Curriculum Vitae

F. ALLAN HANSON Professor of Anthropology, University of Kansas 1415 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045

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I. UNIVERSITY TRAINING AND DEGREES A.B. Princeton University (French and European History), 1961 M.A. University of Chicago (Anthropology), 1963 Ph.D. University of Chicago (Anthropology), 1966 Postdoctoral studies: Oxford University, 1970 University of Pittsburgh, 1972-73

II. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 1966-present Professor of Anthropology, University of Kansas 1998-2001 Distinguished Lecturer in Humanities and Western Civilization, University of Kansas June 1995 Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, May 1995 Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris Spring 1989 Visiting Professor, University of Paris-Val de Marne Fall 1988 Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University Summer 1985 Visiting Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 1983-88 Chair, Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Kansas Spring 1980 Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of , 1976-77 Visiting Fellow, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Summer 1973 Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

III. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books and Monographs The Trouble with Culture: How Computers Are Calming the Culture Wars. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Art and Identity in Oceania (edited by F.A.H. with Louise Hanson). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. The Art of Oceania: A Bibliography (with Louise Hanson). Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984. Counterpoint in Maori Culture (with Louise Hanson). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. Studies in Symbolism and Cultural Communication (edited by F.A.H.). Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology No. 14, 1982.

Meaning in Culture. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. (Japanese translation

1 published by Horitsu Bunka Sha, Kyoto-City, , 1980.) Bibliographie de Rapa, Polynésie française (with Patrick O'Reilly). Paris: Publications de la Société des Océanistes No. 32, 1973. Rapan Lifeways: Society and History on a Polynesian Island. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970. (Republished by Waveland Press, 1983. French translation published as Rapa: une île polynésienne hier et aujourd'hui. Paris: Publications de la Société des Océanistes No. 33, 1973.) http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/905/1/RAPAN%20LIFEWAYS2. pdf

Articles and Chapters The Jurisprudence of the Christian Right: Teachings from Regent and Liberty University Law Schools. Journal of Church and State 51:265-288, 2009. Beyond the Skin Bag: On the Moral Responsibility of Extended Agencies. Ethics and Information Technology 11:91–99, 2009. What Would Jesus Do…If He Were a Lawyer? The Humanist, November/December 2008, pp. 27-32. http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/08_nov_dec/Hanson.html “The Land Belongs to Everyone:” The Unstable Dynamic of Unrestricted Cognatic Descent in Rapa, French Polynesia (with Christian Ghasarian). Journal of the Polynesian Society 116:59-72, 2007. Interview with Allan Hanson. In Philosophy of Technology: Five Questions, Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen and Evan Selinger, eds. Automatic Press/VIP, 2007. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4208/1/hanson.pdf Culture against Society. Society 42(5):65-68, July/August 2005. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4149/1/CultureagainstSociety200 5.pdf From Classification to Indexing: How Automation Transforms the Way we Think. Social Epistemology 18:333-356, 2004. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4209/1/From%20Classification% 20to%20Indexing%2c%20Soc%20Epistem.pdf Symmetry for Itself, for Culture, and for Practice. In Embedded Symmetries: Natural and Cultural, Dorothy Washburn, ed., pp. 145-159. Albuquerque: University of New Press, 2004. The New Superorganic. Current Anthropology 45:467-482, 2004. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4150/1/ca2004.pdf From Key Numbers to Keywords: How Automation Has Transformed the Law. Law Library Journal 94:563-600, 2002. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4272/1/LLJ2002.pdf Donor Insemination: Eugenic and Feminist Implications. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 15(3):1-26, 2001. How Tests Create What They Are Intended to Measure. In Assessment: Social Practice and Social Product, Ann Filer, ed., pp. 67-81. London: Routledge/Falmer: 2000. Where Have All the Abnormal People Gone? The Humanist 60(2):29-32, March/April 2000. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4148/1/Humanist2000.pdf New Zealand. In Arts of the South Seas--Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia: the Collections of the Mus e Barbier-Mueller, Douglas Newton, ed., pp.

