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ALETTA BIERSACK Curriculum Vitae Department Of ALETTA BIERSACK Curriculum Vitae Department of Anthropology Office phone: (541) 346-5110 University of Oregon Fax: (541) 346-0668 Eugene, Oregon 97403-1218 e-mail: [email protected] Research interests New Guinea, historical anthropology, political ecology, globalization, anthropology of the state, mining, gender violence, human rights practice Research Melanesia Doctoral research among the Paiela of the Papua New Guinea highlands, investigating gender, cosmology, social organization, and politics, 1974-78; three months of fieldwork in fall 1993, two months of fieldwork in February and March 1995, seven months of fieldwork and archival research overall from July 1995 to February 1996 among Ipili speakers, including the people of Porgera valley, 10 weeks of fieldwork in Porgera and Paiela in fall 1999, 8 weeks of fieldwork in fall 2000; continuing fieldwork summers 2003 and 2004; consultancy, December 2010. Internet research on gender violence in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu, 2012-2014; further Porgera-Paiela fieldwork in 2015. Polynesia Fourteen months overall (1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992) investigating Tongan history and culture in Tonga and in several libraries and archives around the world (Nuku'alofa [Tonga], Sydney, London, Canberra, Wellington, and Auckland). Education Ph.D., cultural anthropology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1980 Ph.D. dissertation: "The Hidden God: Communication, Cosmology, and Cybernetics among a Melanesian People" Ph.D. candidacy thesis: "Matrilaterality in Patrilineal Systems: The Tongan Case" (winner of the Curl Bequest Prize awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1974) M.A., anthropology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1972. M.A., history, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969. B.A., history, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1965. Academic and administrative appointments Acting Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, intermittently, 9/05-6/06 Associate Head and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, 9/05-6/06 Acting Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 7/1/00-9/15/00. Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 7/99-6/00. Acting Head, Department of Religious Studies, University of Oregon, 1997-1998. Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1994- Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1988-1994. Affiliated Faculty, Department of Religious Studies, University of Oregon, 1987-1999. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1982-1988. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 1983-1984. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Central Michigan University, 2 Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 1981-1982. Visiting Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, summer 1979. Publications Books, special issues, and anthologies Nearing submission Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the Western Pacific (co-edited with Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly). To be submitted to ANU E Press. In preparation Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, co-edited with Martha Macintyre; a collection coming out of three successive sessions at the annual meetings of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania. To be submitted to Men and Masculinities. Drafted “Introduction: Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific.” In Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, co- edited with Martha Macintyre. To be submitted to Men and Masculinities. In preparation Skin and Bone: The Paiela Reproductive Regime (book) In preparation “Gender Violence.” Invited entry in the Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Hilary Callan. To be published by Wiley-Blackwell and in the Wiley Online Library. Publication expected 2016. 2006 Reimagining Political Ecology (co-edited with James Greenberg). Durham: Duke University Press. 1999 "Ecologies for Tomorrow: Reading Rappaport Today," ed. A. Biersack. A "contemporary issues" forum. American Anthropologist 101(1): 5-112. 1995 Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands, ed. A. Biersack. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 1991 Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology, ed. A. Biersack. