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
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.
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2010 Of Cannibals and Kings - Primal Anthropology in the Americas (Pennsylvania State University Press)
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2009 Anthropologies of Guayana (ed. with Stephanie Aleman, Arizona University Press); Humanistic Approaches to Violence (Special Issue) Anthropology and Humanism 34 (Washington D.C.: American Anthropological Association)
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2008 Hans Staden's True History - An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil (ed. with M. Harbsmeier, Duke University Press)
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2005 Terror and Violence - Anthropological Approaches (ed. with Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, Pluto Press)
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2004 Violence (ed. James Currey / SAR Press); In Darkness and Secrecy - The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia (ed. with Robin Wright, Duke University Press); Nineteenth Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910, South America (ed. Chatto and Pickering)
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2003 Histories and Historicities in Amazonia (University of Nebraska Press)
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2002 Dark Shamans - Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death (Duke University Press)
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2001 Beyond the Visible and the Material (ed. with Laura Rival, Oxford University Press)
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2000 War in the Tribal Zone - Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare (ed. with R.B. Ferguson, School of American Research Press: Santa Fe, 2nd Edition)
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