James M. Wilce, Jr. (Northern Arizona University)

submitted: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 12:03:32 -0700 (MST)

James M. Wilce, Jr.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
P.O. Box 15200
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ  86011-5200  USA

phone: 520-523-2729 
FAX:   520-523-9135
email: jmw@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu

Description of work:

My 1983 M.A. thesis was entitled "Caste and class among South Asian
Muslims: Changing patterns of identity and ideology."  Between the
completion of the M.A. and Ph.D.  I spent five years in Bangladesh.  I
received the Ph.D. in (linguistic) Anthropology from UCLA in 1994, where I
wrote, "Repressed eloquence: Patients as subjects and objects of
complaints in Matlab, Bangladesh."  My research interests include
linguistic ideologies; language and power, gender, and person; medical and
psychological anthropology; the social construction of the person in South
Asia; family and socialization; Bengali sociolinguistics and diglossia;
the social history of the Bengali language; the Maler ("Paharia") language
[Dravidian family]; women's status in modern South Asia; the "mentally
ill" or those so-labelled; Islam and Hinduism.