Andrew C. Willford

Professor

Publications

The Future of Bangalore's Cosmopolitan Pasts: Civility and Difference in a Global City.  (U. Hawaii Press, 2018)

Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysia’s Plantations (U. Hawaii Press, 2014)

Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries between History and Anthropology.  Andrew Willford and Eric Tagliacozzo, eds.  (Stanford University Press, 2009)

Cage of Freedom: Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia. (University of Michigan Press, 2006

Asian edition: National University of Singapore Press, 2007.)

 Spirited Politics:  Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia,  Andrew Willford and Kenneth George, eds.  (Cornell University: SEAP Publications, 2005)

 

Selected Articles and chapters

“Betrayal, Sacred Landscapes, and Stories of Justice in Malaysia,” DORISEA Working Papers, Issue 22, 2016. ISSN 2196-6893.  University of Gottingen.  

 

Book Review: “Lost Selves and Lonely Persons: Experiences of Illness and Well-Being among Tamil Refugees in Norway,”  by Anne Gronseth. Medical Anthropology Quarterly spring, 27:2, 2014.

 

“Cosmopolitan Pasts and Monocultural Futures (?) of a Deccan Metropolis”,  in Perdue, Siu, and Tagliacozzo eds., Asia Inside Out.  (Harvard University Press, 2014)

 

 “Every Indian is Burning Inside,” in The Abdulla Badawi Years: A retrospective.  Edited by Bridget Welsh.  Petaling Jaya: SIRD., 2013.

 

“The Letter of the Law and the Reckoning of Justice Among Tamils in Malaysia,” in Encountering Islam: The Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia.  Yew-Foong Hui, ed. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.

 

“The Last Plantations in Kuala Lumpur”, with S. Nagarajan.  in Subaltern Kuala Lumpur, edited by Yeoh Seng Guan.  (forthcoming, Routledge)

 

“From the margins to centre stage: ‘Indian’ demonstration effects and Malaysia’s political landscape”, Tim Bunnell, S.Nagarajan, and Andrew Willford, Urban Studies: 1-22: 2010.

 

‘“The Truest Belief is Compulsion”:  Othering and the Unconscious as an Object of Ethnographic Inquiry” (Review essay)  American Ethnologist, Vol 34 N4 (Nov. 2007)

 

“Ethnic Clashes, Squatters, and Historicity in Malaysia,”  in Rising India and Indians in East Asia, A. Mani and P. Ramasamy, eds., Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Press: Singapore (2008). 

 

 “The ‘Already Surmounted’, yet ‘Secretly Familiar’: Malaysian Identity as Symptom” Cultural Anthropology, V.21 N.1 Feb. 2006)

 

“Possession and Displacement in Kuala Lumpur’s Ethnic Landscape”  International Social Science Journal   (2003. ISSJ. N.175). 

 

 “‘Weapons of the Meek’: Ecstatic Ritualism and Strategic Ecumenism among Tamil-Hindus in Malaysia’,” Identities 9(2)  (2002)

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607/255-2686

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1998

Departments and programs

Yohko Tsuji

Adjunct Professor

Publications

work in progress   A Temple Town Jōfukuji: A Japanese Neighborhood in Transformation.

2022  "Studying Aging and Practicing It.” In Anthropology News.

2022 “Negotiating the Gap Between the ‘Ought’ and the ‘Is’: Older Americans’ Strategies.” In The Anthropology of Power, Agency, and Morality: The Enduring Legacy of F.G. Bailey. Victor C. de Munck and Elisa J. Sobo, eds. pp. 117-131. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

2020    Through Japanese Eyes: Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America. Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, New Jersey.

2020     “Changing Mortuary Practices in Japan.” In Anthropology News (electronic version). August.

2018    “Evolving Funerals in Contemporary Japan.” in A Companion to the Anthropology of Death. Antonius C.G.M. Robben, ed. pp. 17-30. Wiley Blackwell: Malden, Massachusetts. 

2016    “The Obligation to Give, Receive, and Make a Return: Comparing the Meanings of Reciprocity in America and Japan.”  in the fourth edition of Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture. Philip R. DeVita, ed. pp. 242-258. Waveland: Long Grove, Illinois.

2014    “Evolving Funerals in Japan.”  Anthropology News (electronic version). April.                     

