 2007-06-22T03:48:03Z 2007-06-22T03:48:03Z

Maybe it's because I received my BS in '89, but I love Marvin Harris. Especially his theories on cultural materialism. They have stuck with me through the years.

Kyle 2007-06-22T03:48:03Z Kyle http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#eca6771c-971c-43d3-9bb1-d400789eb73f 2007-06-22T03:42:04Z 2007-06-22T03:42:04Z

Maybe it's because I received my BS in the 80's but I love Marvin Harris and especially his theories on cultural materialism. His works have stuck with me through the years.

Kyle 2007-06-22T03:42:04Z Mish http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#1999f0a1-4da6-4767-a607-1c19e6f2e4d5 2007-05-14T04:21:38Z 2007-05-14T04:21:38Z

I have a lot of favorites! On "literary seduction", I'd have to vote for a couple profs: Yanko Gonzalez Cangas and Juan Carlos Olivares, both pioneers in Poetic Anthropology. Scheper-Hughes is pretty high on the list, as well as James Ferguson. And not exactly an anthropologist, but I really admire Arturo Escobar...

Mish 2007-05-14T04:21:38Z Pequamo http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#b7a3a222-13f6-4939-9d23-3c859900a874 2007-05-08T21:46:19Z 2007-05-08T21:46:19Z

Anyone familiar with Weston La Barre? I think his work titled "The Ghost Dance" was insightful.

Pequamo 2007-05-08T21:46:19Z Rev. Roderick spasmodic http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#861f87f3-d653-4bd7-9e5a-9551dcc11981 2007-05-08T19:11:52Z 2007-05-08T19:11:52Z

quick note: malinowski, despite his wonderful insistance on participant observation, was a bigoted white supremesist, who regarded his informants as primitive savages, to whom he attributed little in the way of intelligence (check out the diaries released after his death). however, his ethnographic research has pulled meoout of many a sticky cornwer whilst writing, and his work on the Kula system is fascinating. however, i have little ime for the functionalist school and its aristotelean logic. Sahlins 'stone age economics' is a masterpeice, as is Frazer's work on magic an religion, yet its Focault, (yes i know he wasn't theoretically an anthropologist) Bordieu and Graeber who really get my juices going, probably cos they've abandoned all the archaic notions of societies as bounded entities and veer closer to the beautiful concept of anarchy........

Rev. Roderick spasmodic 2007-05-08T19:11:52Z Fitnat http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#e6eae5ee-72ce-40c5-9820-0445104ef621 2005-11-05T10:33:00Z 2005-11-05T10:33:00Z

I have to agree with you regarding Ruth Bendict she is the tops, especially her definition of anthropologists as a social "misfits", totally spot on, it was the first time that I felt that I identified with an academic def. Magaret Mead is my close second.

Fitnat 2005-11-05T10:33:00Z angelina http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#67c6a6df-19d7-4047-ba8d-aa68dad50cbc 2005-09-25T14:49:43Z 2005-09-25T14:49:43Z

Scheper-Hughes *is* a goddess, I am so envious of those of you who studied with her. I should also mention my own mentor and adviser, Michael Heckengerger, who is, in my humble opinion, single-handedly changing the way new world anthropology is applied and interpreted on so many levels.

angelina 2005-09-25T14:49:43Z $item.owner.firstName http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#017d6a9e-a69e-4004-b6bf-6cb8229cd062 2005-09-25T04:29:41Z 2005-09-25T04:29:41Z

After all these years (damn, Cal Berkeley Anthro '88), and after all the deconstruction, I still owe a lot to Mssr. Levi-Strauss. Studied with Scheper-Hughes, too, who has Goddess status. But these days it's James Clifford who keeps my world moving.

$item.owner.firstName 2005-09-25T04:29:41Z angelina http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#d523fa6b-1889-4355-a05f-7a0186043a20 2005-09-24T14:38:52Z 2005-09-24T14:38:52Z

I had to resurect this thread because I have just fallen madly in love with Donald Lathrap. A true Boasian.

angelina 2005-09-24T14:38:52Z Erkan http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#4dfa76b7-1d0e-49b8-bca4-c3e6f96b8607 2005-04-25T11:52:37Z 2005-04-25T11:52:37Z

:) for the same reasons I should start with Malinowski. I am more miserable than him concerning the relations with native women. I worship Stephen Tyler whom I think a bit underrated maybe due to his own stance. He is an unbeatable polemicist by the way (maybe due to his deep knowledge on rhetoric and hermeneutics?) My advisor James D. Faubion should be cited here. His double emphasis on anthropology and philosophy has a deep impact on me. And finally George Marcus who is an extremely clever guy to point out new terrains of ethnographic inquiry. Among the younger generation, I enjoy reading Akhil Gupta a lot.

Erkan 2005-04-25T11:52:37Z Really quite sweet Siâny http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#b6fbf3fc-38a1-4597-b77c-3bdf1cf69eac 2005-03-22T02:46:44Z 2005-03-22T02:46:44Z

D'OH! She WRITES so well...apparently I don't :)

Really quite sweet Siâny 2005-03-22T02:46:44Z Really quite sweet Siâny http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#d7ac7a7d-3eb3-4ab2-a649-abab93ffe673 2005-03-22T02:45:50Z 2005-03-22T02:45:50Z

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is my idol. She rights SO WELL; her work is meaningful and interesting and she has an acute sense of social justice in her work.

