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James W. Fernandez (PhD, Northwestern 1962),
Professor of
Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, has done
ethnographic research in Africa and is presently working in
northern Spain on regionalism, on shifting lifeways (from
agro-pastoralism to mining to reindustrialization) and on
revitalization processes. He is interested in short-range social
and cultural evolution and how, by various imaginative devices,
local communities narrate their past, understand their present
circumstances, and seek to foretell their future. A semantic
theory of tropes has been central to the analysis of this
"time-binding" of past, present and future.
Publications:
1991 (Editor, Preface and Introduction) Beyond Metaphor: The
Theory of Tropes in Anthropology. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, pp. 1-13.
1992 Architectonic Inquiry: Review Article. Semiotica 89 (1-3):
215-226.
1992 What I Learned from "The Parrot's Egg" and "The Bull
Who Crashes in the Kraal": The Senses of Time Binding and
Turn Taking in Being With the Other. In C.W. Gailey, ed.
Dialectical Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Stanley Diamond.
Vol II. The Politics of Culture and Creativity: A Critique of
Civilization. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp.
209-216
1993 Advice to the Perplexed Ethnographer in An Age of
Soundbites. The America Ethnologist. 20:179-184.
1994 Time on Our Hands. In D.D Fowler and D.L. Hardesty,
eds., Others Knowing Others:Perspectives on Ethnographic
Careers. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press,
pp.118-144.
1994 Egocentric Particulars: Pronominal Perspectives in
Ethnographic Inquiry. In G. Bibeau and E. Cornin, eds., The
Order of the Text. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 303-326.
1995 Culture and Transcendent Humanization: On the Dynamic
of the Categorical. Ethnos Vol 59(3-4), 143-167.
1996 Amazing Grace: Meaning Deficit, Displacement and New
Consciousness in Expressive Interaction. In A.P. Cohen & N.
Rapport, eds., Questions of Consciousness. London:
Routledge, 21-40.
1998 The North-South Axis in European Popular Cosmologies
and the Dynamic of the Categorical. American Anthropologist.
99(4): 713-730.
1998 Trees of Knowledge of Self and Other in Culture: On
Models of the Moral Imagination.In L. Rival & M. Bloch, eds.,
The Social Use of Trees. Oxford: Berg, 81-110.
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