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Title: Associate Professor,
Education Ph.D. Columbia University, Department of Anthropology
My research interests are somewhat diverse, including 19th century New England upper-class folks, indigenous South and Central Americans, and Haitian immigrants. I study identity formation, religion, social class, and capitalist myths of the market. These topics are loosely tied together by my focus on the uses and meanings or relations of unequal power. This is a continuation of a long-term study of a Connecticut factory, the Collins Company, manufacturers of axes, adzes, and other edged tools. The research concerns the company's sales of agricultural tools to the West Indies, which began in 1835 and continued for most of the 20th century. I am looking at the complex political, economic, and social relations which connect the owners, workers, suppliers and buyers in this small section of the global economy. Recent Publications: Rum and Axes: The rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850. Cornell University Press. 2002. The Invention of Thanksgiving: An American Ritual of nationality, Critique of Anthropology 12:167-191, 1992 (reprinted in Food in the USA: A Reader, ed. by Carol Counihan, in press) Class Discourse in an Early 19th-Century New England Factory. Dialectical Anthropology 16:35-48, 1991 Boundaries of Gender and Class. Reviews in Anthropology 19:195-202, 1991 An Axe to Grind: Class and Health in a 19th-Century Factory. Medical Anthropological Quarterly 2:199-214, 1988 (reprinted in Illness and the Environment, NYU, 2000) |
Janet
Siskind, Ph.D.