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APPENDIX D: CURRICULUM VITAE (BRADD SHORE)

Bradd Shore

Curriculum Vitae

October 11, 1999

 

PERMANENT ADDRESS:

Department Anthropology

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia 30322

(404) 727-4200

 

BORN: June 14, 1945

CITIZENSHIP: U.S.A.

MARITAL STATUS: Married (Linda). 2 Children (Emily 19, Robert 16)


EDUCATION

1967 B.A. (English Literature, Summa Cum Laud). University of California, Berkeley.

1971 M.A. (Anthropology). Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago.

1977 Ph.D. (Anthropology). Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago.

 

THESES, DISSERTATIONS, ADVISORS

B.A. Honors Thesis (Berkeley). The Winters Tale: Shake-speare's Pastoral Care. John Anson, Advisor. 1967.

M.A. Thesis (Chicago). Adoption, Alliance and Political Mobility in Samoa. David M. Schneider, Advisor. 1971.

Ph.D. Dissertation (Chicago). A Samoan Theory of Action: Social Control and Social Order in a Poly-nesian Paradox. Raymond Fogelson, Marshall D. Sahlins, David M. Schneider, Advisors. 1977.

MAJOR AREAS OF INTEREST IN ANTHROPOLOGY

Cultural Anthropology; Cognitive Anthropology; Culture Theory; Myth, Ritual, Religion; Language and Culture; Kinship and Social Organization; Primitive Religion; Symbolic Processes; Samoa; Polynesia; Austral-ian Aborigines, Anthropology and Literature; Psychological Anthropology; Culture and Technology; American Popular Culture

AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS

1963-4 Full Scholarship, Union College

1965-6 Alfred J. Sloan Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley

1966 Election to Senior Honor Society, University of California, Berkeley

1967 Election to Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley

1970-1 Awarded Unendowed University Fellowship, University of Chicago, Department of An-thropology

1971-4 National Science Foundation Fellowship for Graduate Study

1972-4 National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant

1976 Grant for Research on Aging in Western Samoa, Center for Field Research 1981 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for publication subsidy for book

1981 National Science Foundation Grant to support publication of book

1981 Mellon Foundation Faculty Development Grant (Sarah Lawrence College) to support reading project on relations between child-play and ritual

1987 Winner of the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, Emory University.

1988-9 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto.

1991 First Prize for feature article awarded by the Association of Publications for "Loading the Bases" The Sciences, April 1990.

1993 Nominated to be Editor-in-Chief of the American Anthropologist (declined nomination)

1997 President-Elect, Society for Psychological Anthropology

1997-8 Heinz Werner Lecturer, Heinz Werner Lectures, Clark University, Worcester, MA

1998-2003 Emory College Distinguished Teaching Chair in the Sciences and Social Sciences

1999 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Officer Grant, Ritual in Middle Class Family Life, $30,000


LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES

Samoan (Reading, good; speaking, excellent)

French (Reading, good; speaking, good)

German (Reading and speaking, fair)


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1998-2002 Emory College Distinguished Teaching Chair

1994-7 Chair, Anthropology Department, Emory University

1991- Professor, Anthropology Department, Emory University

1988-9 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

1982-91 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory Uni-versity.

1979-80 Faculty, Center for Continuing Education, Sarah Lawrence College.

1977-82 Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y.

1975-77 Lecturer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Anthropol-ogy Board of Studies, Univer-sity of California, Santa Cruz.

1975-77 Pacific Specialist, Center for South Pacific Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editorial Board, Ethos

Editorial Board, Pacific Studies

Fellow, American Anthropological Association

Fellow, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania

Fellow, Society for Psychological Anthropology

Executive Board, Society for Psychological Anthropology

Program Chair, American Anthropological Meetings (1992), SPA

Selection Committee, Staley Prize (School for American Research)

Board of Directors, Society for Psychological Anthropology (1997-)

President-Elect, Society for Psychological Anthropology

Program Committee, AAA Meetings (SPA)

 

Manuscript Reviewer for:

Ethos, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Pacific Studies, Culture and Medicine, Cultural Anthropology, Man, American Ethnologist, Current Anthropology.University of California Press, Princeton University Press, Columbia University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press

Grant Application Reviewer for:

National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Emory University Research Committee, Harry Guggenheim Foundation.