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Articles and book chapters *Means NOT PEER REVIEWED In preparation "Property and the Gift: Comparing Property Regimes” Drafted and circulated among contributors. “Introduction: Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific.” Introduction for the collection Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, co-edited by Biersack and Macintyre. To be submitted to Men and Masculinities. Nearing submission. “Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in Three Pacific Island Countries: Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Vanuatu.” In Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the Western Pacific, co-edited with Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly. To be submitted to ANU E Press. Nearing submission. With Martha Macintyre. “Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the Western Pacific: In Search of a Research Agenda.” Co-authored with Martha Macintyre. In Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the Western Pacific, co-edited with Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly. To be submitted to ANU E Press. 2014 soon to be under review. Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the Western Pacific, co-edited with Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly. To be submitted to ANU E Press. *2014 “Foucault among Ipili Speakers.” In “Foucault in Melanesia: A Discussion Forum.” Oceania 84(1):64-68. 2013 “Beyond ‘Cargo Cult’: Interpreting Mata Kamo.” In Cargo Cults, Kastom, and Kago Kalja: Old Theories and New Realities in the Study of Melanesian Movements, edited by Marc Tabani and Marcellin Abong, pp. 85-121. Marseilles: Pacific-Credo Publications Press, CNRS. *2012 "Porgera--Whence and Whither?" In Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Mine, 1989-1994, ed. C. Filer, pp. 260-270. Reissue of a 1999 collection; available at Australian E Press (http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/dilemmas-of-development/pdf-download) 2011 "Epilogue." In Changing Contexts-Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania, ed. Elfriede Hermann, pp. 323-350. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 3 2011 “The Sun and the Shakers, Again: Enga, Ipili, and Somaip Perspectives on the Cult of Ain,” part II. Oceania 81(3):225-243. Winner of the Australian Anthropological Society Essay Prize for 2012 for best anthropology article published in an Australian journal in 2011. 2011 “The Sun and the Shakers, Again: Enga, Ipili, and Somaip Perspectives on the Cult of Ain,” part I. Oceania 81(2):113-136. Winner of the Australian Anthropological Society Essay Prize for 2012 for best anthropology article published in an Australian journal in 2011. *2010 “Comment on Maclean's ‘Globalization and Bridewealth Rhetoric’." Dialectical Anthropology 34(3):379-382. (Available online at http://www.springerlink.com/content/p3t7700213878637/ since June 2010.) 2010 Spanish translation of “Reimagining Political Ecology: Culture/Power/History/Nature” (“Reimaginar la ecologia politica: cultura/poder/historia/naturaleza”). In Cultura y Naturaleza, ed. Leonardo Montenegro. Bogota: Jardin Botanico. 2008 (with Janet Hoskins; translation from French to English) "Marriage, Rank and Politics in Hawaii." Expanded version of "Le fonctionnement du système des rangs à Hawaii," by Valerio Valeri (originally published in L'Homme, 1972). In Hierarchy: Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations, ed. Knut Rio and Olaf H. Smedal, pp. 211-244, Berghahn Books. *2006 “Rivals and Wives: Affinal Politics and the Tongan Ramage." In Origins, Ancestry, and Alliance, eds. J. Fox and C. Sather, pp. 241-282. Reissue. Canberra: Australian National University E Press. (Originally published in 1996.) 2006 "Reimagining Political Ecology: Culture/Power/History/Nature." Introduction to Reimagining Political Ecology, ed. A. Biersack and J. Greenberg, pp. 3-42; Duke University Press. Translated into Spanish as “Reimaginar la ecologia political cultura/poder/historia/naturaleza” (see above) 2006 "Red River, Green War: Porgera’s Politics of Place.” Reimagining Political Ecology, ed. A. Biersack and J. Greenberg, pp. 233-280. Durham: Duke University Press. 2006 “From the New Ecology to the New Ecologies,” translated into Polish. Published in Ksiazka Badanie Kultury: Elementy Teorii Antropologicznej-kontynuacje, t. 1, 2 (The Study of Culture, vols. 1, 2), edited by Marian Kempny and Ewa Nowicka, pp. Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers PWN. 2005 "On the Life and Times of the Ipili Imagination." In The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change, ed. J. Robbins and H. Wardlow, pp. 135-162. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2004 "The Bachelors and Their Spirit Wife: Interpreting the Omatisia Ritual in Porgera and Paiela." In The Unseen Characters: Women in Male Rituals of Papua New Guinea, ed. by P. Bonnemère, pp. 98-119. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. *2004 “Reflections on AES Invited Sessions: Political Ecology and the Politics of Place.” Anthropology News, February 2004, p. 33. *2004 Biographical summary, Roy A. Rappaport, in Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, ed. V. Amit, pp. 421-422.
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