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Mark Anderson Home  Directory Mark Anderson
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology |
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mda@ucsc.edu |
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(831) 459-3350 Office |
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Social Sciences 1, 329 |
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Fri 1pm-3pm |
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| Education History | |
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin |
| Courses Taught | |
ANTH 130F - African Diaspora in the Americas
ANTH 159 - Race and Anthropology
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Teaching Specialties: Race & ethnicity, diasporas & transnationalism, Latin America, social theory
Area of Research: Identity formation, peoples of African descent and indigenous rights in Honduras and Latin America
Area of Fieldwork: Honduras, Central America |
| Long Description | |
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The research and writing of Mark Anderson investigates the intersection between identity politics within nation-states and transnational processes of cultural exchange and racial identification. He has focused on constructions of racial and cultural identity among Garifuna in Honduras, examining how processes of diasporic identifications as “Black” under the signs of modernity and tradition relate to forms of ethnic organization and mobilization under the auspices of indigenous rights. His book on this work is titled Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Cultures in Honduras and is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in November, 2009. Mark is developing a future project on the tourist industry in Honduras and has begun to publish on the politics of race in the history of 20th century U.S. anthropology. |
| Selected Publications | |
Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras, forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in November, 2009.
“The Complicated Career of Hugh Smythe … Anthropologist and Ambassador: The Early Years, 1940-50.” Transforming Anthropology 16(2):128-146(19), 2008.
"When Afro Becomes (like) Indigenous: Garifuna and Afro-Indigenous Politics in Honduras"
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 12(2):384-413, 2007.
"Bad Boys and Peaceful Garifuna: Transnational Encounters Between Racial Stereotypes of Honduras and the United States." In Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos, edited by A. Dzidzienyo and S. Oboler, pp. 101-116. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
"¿Auténtica Cultura Africana en Honduras? Los Afro-centroamericanos desafian el mestizaje indo-hispánico hondureño" (co-authored with Sarah England). In Memorias del Mestizaje, edited by Charles Hale, Jeffrey Gould and Darío Euraque. Antigua, Guatemala: Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica, 2004.
“¿Existe el Racismo en Honduras? Discursos Garífunas Sobre Raza y Racismo,”
Mesoamérica 22(42):135-163, 2002.
“The African Diaspora: Toward an Ethnography of Diasporic Identification.”
(co-authored with Edmund T. Gordon). Journal of American Folklore
112(445):282-296,1999. |
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