Panelist: NEH Media Grants, International Panel


INVITED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, ETC.

1999-2000

2000 Colloquium Speaker, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, TBA.

2000 Colloquium Speaker, Department of Anthropology, University of California at San Di-ego, Feb. 14.

1999 Colloquium Speaker, Cognitive Science Program, SUNY, Buffalo, Nov. 17.

1999 Workshop Speaker, Sloan Center on Working Families, University of California at Ber-keley, Oct. 4.

1999 Colloquium, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, Oct. 4

1999 Paper delivered in Panel "Dilemmas of Fieldwork," Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Albuquerque, Sept. 20,

1999 Invited Address, A Cognitive Anthropology, British Association for the Advancement of Science. "Culture and Human Nature: The Natural History of a False Dichotomy"

1998-9

1999 Lecturer: International Summer Institute, University of Oslo. Cognitive Anthropology

1999 Invited Lecturer, Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, CA., March, 1999.

1998 Participant: Working Group on Cultural Pluralism, Russel Sage Foundation, Nov. 6, Palo Alto.

1998 Invited Speaker, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, June 19.

1998 Invited Discussant, Postfield Graduate Seminar, Institute of Social Anthropology, Uni-versity of Oslo, June 18-19.

1998 Invited lecture, Dallas Alumni Association, Emory University, Distinguished Speaker Se-ries, Amarginal Play May 28.

1998 Invited lecture, Houston Alumni Association, Emory University, Distinguished Speaker Series, AMarginal Play May 27.

1998 Convocation Speaker, The Benjamin Franklin Academy, Atlanta, GA, May 19

1998 Participant: Working Group on Cultural Pluralism, Russel Sage Foundation, New York, April 16.

1998 Invited Speaker: William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute, April 24,

1998 Participant and Speaker. Symposium on Social Remembering: Biology, Psychology, History and Culture. Key West, FL. April 17-19.

1998 Invited Lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, April 3

1998 Invited Lecture, Program in Culture and Cognition, University of Michigan, April 4

1998 Invited Lecture: ACulture as Models Anthropology Department, Boston University, March 27.

1998 Heinz Werner Lecturer, Clark University, Worcester, MA. AWhat Culture Means, How Culture Means (2 lectures), March 25.

1998 Roundtable Discussion: Culture and Cognition, with Edwin Hutchins, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, February 21.

1998 Invited Speaker: Organized Session Models in Science. Annual Meetings of the Ameri-can Association for the Advancement of Science. Philadelphia, February 16.

1998 Invited Keynote Lecturer, Symposium ABeyond Greece and Rome: Myth in the Modern World, Maryville College, Maryville, TN., Feb. 3.

1997 Discussant: Organized Session Ritual as Learning. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 20.

1997 Invited Lecture: Sarah Lawrence College. ABuried Metaphor in King Lear, November 4.

1997 Plenary Session Speaker, Biennial Meetings of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, October 8-12. Psychological Anthropology: State of the Art: ACulture as Models: Radi-cal Implications for Thinking About Thinking.

1997 Panelist, Session on Mind and Body: Crossing the Divide. Biennial Meetings of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, October 8-12. AReturn of the Repressed: Anthropol-ogy=s Rediscovery of the Body as Hidden Essentialism.

1996-7

1997 Working Session on Cognitive Implications of Metaphor Theory, Annual Meetings of the International Society of Cognitive Linguistics, Amsterdam, July.

1997 Panelist: Symposium on Rethinking Anthropology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, May.

1997 Speaker, Department Colloquium, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, January.

1996 Invited Speaker, Session on Unni Wikan=s Critique of Multiculturalism, Annual Meet-ings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Nov.

1996 Keynote Speaker, ACulture in Mind, Meetings of the Scandinavian Society for Media Studies, Oslo, Norway, Oct.

1996 Invited Lecture, AKwakiutl Totemism: A Re-analysis Department. Of Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, Sept.

1996 Colloquium Speaker, ACulture in Mind, Department of Anthropology, Emory Univer-sity, Atlanta, GA, Sept.

1995-6

1996 Talk ALoading the Bases, Baseball and the American Mind, Emory Alumni Association, South Florida Chapter, Ft. Lauderdale, June.