2014    “Good Bye Rush Hour Trains, Hello Morning Walks: Changes in Morning Experience for Japanese Retirees.” lo Squaderno 32: 41-44.

2011     “Rites of Passage to Death and Afterlife in Japan.” Generations 35(3): 28-33.

2010    (editor) Social Change in Thailand: A. Thomas Kirsch, a Northeastern Village, and Two Families.  CreateSpace: Charleston, South Carolina.

2010    “A Tale of Two Thai Families: Reflections on Social Change.” in Social Change in Thailand: A. Thomas Kirsch, a Northeastern Village, and Two Families. Yohko Tsuji, ed. pp. 65-96. Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace.

2006      “Mortuary Rituals in Japan: The Hegemony of Tradition and the Motivations of Individuals.” Ethos 34(3): 391-431.

2006     “Railway Time and Rubber Time: The Paradox in the Japanese Conception of Time.” Time & Society 15(2/3): 177-195.

2005    “Time Is Not Up: Temporal Complexity of Older Americans’ Lives.” The Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 20(1): 3-26.

2004    "Raise as a Mirror of Gense: From Legally Sanctioned Ancestor Worship to Modern Mortuary Rituals in Japan.” in Practicing the Afterlife: Perspectives from Japan. Susanne Formanek and William LaFleur, eds.  pp. 417-436. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

2002    "Death Policies in Japan: The State, the Family, and the Individual." in Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Perspectives. Roger Goodman, ed. pp. 177-199. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

2001    “The Researcher and the Researched.” Anthropology Newsletter 42(5): 54.

1997     “AAA Session: ‘Rethinking Culture and the Individual’.” Anthropology Newsletter 38(2): 54. 

1997     "Encounters with the Elderly in America." in the second edition of Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture.  Philip R. DeVita and James D. Armstrong, eds. 89‑99. Belmont, California: Wadsworth. (Also appeared in the third edition, pp. 84-94, 2002.)

1997    "An Organization For the Elderly, By the Elderly: A Senior Center in the United States." in the second edition of The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives. Jay Sokolovsky, ed. pp. 350‑363.  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood.

1997    "Continuities and Changes in Conceptions of Old Age in Japan."  in Aging: Asian Concepts and Experiences Past and Present. Sepp Linhart and Susanne Formanek, eds. pp. 195‑208. Vienna:  Austrian Academy of Sciences.

 

 

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265 McGraw Hall
yt33@cornell.edu
607/255-5137

Education

Ph.D. Anthropology Cornell University 1991

Departments and programs

Paul Steven Sangren

Hu Shih Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Publications

Academic Articles

2013 The Chinese family as instituted fantasy: or, rescuing kinship imaginaries from the ‘symbolic'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19(2):279-299.

2012 Fate, Agency, and the Economy of Desire in Chinese Ritual and Society. Social Analysis 56(2):117-135.

2010 Lessons for General Social Theory in the Legacy of G. William Skinner from the Perspectives of Gregory Bateson and Terence Turner. Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 8(1):47-64.

2009 'Masculine Domination': Desire and Chinese Patriliny. Critique of Anthropology 29(3):255-278.

2007 Anthropology of Anthropology? Further Reflections on Reflexivity. Anthropology Today 23(4):13-16.

2006 Introduction to Turner Special Issue. Critique of Anthropology 26(1):5-13.

2006 ‘Fraught with Implications’, or Turner’s Back-burner. Critique of Anthropology 26(1):121-130.

2004 Psychoanalysis and Its Resistances in Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: Lessons for Anthropology. Ethos 32(1):110-122.

2001 China: Sociocultural Aspects. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. N. K. Smelser and P. B. Baltes, eds. 3:1:1733-1738. Elsevier Ltd.

Chapters

2009 Chinese Ghosts: Reconciling Psychoanalytic, Structuralist, and Marxian Perspectives. In Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions. Poo, Mu-chou, ed. Pp 299-310. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.

2005 Fate and Transcendence in the Rhetoric of Myth and Ritual. In The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture. Christopher Lupke, ed. Pp. 225-244. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

2003 Separations, Autonomy, and Recognition in the Production of Gender Differences: Reflections from Consideration of Myths and Laments. In Living with Separation in China: Anthropological Accounts. Charles Stafford, ed. Pp. 53-84. London: RoutledgeCurzon.

