Irene M Silverblatt, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, On Leave 07-08

Office Location:	119A Social Sciences Bldg., Box 90091
Office Phone:	(919) 684-3516
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• CULANTH 113.01, GENDER AND CULTURE Synopsis

  West Duke 108A, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• CULANTH 180S.07, CURRENT ISSUES (TOPICS) Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 204, W 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

• CULANTH 190.01, THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 204, MW 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

Education:

Ph,D.	University of Michigan	1981
M.A.	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	1971
B.A.	Swarthmore College	1970

Specialties:

Latin America
Ethnohistory
Ethnohistory
Political Economy
Nationalism
Gender

Research Interests:

Irene Silverblatt, Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1981, researches the cultural dimensions of state- building and colonization in Latin America. She is particularly interested in the relation of gender, racial discourses, and historical memory to the construction and experience of power. As a Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, she will be writing a social history of Peru's political ideologies and the making of colonial Andean subjects. These concerns, combined with an interest in the history of anthropology, orient her next project on the emerging fields of Andean ethnography--in the United States and Peru--during World War II and the first decades of the Cold War. Her publications include Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru (1987); "Imperial Dilemmas, the Politics of Kinship, and Inca Reconstructions of History," (1988), winner of the American Society for Ethnohistory's Heizer prize; and numerous articles.

Areas of Interest:

Politics of culture
state making and colonization
ethnohistory
gender
South America

Keywords:

Politics of culture • state making • colonization • ethnohistory • gender • South America

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Tracy Brown  
• Gonzalo Lamana  
• Tracy Brown  
• Gonzalo Lamana  

Postdocs Mentored

• Paloma Fernandez-Racines (1998/08-1999/07)  
• Paloma Fernandez-Racines (1998/08-1999/07)  

Recent Publications

1. with Irene Silverblatt and Helene Silverblatt editors and introduction, translated by Jerry Glenn and Florian Birkmayer with Helene Silverblatt and Irene Silverblatt, Harvest of Blossoms: Poems from a Life Cut Short (October, 2008) [html]
2. I. Silverblatt, Native Andeans Observe Spanish Colonials, in Europe Observed, edited by Clement Hawes and KumKum Chaterjee (2008), Bucknell University Press
3. I.M. Silverblatt, "Forward", Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, in Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, edited by M. O'Hara and A. Fisher (2008), Duke University Press
4. I.M. Silverblatt, "The Black Legend and Global Conspiracies: The Spanish Inquisition, Race-Thinking and the Emerging Modern World:, in Rereading the Black Legend, edited by Margaret Greer and Walter Mignolo (2007), University of Chicago Press
5. I.M. Silverblatt, Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World (December, 2004), Duke University Press  [abs]