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| Diane M Nelson, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
 - Contact Info:
| Office Location: | 106 Social Sciences | | Office Phone: | (919) 684-2069 | | Email Address: |   | Teaching (Fall 2009):
- CULANTH 104.01, ANTHROPOLOGY AND FILM
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 240, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM; Social Sciences 136, M 07:15 PM-10:00 PM
- CULANTH 191U.01, MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 204, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Teaching (Spring 2010):
- CULANTH 194.01, FIELDWORK METHODS
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 204, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- CULANTH 307S.01, FACTS OF LIFE
- Friedl Bdg 204, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
- Education:
| PhD | Stanford University | 1996 |
| MA | Stanford University | 1992 |
| B.A. | Wellesley College | 1985 |
| Junior year abroad | Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain | 1983 |
| American Field Service 4-month student exchange | Mérida, Mexico | 1980 |
- Specialties:
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Identity
4120
1981
Gender
Central America & the Caribbean
- Research Interests:
I began fieldwork in Guatemala in 1985
exploring the
impact of civil war on highland indigenous
communities
with a focus on the more than 100,000 people
made
into refugees and 200,000 people murdered
in what
the United Nations has called genocidal
violence.
Since then my research has sought to
understand the
causes and effects of this violence, including
the
destruction and reconstruction of community
life
(Guatemala: Los Polos de Desarrollo: El
Caso de la
Desestructuracin de las Comunidades
Indigenas
CEIDEC1988). In A Finger in the Wound: Body
Politics
in Quincentennial Guatemala (University of
California
Press 1999) I describe the relationship
between the
Guatemalan state and the Mayan cultural
rights
movement. When asked about indigenous
organizing
many Guatemalans call it "a finger in the
wound." How
do material bodies those literally wounded in
35- years
of civil war, and those locked in the fear-laden
embrace
of sexual conquest, domestic labor, mestizaje,
and
social change movements relate to the
wounded body
politic? My work draws on popular culture like
jokes,
rumors, global TV, and subjugated dreams of
a "new
race" as well as contemporary theories of
political
economy, subject-formation, the post-colonial,
memory,
and ethnic, national, gender, and sexual
identifications.
It explores the relations among Mayan rights
activists,
ladino (non-indigenous) Guatemalans, the
state, and
transnational contexts including
anthropologists. My
new project grows from my interests in
cultural studies
and cyborg anthropology and explores
science and
technology development in Guatemala and
Latin
America more generally. I am focusing on
laboratory
and clinical research on vector and
blood-borne
diseases like malaria and dengue and the
intersection
of this knowledge production with health care
in the
midst of neo-liberal reforms and popular
demands. In the summer of 2003 I began
new fieldwork on this interest in Venezuela,
while continuing my research in Guatemala.
- Areas of Interest:
- Cultural anthropology
ethnic national identities
critical theory
gender
popular culture
power and subject formation
Mesoamerica
- Keywords:
- Cultural anthropology • ethnic national identities • critical theory • gender • popular culture • power and subject formation • science and technology studies • Mesoamerica
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Marcelo Fernandez
- Brian Goldstone
- Neta Bar
- Jenny Woodruff
- Iara Diaz
- Beatriz Rodriguez
- Attiya Ahmad
- Leigh Campoamor
- Jason Cross
- Dwayne Dixon
- Alvaro Jarrin
- Netta R. van Vliet
- Caroline Yezer
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- D.M. Nelson and Carlota McAllister, Revisiting Guatemala's Harvest of Violence
(2010), Duke University Press [author's comments]
- D.M. Nelson, 100% OMNILIFE: Health, Economy, and the End/s of War,
in Revisiting the Harvest of Violence, edited by McAllister, Carlot and Diane M. Nelson
(2010)
- D.M. Nelson, Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala
(February, 2009), Duke University Press [abs]
- D.M. Nelson, Los efectos especiales del horror,
in Re-pensando la violencia, edited by Julian Lopez García and Santiago Bastos
(2009), University of Cordoba, Spain
- D.M. Nelson, Review of Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature,
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
(2009)
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