2 348-55. Munich: Prestel, 1999. How Poverty Lost its Meaning. Cato Journal 17(2):189-209, Fall 1997. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4207/1/cj17n2-5.pdf Why Don’t We Care About the Poor Anymore? The Humanist 57(6):11-14, November/December 1997. Empirical Anthropology, Postmodernism, and the Invention of Tradition. In Present is Past: Some Uses of Tradition in Native Societies, Marie Mauzé, ed., pp. 195-214. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997. Suits for Wrongful Life, Counterfactuals, and the Nonexistence Problem. Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 5:1-24, 1996. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4273/1/SoCalInterdisLJ.pdf Rapa, French Polynesia. Dictionary of Art 25:896. London: Macmillan, 1996. Racism and Relativism. Tikkun 10(6):63-66, November/December 1995. Testing, The Bell Curve, and the Social Construction of Intelligence. Tikkun 10(1):22-27, January/February 1995. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4274/1/tikkun.html The Invention of Intelligence. Education Week, September 15, 1993, pp. 40, 32. Le dépistage des drogues: contrôle des drogues ou des esprits? Psychotropes 7(3):71- 87, 1992. Rapa. Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol: II: Oceania, Terrence E. Hays, ed., pp. 273- 76. Boston: G.K. Hall-Macmillan, 1991. Des examens à l'infini. In Le statut du malade: XVIe-XXe siècles, Arlette LaFay, ed., pp. 123-38. Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 1991. Deciphering the Language of Things: Aesthetics and the Cultural Process. In The Language of Things, Pieter ter Keurs and Dirk Smidt, eds., pp. 37-44. Leiden: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, 1990. Christian Branches, Maori Roots: The Cult of Rua. (Prize essay, U.S.-New Zealand Council Competition.) History of Religions 30:154-78, 1990. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4151/1/history_religions1990.pdf The Eye of the Beholder: A Short History of the Study of Maori Art (with Louise Hanson). In Art and Identity in Oceania, Allan and Louise Hanson, eds., pp. 184-95. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. Introduction: Art, Identity and Self-Consciousness in Oceania (with Louise Hanson). In Art and Identity in Oceania, Allan and Louise Hanson, eds., pp. 1-4. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. What Employees Say About Drug Tests. Personnel, July 1990, pp. 32-36. Performances mentales et définition de la personne. Actions et Recherches Sociales, No. 2, juin 1990, pp. 31-36. (Issue titled Identités de papier.) The Making of the Maori: Culture Invention and its Logic. American Anthropologist 91:890-902, 1989. Structure in Objective History: A Reply to Webster. Journal of the Polynesian Society 97:325-29, 1988. Maori Religion. In Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade, ed., Vol. 9, pp. 178-82. New York: Macmillan, 1987. Polynesian Religions: An Overview. In Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade, ed., Vol. 11, pp. 423-32. New York: Macmillan, 1987. Trouble in the Family: New Zealand's Anti-Nuclear Policy. SAIS Review 7(1):139-55,

3 1987. Strictures and Ratiocinations: I.C. Jarvie's Philosophy for Anthropology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 16:489-99, 1986. Relativism. In The Social Science Encyclopedia, Adam and Jessica Kuper, eds., pp. 696- 98. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. From Symmetry to Anthropophagy: The Cultural Context of Maori Art. Empirical Studies of the Arts 3:47-62, 1985. Syntagmatic Structures: How the Maoris Make Sense of History. Semiotica 46:287-307, 1983. http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4210/1/semiotica.pdf Dynamic Forms in the Maori Concept of Reality. Ultimate Reality and Meaning 6:180- 204, 1983. When the Map is the Territory: Art in Maori Culture. In Structure and Cognition in Art, Dorothy K. Washburn, ed., pp. 74-89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Art and the Maori Construction of Reality. In Art and Artists of Oceania, Sidney M. Mead and Bernie Kernot, eds., pp. 210-25. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press, 1983. Stop the Arms Race. Kansas Alumni, November 1982, p. 4. Female Pollution in Polynesia? Journal of the Polynesian Society 91:335-81, 1982. Method in Semiotic Anthropology; or, How the Maori Latrine Means. In Studies in Symbolism and Cultural Communication, F. Allan Hanson, ed., pp. 74-89. Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology No. 14, 1982. Anthropologie und die Rationalitätsdebatte. In Der Wissenschaftler und das Irrationale, Hans Peter Duerr, ed., Vol. 1, pp. 245-72. Frankfurt am Main, Syndikat, 1981. The Cynernetics of Cultural Communication (with Louise Hanson). In Semiotic Themes, Richard DeGeorge, ed., pp. 251-73. Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications: Humanistic Studies, No. 53, 1981. The Semiotics of Ritual. Semiotica 33:169-78, 1981. Does God Have a Body? Truth, Reality and Cultural Relativism. Man 14:515-29, 1979. The Wife's Brother's Wife and the Marriage Contract: A Structural Analysis (with Floyd Miller). Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 133:11-22, 1977. Models and Social Reality: An Alternative to Caws. American Anthropologist 78:323-25, 1976. Political Change in Tahiti and Samoa: An Exercise in Experimental Anthropology. Ethnology 13:1-13, 1973. (A French translation of this paper appeared in Bulletin de la Société des Études Océaniennes, No. 186, pp. 363-76, 1974.) The Problem of Other Cultures (with Rex Martin). Philosophy of the Social Sciences 3:191-208, 1973. Nonexclusive Cognatic Descent Systems: A Polynesian Example. In Polynesia: Readings on a Culture Area, Alan Howard, ed., pp. 109-32. Scranton: Chandler, 1971. The Rapan Theory of Conception. American Anthropologist 72:1444-47, 1970. (A French translation of this paper appeared in Bulletin de la Société des Études Océaniennes, No. 170, pp. 81-84, 1970. Understanding in Philosophical Anthropology. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 1:61-70, 1970. (11/10)

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