Category: Anthropology

  • Best-selling author Lisa Alther chronicles her search for missing branches of her family tree in this dazzling, hilarious memoir.

  • Puerto Rico: Afro-Caribbean and Taíno Identity Repeating Islands: News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts 2011-06-26 Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York Note from Steven F. Riley:  [The number of 2010 census repondents from Puerto Rico identifiying as two or more races…

  • Where Is the Carnivalesque in Rio’s Carnaval? Samba, Mulatas and Modernity Visual Anthropology Volume 21, Issue 2 (2008) pages 95-111 DOI: 10.1080/08949460701688775 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada This article chronicles the historical normalization of carnaval parades and samba performances in Rio de Janeiro, by looking at the progressive…

  • Hybridity Brazilian Style: Samba, Carnaval, and the Myth of “Racial Democracy” in Rio de Janeiro Identities Volume 15, Issue 1 (2008) pages 80-102 DOI: 10.1080/10702890701801841 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Through ethnographic and historical inquiry, this article inspects the usefulness of the concept of hybridity for an analysis…

  • The Blackfoot Tribe of the Midsouth American Society of Ethnohistory Conference “Blackfoot, Redbones, Brass Ankles and Pied Noir: Colorful Identities, Creative Strategies American Society of Ethnohistory conference” Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005-11-18 through 2005-11-20 2005-11-19 Carol A. Morrow, Professor of Anthropology Southeast Missouri State University Over the years, I have had a number of African-American…

  • Public Ceremonies and Mulatto Identity in Viceregal Lima: A Colonial Reenactment of the Fall of Troy (1631) Colonial Latin American Review Volume 16, Issue 2 (2007) pages 179-201 DOI: 10.1080/10609160701644490 José R. Jouve-Martín, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada Colonial Spanish America was a highly ritualized society. From single events to…

  • Cultural Representation in Native America AltaMira Press August 2006 192 pages Cloth 0-7591-0984-2 / 978-0-7591-0984-1 Paper 0-7591-0985-0 / 978-0-7591-0985-8 Edited by: Andrew J. Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies San Francisco State University Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape…

  • Hybridity Theory and Kinship Thinking Cultural Studies Volume 19, Issue 5 (2005) pages 602-621 DOI: 10.1080/09502380500365507 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester A parallel is posited between the ways hybridity and kinship are thought about in Western contexts, challenging the idea that kinship and biology tend to lead to narrow, roots-oriented, essentialized…

  • A Health Survey of the Seminole Indians Yale Journal Biology and Medicine Volume 6, Number 2 (December 1933) pages 155–177 H. Hamlin Among the numerous tribes of Indians living in Oklahoma the Seminoles offer some interesting phenomena for study which may contribute information on the subject of race mixture and its relationship to environment and…

  • The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries Eugenics Review Volume 32, Number 4 (January 1941) pages 114-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge In a recently published and noteworthy symposium entitled “Race Relations and the Race Problem,” eleven prominent American writers reviewed the sociological implications…