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January 2014

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr. Address: Department of Anthropology 25 Waverly Place New York, NY 10003-6790 (212)998-8561 Date of Birth: April 15, 1941, in Champaign, Illinois

EDUCATION

1963 A.B., Spanish History and Literature, Harvard College. 1971 Ph.D., Social Anthropology, .

PRIZES AND GRANTS

1963 Phi Beta Kappa; A.B. Degree awarded Magna Cum Laude. 1974 NSF field research grant; Mellon award for Stanford Junior Faculty leave. 1975-76 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 1980-81 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. Ford Foundation Fellowship. 1981 Fulbright Teaching Fellow, UP College Baguio, Philippines. 1983 Harry Benda Prize for Southeast Asian Studies. Awarded by Association for Asian Studies, March 26. 1986-87 Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford. 1987-90 Mellon Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Term Endowed Chair at Stanford. 1991 American Educational Studies 1991 Critics' Choice Award for Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis 1991-95 President-Elect and President, American Ethnological Society. 1992- The Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Permanent Endowed Chair at Stanford. 1993 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. 1996 Society for the Anthropological Study of North America Prize for the Critical Study of North America. 1997 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1998 NACCS Scholar, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies 1998-99 Fulbright Fellow, research in Guadalajara, Mexico

1 2000 Winner, individual poem contest, El Andar, for El ángel de la guarda. 2004 American Book Award, for Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña. 2005 Winner, individual poem contest, Many Mountains Moving, for Tilt. 2010 Winner, Poetry Book Manuscript Contest, Many Mountains Moving, for Diego Luna’s Insider Tips, selected by Martin Espada.

LANGUAGES

Native speaking and writing knowledge of Spanish. Fluent control of Ilongot, a Philippine language. Good conversational and excellent reading knowledge of French. Knowledge of Portuguese; lesser knowledge of Latin and Tagalog.

FIELD EXPERIENCE

1961 Summer: in Ecuador: a Quechua life history. 1962 Summer: in Ecuador and Perú: migrant labor. 1965 Summer: in Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico: ritual. 1966 Summer: continuation of 1965 project. 1967-69 Northern Luzon, Philippines: Ilongot social structure. 1974 Ilongot ethnographic history. 1981 Two months: Ilongot revisit; Ifugao survey. 1990-98 Summers: San José, CA: Cultural Citizenship.

BOOKS

1980 Ilongot Headhunting. 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History. Stanford: Press. (Chinese translation, Peking University Press, 2012).

1989 Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press. (Spanish translation, Editorial Grijalbo, 1992; British edition, Routledge, 1993; Second edition, Beacon, 1993; Japanese translation, Japan Editor School, 1997, Korean translation, Daewoo Academic Books, 2000; new Spanish translation, Editorial Abya-Yala; Italian translation, Meltemi, 2001.)

2003 Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña (poetry collection). Saltillo, MX: ICOCULT.

2006 Renato Rosaldo: Ensayos en antropología crítica. Ed by Rodrigo Díaz Cruz. Mexico City, UAM-Ixtapalapa and Juan Pablo.

2012 Diego Luna’s Insider Tips (poetry collection). Philadelphia: Many Mountains Moving. Philadelphia.

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2014 The Day of Shelly’s Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief. Durham: Duke University Press. n.d. Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (operetta with composers Cristian Amigo and Gustavo Aguilar). Libretto completed, music in process. n.d. The Chasers: A Chicano Gang of the Late Fifties and Its Reunions. Documentary Film/Antropoesía. In preparation. n.d. Cultural Poetics: Reflections on the Writing of Ethnography. In preparation.

EDITED BOOKS

1982 Co-editor (with George Collier and John Wirth) of The Incas and the Aztecs, 1400-1800. New York: Academic Press.

1993 Co-editor (with Smadar Lavie and Kirin Narayan) of Creativity/Anthropology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

2001 Co-editor (with Jon Inda) of Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. New York: Blackwell’s. [Second Edition, revised, 2007]

2003 Editor of Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2007 Co-editor (with Juan Flores) Companion to Latino Studies. New York: Blackwell’s.

ARTICLES

1968 Metaphors of Hierarchy in a Mayan Ritual. American Anthropologist 70: 524-536.

1970 Ilongot Kin Terms: A Bilateral System of Northern Luzon, Philippines. In Proceedings of VIIIth International Conqress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 1968, Tokyo and Kyoto, Vol II. Tokyo: Social Science Council of Japan, pp. 81-84.

