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Daniel T. Linger

Daniel T. Linger   
    Title:  Professor of Anthropology
    Email:  touro@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-4684 Office
    Office:  Social Sciences 1, 331
    Office Hours:  Wed 10am-12pm

Education History 
B.A., University of Michigan
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Courses Taught 
ANTH 130B - Brazil

Research Focus 
Teaching Specialties: Brazil, psychological anthropology, politics, and cities.

Area of Research: Violence, politics, and transnational experience.

Area of Fieldwork: Brazil, Japan.

Long Description 
Daniel Linger's research has centered on face-to-face conflict, violent events, politics, transnational migration, and identities. He has strong interests in psychological anthropology, general human theory, and person-centered ethnography. He has conducted fieldwork in São Luís, a state capital in northeastern Brazil, and Toyota City, a factory town in central Japan.

Selected Publications 
Anthropology through a Double Lens: Public and Personal Worlds in Human Theory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.