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Research paper thumbnail of The politics of culture and creativity : a critique of civilization

Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critica... more Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critical trend in anthropology during the past 40 years. In all aspects of his work, he opposed social exploitation, tending to the unheard voices of oppressed peoples. His research and analyses of culture in contemporary and past societies examine the dynamics of state formation and the consequences of civilisation for humanity as a whole. In this two-volume set of essays, scholars consider the dimensions and implications of Diamond's major contribution to critical theory, the concept of dialectical anthropology. Insisting that anthropology must maintain a perspective that is simultaneously interpretive, self-reflective and interdisciplinary, Diamond came to speak for the ways in which anthropology can resist the dehumanising impulses of modern civilisation. In the nuclear age, anything less than social participation, he believed, risks the future of humankind. The essays in this second vo...

Research paper thumbnail of Adoption

The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Civilization in crisis : anthropological perspectives

Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critica... more Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critical trend in anthropology during the past 40 years. In all aspects of his work, he opposed social exploitation, tending to the unheard voices of oppressed peoples. His research and analyses of culture in contemporary and past societies examine the dynamics of state formation and the consequences of civilisation for humanity as a whole. In this two-volume set of essays, scholars consider the dimensions and implications of Diamond's major contribution to critical theory, the concept of dialectical anthropology. Insisting that anthropology must maintain a perspective that is simultaneously interpretive, self-reflective and interdisciplinary, Diamond came to speak for the ways in which anthropology can resist the dehumanising impulses of modern civilisation. In the nuclear age, anything less than social participation, he believed, risks the future of humankind. The essays in this first vol...

Research paper thumbnail of State Formation, Development, and Social Change in Tonga

Social Change in the Pacific Islands, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Our history is written...in our mats" : state formation and the status of women in Tonga

Research paper thumbnail of The politics of culture and creativity : a critique of civilization

Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critica... more Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critical trend in anthropology during the past 40 years. In all aspects of his work, he opposed social exploitation, tending to the unheard voices of oppressed peoples. His research and analyses of culture in contemporary and past societies examine the dynamics of state formation and the consequences of civilisation for humanity as a whole. In this two-volume set of essays, scholars consider the dimensions and implications of Diamond's major contribution to critical theory, the concept of dialectical anthropology. Insisting that anthropology must maintain a perspective that is simultaneously interpretive, self-reflective and interdisciplinary, Diamond came to speak for the ways in which anthropology can resist the dehumanising impulses of modern civilisation. In the nuclear age, anything less than social participation, he believed, risks the future of humankind. The essays in this second vo...

Research paper thumbnail of Putting Down Sisters and Wives: Tongan Women and Colonization

Research paper thumbnail of Putting Down Sisters and Wives: Tongan Women and Colonization

Research paper thumbnail of Pacing the Upper Peninsula

Anthropology Now, 2011

Ethnopoetry on gender and time in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Research paper thumbnail of State formation and uneven development

State and society: The emergence and development of …, 1988

State formation is not a linear process, but can be stymied, and take specific historical traject... more State formation is not a linear process, but can be stymied, and take specific historical trajectories, none of which are linear. The authors track transformations in the wake of state collapse, and diverse directions of development involving both structural contradictions and organized human agency.

Research paper thumbnail of “Rambo” in Tonga: Video Films and Cultural Resistance in the Tongan Islands

Culture, 1989

Interpretations of mass culture films in relation to local histories

Research paper thumbnail of Locating primitive communism in capitalist social formations

Dialectical Anthropology, 2016

This essay argues that examining everyday dynamics in working-class communities, variable as they... more This essay argues that examining everyday dynamics in working-class communities, variable as they are through race and gender intersections, gives us a way of investigating the persistence and partial reproduction of primitive communism within capitalist social formations. Visible through occasions and needs demanding the creation of use-values beyond mere consumption, a resistant and non-capitalist set of work and exchange relations exist alongside—and at times in opposition to—institutions and dynamics that reproductive of capitalism. These non-exclusive spheres of kin-constituting work, pooling, and sharing in structurally precarious neighborhoods and transnational networks are ways of trying to ensure relative security, continuity, and sustaining relationships. Within them, we need to reconceptualize work as distinct from labor and query the labor theory of value as inappropriate for appreciating the core relations of primitive communism. By this kind of analysis, we find a way to bring feminist approaches to revitalize articulating modes of production debates in Marxism and to permit appreciating in practice the meaning of making use-values in producing enduring resistance.

