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Bart Dean
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Research Interests
Social anthropology, critical theory, kinship, politics, exchange, symbolic forms, social change and development, human rights; Amazonia, Latin America.
 
Selected Publications

[coedited with Jerome M. Levi] At the Risk of Being Heard: Identity, Indigenous Rights & Postcolonial States . University of Michigan Press [forthcoming].

“Intercambios ambivalentes en la amazonía: formación discursiva y la violencia del patronazgo .” Antropológica . 1999 [in press].

“Language, Culture & Power: Intercultural Bilingual Education among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia.” Practicing Anthropolgy . (Special Issue: Reversing Language Shift in Indigenous America). Edited by L. Watahomigie, T. McCarty and A. Yamamoto. 20(2):39-43.

 
Courses Taught

Fractured Selves: Politics of Identity in Latin America
Varieties in the Human Experience
Graduate Seminar: History of Anthropology
Peoples of South America

 
Education

PhD Harvard 1995