Tag: Stephan Palmié

  • Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies.

  • Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory Left Coast Press March 2007 276 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-59874-278-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59874-279-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61132-467-9 eBook Rental (180 Days) ISBN: 978-1-61132-467-9 Edited by Charles Stewart Department of Anthropology University College London Social scientists have used the term “Creolization” to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new…

  • Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the…

  • Neither Strange Nor Familiar: Contemporary Approaches to Hybridity Location: TBD Toronto, Canada 2010-10-22 through 2010-10-23 Kenote Speaker Stephan Palmié, Professor of Anthroplogy University of Chicago We are pleased and excited to announce this interdisciplinary conference. The study of identity, whether from a sociological, ethnographic, anthropological or historical perspective, has been a widely debated topic. As…