1996 Participant and Presenter, SSRC Conference on AMaking Up the Mind: Culture, Biology and Psychology, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, May.

1996 Talk ALoading the Bases, Baseball and the American Mind, Emory Alumni Association, San Diego Chapter, San Diego, April.

1995 First Opponent, Doctoral Defense, Department of Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway, December.

1994-5

1995 Lecture: Samoan Spatial Models: The Problem of Alternative Cultural Models University of Bergen, Norway. May.

1995 Lecture: AKwakiutl Animal Symbolism: Food For Thought Department of Anthropol-ogy,, University of Oslo Norway. May.

1995 Lecture: ASamoan Phonological Registers. Department of Linguistics, University of Oslo, Norway. May.

1995 Lecture, AA Bio-cultural Framework for Studying Emotion Joint Meeting of the Depart-ments of Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology, Stanford University. April 30.

1995 Lecture: AAmbivalence and Cultural Models in Samoa Symposium on Cultural Models and Ambivalence, Department of Anthropology, Emory University. March.

1995 Lecture: AModularity as an American Foundational Schema Department of Psychology, Emory University, November.

1995 Lecture ARitual Baseball The Board of Visitors, Emory University, April 15.

1994 Discussant: Panel on Embodiment and Self. Annual Meetings of the American Anthro-pological Association, Atlanta. November.

1994 AA Biocultural Framework for Studying Emotion Panel on Emotion: Biology and Cul-ture. American Anthropological Association Meetings, Atlanta. November.

1994 Discussant. Panel on Culture, History, Landscape. Annual Meetings: Social Science and History. Atlanta.

1993-4

1994 Invited Lecture Department of Anthropology. Bryn Mawr College, April 8. AOh Thou Most Virtual Fruit: Technototemism and the Problem of APrimitive Classification

1993 Keynote Speaker, Seminar of the International Committee for the Sociology of Sport, Schloss Wilheminenberg, Vienna, Austria, June 30-July 5. AMarginal Play: Sport at the Borderlands of Time and Space

1993 Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the Shakespeare Society of America. Seminar: ARite and Ceremony in Shakespeare. AHamlet=s Undiscovered Country. April 3, 1993.

1993 Presenter, Emory-Mellon Bio-cultural Symposium: "Emotion: Cultural, Biological and Psychological Perspectives." Callaway Gardens Conference Center, February 1993. "Rethinking Systems Theory in Relation to the Emotions."

1993 Organizer, Emory-Mellon Bio-cultural Symposium: "Emotion: Cultural, Biological and Psychological Perspectives." Callaway Gardens Conference Center, February 1993.

1992-3

1992 Presenter, Invited Session, "Where is Culture Found: A Reconsideration of the Public-Private Divide in Culture Theory." AAA Meetings, San Francisco, "Samoan Village Or-ganization: Implications of Alternative Cultural Models of Space." December 1992.

1992 Session Co-Organizer (with Claudia Strauss). "Where is Culture Found: A Reconsidera-tion of the Public-Private Divide in Culture Theory." AAA Meetings, San Francisco, December 1992.

1992 Program Organizer, AAA Meetings (San Francisco), Society for Psychological Anthro-pology (December 1992)

1992 Special Guest Speaker, Western Samoan Embassy, Washington D.C., Thirtieth Anniver-sary Celebration of Samoan Independence. "Samoan Tattooing in a Polynesian Perspec-tive." June, 1992.

1991-2

1992 Invited Speaker, Speaker Series, Cognitive Science Program, Georgia Tech. "Samoan Dual Organization: Alternative Cognitive Models of Space," April 1992.

1991 Invited Speaker, Symposium on Changing Perspectives on Leadership in the Pacific, A Symposium in Honor of Sir Raymond Firth, London School of Economics, London. "The Absurd Side of Power in Samoa," December 1991

1991 Guest Lecturer, MS Nieuw Amsterdam (Holland-America Line) Grand Circle Polynesian Cruise Sept. 1991.

1991 Invited Lecture, Department of Anthropology, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand, "Trop(e)ic Landscapes: Samoan Village Models" Sept. 1991.

