D M Goldstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 12477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D M Goldstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | D M |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldstein |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSTEIN D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado System |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5771-3752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Afterword: From Insurgent Citizens to Ambivalent Subjects
Darwin’s hug: Ideologies of gesture in the science of human exceptionalism
This article reviews accounts of “hugging” across evolutionary paradigms to expose how understandings of gesture are shaped by scientific theorizations of the ways humans and animals differ. The divergent roles assigned to gesture in human communication by Vygotskian and Chomskyan researchers can be traced to research on human exceptionalism during key historical periods in the Soviet Union and United States. When Vygotsky introduced his sociocul…
Homeric ‐ phi(n) is an oblique case marker1
The synchronic distribution and diachronic trajectory of Homeric ‐ phi(n) have been the source of long‐standing debate, with the result that scholarly opinion has yet to settle on a consensus regarding the morphosyntax of forms realized by this marker. Some maintain that forms in ‐ phi(n) are adverbs, while others contend that they are nominals (i.e., nouns or adjectives). Evidence from agreement and prepositional phrases shows that the latter an…
Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty" in this compelling read. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro, who cope with unbearable suffering, violence and social abandonment. The book offer…
Conclusions: Anthropological Pasts and Futures
Commentary: Science, Politics, and Risk: Catastrophic Asia from the Perspective of a Brazilianist Anthropologist
The four articles in this “Catastrophic Asia” collection, while showcasing distinct disciplinary approaches to the subject of what anthropologist George E. Marcus (1994) might identify as “technopolitical” catastrophes, are united in the attempt to uncover the sociopolitical resonances of “manmade” damage in what we take to be regional Asia. In his book Technoscientific Imaginaries , Marcus recognizes that science is deeply political and already …
Postelection surrealism and nostalgic racism in the hands of Donald Trump
This article builds on interlocutor comments to "The Hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, Gesture, Spectacle" (Hall, Goldstein, and Ingram 2016), a study published before the 2016 presidential election that analyzes Trump's use of derisive humor in the Republican Party primaries. We move this earlier analysis forward by examining the ways that Trump's semiotic displays on the campaign trail now inform the material policies of the Trump administr…
Investigating anthropology's Cold War histories
Comment on Price, David. 2016. Cold War anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the growth of dual use anthropology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
The hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, gesture, spectacle
Commentators from a broad range of perspectives have been at pains to explain Donald Trump's transition from billionaire businessman to populist presidential candidate. This article draws on cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and rhetorical theory to argue that the success of Trump's candidacy in the 2016 Republican primary was in part due to its value as comedic entertainment. We examine the ways that Trump's unconventional politica…
Mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York: How brain experts materialized truth and outscienced environmental inquiry
Teenage schoolgirls in Le Roy, New York, captured the attention of the U.S. public in 2011 and 2012 when they developed acute motor and vocal tics. Dramatic images of the girls' involuntary movements were briefly seen on national news and social media before clinical neurologists diagnosed the girls with "mass psychogenic illness" and required their retreat from media as part of the cure. Drawing from perspectives in medical and linguistic anthro…
Toxic uncertainties of a nuclear era: Anthropology, history, memoir
New narratives of toxic contamination are expanding and challenging our ethnographic sensibilities. In confronting the contamination left behind from the Cold War period, a range of disciplinary approaches, methods, and writing styles is necessary. Ethnography plays a crucial role here, but it cannot fly solo in these sorts of projects. In this review essay, I compare three books from authors belonging to distinct scholarly traditions, each one d…
Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality by Michael J. Montoya
The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects by Roberto Abadie
Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil by Alexander Edmonds
Drugs & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, & Public Security
Life or Profit: Structural Violence, Moral Psychology and Pharmaceutical Politics
This article explores the antagonism expressed by two different theoretical positions within medical anthropology towards the structural violence position: the culture as central approach and the post-structuralist approach. While medical anthropologists trained in cultural models of illness are disappointed by the lack of culture in the structural violence approach, medical anthropologists trained in post-structuralist models of illness take iss…
