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Rosalind C. Morris
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Columbia University
Anthropology |
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Biography
Rosalind Morris focuses her fieldwork in two main areas: Thailand and
South Africa. Over the past decade, she has devoted her attention to
thinking about a number of inter-related issues and questions
concerning: the history of modernity in Southeast Asia and the place of
the mass media in its development; the relationships between value and
violence; the sexualization of power and desire; the theorization of
gender; and the history of anthropological thought and social theory.
In her writings on all of these issues, she attends to questions of
representation. Her writings include monographs on spirit mediumship
and the mass media in Northern Thailand, the archive of visual
anthropology, and the afterlife of apartheid in South Africa’s mining
towns. Other essays have addressed the history of fetishism, the
violence of culture in anthropological theory, translation and
radicalism, mediatic war, photography and its discontents, sex, gender
and sexuality, and art in South Africa. She is a former Director of the
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Associate Director of
the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, and the former
co-editor of CONNECT: art, politics, theory, culture.
Representative Publications:
1994. New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography and the Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures (Boulder: Westview Press).
1995. “ALL MADE UP: ‘ALL MADE UP: Performance Theory and the New Anthropology of Sex and Gender.’ Annual Review of Anthropology 24:567-92.
1998. ‘Surviving Pleasure at the Periphery: Chiang Mai and the Photographies of Political Trauma in Thailand, 1976-1992’, Public Culture 25:341-70.
1998. ‘Educating Desire: Thailand, Transnationalism, Transgression’, Social Text 52-53:53-79.
2000. In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand (Durham: Duke University Press).
2004. ‘Intimacy and Corruption in Thailand’s Age of Transparency,’ in Off Stage, On Display: Intimacy and Ethnography in the Age of Public Culture, edited by Andrew Shryock. Stanford: Stanford University, pp.225-43.
2005. ‘Fetishism: Overview’. In New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Vol II, Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp.822-826.
In press. ‘The Mute and the Unspeakable: Political Subjectivity,
Violent Crime, and ‘the Sexual Thing’ in a South African Mining
Community,’ in Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, edited by Jean and John Comaroff. University of Chicago Press. | |
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