Research paper thumbnail of Amazons, Dahomey

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Blue-ribbon babies and labors of love : race, class, and gender in U.S. adoption practice

... The framing of the chapter on transracial adop-tion owes much to Lynn Bolles, Cheryl Mwaria, ... more ... The framing of the chapter on transracial adop-tion owes much to Lynn Bolles, Cheryl Mwaria, and Angela Gilliam, as well as Jennifer and Tim Welles, Ida Susser, Karen Brodkin, Ethan Nasreddin-Longo, and Enoch Page. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Making kinship in the wake of history: Gendered violence and older child adoption

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 1070289x 1998 9962617, May 4, 2010

In the United States children enter the state‐run foster care system because of a range of condit... more In the United States children enter the state‐run foster care system because of a range of conditions considered to be “abuse and neglect.” Children entering the system are vulnerable to additional bureaucratically ordained violence, some of which is generic and some of which is gendered. This paper situates the exposure of children in state care to gendered violence in a context of poverty, the scaling back of state social welfare programs, and the interaction of gender, family, and race ideologies. The consequences of early exposure to gendered violence are explored through narratives by parents of girls adopted over the age of two who had been subject to sexual and other forms of gendered violence in or before foster care. The need for intervention on the conditions leading to foster care, better monitoring of children's well‐being in foster care, and training and support of foster and adoptive parents regarding recovery from gendered violence is stressed, as is the need to address the ideological cond...

Research paper thumbnail of R. R. Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women

Research paper thumbnail of Community, State and Questions of Social Evolution in Marx's Ethnologicalnotebooks

Anthropologica, 2003

... In his notes on works by Sir Henry Maine and John Budd Phear, time and again he rails in pare... more ... In his notes on works by Sir Henry Maine and John Budd Phear, time and again he rails in parentheses about the pseudo science inherent in such racial classification schemes: "The devil take this Aryan' cant!" (Marx, 1974: 324) and "...Aryan (! ...

Research paper thumbnail of Categories without culture: Structuralism, ethnohistory and ethnocide

... moner and tabu/noa. ... I refer primarily to Sherry Ortner's recent article, "Gender... more ... moner and tabu/noa. ... I refer primarily to Sherry Ortner's recent article, "Gender and Sexuality in Hierar-chical Societies," in Sherry Ortner and Harriet Whitehead (eds.), Sexual Meanings (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Making kinship in the wake of history: Gendered violence and older child adoption

Identities, 1998

... gendered. This paper situates the exposure of children in state care to gendered violence in ... more ... gendered. This paper situates the exposure of children in state care to gendered violence in a context of poverty, the scaling back of state social welfare programs, and the interaction of gender, family, and race ideologies. The ...

Research paper thumbnail of Early Tonga: As the Explorers Saw It, 1616-1810

Research paper thumbnail of The politics of culture and creativity : a critique of civilization

Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critica... more Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critical trend in anthropology during the past 40 years. In all aspects of his work, he opposed social exploitation, tending to the unheard voices of oppressed peoples. His research and analyses of culture in contemporary and past societies examine the dynamics of state formation and the consequences of civilisation for humanity as a whole. In this two-volume set of essays, scholars consider the dimensions and implications of Diamond's major contribution to critical theory, the concept of dialectical anthropology. Insisting that anthropology must maintain a perspective that is simultaneously interpretive, self-reflective and interdisciplinary, Diamond came to speak for the ways in which anthropology can resist the dehumanising impulses of modern civilisation. In the nuclear age, anything less than social participation, he believed, risks the future of humankind. The essays in this second vo...

Research paper thumbnail of Adoption

The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Civilization in crisis : anthropological perspectives

Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critica... more Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critical trend in anthropology during the past 40 years. In all aspects of his work, he opposed social exploitation, tending to the unheard voices of oppressed peoples. His research and analyses of culture in contemporary and past societies examine the dynamics of state formation and the consequences of civilisation for humanity as a whole. In this two-volume set of essays, scholars consider the dimensions and implications of Diamond's major contribution to critical theory, the concept of dialectical anthropology. Insisting that anthropology must maintain a perspective that is simultaneously interpretive, self-reflective and interdisciplinary, Diamond came to speak for the ways in which anthropology can resist the dehumanising impulses of modern civilisation. In the nuclear age, anything less than social participation, he believed, risks the future of humankind. The essays in this first vol...

Research paper thumbnail of State Formation, Development, and Social Change in Tonga

Social Change in the Pacific Islands, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Our history is written...in our mats" : state formation and the status of women in Tonga

Research paper thumbnail of The politics of culture and creativity : a critique of civilization

Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critica... more Stanley Diamond (1922-1991), anthropologist and poet, was at the forefront of every major critical trend in anthropology during the past 40 years. In all aspects of his work, he opposed social exploitation, tending to the unheard voices of oppressed peoples. His research and analyses of culture in contemporary and past societies examine the dynamics of state formation and the consequences of civilisation for humanity as a whole. In this two-volume set of essays, scholars consider the dimensions and implications of Diamond's major contribution to critical theory, the concept of dialectical anthropology. Insisting that anthropology must maintain a perspective that is simultaneously interpretive, self-reflective and interdisciplinary, Diamond came to speak for the ways in which anthropology can resist the dehumanising impulses of modern civilisation. In the nuclear age, anything less than social participation, he believed, risks the future of humankind. The essays in this second vo...

