Terror, Violence and the Imagination: An Anthropological Perspective - Neil L. Whitehead
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 at 7:00 pm |
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Dr. Neil L. Whitehead has an impressive publication background within academia, but in addition to this, he has made numerous contributions outside the academy with regard to his work and on issues of relevance to all students - namely - how to deal with issues of violence and terror as they are manifested in an increasingly global setting. He has made public appearances to discuss the issues of violence and terror and has been a regular guest on local public radio programming dealing with current issues. Dr. Whitehead covers a broad range of contemporary issues and brings not only an anthropological, but humanistic perspective to issues that are of relevance in their everyday lives.
Publications
Books
2004 Violence: Poetics, Performance and Expression. (SAR Press)
In Darkness and Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. (ed. with Robin Wright) Duke University Press.
Nineteenth Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910; South America, (ed.) Chatto & Pickering.
2003 Histories and Historicities in Amazonia, (ed.). University of Nebraska Press.
2002 Dark Shamans. Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press.
2001 Beyond the Visible and the Material, (ed. with Laura Rival). Oxford University Press.
1999 War in the Tribal Zone. Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare. (ed. with R. B. Ferguson) School of American Research Press: Santa Fe. (2nd edition)
1997 The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh. (Edited, annotated and transcribed). Exploring Travel Series Vol. 1, Manchester: Manchester University Press and, American Exploration & Travel Series Vol. 71, Norman: Oklahoma University Press.
1995 Wolves from the Sea. Readings in the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Island Carib, (ed.). Leiden: KITLV Press.
1992 War in the Tribal Zone. Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare. (ed. with R. B. Ferguson) School of American Research Press: Santa Fe.
Wild Majesty. Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day. An Anthology. (ed. with P. Hulme). Oxford University Press.
1988 Lords of the Tiger Spirit. A History of the Caribs in colonial Venezuela and Guyana, 1498-1820. Dordrecht / Providence: Foris Publications.
Chapters/Articles
2004 Anthropologies of Violent Practice, Anthropology Today - Editorial Dark Shamans, Kanaimà (in) The Encyclopedia of Shamanism, ABC-Clio Press. Amazonia, (in) The Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, (ed) Shepard Krech, J. R.. McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant, Routledge.
2003 Hans Staden, Theodor de Bry (in) The Literature of Travel and Exploration, (ed) Jennifer Speake, London: Fitzroy Dearborn.
2002 Arawak Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Time - Contact, Colonialism, and Creolization, (in) Comparative Arawakan Histories, (ed). F. Santos-Granero and J. Hill. University of Illinois Press.
South America / The Amazon: The Forest of Marvels, (in) The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, (eds.) Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs. Cambridge University Press.
Magical Modernities and Occult Violence in South America, (in) Violence, Globalisation and Localisation, (eds.) M. Bax, et al. Amsterdam: Free University Press.
Terrorism, Ethnic Conflict and the Culture of Violence. Communiqué 11(1): 6-9.
Geography, Cartography and Demography - editorial preface, Ethnohistory 49:1
The Caribbean Basin - editorial preface, Ethnohistory 49:2 Meaning in Violence, Science Matters Column - The New Mexican, with Jeff Tollefson, 5/20/2002
2001 Kanaimà; Shamanism and Ritual Death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana (in) Beyond the Visible and the Material. The Amerindianization of Society in the work of Peter Rivière, pp.235-46 (ed. With Laura Rival). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The Häberleins and the Political Culture of Scholarship, Hispanic American Historical Review, 81(3/4): 753-756.
2000 Hans Staden and the Cultural Politics of Cannibalism, Hispanic American Historical Review 80(4):41-71.
A History of Research on Warfare in Anthropology - Reply to Otterbein, American Anthropologist 102(4): 7-9.
Amerindians of the Caribbean, Caribs. In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture. (ed.) D. Balderston, A. Lopez and M. Gonzalez. Routledge.
Anthropology & History (in) The Oxford Companion to US History (ed) P. Boyer. Oxford University Press.
Indiens du Monde Caraibe (in) Dictionnaire de l=Ethnologie (ed) M. Izard, Presses Universitaire de France.
Ancient South America, In The Atlas of World History, pp. 142-45, Dorling-Kindersley
Press.
1999 The Crises and Transformations of Invaded Societies (1492-1580) - The Caribbean, In: F. Salomon & S. Schwartz (eds.), The Cambridge History of Native American Peoples, III (1): 864-903. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lowland Peoples Confront Colonial Regimes in Northern South America, 1550-1900, (in) F. Salomon & S. Schwartz (eds.), The Cambridge History of Native American Peoples, III (2): 382-441. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Native Society and the European Occupation of the Caribbean Islands and Coastal Tierra Firme, 1492-1650. In: C. Damas and P. Emmer (eds.) A General History of the Caribbean, Vol.III, pp.180-200. UNESCO Publications.
Disciplinary Views of War: War and Anthropology. In The Oxford Companion to Military History, (ed.) J. W. Chambers. Oxford University Press.
