Rosalind C. Morris (Columbia University, New York, New York)
Submitted: Thurs, February 25, 2010
Rosalind C. Morris
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
859 Schermerhorn Ext, MC 5540
New York, New York 10027 USA
phone: 212 854 4719
fax: 212-854-7347
e-mail: rcm24@columbia.edu
Rosalind Morris focuses her fieldwork in two main areas: South Africa and
mainland Southeast Asia, especially Thailand. Her earlier work focused on
the history of modernity in Southeast Asia and the place of the mass media
in its development, particularly in the encounter between old and new
forms of mediation. More recently, she has been working on an ethnography
of South Africa's mining communities.
Selected publications:
2009. Editor of
Photographies East: The Camera and its Histories in East and Southeast
Asia. Durham: Duke University Press.
2008 "Witchcraft," Social Text 95 (2008):113-33.
2008 "Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in
South Africa's Age of Epidemic," Public Culture. 20:2 (2008):199-231.
2008 "The Miner's Ear," Transition 98 (2008): 96-115
2008 "Giving up Ghosts." Positions, Spring 2008, pp. 209-37.
2007 "The War Drive: Image Files Corrupted," Social Text, Special Issue
on War, edited by Patrick Deer. 91:103-42.
2007 "Legacies of Derrida: Anthropology," Annual Review of
Anthropology, Volume 36: 355-89.
2006 "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.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 57-101.
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.
2000. In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern
Thailand. Durham: Duke University Press.
1994. New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography and the
Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures. Boulder: Westview Press.