1991 Convocation Speaker, Emory University Opening Convocation, "Dreamtime Learning," Sept. 1991.

1990-1

1991 Guest Lecturer, MS Sagafjord, World Cruise, January, 1991

1991 Participant Symposium Honoring Sir Raymond Firth, ASAO Meetings, Vancouver, BC. "The Polynesian Conception of Person."

1991 Symposium Speaker, Visions of Conquest Symposium, Clark Library, U.C.L.A., "Trop(e)ic Landscapes" January, 1991

1990 Speaker, Anthropology department Lecture Series, Emory University. "The American Past Time: Ritual Baseball"

1988-9

1989 "Meaning Construction and Cultural Cognition" Invited Lecture, Annual Meetings of the Society for Psycholo-gi-cal Anthropology, San Diego. November, 1989.

1989 "Meaning Construction and Cultural Cognition." Anthro-po-logy Club, Emory University.

1989 "Interpretation Under Fire" Symposium on Rethinking Interpretation, Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association.

1989 Workshop Leader, Session in Interpre-tation. Annual Meetings, Society for Cultural An-thropology.

1989 "Past Time: Ritual Baseball" Lecture Series, Center for Advanced Study in the Behav-ioral Sciences.

1989 Invited Speaker, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl. "Dual Organization, Doubly, Reflections on Culture and Coding"

1988- Anthropologist for B.B.C. Film Project, Flaherty Was Here.

1988 Presented Paper at Symposium on Rethinking Interpretation; "Interpretation Under Fire." American Anthropological Meetings, Phoenix.

1987-8

1988 Invited Speaker, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. Paper presented "Dual Organization, Doubly: Reflections on Culture and Coding"

1988 Invited Speaker, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University. Paper pre-sented "Dual Organization, Doubly: Reflections on Culture and Coding"

1987 Invited panelist for a panel on "Rethinking Polynesian Eth-nology" Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological As-sociation, December 1987, Chicago, Illinois.

1986-7

1987 Presented paper "Mana and Tapu Reconsidered" for invited Symposium on Polynesian Ethnology, Annual Meetings of the Ameri-can Anthropological Association, Chicago.

1987 Discussant for Plenary Session, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, An-nual Meetings, Louisville.

1986 Invited Speaker, Department of Anthropology Lecture Series, Georgia State University, "The Mead-Freeman Controversy in Per-spective"

1985-6

1986 Presented paper "Is Language a Prisonhouse" to ILA Seminar on Evolutionary Theory, Emory University.

1986 Presented paper "Bound for Glory: Another Look at Mana." Department Seminar, De-partment of Anthropology, University of Chicago.

1985 Presented paper "Aspects of the Person: Cultural and Uni-ver-sal" for Invited Symposium on Cultural Aspects of Emotion and Personhood, organized by Edward Schieffelin, 1985 Meetings, Amer-ican Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. December 6, 1985.

1985 Invited Lecture "Bound for Glory: Another Look at Mana" sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, The University of Hawaii, and the Pacific Islands studies Program, The University of Hawaii. Honolulu, November 18, 1985.

1985 Discussion of Sala'ilua: A Samoan Mystery, Hawaii Loa Col-lege, Oahu, Hawaii, No-vember 19, 1985.

1984-5

1985 Showed and discussed film Prisoners of Paradise (BBC) at Brigham Young University, Laie Campus, Oahu, Hawaii.

1985 Guest Lecture, Department of Anthropology, Wesleyan Univer-sity, Middleton, Connecti-cut. April.

1985 Consultant and narrator for film Prisoners of Paradise, BBC Television. London, Eng-land. January, 1985.

1984 Invited Presenter. American Anthropological Association Symposium on Ethical Rela-tivism. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November, 1984.

1983-4

1984 Invited Discussant, SSRC Conference on the Culture of Gender in Island Southeast Asia, Scanticon Conference Center, Princeton. March, 1984.

1984 Speaker on Panel on Gender and Organized Violence, Davis Lectures, Princeton Univer-sity, April, 1984.

1983-4 Consulting Anthropologist, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratories project on American Samoan Migrants and Labor-re-lated Problems. Grant from United States De-partment of Labor.