1975 The Ilongot. In Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia edited by Frank LeBar. New Haven: HRAF Press. Vol. 2, pp. 103-106. (co-authored with ). 1975 Where Precision Lies: "The Hill People Once Lived on a Hill." In The Interpretation of Symbolism edited by R. G. Willis. London: Malaby Press, pp. 1-22.

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1976 The Story of Tukbaw: "They Listen as He Orates." In The Biographical Process: Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Donald Capps. The Hague: Mouton, pp. 121-151.

1977 Review essay on Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology by Mary Douglas. American Journal of Sociology 82:1152-1156.

1978 The Rhetoric of Control: Ilongots Viewed as Natural Bandits and Wild Indians. In The Reversible World edited by Barbara Babcock. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 240-257.

1978 Lope as a Poet of History: History and Ritual in El testimonio vengado. In Perspectivas de la Comedia, Estudios de Hispanofila, Coleccion Siglo de Oro, No. 6 edited by Alva V. Ebersole, pp. 9-32.

1978 Viewed from the Valleys: Five Names for Ilongots, 1645-1969. In Social Change in Modern Philippines: Perspectives, Problems, Prospects edited by Mario Zamora, Donald Baxter, and Robert Lawless. Papers in Anthropology, Vol. 19. No. 1, pp. 1-9.

1980 Doing Oral History. Social Analysis 4:89-99.

1981 Ilongot Social Relations of Subsistence. In Adaptive Strategies and Change in Philippine Swidden-based Societies edited by Harold Olofson. Quezon City, Philippines: PDM Press, Inc., pp. 29-41.

1981 The Cultural Impact of the Printed Word: A Review Article. Comparative Studies in Society and History 23: 508-513.

1982 Utter Savages of Scientific Value. In Politics and History in Band Societies edited by Eleanor Leacock and Richard Lee. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 309-325.

1982 Afterword. In The Incas and the Aztecs, 1400-1800 edited by George Collier, Renato Rosaldo, and John Wirth. New York: Academic Press, pp. 459-464.

1984 Grief and a Headhunter's Rage. In Text. Play, and Story, 1983 Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society edited by Edward Bruner. Washington, D.C., pp. 178-195.

1984 Ilongot Naming: The Play of Associations. Naminq Systems: 1980 Proceedings of the American Ethnoloqical Society edited by Elizabeth Tooker. Washington, D.C., pp. 11-24.

4 1985 While Making Other Plans. Southern California Law Review 58 (1): 19-28.

1985 Review essay on Interpretation in the Human Sciences. Contemporary Sociology 14 (5): 566-569.

1985 Chicano Studies, 1970-1984. Annual Review of Anthropology 14: 405-427.

1986 From the Door of His Tent: The Fieldworker and the Inquisitor. In Writinq Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography edited by James Clifford and George Marcus. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 77-97.

1986 When Natives Talk Back: Chicano Anthropology Since the Late Sixties. In The Renato Rosaldo Lectures, 1985. Tucson, Mexican-American Studies and Research Center, pp. 3-20.

1986 Ilongot Hunting as Story and Experience. In The Anthropology of Experience edited by Victor Turner and Edward Bruner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 97-138.

1986 Red Hornbill Earrings: Ilongot Ideas of Self, Beauty, and Health. Cultural Anthropology 1(3): 310-316.

1987 Politics, Patriarchs, and Laughter. Cultural Critique 6: 65-86.

1987 Anthropological Commentary and Discussion. In Violent Origins: Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation edited by Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 239-256.

1987 Where Objectivity Lies: The Rhetoric of Anthropology. In The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences edited by John Nelson and Donald McCloskey. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 87-110.

1988 Ethnic Concentrations: The Ilongots in Upland Luzon. In Ethnic Boundaries in Southeast Asia edited by A. Terry Rambo, Kathleen Gillogly, and Karl L. Hutterer. Ann Arbor: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, pp. 161-171.

1988 Ideology, Place, and People Without Culture. Cultural Anthropology 3(1):77-87.

1988 Assimilation Revisited. In Times of Challenqe: Chicanos and Chicanas in American Society edited by Juan R. García, Julia Curry Rodríguez, and Clara Lomas. Houston: Mexican American Studies Monograph Series No. 6, pp 43-49.

1988 Death in the Ethnographic Present. Poetics Today 9(2):425-434.

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1990 Review essay on Others of Invention: Ethnicity and Its Discontents. Voice Literary Supplement 82: 27-29.