1998 Historical Ecology & Ecological History: Diachronic Modeling versus Historical Explanation. In Advances in Historical Ecology, pp.30-41, (ed.) W. Balée. Columbia University Press.
Indigenous Cartography in Lowland South America and the Caribbean. In The History of Cartography, II (3), pp.301-326. D. Woodward and G. M. Lewis (eds.) University of Chicago Press.
Colonial Chieftains of the Lower Orinoco and Guayana Coast. In: E. Redmond (ed.) Chiefdoms and Chieftaincy in the Americas, pp.150-163. University Press of Florida.
Foreword. In: E. Redmond (ed.) Chiefdoms and Chieftaincy in the Americas, pp. ix-x. University Press of Florida.
Yanomamology, Missiology, and Anthropology. (Review essay). American Anthropologist 100(2):517-20.
1997 Monstrosity & Marvel: Symbolic Convergence and Mimetic Elaboration in Trans-Cultural Representation, Studies in Travel Writing 1:72-96.
1996 Searching for Paradise? Recent Research in Amazonian Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 4(3): 241-264.
An Oral History of the Patamuna, Yawong Valley, Guyana. Georgetown: Walter Roth Museum.
The Mazaruni Dragon. Golden Metals and Elite Exchanges in the Caribbean, Orinoco, and the Amazon. In, C. H. Langebaek & F. C-Arroyo (eds.) Chieftains, Power & Trade: Regional Interaction in the Intermediate Area of the Americas, pp. 107-132. Bogotá, Colombia : Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de los Andes
Ethnogenesis and Ethnocide in the settlement of Surinam, In: J. Hill (ed.), History, Power and Identity, Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992, pp. 20-35. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
1995 The Historical Anthropology of Text. The Interpretation of Ralegh's Discoverie. Current Anthropology 36:53-74.
Ethnic Plurality and Cultural Continuity in the Native Caribbean. Remarks and Uncertainties as to Data and Theory, In: N. L. Whitehead (ed.) Wolves from the Sea. Readings in the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Island Carib. Leiden: KITLV Press.
The Island Carib as Anthropological Icon. In: N. L. Whitehead (ed.) Wolves from the Sea. Readings in the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Island Carib. Leiden: KITLV Press.
An Interview with Jan Vansina. Ethnohistory 42(2):303-316.
1994 The Ancient Amerindian Polities of the lower Orinoco, Amazon and Guayana coast. A preliminary analysis of their passage from antiquity to extinction. In: A. C. Roosevelt (ed.) Amazonian Indians. From Prehistory to the Present. University of Arizona Press.
1993 Historical Discontinuity and Ethnic Transformation in Native Amazonia and Guayana, 1500-1900. L'Homme 28:289-309.
Recent Research on the Native History of Amazonia and Guayana. L'Homme 28:499-510.
Native American Cultures along the Atlantic Littoral of South America, 1499-1650, Proceedings of the British Academy 81:197-231.
Deceptive Images of Tribal War. (With R. B. Ferguson). Op-Ed Page, Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/10/93
1992 Tribes Makes States and States Make Tribes. Warfare and the creation of colonial tribe and state in northeastern South America, 1498_1820. In: R. B. Ferguson & N. L. Whitehead (eds.), War in the Tribal Zone, pp.127-150. SAR Press: Santa Fe.
The Violent Edge of Empire. (with R. B. Ferguson) In: R. B. Ferguson & N. L. Whitehead (eds.), War in the Tribal Zone, pp.1-30. SAR Press: Santa Fe.
El Dorado, Cannibalism and the Amazons. European Myth and Amerindian Praxis in the Conquest of South America. In: W. Pansters & J. Weerdenberg (eds.), Beeld en Verbeelding van Amerika, pp.53-70. University of Utrecht Press.
1991 Los Señores de los Epuremei. Un examen de la transformacíon del comercio y la politica indígenas en el Amazonas y Orinoco, 1492-1800. In: M.Oostra & L. Malaver (eds.), Etnohistoria del Amazonas, pp.255-64. Coleccion 500 Anos, Quito: Abya_Yala.
1990 The Snake Warriors - Sons of the Tiger's Teeth. A descriptive analysis of Carib warfare: 1500-1820. In: J. Haas (ed.), The Anthropology of War, pp.146-170. Cambridge University Press.
Carib Ethnic Soldiering in Venezuela, the Guianas and Antilles: 1492-1820. Ethnohistory 37(4):357-385.
The Mazaruni Pectoral. A Golden Artefact Discovered in Guyana and the Historical Sources concerning Native Metallurgy in the Caribbean, Orinoco and Northern Amazonia. Archaeology and Anthropology 7:19-36.
1986 John Gabriel Stedman's Collection of Amerindian Artefacts. New West Indian Guide 60:203-8.
1984 Carib Cannibalism - The historical evidence. Journal de la Société des Américanistes 70(1):69-88.