Neil L. Whitehead

D.Phil. University of Oxford, 1984
Professor of Anthropology
At UW-Madison since 1993

Cultural Anthropology

Affiliations: Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies, Religious Studies

Research

Current topics of research include violence and the cultural order; shamanism and sorcery; vampires, zombies and the body; cultural landscapes and development; ethnopornography; captives and castaways. Areas of regional specialization include South America and the Caribbean, particularly Amazonia and the anglo/francophone Caribbean.

Select Publications

• 2005 Terror and Violence - Anthropological Approaches . (ed with Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, Pluto Press).
• 2004 Violence . (SAR Press)
• 2004 In Darkness and Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. (ed. with Robin Wright) Duke University Press .
• 2004 Nineteenth Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910; South America , (ed.). Chatto & Pickering.
• 2003 Histories and Historicities in Amazonia, (ed.). University of Nebraska Press.
• 2002 Dark Shamans. Kanaim and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press.
• 2001 Beyond the Visible and the Material, (ed. with Laura Rival). Oxford University Press.

Curriculum Vitae

Neil L. Whitehead CV

Contact

Office: 5325 Sewell Social Science Bldg.
Office phone: (608) 262-7395
Email address: nlwhiteh@wisc.edu

Links

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