Books

2017 Filial Obsessions:  Chinese Patriliny and Its Discontents.  Palgrave Macmillan.

2000 Chinese Sociologics: An Anthropological Account of Alienation and Social Reproduction. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

1997 Myth, Gender, and Subjectivity. Hsin Chu Bank Endowed Lecture Series on Thought and Culture. The Program for Research of Intellectual-Cultural History, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan: R.O.C.

1987 History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

 

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Departments and programs

Links

Denise Green

Associate Professor

Publications

Green, Denise N. and Nancy E. Breen (accepted/in press) “Silk Mania in the Auburn Prison.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America.

Green, Denise N. (2020) “Sayach’apis and the Naani (Grizzly Bear) Crest.” In Aldona Jonaitis and Katherine Bunn-Marcuse (eds.) Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 259-273.

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2020) “Taking Offense: A Discussion of Fashion, Appropriation, and Cultural Insensitivity.” In Sara Marcketti and Elena Karpova (eds.) The Dangers of Fashion: Towards Ethical and Sustainable Solutions. London: Bloomsbury: 143 – 160.

Getman, Rachel, Denise N. Green, Kavita Bala, Utkarsh Mall, Nehal Rawat, Sonia Appasamy, and Bharath Hariharan (2020) “Machine Learning (ML) For Tracking Fashion Trends: Documenting the Frequency of the Baseball Cap on Social Media and the Runway.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X20931195

Reddy-Best, Kelly, Denise N. Green, and Kelsie Doty, and (2020). “Fashioned Bodies in Roller Derby League Logos: Critical Analysis of Race, Gender, Body Size and Position, and Aesthetics.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X20930086

Denham, Amanda, and Denise N. Green (2020) “Her Eyes, My Body: Negotiating Embodiment Through Maya Backstrap Weaving.” Journal of Fashion, Style, & Popular Culture, Vol. 7, No. 1, 125-141. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1386/fspc_00008_1

Green, Denise N., Jenny Leigh Du Puis, Lynda Xepoleas, Chris Hesselbein, Katherine Greder, Victoria Pietsch, Rachel Getman, and Jessica Guadalupe Estrada (2019). “Fashion Exhibitions as Scholarship: Evaluation Criteria for Peer Review.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X19888018

Green, Denise N. (2019) “An Archival Ethnography of Sapir’s “Nootka” (Nuu-chah-nulth) Texts, Correspondence, and Fieldwork through the Douglas Thomas Drawings.” Ethnohistory, Vol. 66, Issue 2, 353-384. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7299985

 

Green, Denise N. (2019) “Fashion and Fearlessness in the Wharton Studio’s Silent Film Serials, 1914 - 1918.” Framework Vol. 60, issue 1, 83-115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13110/framework.60.1.0083

Green, Denise N., Susan B. Kaiser, Kelsie Doty, and Kyra Streck (2019) “Both Sides Now: Articulating Textiles and Fashioned Bodies in the Works of Joni Mitchell, 1968 – 1976.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X19830203

Chapin, Chloe, Denise N. Green, and Samuel Neuberg (2019) “Exhibiting Gender: Exploring the Dynamic Relationships between Fashion, Gender, and Mannequins in Museum Display.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 45, Issue 1: 75-88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2018.1551282

Green, Denise N. (2018) “Producing Place and Declaring Rights Through Thliitsapilthim (Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations’ Ceremonial Curtains).” Textile: Cloth and Culture, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 72-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2018.1495349

Mamp, Michael, Ariele Elia, Sara Tatayana Bernstein, Laurie Anne Brewer, and Denise N. Green (2018). “Scholars’ Roundtable Presentation – Engaging Labor, Acknowledging Maker.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 44, Issue 2: 133-151. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2018.1507345

Green, Denise N. (2017) “The Best Known and Best Dressed Woman in America: Irene Castle and Silent Film Style.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 43, Issue 2: 77-98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2017.1352160

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2017) “Introduction: Fashion and Appropriation.” Fashion, Style and Popular Culture, Vol. 4, Issue 2: 145-150. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/fspc.4.2.145_2

Mida, Ingrid, Denise N. Green, and Abby Lillethun (2017) “Scholars’ Roundtable Presentation – Technology: Friend or Foe?” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 43, Issue 2: 119 – 138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2017.1357274

Green, Denise N. (2016) “Fashion(s) from the Northwest Coast: Nuu-chah-nulth Design Iterations.” In Miguel Angel Gardetti and Subramanian Senthikannan (eds.) Ethnic (Aboriginal) Fashion. New York: Springer Publishing: 19 – 46.