1983 Visiting Lecturer, Educators' Colloquium, consortium in Tri--Cities (Western Washington State). November 6-9. Four lec-tures.

1983 Organizer (with Louise Lamphere) and presenter, Formal Sym-posium of the American Ethnological Society, "Freeman's Critique of Mead." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological As-sociation, Chicago, November 15-19.

1983 Paper delivered in a colloquium on Margaret Mead and Samoa at the University of Colo-rado. Sponsored jointly by the Depart-ment of Anthropology, University of Colorado and the Colorado Endow-ment for the Humanities, October 17, 1983.

1982-3

1983 Invited lecture on the Mead-Freeman controversy, Department of Anthropology, Univer-sity of South Carolina, April, 1983.

1983 Delivered the Taft Lecture, University of Cincinnati, "Para-dox Lost: Mead, Freeman and Samoa" April, 1983.

1983 Delivered lecture "Myth, Time and Social Structure in North-ern Australia." Graduate In-stitute for the Liberal Arts Lunch Lecture Series, Emory University. April, 1983.

1983 Appearance on "The Donahue Show" with Derek Freeman and Mary Catherine Bateson, March 1983.

1983 Paper delivered at the Annual Meetings of the American Eth-nological Society, Baton Rouge: "Meno's Paradox: Some Thoughts on Ritual," March, 1983.

1983 A.A.A. Guest Lecture, Department of Sociology, Mercer Uni-ver-sity, Macon, Georgia. Two lectures: "Is Language a Prison House?" and "Samoan World View, Literally." January, 1983.

1982 Lecture delivered at Fernbank Science Center Series in Anth-ropology. "Samoan World View, Literally: Images and Reflec-tions." November, 1982.

1982- Appointed to the Editorial Board, Pacific Studies.

1981-2

1981-3 Member, Board of Directors, Association for Social Anthro-pology in Oceania.

1980-1

1980 Member of panel on Transcultural Conceptions of Personality, Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.

1980 Convenor and presenter at Formal Symposium on Naming Systems in Oceania, Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthro-pology in Oceania.

1979-80

1980 Delivered paper at Symposium "Conceptual Structures" spon-sored by the Sloan Founda-tion and the Cognitive Science Depart-ment, University of California at San Diego.

1979-82 Advisory Board, Papua-New Guinea Council, Asia Society.

1979 Discussant, Panel on Transcultural Approaches to the Study of Violence and Aggression, Annual Meetings of the American Aca-demy of Psychoanalysis, New York City, May, 1979.

1979 Delivered a paper "Phonological Styles in Samoan." Working Session on Language and Politics, Association for Social Anthro-pology in Oceania, Clearwater, Florida. February, 1979.

1978-9

1978 Participant, Community Meeting on Pacific Islands Migration, Center for South Pacific Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz. May, 1978.

1977-8

1977-8 Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute, Washington, D.C.

1977 Convenor, Chair and Presenter, Symposium on Knowledge, An-nual Meetings of the As-sociation for Social Anthropology in Ocea-nia, Asilomar. February, 1977.

1977 Presented paper "Fale Aitu: Satire in a Traditional Art Form in Samoa." Symposium on Performing Arts in South East Asia and the Pacific, University of California at Santa Cruz. May, 1977.

1975-6

1976 Co-Convenor and Chairman, "Pacific Island Migration to the United States." Center for South Pacific Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz. May, 1976.

1975 Convenor, pacific Island Migrant Community Meeting, Center for South Pacific Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.

1975 Consultant: Asian-American Bilingual Curriculum Development Center. Berkeley Uni-fied School District, Berkeley, California.

1974-5

1975 Guest Lecturer, Anthropology Department, University of Auck-land; Sociology Depart-ment, University of Auckland.

1974 Language and Culture Training Officer, Staging Program for Western Samoa Education Program, Peace Corps. Denver Colorado. October, 1974.

1973-4

1973 Faculty Member (Sociology). Apia School of Nursing. Wes-tern Samoa.

1972-3

1972-4 Contributing author and consulting Anthropologist. Idea and Action in World Cultures, Prentice-Hall.