Research paper thumbnail of Putting Down Sisters and Wives: Tongan Women and Colonization

Research paper thumbnail of Putting Down Sisters and Wives: Tongan Women and Colonization

Research paper thumbnail of Pacing the Upper Peninsula

Anthropology Now, 2011

Ethnopoetry on gender and time in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Research paper thumbnail of State formation and uneven development

State and society: The emergence and development of …, 1988

State formation is not a linear process, but can be stymied, and take specific historical traject... more State formation is not a linear process, but can be stymied, and take specific historical trajectories, none of which are linear. The authors track transformations in the wake of state collapse, and diverse directions of development involving both structural contradictions and organized human agency.

Research paper thumbnail of “Rambo” in Tonga: Video Films and Cultural Resistance in the Tongan Islands

Culture, 1989

Interpretations of mass culture films in relation to local histories

Research paper thumbnail of Locating primitive communism in capitalist social formations

Dialectical Anthropology, 2016

This essay argues that examining everyday dynamics in working-class communities, variable as they... more This essay argues that examining everyday dynamics in working-class communities, variable as they are through race and gender intersections, gives us a way of investigating the persistence and partial reproduction of primitive communism within capitalist social formations. Visible through occasions and needs demanding the creation of use-values beyond mere consumption, a resistant and non-capitalist set of work and exchange relations exist alongside—and at times in opposition to—institutions and dynamics that reproductive of capitalism. These non-exclusive spheres of kin-constituting work, pooling, and sharing in structurally precarious neighborhoods and transnational networks are ways of trying to ensure relative security, continuity, and sustaining relationships. Within them, we need to reconceptualize work as distinct from labor and query the labor theory of value as inappropriate for appreciating the core relations of primitive communism. By this kind of analysis, we find a way to bring feminist approaches to revitalize articulating modes of production debates in Marxism and to permit appreciating in practice the meaning of making use-values in producing enduring resistance.

Research paper thumbnail of Amazons, Dahomey

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Blue-ribbon babies and labors of love : race, class, and gender in U.S. adoption practice

... The framing of the chapter on transracial adop-tion owes much to Lynn Bolles, Cheryl Mwaria, ... more ... The framing of the chapter on transracial adop-tion owes much to Lynn Bolles, Cheryl Mwaria, and Angela Gilliam, as well as Jennifer and Tim Welles, Ida Susser, Karen Brodkin, Ethan Nasreddin-Longo, and Enoch Page. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Making kinship in the wake of history: Gendered violence and older child adoption

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 1070289x 1998 9962617, May 4, 2010

In the United States children enter the state‐run foster care system because of a range of condit... more In the United States children enter the state‐run foster care system because of a range of conditions considered to be “abuse and neglect.” Children entering the system are vulnerable to additional bureaucratically ordained violence, some of which is generic and some of which is gendered. This paper situates the exposure of children in state care to gendered violence in a context of poverty, the scaling back of state social welfare programs, and the interaction of gender, family, and race ideologies. The consequences of early exposure to gendered violence are explored through narratives by parents of girls adopted over the age of two who had been subject to sexual and other forms of gendered violence in or before foster care. The need for intervention on the conditions leading to foster care, better monitoring of children's well‐being in foster care, and training and support of foster and adoptive parents regarding recovery from gendered violence is stressed, as is the need to address the ideological cond...

Research paper thumbnail of R. R. Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women

Research paper thumbnail of Community, State and Questions of Social Evolution in Marx's Ethnologicalnotebooks

Anthropologica, 2003

... In his notes on works by Sir Henry Maine and John Budd Phear, time and again he rails in pare... more ... In his notes on works by Sir Henry Maine and John Budd Phear, time and again he rails in parentheses about the pseudo science inherent in such racial classification schemes: "The devil take this Aryan' cant!" (Marx, 1974: 324) and "...Aryan (! ...

Research paper thumbnail of Categories without culture: Structuralism, ethnohistory and ethnocide

... moner and tabu/noa. ... I refer primarily to Sherry Ortner's recent article, "Gender... more ... moner and tabu/noa. ... I refer primarily to Sherry Ortner's recent article, "Gender and Sexuality in Hierar-chical Societies," in Sherry Ortner and Harriet Whitehead (eds.), Sexual Meanings (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Making kinship in the wake of history: Gendered violence and older child adoption

Identities, 1998

... gendered. This paper situates the exposure of children in state care to gendered violence in ... more ... gendered. This paper situates the exposure of children in state care to gendered violence in a context of poverty, the scaling back of state social welfare programs, and the interaction of gender, family, and race ideologies. The ...

Research paper thumbnail of Early Tonga: As the Explorers Saw It, 1616-1810