1990 Celebrating Thompson's Heroes: Social Analysis in History and Anthropology. In E.P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives edited by Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland. Oxford: Polity Press, pp. 103-124.

1991 Fables of the Fallen Guy. In Criticism in the Borderlands edited by Héctor Calderón and José Saldívar. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 84-93.

1993 Notes Toward a Critique of Patriarchy from a Male Position. Anthropological Ouarterly 66(2): 81-86.

1993 Creativity in Anthropology. In Creativity/Anthropology edited by Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, and Renato Rosaldo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 1-8. (With Smadar Lavie and Kirin Narayan).

1994 Social Justice and the Crisis of National Communities. In Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory edited by Frances Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 239-252.

1994 Cultural Citizenship and Educational Democracy. Cultural Anthropology 9(3): 402-411.

1994 Whose Cultural Studies? American Anthropologist 96(3): 524-529.

1994 Race and Other Inequalities in Arturo Islas's Migrant Souls. In Race edited by Steven Gregory and Roger Sanjek. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, pp. 213-225.

1994 Cultural Citizenship in San Jose, California. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 17(1): 57-63.

1994 Ciudadanía cultural en San José, California. De lo global a lo local: Perspectivas desde la antropología. Mexico City: Metropolitan Autonomous University, Ixtapalapa, pp. 67-88.

1994 Still Looking for America: Beyond the Latino National Political Survey. (Co- authored with Luis Fraga, Herman Gallegos, Gerald P. Lopez, Mary Louise Pratt, Jose Saldivar, Ramon Saldivar, and Guadalupe Valdes) Stanford: Stanford Center for Chicano Research.

1995 Entrevista con Renato Rosaldo: Universidad y multiculturalidad en Estados

6 Unidos, por Rosalía Winocur. La Jornada Semanal No. 295, February 5: 26-29.

1995 Forward. Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity. Néstor García Canclini. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. xi-xvii.

1995 New Students Don't Laugh at the Old Jokes. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Reivew 18(2):1-5.

1995 Cultura Nacional en la zona fronteriza. Situando (Locating) y dislocando (dislocating) la gran cultura mexicana. Cuicuilco 2(5)121-125.

1996 La propuesta 187, la línea y el mexicano imaginario. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 46: 9-18.

1996 Forward: One Anthropologist's View of Borders. Stanford Law Review 48(3): 1037-1045.

1997 Cultural Citizenship, Inequality, Multiculturalism. Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights edited by William Flores and Rina Benmayor. Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 27-38.

1997 Identity, Conflict, and Evolving Latino Communities: Cultural Citizenship in San José, California (with William Flores). Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights edited by William Flores and Rina Benmayor. Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 57-96.

1997 Geertz as a Cultural Essayist. Representations 59: 30-34.

1997 Ciudadanía cultural y minorías latinas en Estados Unidos. Culturas políticas a fin de siglo ed. by Rosalía Winocur. Mexico: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, pp. 242-264.

1999 Ciudadanía cultural, desigualdad, multiculturalidad. El Bordo 2(3): 9-23.

1999 Identidades y movimientos sociales en Norteamérica. Auto-etnografía desde el punto de vista de uno de sus participantes. Política y Sociedad (30) Madrid, pp. 53-59.

2000 Of Headhunters and Soldiers: Separating Cultural and Ethical Relativism. Issues in Ethics 11(1):2-6.

2001 Conversazione con Renato Rosaldo, by Fiamma Montezemolo. Cultura e verita. Rome: Meltemi, pp. 311-346.

2001 Reflections on Interdisciplinarity. In Schools of Thought: Twenty-five Years of

7 Interpretive Social Science edited by Joan Scott and Debra Keates. Princeton: Princeton UP. Pp. 67-82

2001 El angel de la guarda: Lessons of Writing Poetry. Rhetoric Review 20(3/4): 359- 367.

2002 Culture, Power, and Truth, a Virtual Interview with Renato Rosaldo by Lane Hirabayashi. Amerasia 28(2):108-127.

2003 Translating Herstory: A Reading of and Responses to Elba Rosario Sanchez. In Chicana Feminisms: Disrpuptions in Dialogue edited by Gabriela Arredondo, Aida Hurtado, Olga Najera-Ramirez, Norma Klahn, and Patricia Zavella. Durham: Duke University Press. Pp. 52-58.

