Research




All faculty hold a PhD. in various areas of expertise. Current faculty regional specializaiton and research interests are:

Latin America, South East Asia, South Asia, and North America, Spain.

  • Complex societies
  • Material culture
  • Social inequality
  • Religion
  • Language
  • Indigengous activism
  • Ritual
  • Globalization
  • Ritual
  • Power and violence
  • Sustainable development
  • Ethnicity and identity
  • Resistance
  • Anthropology of the body
  • Phenomenology
  • Archeological theory and method
  • Political Anthropology
  • Urban Anthropology
  • Community and state formation
  • Gender
  • Environment and development theory
  • Discourse studies
  • Policy studies

 

Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness is a peer-reviewed journal (Routledge) dedicated to publishing papers that situate the relationship between human behavior, social life, and health within an anthropological context. It provides a forum for inquiring into how knowledge, meaning, livelihood, power, and resource distribution are shaped and how, in turn, these phenomena go on to shape patterns of disease, experiences of health and illness, and the organization of treatments.

Selected Faculty Publications

Books

Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Healing the Modern in a Central Javanese City. Carolina Academic Press. 2001

Of Property and Propriety: Gender and Class in Colonialism and Nationalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Back Door Java: State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java. Broadview Press, 2006.

Articles and Chapters

Women on Welfare: Conversational Sites of Acquiescence and Dissent. Discourse & Society 7(4): 531-557. 1996

The Dialectic of Insecurity. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 13:173-185. Special issue on "Force of a Thousand Nightmares: Global Inequalities and the American Scene," edited by Micaela di Leonardo and Jeff Maskovsky.2006.

The Anthropology of Teaching and Learning. The Annual Review of Anthropology 20: 75-95. 1991

2003. "Market Articulation and Poverty Eradication? Critical Reflection on Tourist-Oriented Craft Production in Amazonian Ecuador." IN Robyn Eversole, ed. Here to Help: NGOs Combating Poverty in Latin America. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.

"Learning to Listen: Kroncong Music in a Javanese Neighborhood." The Senses and Society 1(3): 331-358. 2006.

"Lived Food and Judgements of Taste at a Time of Disease." Medical Anthropology 23: 1-27. 2004.

"A Javanese Metropolis and Mental Life." Ethos 30(2): 140-157. 2002.

"'Actually I Don't Feel that Bad': Managing Diabetes and the Clinical Encounter." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14(1): 28-50. 2000.

2003. "Ethnographic Museums and Cultural Commodification: Indigenous Organizations, NGOs, and Culture as Resource in Amazonian Ecuador." Latin American Perspectives 30(1): 162-180.

2003 'Space, Place and Primitive Accumulation in the Narmada Valley and Beyond', Economic and Political Weekly, October 4, Vol. 38, #40, pp. 3551-3570.

2003 ''Bodies of Evidence, Bodies of Rule: The Age of Consent Debate in Colonial India', in S. Regge (ed), The Sociology of Gender, Delhi and London: Sage Publications.

1999 "The Priest, the Shaman and 'Grandfather Judas': Syncretism and Anti-syncretism in Guatemala," *Religious Studies and Theology* 18(2): 33-65

2002 "Sobre Santos Populares y Movimientos Populares: Identidades desde la Perspectivas de un Pueblo K'iche'," *Cultura de Guatemala* 23(1): 187-218