Analytical Methods & Ethics

Archaeology

• Stephen Plog (archaeological methods, digital research archives)
• Patricia Wattenmaker (faunal analysis)

Linguistic Anthropology

• Ellen Contini-Morava (linguistic field methods)
• Eve Danziger (cognition, gesture)
• Lise Dobrin (field ethics)

Tags​

• Analytical Methods & Ethics
• Anthropology of Organizations
• Art, Aesthetics & Museums
• (Post) Colonialism, Settler Societies, & Subaltern Identities
• Cultural and Linguistic Property & Preservation and Ethics 
• Digital Projects
• Discourse Analysis,  Oral Literature, Narrative & Memory
• Ecology, Environment & Climate
• Food
• Globalization & Development
• Hierarchy, Power & Violence
• Historical Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics
• History of Anthropology & Anthropological Knowledge
• Journals
• Kinship, Family, Marriage, & Gender
• Knowlege, Empathy, Ethnographic Writing & Ethics
• Language, Cognition & Classification
• Language Ideology
• Legal Anthropology & Culture and (Trans)National Law
• Medicine & Science and Technology 
• Nation (State), Citizenship & Transnationalism
• Political Economy: Property and Exchange & Corporations
• Race, Ethnicity & Identity
• Religion
• Symbolic Anthropology

Anthropology of Organizations

Archaeology

• Adria LaViolette (ancient urbanism, political economy)
• Stephen Plog (evolution of social and ritual organization)
• Patricia Wattenmaker (social evolution)

 

Socio-Cultural

• Ira Bashkow (U.S. corporate culture)
• Gertrude Fraser (universities, faculty, search committees)

Art, Aesthetics & Museums

Archaeology

• Jeffrey Hantman (preservation, cultural patrimony, ethics, museums)

Linguistic Anthropology

• Eve Danziger (ideologies of representation)
• Daniel Lefkowitz (speech play)

Socio-Cultural

• Richard Handler
• Margo Smith (Australian Aboriginal art)
• George Mentore (black aesthetics)

(Post) Colonialism, Settler Societies, & Subaltern Identities

Archaeology

• Jeffrey Hantman (indigenous Native American ideas of land, identity, history, power in relation to post/colonial culture, agency)
• Adria Laviolette (Swahili Coast)

Socio-Cultural

• Ravindra Khare (India/West, colonialism, globalization, subaltern voices and representations)

Cultural and Linguistic Property & Preservation and Ethics

Archaeology

• Jeffrey Hantman (preservation, cultural patrimony, ethics, museums)

Linguistic Anthropology

• Lise Dobrin (intangible heritage)

Socio-Cultural

• Richard Handler (cultural property, heritage preservation, museums)

Digital Projects

Archaeology

• Stephen Plog (Chaco Research Archive)

Linguistic Anthropology

• Ellen Contini-Morava (Mopan archive)
• Eve Danziger (Mopan archive)
• Lise Dobrin

Socio-Cultural

• Ravindra Khare
• Kath Weston

Discourse Analysis,  Oral Literature, Narrative & Memory

Archaeology

• Jeffrey Hantman (post/colonial state policy & official histories and commemorative events and their effects on Native Americans, erasure of names, territories, identities, authenticity)
• Adria Laviolette (Islamic)

Linguistic Anthropology

• Eve Danziger (new media literacies, fiction and parody, convention and ritual)
• Lise Dobrin
• Ellen Contini-Morava (discourse analysis)

Socio-Cultural

• Frederick Damon (Austronesian/East Asian connections, Western societies)
• Gertrude Fraser (memory, family narratives, bereavement)
• Roy Wagner (memory, sorcery)

Ecology, Environment & Climate

Linguistic Anthropology

• Eve Danziger (language and space)

Socio-Cultural

• Frederick Damon (Melanesia & the Asias, and the modern world)
• Kath Weston (political ecology, water politics, Andaman/Nicobar disaster)

Food

Socio-Cultural

• Ravindra Khare (food, health, culture)

Globalization & Development

Socio-Cultural

• Frederick Damon
• Richard Handler
• Ravindra Khare

Hierarchy, Power & Violence

Archaeology

• Stephen Plog (social organization and hierarchy)
• Patricia Wattenmaker (Mesopotamia social dynamics)

Socio-Cultural

• Frederick Damon (regional systems, world system theory)
• Ravindra Khare (power, hierarchy, social inequalities, social justice)
• Susan McKinnon (hierarchy as precipitate of kinship, marruage, exchange, gender)
• George Mentore (power, violence)
• Kath Weston (incarceration)

Historical Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics

Linguistic Anthropology

• Eve Danziger (historical linguistics, stylistic change in language and archaeology, Mayan linguistic prehistory)

Socio-Cultural

• Frederick Damon (historical ecology)
• Ravindra Khare (history, memory, method)
• John Shepherd (demographic history of Taiwan/Middlesex County, ethnohistory of non-Han Taiwanese)

