http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#13cf84b6-657c-4396-bff1-f076f06f3a6b 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)" Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:26:41 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#13cf84b6-657c-4396-bff1-f076f06f3a6b chycho 2007-12-13T05:26:41Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#bb12739e-8cea-4544-bf6f-41b3257d0c63 Zora Neal Hurston & Karen McCarthy Brown Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:40:12 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#bb12739e-8cea-4544-bf6f-41b3257d0c63 Odokemi 2007-12-10T21:40:12Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#18d7c6d1-4add-452e-ae0e-467ac5008fc3 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. Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:48:03 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#18d7c6d1-4add-452e-ae0e-467ac5008fc3 Kyle 2007-06-22T03:48:03Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#eca6771c-971c-43d3-9bb1-d400789eb73f 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. Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:42:04 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#eca6771c-971c-43d3-9bb1-d400789eb73f Kyle 2007-06-22T03:42:04Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#1999f0a1-4da6-4767-a607-1c19e6f2e4d5 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... Mon, 14 May 2007 04:21:38 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#1999f0a1-4da6-4767-a607-1c19e6f2e4d5 Mish 2007-05-14T04:21:38Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#b7a3a222-13f6-4939-9d23-3c859900a874 Anyone familiar with Weston La Barre? I think his work titled "The Ghost Dance" was insightful. Tue, 08 May 2007 21:46:19 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#b7a3a222-13f6-4939-9d23-3c859900a874 Pequamo 2007-05-08T21:46:19Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#861f87f3-d653-4bd7-9e5a-9551dcc11981 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........ Tue, 08 May 2007 19:11:52 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#861f87f3-d653-4bd7-9e5a-9551dcc11981 Rev. Roderick spasmodic 2007-05-08T19:11:52Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#e6eae5ee-72ce-40c5-9820-0445104ef621 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. Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:33:00 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#e6eae5ee-72ce-40c5-9820-0445104ef621 Fitnat 2005-11-05T10:33:00Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#67c6a6df-19d7-4047-ba8d-aa68dad50cbc 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. Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:49:43 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#67c6a6df-19d7-4047-ba8d-aa68dad50cbc angelina 2005-09-25T14:49:43Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#017d6a9e-a69e-4004-b6bf-6cb8229cd062 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. Sun, 25 Sep 2005 04:29:41 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#017d6a9e-a69e-4004-b6bf-6cb8229cd062 $item.owner.firstName 2005-09-25T04:29:41Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#d523fa6b-1889-4355-a05f-7a0186043a20 I had to resurect this thread because I have just fallen madly in love with Donald Lathrap. A true Boasian. Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:38:52 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#d523fa6b-1889-4355-a05f-7a0186043a20 angelina 2005-09-24T14:38:52Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#4dfa76b7-1d0e-49b8-bca4-c3e6f96b8607 :) 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. Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:52:37 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#4dfa76b7-1d0e-49b8-bca4-c3e6f96b8607 Erkan 2005-04-25T11:52:37Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#b6fbf3fc-38a1-4597-b77c-3bdf1cf69eac D'OH! She WRITES so well...apparently I don't :) Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:46:44 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#b6fbf3fc-38a1-4597-b77c-3bdf1cf69eac Really quite sweet Siâny 2005-03-22T02:46:44Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#d7ac7a7d-3eb3-4ab2-a649-abab93ffe673 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. Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:45:50 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#d7ac7a7d-3eb3-4ab2-a649-abab93ffe673 Really quite sweet Siâny 2005-03-22T02:45:50Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#6fd24e65-33f3-46c9-a755-fe21ae8b7b9a 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... Sun, 20 Feb 2005 02:11:14 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#6fd24e65-33f3-46c9-a755-fe21ae8b7b9a sonya 2005-02-20T02:11:14Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#6df5d585-20f0-4530-891a-275bd423b8c7 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... Fri, 18 Feb 2005 06:29:19 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#6df5d585-20f0-4530-891a-275bd423b8c7 $item.owner.firstName 2005-02-18T06:29:19Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#d00f8981-91dc-49a5-ba40-f8d5753072fc 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...) Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:14:00 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#d00f8981-91dc-49a5-ba40-f8d5753072fc Miriam 2005-02-09T07:14:00Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#5b81612c-95a4-4e05-8498-e8a2bc493c8e 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. Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:44:15 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#5b81612c-95a4-4e05-8498-e8a2bc493c8e James 2005-02-09T00:44:15Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#2e603b69-78fd-40c8-be87-621d35a90fdc Rob Brightman... waahahah. Shoulda guessed... I'll throw my scheckles in for auld Clifford Geertz. Cos I like the fancy talk. Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:24:45 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#2e603b69-78fd-40c8-be87-621d35a90fdc Carey 2005-02-08T23:24:45Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#845d37e4-6b07-45ac-8bac-e18c90245651 krober Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:31:57 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#845d37e4-6b07-45ac-8bac-e18c90245651 VIDA 2005-01-12T04:31:57Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#baa70f0f-b8da-4645-932f-4f4c41a66bd9 i did a report on an exellent book "On the Edge of the Bush" by a respected anthropologist whos' name escapes me. Wed, 12 Jan 2005 03:58:23 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#baa70f0f-b8da-4645-932f-4f4c41a66bd9 $item.owner.firstName 2005-01-12T03:58:23Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#f189335f-7282-4132-820a-825f30779ec9 I like Tobias too - I believe he was educated as an artist. Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:53:55 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#f189335f-7282-4132-820a-825f30779ec9 Miriam 2004-12-30T03:53:55Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#45a776bb-3fa2-46a9-824a-83827f9c7e4d 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. Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:55:16 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#45a776bb-3fa2-46a9-824a-83827f9c7e4d Tom 2004-12-28T00:55:16Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#84e9aed6-8c60-409c-9ac2-eb4c39b54693 Yeah, I gotta agree with ya on Margaret Mead being one tough lady. She's simply amazing. Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:02:14 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#84e9aed6-8c60-409c-9ac2-eb4c39b54693 Poosie 2004-12-27T22:02:14Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#5ac50679-c546-4b47-b4e2-17d23be7ac04 Margaret Mead She went where no man or woman ahd gone before. And was one tough lady. Mon, 27 Dec 2004 07:31:28 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#5ac50679-c546-4b47-b4e2-17d23be7ac04 unsubscribed 2004-12-27T07:31:28Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#69a0dd14-64e0-4f32-90c7-3a33a6e0f6d0 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. Wed, 08 Dec 2004 03:12:37 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#69a0dd14-64e0-4f32-90c7-3a33a6e0f6d0 Miriam 2004-12-08T03:12:37Z http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#55eebdf1-c871-4915-8738-0ba8c6632a19 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? Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:38:25 GMT http://cultanthro.tribe.net/thread/edc32e5d-28de-4dad-9860-d568bfd67e95#55eebdf1-c871-4915-8738-0ba8c6632a19 Poosie 2004-12-07T19:38:25Z