Kaiser, Susan B. and Denise N. Green (2016) “Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Fashion Studies: Philosophical Underpinning and Multiple Masculinities.” In Heike Jenss (ed.) Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practices. London: Bloomsbury: 160 – 180. 

Green, Denise N. (2016) “Genealogies of Knowledge in the Alberni Valley: Reflecting on ethnographic practice in the archive of Dr. Susan Golla.” In Regna Darnell and Frederic Gleach (eds.) Histories of Anthropology Annual: Local Knowledge, Global Stage. Vol. X: 273 – 301.

Green, Denise N. (2016) Cornell’s Sesquicentennial: An Exhibition of Campus Style. Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style, Vol. 5, Issue 1: 43 – 62.     

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2016) “Men, Masculinity, and Style in 2008: A Study of Men’s Clothing Considerations in the Latter Aughts.” Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, Vol. 3, Issue 2: 125 – 140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/csmf.3.2.125_1

Satinsky, Emily and Denise N. Green (2016) “Negotiating Identities in the Furry Fandom Through Costuming.” Joint special issue of Fashion, Style and Popular Culture and Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion Vol. 3, Issue 2: 107 – 124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/csmf.3.2.107_1

Green, Denise N. (2014) “A Pair of Hinkiits’am (Serpent Headdresses).” Otsego Institute 2010 Alumni Review. http://www.otsegoinstitute.org/denise-nicole-green.html

Green, Denise N., Van Dyk Lewis, and Charlotte Jirousek (2013) “Fashion Cultures in a Small Town: An Analysis of Fashion- and Place-Making.” Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Vol. 4, Issue 1: 71 - 106.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/csfb.4.1-2.71_1

Green, Denise N. (2011) “Mamuu—La Pratique du Tissage / Mamuu—The Practice of Weaving.”  Cahiers métiers d'art / Craft Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 1: 37 - 59. (Published in French and English, print only.)

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2011) “From Ephemeral to Everyday Costuming: Negotiations in Masculine Identities at the Burning Man Project.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 37, Issue 1: 1 – 22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/036121112X13099651318548

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Education

  • B.S. (honors) in Apparel Design, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
  • M.S. in Textiles, University of California--Davis
  • Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of British Columbia

 

 

Departments and programs

Keywords

fashion, textiles, First Nations, Native American, American Indian studies, space and place, yoga, Bikram yoga, design, Nuu-chah-nulth, ethnography, visual anthropology, anthropology, ethnographic film, documentary film, hatha yoga, Burning Man

Magnus Fiskesjö

Associate Professor

Publications

Books

Interview podcast, on “Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture.” New Books Network / Southeast Asian Studies. Hosted by Nick Cheesman. Recorded Dec. 3, 2022, publ. Jan. 1. 2023: https://newbooksnetwork.com/stories-from-an-ancient-land


•    China Before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang, and the Discovery of China’s Prehistory.  Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 2004.

•    The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo.  Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.

Book Chapters

  • "State Strategies to Implement (and Hide) Genocide in China and Myanmar, Since 2017.” Invited contribution, to Handbook of Genocide Studies, edited by David J. Simon and Leora Kahn. Cheltenham, Glos [England]: Edwar Elgar Publishing, 2023, pp. 123-41. 
  • "Identities and Polities in the Maelstrom of World-System Cycles: The Wa of the Burma-China borderlands." Chapter 25, in Routledge Handbook of the Modern Anthropology of Highland Asia, ed. Michael Heneise and Jelle JP Wouters. London: Routledge, 2022, 339-350. 
  • "Agamben and the Chinese Forced-Confession Ritual." Chapter 2, in Philosophy on Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis, ed.  Nils Bubandt and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer. London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 27-47. 
  • "Le Xinjiang chinois, "nouvelle frontière" de l'épuration nationale" [China's Xinjiang: The 'New Frontier' of National Purification]. In: Anne Cheng, ed. Penser en Chine. Paris: Gallimard, 2021, pp. 391-433. Collection Folio essais (n° 669). ISBN: 9782072870927. In French. http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Folio/Folio-essais/Penser-en-Chine

  • "Who's Afraid of Confucius? Fear of Encompassment in the Global Debates over the Confucius Institutes." Chapter 9, in Franck Billé and Sören Urbansky, eds., Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2018, 221-245. Open access (2022): 

    https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/81591;                                  http://hdl.handle.net/10125/81591

•    China's Animal Neighbors. The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China's Borders. Eds. Martin Saxer and Zhang Juan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2017. 


