Anthropology and the Politics of Representation

List of Contributors

Contributors Steffan Igor Ayora-­Diaz (PhD, 1993, McGill University) is a professor of anthropology at the Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico. His research has focused on local people’s embodied, naturalized knowledge and its relation to everyday practices. He has done research among sheep and goat herders in Highland Sardinia, Italy;among local healers in Chiapas, Mexico; and among restaurant managers and food lovers in Yucatan, Mexico, where he has been studying regional gastronomy and food-­ related practices since 2001. He has published on Sardinian cultural and sociopo­ liti­ cal practices, on the politics of recognition and representation of local healers in Chiapas,and on the politics of representation in Yucatecan cuisine. Beth A. Conklin(PhD, 1989, University of California at San Francisco and Berke­ ley) is a professor of anthropology and the director of Graduate Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist specializing in the ethnology of indigenous peoples of lowland South America (Amazonia).Her research focuses on the anthropology of the body, religion and ritual,cannibalism,death and mourning,disease and healing,and indigenous identity politics. She teaches courses on cultural anthropology, medical anthropology,shamanism,international development,South Ameri­ can Indians, and the anthropology of contemporary issues. LesW.Field(PhD,1987,Duke University) is a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He has done fieldwork among native peoples in California,Nicaragua,Colombia,and Ecuador.His research interests include indigenous identities and ideologies, narrative and memory, nationalist ideologies and the state, local resources and development, and social transformations. Katie Glaskin(PhD,2002,Australian National University) is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Univer- 298 / Contributors sity of West­ ern Australia. Her work has focused on native title and property relations,tradition and innovation,cosmology,ontology,dreams,and marine tenure among Australian indigenous people. Frederic W. Gleach(PhD, 1992, University of Chicago) is a senior lecturer and the curator of the anthropology collections at Cornell University. A his­ tori­ cal anthropologist and archaeologist,his research revolves around issues of identity and representation and focuses primarily on the Indians of Virginia, on popu­ lar culture in Puerto Rico, and on material and visual culture .He also studies the history of anthropology,particularly the Ameri­canist tradition. Tracey Heatherington(PhD, 2000, Harvard University) is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She has done fieldwork in Italy and Romania. Her research interests include science , culture and the environment, environmentalism and the nation-­ state, eco-­ development, resistance, cultural racism, biodiversity conservation, and the process of Europeanization. June C. Nash(PhD, 1960, University of Chicago) is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research has focused on many themes, in­ clud­ ing modernization, globalization ,work,women and feminism,indigenous rebellions,and violence and social movements, mainly in Bolivia and Mexico. Bernard C. Perley(PhD, 2002, Harvard University) is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His research interests include language ideology, language endangerment, and language revitalization through linguistics,visual anthropology,and practices of intermediality.Through graphic ethnography, he is exploring Ameri­ can Indian studies’ perspectives around the repatriation of tangible and intangible properties, aborigi­ nality, and ethnocosmogenesis. Vilma Santiago-­Irizarry (PhD, 1993, New York University) is an associate professor in anthropology at Cornell University. Her research has examined the issues and paradoxes generated in the production and deployment of ethnic constructs, especially in institutional settings, which are then applied toward the maintenance and reproduction of existing structures of inequality . She has engaged in extensive field research in schools, penal institutions , and community-­ based or­ ga­ ni­ za­ tions in New York City;she has also done ethnohis­ tori­ cal research on the Spanish-­ speaking Caribbean,especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Timothy J. Smith(PhD, 2004, State University of New York–Albany) is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. His research covers the anthropology of politics, ethnicity, Contributors / 299 democracy, and social movements in Latin America, specifically, Guatemala and Mexico.In addition to holding visiting appointments in anthropology at Harvard University, Columbia University, and Prince­ ton University, he has taught social anthropology, humanities, Latin Ameri­ can studies, and linguistics at the University of South Florida,the University of Illinois at Urbana–­ Champaign, and the University at Albany, SUNY. Sergey Sokolovskiy(PhD,1986,Institute of Ethnography of the...