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Linda J. Seligmann
Professor of Anthropology
Coordinator, Anthropology Program
lseligm2@gmu.edu
Degrees Accomplished:
B.A. (Anthropology), Pomona College; M.A. (Institute of Latin American Studies-Anthropology; Spanish American Literature), University of Texas-Austin; Ph.D. (Anthropology), University of Illinois-Urbana
Areas of Focus:
political economy; gender, class and ethnicity; anthropological theory and methods; language and culture; migration and immigration, Latin America, with emphasis on the Andean region (Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia).
Past projects:
violence and agrarian reform in Andean region; informal economy and women traders in Andean region and cross-culturally; irrigation systems and environmental knowledge; relationship between history and myth through oral traditions.
Ongoing projects:
transnational adoptions, China.
Major Publications:
Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press, "Interpretation of Culture in the New Millennium" series).
Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares (edited volume). Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2001.
Between Reform and Revolution: Political Struggles in the Peruvian Andes, 1969-1991. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1995.
“The Art of Expressive Exchange: The Mediation of Quechua Identity in the Marketplace.” In John Schechter and Guillermo Delgado, eds. Inscribing Andean Voices: Quechua Verbal Artistry. In press. (BAS, Bonn, Germany)
“Anthropology, Highland Ethnology: South America,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 59. Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress. In press. (University of Texas Press).
"Maternal Politics, Economic Models, and Religious Fervor: A Woman Trader's Accounts of Exchanges in an Andean Market." In Judith Martí and Tamar Diana Wilson, eds. Women in the Informal Sector: Case Studies and Theoretical Approaches. In press. (Association of American University Presses).
"Civil War in Peru: Culture and Violence in Historical Perspective." In R. Brian Ferguson, ed. The State, Identity and Violence. Pp. 117-48. Routledge. 2002.
“Market Places, Social Spaces, in Cuzco, Peru.” Urban Anthropology 29(1): 1-68. April 2000.
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"Systems of Knowledge and Authority in the Huanoquite Landscape." In Gary Urton and Deborah Poole, eds. Structure, Knowledge and Representation in the Andes: Studies Presented to Reiner Tom Zuidema on the Occasion of His Retirement. Special Issue of the Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society, 25(2): 27-55. 1999.
"Survival Politics and the Movements of Market Women in Peru in the Age of Neoliberalism," In Lynne Phillips, ed. The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism 65-82. Jaguar Books (Scholarly Resources). 1998.
"An Andean Irrigation System: Ecological Visions and Social Organization," (with Stephen G. Bunker). In David Guillet and William Mitchell, eds. Irrigation at High Altitudes: The Social Organization of Water Control Systems in the Andes, 203-32. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Assoc. 1994.
"The Burden of Visions amidst Reform: Peasant Relations to Law in the Peruvian Andes." American Ethnologist 20(1): 25-51. 1993.
"Between Worlds of Exchange: Ethnicity among Peruvian Market Women." Cultural Anthropology 8(2): 187-213. 1993.
"To Be in Between: The Cholas As Market Women in Peru." Comparative Studies in Society and History 31(4):694?721. 1989.
"The Chicken in Andean History and Myth: The Quechua Concept of Wallpa." Ethnohistory 34(2):139?170. 1987.
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Syllabus:
Introduction Syllabus
Latin American Syllabus
Multiple Perspective Syllabus
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