1972 Hired by Peace Corps to write teaching grammar of Samoan.

1972 Hired as Cross-Cultural and Teacher Training Coordinator, Peace Corps Training Pro-gram, Apia, Western Samoa.


TEACHING REPERTORY

Ritual, Play and Sport

Four-Field Introduction to Anthropology

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

Polynesia: Comparative Ethnology of a Culture Area

The Comparative Ethnology of Polynesia

Language and Culture

Kinship and Social Organization

Psychological Anthropology

Symbolic Anthropology (Graduate and Undergraduate)

Interpretive Approaches in Anthropology (Graduate)

Anthropology of Religion

Ritual: Nature and Culture (Graduate)

Social Theory: The Grand Tradition (Graduate)

Culture and Human Nature

Shakespeare and Ritual (with Prof. Frank Manley)

Biocultural Seminar on Emotion (Graduate)

Culture and Mind (Graduate)

GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES

Currently I am on 17 graduate student Committees, 14 in Anthropology, and for 8 of which I serve as chair.

SERVICE (EMORY UNIVERSITY)

1998 Member, Advisory Committee to the Center for Teaching and Curriculum

1998 Member: President_s Special Commission on Community and Traditions at Emory

1998 Co-organizer, Departmental Lecture Series

1998 Acting Director, Linguistic Program (Spring)

1996-7 Speaker: Alumni Meetings around the country

1997- Steering Committee, Creative Writing Program

1996 Freshman Seminar Leader

1996- Infotech Committee, Department of Anthropology.

1995- Core Faculty and Executive Committee, Linguistics Program

1995- President_s Commission on Equity

1995 Ad Hoc Committee; Cory Kratz Appointment

1995-6 Search Committee, Biological Anthropology

1995-8 Executive Committee, Emory College

1994- Executive Committee, Anthropology Department

1994- Advisory Committee, Hughes Foundation Grant

1994-5 InfoTech Committee. Anthropology Department

1994- Undergraduate Concerns Committee. Anthropology Department

1994- Graduate Concerns Committee, Anthropology Department

1994-5 Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Curriculum Development on Global/International Education

1994-7 Chair, Department of Anthropology

1993-4 Display Case Committee

1993-4 Head, Undergraduate Concerns Committee

1992-3 Search Committee, Linguistic Anthropology Position, Anthropology Department

1992-3 Faculty Advisor, Stipes Society

1991-2 Search Committee, Mellon Fellowship in Linguistics

1992 Organizer of Emory-Mellon Biocultural Symposium on Emotions.

1991 Convocation Speaker, Opening Convocation of Emory University

1990-1 Search Committee, Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of Emory College

1990-93 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology

1990- Graduate Concerns Committee

1990- Graduate Recruitment Committee

1989-91 Library Audio-Visual Advisory Committee

1989-91 Emory University Graduate School Executive Committee

1989-91 Emory College Budget and Planning Committee

1989-90 Committee on Language and Literature


1989-90 Freshman Seminar Leader

1988-89 Search Committee, Cultural Anthropology Faculty Recruitment

1987-8 Search Committee, Faculty Recruitment, Department of Anth-ropology

1987- 91 Emory College Executive Committee

1987-91 Chair, Educational Policy Committee, Emory College

1987-8 Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology

1987-8 Freshman Seminar Leader

1986-7 Freshman Seminar Leader

1985-7 Search Committee for Chair of English Department

1985-6 Department Committee on Computers

1985-7 General Education Committee

1985 Alternate, Emory College Faculty Council

1984-5 Admissions and Scholarship Committee

1984-5 Acting Chair, Anthropology Department (Spring and Sum-mer, 1985)

1984-5 Chair, Search Committee for Cultural Anthropologist

1984 Committee on Admissions and Scholarships

1984 Coordinator Steering Committee for the Comparative Study of Culture Change.

1983- Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts

1983 Member, Steering Committee and Advisory Committee, Modes of Interpretation Divi-sion, Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts.

1983-4 Freshman Advisor

1982-3 President's Ad Hoc Committee on Curriculum Development

1982- Anthropology Department Advisor for Oxford College Transfer Students

1982-4 Humanities/Social Faculty Advisor: Emory College Honor Council.