•    Chinese Autochthony and the Eurasian Context: Archaeology, Mythmaking and Johan Gunnar Andersson's 'Western Origins.' Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: Rethinking Temporality and Community in Eurasian Archaeology. Eds. Kathryn O. Weber, et al. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016, 303-320. (Proceedings from the Fourth Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, 2012).


•    Art and Science as competing values in the formation of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. Collectors, Collections, and Collecting the Arts of China: Histories and Challenges. Ed. Lai, Guolong.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014, 67-98.


•    Gifts and debts: The morality of fieldwork in the Wa lands on the China-Burma frontier.  Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia. Ed. Turner, Sarah.  Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013, 61-79.


•    Science across borders: Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang. In Denise M. Glover, Stevan Harrell, Charles McKhann, and Margaret Swain, eds. Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011, 240-66. ISBN: 9780295991177


•    Giorgio Agamben och den kommande gemenskapen [Giorgio Agamben and the coming community]. Sociologik: Tio essäer om socialitet och tänkande [Sociologics. Ten essays on sociality and thought]. Eds. Christian Abrahamsson et al. Stockholm: Santérus, 2011, 53-87. In Swedish


•    The Politics of Cultural Heritage.  Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism. 225-245. 2010


•    The Autonomy of Naming: Kinship, Power and Ethnonymy in the Wa lands of the Southeast Asia-China Frontiers.  Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity. Singapore: University of Singapore Press. 150-174. 2009 

 

Webcast events/lectures/interviews, selection:

•    "Heritage and Ancestors: The Politics of Chinese Museums and Historical Memory." Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture/Center for Chinese Studies, University of California-Berkeley, November 6, 2015.

 

Academic Articles, and more:

•    "Cultural genocide is the new genocide." Pen/Opp, May 5, 2020.

•    "Bury Me With My Comrades: Memorializing Mao's Sent-Down Youth." Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Volume 16, Issue 14, Number 4 (July 15, 2018).

• "Confessions Made in China." Made in China 3.1 (January-March 2018), p. 18-22; 108-109 (list of references).https://madeinchinajournal.com/2018/05/17/confessions-made-in-china/

•    The Return of the Show Trial: China’s Televised “Confessions.”  Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Volume 15, Issue 13, Number 1. (June 25, 2017). 

•    “The Legacy of the Chinese Empires: Beyond ‘the West and the Rest.’” Education About Asia 22.1 (Spring 2017), 6-10. Special issue on “Contemporary Postcolonial Asia.”

•    “People First: The Wa World of Spirits and Other Enemies.” Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology. Published online: 19 Apr 2017.

•    Self and Subjectivity in a World of Diasporas: Nicholas Tapp's Anthropology of Hmong Identities. Journal of Social Science (Chiang Mai University, Thailand), (Special issue: "Ethnicity and Mobility: Nicholas Tapp's Anthropology," ed. Aranya Siriphon). 28 (2017), 125-148.

•    "Foreword." In Samak Kosem, ed. Border Twists and Burma Trajectories: Perceptions, Reforms, and Adaptations. Chiang Mai: Center for ASEAN Studies, Chiang Mai University, 2016, pp. iii-v.

•    "Lyxkonsumtion och utrotningskrig" [Luxury consumption and wars of extinction]. Kina-Rapport (Göteborg: Svensk-Kinesiska Föreningen) no. 4 (2015), 32-35. (In Swedish; on the Chinese smuggling and trade in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn from Africa)

•    Terra-cotta Conquest: The First Emperor's Clay Army's Blockbuster Tour of the World.  Verge: Studies in Global Asias.  1 (2015): 162-183.

