Aram A. Yengoyan
Professor, PhD, University of Chicago, 1964
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616, USA
Telephone: (530)752-2849
Fax: (530)752-8885
Education:
- 1964 Ph.D., University of Chicago
Biography:
Research Interests
Cultural theory; analysis of ideologies, cultures, and national cultures; history of anthropological theory and the enlightenment(s); language and culture; epistemology of cultural and linguistic translation. Areas: Southeast Asia and Australia.
Recent Publications
(in press) “Lyotard and
Wittgenstein and the Question of Translation, in Translation in
Anthropology, edited by Paula Rubel and Abraham Rosman.
2002 “On the
Question of Heritage and Hierarchy in British Social Anthropology.”
American Anthropologist, Volume 104, Number 1, Pages 334-339.
2001
“Essentialisms of Aboriginality: Blood/Race, History, and the State in
Australia.” In The Construction of Minorities: Cases for Comparison
Across Time and Around the World, edited by André Burguière and Raymond
Grew. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, Pages 269-298.
1997
“BETRACHTUNGER ÜBER VORSTELLUNGER VON KULTUR, ZIVILISATION, POLITIK UND
ÄSTHETIK: Franz Boas, Georg Simmel, and Thomas Mann: mit besonderem
Nachdruck auf ihre Verwicklichung als Geist, Weltanschauung, und
Völkergedanken”*
1997 *(REFLECTIONS ON IDEAS OF CULTURE,
CIVILIZATION, POLITICS AND AESTHETICS: Franz Boas, Georg Simmel, and
Thomas Mann: with Special Emphasis on How These Would Be Realized in
Geist, Weltanschauung, und Volkergedanken), in Culture at the End of the
Boasian Century. Special Issue of Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural
and Social Practice, edited by Janice Boddy and Michael Lambek, Number
Issue 41 (3), pages 24-41, November.
1997 “L’ABORIGÈNE, LA RACE ET
L’ÈTAT: Débat sur les minoritiés et hégémonie nationale en Australie.”
Annales/Histoire, Sciences Sociales (formerly Annales/Economies,
Sociétés, Civilizations), Paris, Mai-Juin, 1997 Volume 51, Number 3,
pages 621-631.
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