PUBLICATIONS

REVIEWS

1999 Review of Strauss, Claudia and Naomi Quinn, A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning, J. of Anthropological Research .

1996 Review of Gell, Alfred, Wrapped Images: Tattooing in Polynesia, Oxford, Oxford Uni-versity Press (in preparation), American Ethnologist

1995 Review of Duranti, Alessandro From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village. The Contemporary Pacific.

1995 Review of Ben Finney_s Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia. Social Science and History.

1992 "Take My Sister. Please!" Review of Annette Weiner's Inalienable Possessions. New York Times Book Review, August 9, 1992, p. 8.

1992 "Out of Tune" Review Article of Nicholas Thomas' Out of Time in Pacific Studies, June.

1991 "Indiana Jones Blows His Mind." Sept. 9, 1990 Review of The Wild People by Erik Linklater. The New York Times Book Review. August 1991.

1990 Review of The Pacific Islands (2 vols.) by Douglas Oliver. The Contemporary Pacific

1990 The Four Winds by Eduardo Villoldo and Erik Jendersen, The New York Times Book Re-view, August 1990.

1988 The Lau of Malaita, Film Review for American Anthropologist.

1988 The Changing Samoans P. Baker and J. Hanna (eds.). The American Ethnologist. (with Carol Worthman).

1987 Cultural Alternatives and a Feminist Anthropology by Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington. Choice.

1987 The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin. Choice.

1986 Mead's Other Manus by Lola Romanucci-Ross. Man v. 21, pp. 211-12.

1986 The Tattooing of Both Sexes in Samoa by Carl Marquardt. The Journal of the Polyne-sian Society.

1984 Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard. Commonweal, Dec.,1984.

1983 The Play of Musement by Thomas Sebeok. American Anthropolo-gist, December, 1983.

1983 Beyond the Post-Modern Mind by Huston Smith. Theology Today. January, 1983.

1983 Rapanui by Grant McCall. American Anthropologist 84:3.

1982 The Nobility and the Chiefly Tradition of . . . Tonga by George Marcus. Man, 1982.

1981 Do Kamo by Maurice Leenhardt, Horizons.

1979 Cultural Bias by Mary Douglas. American Anthropologist 81:2.

 

ARTICLES IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS AND EDITED VOLUMES

In Press _Social Remembering: As Opposed to What? in William Hirst: Social Remembering, in preparation.

1999 _Cultural Relativism. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.

1999 _Semiotics of Culture Encyclopedia of Semiotics, Oxford University Press

1999 _Baseball. Encyclopedia of Semiotics, Oxford University Press

1999 _Cultural Knowledge Encyclopedia of Semiotics, Oxford University Press

1999 Review Article: Mannheim, Bruce and Dennis Tedlock (eds.) _The Dialogic Nature of Culture, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

1998 _The Coming of Aging in Samoa in Shweder, Richard, Middle Age and other Fictions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

1998 _Cultural Models: A Framework for Media Studies in Hoijer, Brigitta Cognitive Ap-proaches to Media Studies, Scandinavian Society for Media Studies.

1997 _Keeping the Conversation Going: An Interview With Jerome Bruner, Ethos, March, 1997.

1996 _Knowledge in Formation: The Machine Modeled Frame of Mind in Technology and So-ciety (Special Issue on the Impact of Computers on Society), Lowell Steele, ed.

1995 "The Absurd Side of Power in Samoa" in Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific (R. Feinberg and K. Watson-Gegeo eds.) London: Athlone Press.

1994 _Marginal Play: Sport at the Borderlands of Time and Space. The International Journal of the Sociology of Sport (simultaneous publication in Proceedings of the Fifth ICSS Seminar, Vienna Austria)

1993 _Meeting Report: Emory Mellon Symposium on Emotion. Ethos.

1992 "Anthropology." The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education, London: Perga-mon Press.

1992 "Out of Tune" Review Article of Nicholas Thomas' Out of Time in Pacific Studies, June.

1990 "Twice-Born, Once Conceived: Meaning Construction and Cultural Cognition." Ameri-can Anthropologist Vol. 94, No. 4.

1990 "Afterword." Ethos. Vol. 18, No. 3.