•    "Universal Museums." Article for "World Heritage" section, ed. Helaine Silverman, in _Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology_. Claire Smith, general editor. New York: Springer, 2014, pp. 7494-7500.

•    "Oscar Montelius and Chinese archaeology." Co-authored with Chen Xingcan. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology [Melbourne, Australia] 24:10 (2014).

•    Wa Grotesque: Headhunting Theme Parks and the Chinese Nostalgia for Primitive Contemporaries .  Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 79 (2014): 497-523.

•    Introduction to Wa Studies.  Journal of Burma Studies 17 (2013): 1 -27.

•    Outlaws, Barbarians, Slaves: Critical Reflections on Agamben's homo sacer.  Journal of Ethnographic Theory.  2 (2012): 161-180.

•    Slavery as the Commodification of People: Wa "Slaves" and Their Chinese "Sisters".  Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.  59 (2011): 3-18.

•    The Reluctant Sovereign: New Adventures of the US Presidential Thanksgiving Turkey.  Anthropology Today.  26 (2010): 13-17.

•    Mining, History, and the Anti-State Wa: The Politics of Autonomy Between Burma and China.  Journal of Global History 5 (2010): 241-264.

•    Participant Intoxication and Self–Other Dynamics in the Wa Context.  The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 11 (2010):111-127.

•    Collections of Chinese Antiquities Outside China: Problems and Hopes.  Public Archaeology 5 (2006): 111-126.

•    Rescuing the Empire: Chinese Nation-Building in the Twentieth Century.  European Journal of East Asian Studies 5 (2006): 15-44.

•    A Foreign Bird in a Golden Cage: Sweden's Asia Collections.  Res Publica 65 (2005): 68-80.In Swedish

•    Lost Civilizations, Lost Choices.  Dushu No. 4 (2003), 72-75. In Chinese

•    The Barbarian Borderland and the Chinese Imagination -- Travellers in Wa Country.  Inner Asia .  4.1 (2002): 81-99.

•    Rising From Blood-Stained Fields: Royal Hunting and State Formation in Shang China. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.  72 (2001): 48-192.

 

Recent reviews:

  • Review of Bertil Lintner, The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest for Global Dominance (Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books: 2021), Journal of Asian Studies 82.4, 759-61. 
  • Review of two books:  by Darren Byler, In the Camps: Life in China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021), and by Gulbahar Haitiwaji, How I Survived a Chinese "Re-education" Camp: A Uyghur Woman's Story (New York and Oakland: Seven Stories Press, 2022). Journal of Asian Studies 82.4, 663-665. 
  • Review of Gregory Forth, Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid (New York: Pegasus,2020; 336 pp. ISBN 978-163-936-143-4). Kvartal, 1 dec. 2022. https://kvartal.se/artiklar/har-paabo-fel-ar-vi-inte-ensamma-kvar/ [In Swedish]. 
  • Review of Justin M. Jacobs, The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020; vii, 348 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-71201-7). American Historical Review 127.3 (Sept. 2022), 1496–1497. Published: 29 November 2022. 
  • Review of John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2021). Kvartal, 11 augusti 2022. https://kvartal.se/artiklar/antirasismen-som-infantiliserar-svarta/  [In Swedish]. 
  • Review of Enze Han, Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019; 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-006078-7). South East Asia Research [Great Britain], Online, 24 Feb 2021. 
  • Review of Jonathan Friedman, PC Worlds: Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony (New York: Berghahn, 2019). Kvartal, 8 sept. 2020. https://kvartal.se/artiklar/politiskt-korrekt-ar-ett-maktmedel/

•    Review of Haiming Yan, World Heritage Craze in China: Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78533-804-5). Asian Perspectives 58.2 (2019), 401-404.

•    Review article: "Ancient China reconsidered." Review of Katheryn M. Linduff, Yan Sun, Wei Cao, & Yuanqing Liu, Ancient China and its Eurasian neighbors: Artifacts, Identity, and Death in the Frontier, 3000-700 BCE (Cambridge University Press, 2018); Roderick Campbell, Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State: The Shang and Their World (Cambridge, 2018); and Xiaolong Wu, Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China (Cambridge, 2017). Antiquity, Volume 92, Issue 366 (Dec. 2018), pp. 1671-1673.