2003 Género y modernidad: tres sujetos latinos en San José, California. Fronteras de la modernidad en América Latina. Editores Hermann Herlinghaus. Universidad de Pittsburgh. Pp. 193-198.

2003 Introduction: The Borders of Belonging. In Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands ed. by Renato Rosaldo. Berkeley: UC Press, pp. 1-15.

2005 Forward: Defining Culture. In Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines ed. By John R. Baldwin, Sandra L. Faulkner, Michael L. Hecht, and Sherlyl L. Lindsley. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Pub., pp. ix-xiii.

2005 The Social Life of an Art Installation. In Critical Perspectives: Writings on Art and Civic Dialogue. Ed. By Caron Atlas and PamKorza. Washington, D.C.: Americans for the Arts. Pp. 135-140.

2006 Identity Politics: An Ethnography by a Participant. In Identity Politics Reconsidered. Ed. By Linda Martin Alcoff, Michael Hames-Garcia, Satya P. Mohanty, Paula M. L. Moya. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 118-125.

2007 Geertz’s Gifts. Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 206-210.

2007-2008 Interview, Renato Rosaldo, by Luis Quintais, Antropologia Portuguesa 24-25: 185-188.

2011 La narrativa en la etnografía: El imaginario asimétrico, el punto de vista, y la desigualdad. In Amtropolgía ahora: Debates sobre la alteridad. Compiladores Alejandro Grimson, Silvina Merenso, Gabriel Noel. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, pp. 61-69.

8 2012 La verdad narrativa. Compartir el patrimonio cultural inmaterial: narrativas y representaciones. Compiladora Lourdes Arizpe. CRIM: CONACULTA, pp. 55- 63.

2013 Evaluation of Items on Intangible Cultural Heritage. Anthopological Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage. Edited by Lourdes Arizpe and Cristina Amescua. New York: Springer, pp. 37-38.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Positions Held: 1970-76 Assistant Professor, Stanford University. 1976-85 Associate Professor, Stanford University. 1985-03 Professor, Stanford University. 2003- Professor, New York University

Courses given since 1983: Cultural Citizenship Cultural Studies Latino Literature Contemporary Latino Cultures Approaches to Latino Culture Chicano Life and Culture Theory in Social Anthropology Anthropology and History Europe and the Americas Pre-field seminar Post-field seminar: Subordination (given jointly at Law School) Religion Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology . Religion Stories in Culture Island Southeast Asia

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES SINCE 1983

Stanford: 1982-85 Selection Committee: Humanities Center Fellows. 1982-94 Committee-in-Charge: Modern Thought and Literature. 1984,88 Chair, Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellows Selection Committee. 1984-85 Co-coordinator, Faculty Seminar on Interpretation. 1985-89 Director, Stanford Center for Chicano Research. 1986-94 Convenor, Cultural Studies Seminar.

9 1987-90 Advisory Board, Institute for Research on Women and Gender. 1988-94 Advisory Board, Stanford Humanities Center. 1994-96 Chair, Stanford Department of Anthropology

NYU: 2003-06 Director, Latino Studies, 2010 Director, Latino Studies (spring) 2011 Director, Latino Studies (spring)

National and International: 1980-96 Editorial Board, Book Series: The Ethnography of Form and Meaning. University of Arizona Press. 1982-84 Philippine Studies Executive Committee. 1983-91 Editorial Board, Book Series: Ethnographic Inquiry. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1983-89 Editorial Board, Ethnohistory, a quarterly journal. 1984-86 Review Panel: National Science Foundation Grants in Anthropology. 1985-91 Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology, Journal for the Society of Cultural Anthropology. 1986-92 Joint Committee on Southeast Asia, Social Science Research Council. 1986-90 National Advisory Board, Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, University of Iowa. 1989-94 Editorial Board, American Ethnologist, Journal for the American Ethnological Society. 1991-95 Editorial Board, Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, and Science. 1993-98 Editorial Board, American Anthropologist, Journal for the American Anthropological Association. 1996-99 Editorial Board, Americas Cultural Studies Series, U. of Pennsylvania Press. 1998-2002 Editorial Board, European Journal of Cultural Studies 2000-04 Editorial Board, Cultural Studies 2001-04 Editorial Board, Avatar: Dislocazioni tra antropologia e comunicazione (Italy) 2008- Editorial Board, Desacatos, Mexican Journal of Anthropology 2011- Poetry Editor, Anthropology and Humanism.

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