1990 "Human Ambivalence and the Structuring of Moral Values." Ethos. Vol. 18, No. 3.

1990 "Re-ply to O'Meara." Extended commentary. American Anthropolo-gist Vol. 93, No. 3.

1990 "Loading The Bases." The Sciences, May-June, 1990 (Reprinted in Podelefsky and Brown, eds., Applying Cultural Anthropology, 1993).

1989 "Totem As Practically Reason: Food For Thought," Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 14, pp. 177-195

1989 "Interpretation Under Fire." Anthropological Quarterly, June, 1989

1989 "Ritual Frames" (major review article on several volumes in sym-bolic anthropology for Reviews in Anthropology. vol. 15, No. 3.

1989 "Mana and Tapu: A New Synthesis." in Howard. Alan and R. Borofsky (eds.) Develop-ments in Polynesian Ethnology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

1988 "An Introduction to the Work of Clifford Geertz" in W. Doty (ed.) Geertz, Religion and Cultural Systems Special issue of Soundings Vol. LXXI No.1 (Spring 1988).

1987 "Is Language a Prisonhouse." Cultural Anthropology 2,1 Feb. 1987.

1985 Prisoners of Paradise. Documentary Film made with BBC Tele-vision. Show April 1985 in Britain. To be shown on PBS stations in the United States.

1984 (With Martha Platt) "Communicative Barriers to Samoans Training and Employment in the United States." A paper commis-sioned for the Study of Poverty, Unemployment and Training Needs of American Samoans. U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Research and Evaluation.

1984 "Freeman's Criticism of Margaret Mead." Science Year (World Book).

1983 "Paradox Regained: Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa." Can-berra Anthropology, December, 1983.

1983 "Paradox Regained: Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa", Ameri-can Anthropologist, December, 1983. Abridged Version of article for Canberra Anthropology.

1981 "Sexuality and Gender in Samoa: Conceptions and Missed Con-ceptions" in S. Ortner and H. Whitehead (eds.) Sexual Meanings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1979 "Pacific Islanders". In The Harvard Encyclopedia of Ameri-can Ethnic Groups. Cam-bridge: Harvard University Press.

1978 "Ghosts and Government: A Structural Analysis of Alterna-tive Institutions for Conflict Management in Samoa." Man 13, June, 1978.

1976 "The Samoas." Family of Man Encyclopedia. Marshall Caven-dish, London.

1976 "Adoption Alliance and Political Mobility in Samoa." In I. Brady (ed.) Transactions in Kinship, ASAO Monograph No. 4. Hono-lulu: The University Press of Hawaii.

1976 "Incest Prohibitions and the Logic of Power in Samoa." In Incest Prohibitions in Polyne-sia and Micronesia. Special Issue of the Journal of the Polynesian Society v. 84, n. 2.

 

MONOGRAPHS

In Prep. Minding our Manners: A Conversation with Jerome Bruner

In Prep. Shakespeare and Ritual: Collected Essays

1998 What Culture Means? How Culture Means (The Heinz Werner Lectures). Worcester, MA: Clark University Press

1996 Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

1982 Sala'ilua: A Samoan Mystery. New York: Columbia Univer-sity Press.

1977 Idea and Action in World Cultures. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall (with Marion Brady and Howard Brady)

1978 New Neighbors: Pacific Islander Migration in Adaptation (with C. MacPherson and R. Franco). Monograph Series, Center for South Pacific Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz.

1973 Samoan Language Lessons. Peace Corps, Western Samoa. (co-authored with Lillian Campbell and Uelese Petaia).


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Prof. Jerome Bruner

200 Mercer Street

New York, New York

 

Prof. Marshall D. Sahlins

Professor Emeritus

Department of Anthropology

The Uni-versity of Chicago,

Chicago, Illinois 60637.

 

Prof. Elinor Ochs

Department of Applied Linguistics

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

 

Prof. Alan Howard

Professor

Department of Anthropology

University of Hawaii

Manoa

Honolulu, HA

 

Prof. Robert Paul

Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia 30322

 

Prof. Frank Manley

Charles Candler Howard Professor of Renaissance English

Director, Program in Creative Writing

Department of English

Emory University

Atlanta, GA 30322