•    Review of Alice Yao, The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China: From Bronze Age to the Han Empire (Oxford 2016); & Erica Brindley, Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE-50 CE (Cambridge 2015), for the Zhejiang University Journal of Art and Archaeology (Hangzhou, China), Vol. 3 (2018), 260-272.

•    Review of Pál Nyíri and Danielle Tan, eds., Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, Ideas from China are Changing a Region (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2017). ISBN: 9780295999302; 9780295999296. China Quarterly 234 (2018), 577-578.

•    Review of Craig Clunas, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017). The Art Newspaper, 295 (Nov. 2017), p. 22.

•    Review of Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces (Stanford 2015). American Anthropologist 118.3 (2016), 685-686.

•    Review of Tamara T. Chin, Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination (Cambridge, 2014). Journal of Asian Studies 75.3 (2016), 806-807.

•    Review of Sarah Turner, Christine Bonnin, and Jean Michaud, Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22.3 (2016), 750-751.

•    Review of David Faure and Ho Ts'ui-p'ing, eds. Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China (Vancouver 2013). Asian Highlands Perspectives 40 (2016), 479-488.

•    Review essay: "The Museum Boom in China and the State efforts to Control History" (on Marzia Varutti, Museums in China: The Politics of Representation after Mao [Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, 2014]; Kirk Denton, Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory & the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China [Honolulu, 2014]; Amy Jane Barnes, Museum Representations of Maoist China: From Cultural Revolution to Commie Kitsch [Surrey, UK, 2014]. Museum Anthropology Review 9.2 (2015), 96-105.

•    "Hail to the King!" Review of two books by David N. Keightley: Working for His Majesty: Research Notes on Labor Mobilization in Late Shang China (ca.1200-1045 B.C.), as Seen in the Oracle-Bone Inscriptions, with Particular Attention to Handicraft Industries, Agriculture, Warfare, Hunting, Construction, and the Shang's Legacies (Berkeley: University of California-Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2012); and The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Community in Late Shang China, ca. 1200-1045 B.C. (Berkeley: University of California-Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2000). Early China 37.1 (2014), 567-573. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eac.2014.18

•    Review of Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China. By Grace Yen SHEN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Journal of Asian Studies 73.4 (2014), 1120-1122. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911814001259

•    Review of Mandy Sadan, Being and Becoming Kachin: Histories Beyond the State in the Borderworlds of Burma. (Oxford & London: Oxford University Press & the British Academy, 2013; with an accompanying website, "Research Notes: Fieldwork Notes, Photographs and Translations" ). Thailand-Laos-Cambodia [TLC] network/New Mandala Review LXX.  In: New Mandala: New Perspectives on Southeast Asia, May 16, 2014.

•    Review of Michael Oppitz et al, eds. Naga Identities: Changing Local Cultures in the Northeast of India (Gent: Snoeck Publishers, 2008). Asian Highlands Perspectives 28 (2013): 299-304.

•    Review of Gunnar Skirbekk, Multiple Modernities: A Tale of Scandinavian Experiences (Hong Kong: Chinese Univ. Press, 2011). Journal of World History 24.3 (2013), 707-10.

•    Review of Berma Klein Goldewijk et al, eds. Cultural Emergency in Conflict and Disaster (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2011). Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (2012; iFirst article, pp. 1–3.

•    Review of Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). Journal of World History 23.3 (2012), 676-80.  

 

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Education

Lund University, Sweden, BA equivalent 1986 (undergraduate studies also at the University of Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen University, Denmark; and Fudan university, Shanghai, China).

Koobi Fora Field School in African Archaeology & Paleoanthropology, 1992.

University of Chicago, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, MA, 1994.

University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology, and Dept. of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, joint PhD degree, 2000.

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Jane Fajans

Professor Emerita

Publications

  • academic article
  • book
  • chapter
    • Food and ghosts: Dance in the context of baining life.  In Pulling the Right Thread: Essays in Honor of Jane Goodale. Ed. Zimmer, Laura.  : University of Illinois, Urbana. 2008
    • The Person in Social Context.  Ed. White, Geoffrey M. .  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.1985
  • conference paper
    • A Tale of Two Moquecas.  University of Brasilia. 2007
    • Açaí: From the Amazon to the World.  University of Panará. 2007
  • edited book
    • Exchanging Products: Producing Exchange.  Sydney: University of Sydney. 1993
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