Really quite sweet Siâny 2005-03-22T02:45:50Z sonya http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#6fd24e65-33f3-46c9-a755-fe21ae8b7b9a 2005-02-20T02:11:14Z 2005-02-20T02:11:14Z

for literary seduction, i always turn to geertz. but overall i'd have to say that my favorite anthropologist was a philosopher :) that'd be foucault...

sonya 2005-02-20T02:11:14Z $item.owner.firstName http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#6df5d585-20f0-4530-891a-275bd423b8c7 2005-02-18T06:29:19Z 2005-02-18T06:29:19Z

Jaime de Angulo! Donald Bahr, (teaches at ASU), because he talks to me, we both like Levi-Strauss and myths&texts. Claude Levi-Strauss. Because he wrote his own mega-mythology: the four volume "science of mythology". Roy Rappaport, because there's something about "Pigs for the Ancestors" I really liked. Lord, there are so many favorites... I could go on...

$item.owner.firstName 2005-02-18T06:29:19Z Miriam http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#d00f8981-91dc-49a5-ba40-f8d5753072fc 2005-02-09T07:14:00Z 2005-02-09T07:14:00Z

Hahaha! Brightman = my thesis advisor Zivkovic = first reader Both = main reason I did grad school at U of Chicago, (Zivkovic having been a preceptor in the program I was in...)

Miriam 2005-02-09T07:14:00Z James http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#5b81612c-95a4-4e05-8498-e8a2bc493c8e 2005-02-09T00:44:15Z 2005-02-09T00:44:15Z

Brightman... sheesh. I'm a disciple of Zivkovic. Geertz is great and all, but I'm going to flag Gregory Bateson. One time husband of Margaret Mead, brilliant and totally underappreciated polymath. Did a lot of psych too, mostly with schizophrenia and alcoholism. Brought cybernetics across the atlantic. A follower of Bateson was Roy Rappaport, who wrote my favorite theory book, Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. It's pretty new age/sustaintability oriented for orthodox cultural anthro, but it's a direction that needs to be engaged... his treament of ritual is richer than Turner and the book as a whole is basically everything you need to get started short of the robes and kool aid.

James 2005-02-09T00:44:15Z Carey http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#2e603b69-78fd-40c8-be87-621d35a90fdc 2005-02-08T23:24:45Z 2005-02-08T23:24:45Z

Rob Brightman... waahahah. Shoulda guessed... I'll throw my scheckles in for auld Clifford Geertz. Cos I like the fancy talk.

Carey 2005-02-08T23:24:45Z VIDA http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#845d37e4-6b07-45ac-8bac-e18c90245651 2005-01-12T04:31:57Z 2005-01-12T04:31:57Z

krober

VIDA 2005-01-12T04:31:57Z $item.owner.firstName http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#baa70f0f-b8da-4645-932f-4f4c41a66bd9 2005-01-12T03:58:23Z 2005-01-12T03:58:23Z

i did a report on an exellent book "On the Edge of the Bush" by a respected anthropologist whos' name escapes me.

$item.owner.firstName 2005-01-12T03:58:23Z Miriam http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#f189335f-7282-4132-820a-825f30779ec9 2004-12-30T03:53:55Z 2004-12-30T03:53:55Z

I like Tobias too - I believe he was educated as an artist.

Miriam 2004-12-30T03:53:55Z Tom http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#45a776bb-3fa2-46a9-824a-83827f9c7e4d 2004-12-28T00:55:16Z 2004-12-28T00:55:16Z

Well, Ruth Benedict worked decades earlier and she taught Mead! I've always liked this quote by her: "The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences." -Ruth Benedict I'm kind of partial to Tobias Schneebaum (Keep the Rver on your Right) , although I don't think he had formal training in Anthropology.

Tom 2004-12-28T00:55:16Z Poosie http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#84e9aed6-8c60-409c-9ac2-eb4c39b54693 2004-12-27T22:02:14Z 2004-12-27T22:02:14Z

Yeah, I gotta agree with ya on Margaret Mead being one tough lady. She's simply amazing.

Poosie 2004-12-27T22:02:14Z unsubscribed http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#5ac50679-c546-4b47-b4e2-17d23be7ac04 2004-12-27T07:31:28Z 2004-12-27T07:31:28Z

Margaret Mead She went where no man or woman ahd gone before. And was one tough lady.

unsubscribed 2004-12-27T07:31:28Z Miriam http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#69a0dd14-64e0-4f32-90c7-3a33a6e0f6d0 2004-12-08T03:12:37Z 2004-12-08T03:12:37Z

Malinowski makes me happy for a few reasons... I laugh at the contents of his packing list, and at him for his grumblings about the natives not sleeping with him and how miserable he tends to be. he's so adorable and underated. :) I really like Goffman, (though he's not strictly cult-anth...) the presentation of self, and his writings on footing - especially his interpretation of the Helen Thomas article in which she fantastically bashes Nixon. As for classic, old-school anthros... I'll have to say Mauss is my favorite, just because gift-exchange and host-guest relationships are so good to think... but then again, good old Claude L-S. gives me lots of good to think and good to eat options that put him in a close second place. As for current anthropologists, I'll have to go with my BA thesis advisor, Rob Brightman, though there are a few people in england who work on material culture of whom I am a big fan.

Miriam 2004-12-08T03:12:37Z Poosie http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#55eebdf1-c871-4915-8738-0ba8c6632a19 2004-12-07T19:38:25Z 2004-12-07T19:38:25Z

Right now I'm stuck on Malinosky for his insistence on the need to live among the people that you are 'studying.' I don't know why it wasn't insisted upon from the very beginning. It just makes good sense. But that's me looking back from the place I am now. Not then looking forward. So, who is your favorite Anthropologist?

Poosie 2004-12-07T19:38:25Z