History of Anthropology & Anthropological Knowledge

Archaeology

• Stephen Plog (role of museums in history of the discipline, archives, late 19thc. archaeology)

Linguistic Anthropology

• Lise Dobrin (Mead, Fortune, creation of culture in research encounter, ethics)

Socio-Cultural

• Ira Bashkow (Schneider, Mead, Fortune, how constructed relations with local people, exchange, epistemological issues, how build in role of informants into anthropological encounters)
• Richard Handler (Anthropological theory, anthropology as cultural criticism relating to applied anthropology)
• Ravindra Khare (Dumont, McKim Marriott, Milton Singer, MN Srinivas, Mary Douglas...view and from the field, India/West)
• Susan McKinnon (history of kinship studies, Morgan, Maine, Levi-Strauss, Evans-Pritchard, evolutionary psychology)
• George Mentore
• Kath Weston (Radcliffe-Brown, Andaman/Nicobars)

Journals

Archaeology

• African Archaeology
• American Antiquity (formerly)

Socio-Cultural

• Anthropology and Humanism

Kinship, Family, Marriage, & Gender

Linguistic Anthropology

• Eve Danziger (kinship vocabulary, historical linguistics of Maya kin terms, kinship and spatial positioning of person)

Socio-Cultural

• Allison Alexy (intimacy, divorce, gender, kinship and citizenship/nation-state)
• Frederick Damon (alliance and production)
• Susan McKinnon (kinship theory as cultural artifact, marriage, exchange, hierarchy, nation and kinship, new reproductive technologies, kinship and corporations)
• John Shepherd (marriage, mortality, fertility, Chinese marriage, family, community history)
• Roy Wagner (kinship theory, matriliny)
• Kath Weston (circulation/generation in finance/kinship, kinship and sexuality)

Knowlege, Empathy, Ethnographic Writing & Ethics

Linguistic Anthropology

• Eve Danziger (intersubjectivity, mutual knowledge)
• Lise Dobrin
• Ellen Contini-Morava (footnotes)

Socio-Cultural

• Gertrude Fraser
• Ravindra Khare (hierarchy, stratification, social inequality, knowledge)
• George Mentore
• Edith Turner
• Kath Weston (proto-ethnographies)

Language, Cognition & Classification

Linguistic Anthropology

• Ellen Contini-Morava (grammar/meaning, language as classification, noun categorization)
• Eve Danziger (language and thought, spatial positioning)

Socio-Cultural

• Frederick Damon (ethnobotanical systems, knowledge systems)

Language Ideology

Linguistic Anthropology

• Eve Danziger (truth, lies, intention, sincerity, authenticity, fakery, attitudes about reality)

Legal Anthropology & Culture and (Trans)National Law

Linguistic Anthropology

• Eve Danziger (classification, literalism)

Socio-Cultural

• Allison Alexy (kinship and citizenship, transnational legal conflicts)

Medicine & Science and Technology

Linguistic Anthropology

• Eve Danziger (psychology and anthropology)
• Lise Dobrin (language documentation)

Socio-Cultural

• Frederick Damon (technology, time, culture)
• Gertrude Fraser (prostate, info, risk, numeracy)
• Susan McKinnon (science studies, new reproductive technologies, critique of evolutionary psychology)
• John Shepherd (mortality, disease, epidemiology, colonialism and public health, premodern mortality)
• Kath Weston (surveillance/transparency, Asian technoscience)

Nation (State), Citizenship & Transnationalism

Archaeology

• Jeffrey Hantman (indigenous communities and the state)

Socio-Cultural

• Allison Alexy (transnational law, kinship)
• Richard Handler
• Susan McKinnon (kinship and nation)

Political Economy: Property and Exchange & Corporations

Linguistic Anthropology

• Lise Dobrin

Socio-Cultural

• Ira Bashkow (land ownership, privatization, reform, language of exchange, corporate ownership)
• Frederick Damon (exchange and production systems, historical ecology, environment and climate)
• Susan McKinnon (kinship, marriage, property, family corporations, hierarchy and exchange)
• Peter Metcalf (regional systems, Southeast Asia)
• Kath Weston (capitalism, anthropology of finance, rethinking magic of finance)

Race, Ethnicity & Identity

Socio-Cultural

• Ira Bashkow (whiteness, non-human objects signifying race)
• Richard Handler

Religion

Archaeology

• Stephen Plog (cosmology, ritual, spatial patterns)

Linguistic Anthropology

• Eve Danziger (convention, ritual)

Socio-Cultural

• Ira Bashkow (prophetic movements)
• Frederick Damon (mortuary, election rituals)
• Peter Metcalf (mortuary and other ritual systems)
• Edith Turner
• Roy Wagner (mythology)

Symbolic Anthropology

Socio-Cultural

• Ira Bashkow
• Frederick Damon
• Ravindra Khare
• Susan McKinnon
• Peter Metcalf
• Edith Turner
• Roy Wagner