The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination
The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination. László Kürti. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. 259 pp
Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil
Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil. John Burdick. New York: Routledge. 1998. 246 pp
"Interracial" Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts
Racial democracy is maintained in Brazil through both scholarly and popular discourses that consider "interracial" sex as proof of Brazil's lack of a racial problem. In this article, I scrutinize the discourse that asks, "How can we be racist when so many of us are mixed?" I argue that racial discourses are embedded in everyday interactions, but are often codified or masked. "Race" is especially pertinent to sexuality, yet the two have hardly bee…
Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City. Daniel Touro Linger
Aids and women in Brazil: The emerging problem
The hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, gesture, spectacle
Commentators from a broad range of perspectives have been at pains to explain Donald Trump's transition from billionaire businessman to populist presidential candidate. This article draws on cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and rhetorical theory to argue that the success of Trump's candidacy in the 2016 Republican primary was in part due to its value as comedic entertainment. We examine the ways that Trump's unconventional politica…
"Interracial" Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts
Racial democracy is maintained in Brazil through both scholarly and popular discourses that consider "interracial" sex as proof of Brazil's lack of a racial problem. In this article, I scrutinize the discourse that asks, "How can we be racist when so many of us are mixed?" I argue that racial discourses are embedded in everyday interactions, but are often codified or masked. "Race" is especially pertinent to sexuality, yet the two have hardly bee…
Mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York: How brain experts materialized truth and outscienced environmental inquiry
Teenage schoolgirls in Le Roy, New York, captured the attention of the U.S. public in 2011 and 2012 when they developed acute motor and vocal tics. Dramatic images of the girls' involuntary movements were briefly seen on national news and social media before clinical neurologists diagnosed the girls with "mass psychogenic illness" and required their retreat from media as part of the cure. Drawing from perspectives in medical and linguistic anthro…
Postelection surrealism and nostalgic racism in the hands of Donald Trump
This article builds on interlocutor comments to "The Hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, Gesture, Spectacle" (Hall, Goldstein, and Ingram 2016), a study published before the 2016 presidential election that analyzes Trump's use of derisive humor in the Republican Party primaries. We move this earlier analysis forward by examining the ways that Trump's semiotic displays on the campaign trail now inform the material policies of the Trump administr…
Aids and women in Brazil: The emerging problem
Toxic uncertainties of a nuclear era: Anthropology, history, memoir
New narratives of toxic contamination are expanding and challenging our ethnographic sensibilities. In confronting the contamination left behind from the Cold War period, a range of disciplinary approaches, methods, and writing styles is necessary. Ethnography plays a crucial role here, but it cannot fly solo in these sorts of projects. In this review essay, I compare three books from authors belonging to distinct scholarly traditions, each one d…
Life or Profit: Structural Violence, Moral Psychology and Pharmaceutical Politics
This article explores the antagonism expressed by two different theoretical positions within medical anthropology towards the structural violence position: the culture as central approach and the post-structuralist approach. While medical anthropologists trained in cultural models of illness are disappointed by the lack of culture in the structural violence approach, medical anthropologists trained in post-structuralist models of illness take iss…
Aids and women in Brazil: The emerging problem
Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City. Daniel Touro Linger
"Interracial" Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts
Racial democracy is maintained in Brazil through both scholarly and popular discourses that consider "interracial" sex as proof of Brazil's lack of a racial problem. In this article, I scrutinize the discourse that asks, "How can we be racist when so many of us are mixed?" I argue that racial discourses are embedded in everyday interactions, but are often codified or masked. "Race" is especially pertinent to sexuality, yet the two have hardly bee…
Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil
Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil. John Burdick. New York: Routledge. 1998. 246 pp
The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination
The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination. László Kürti. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. 259 pp
Life or Profit: Structural Violence, Moral Psychology and Pharmaceutical Politics
This article explores the antagonism expressed by two different theoretical positions within medical anthropology towards the structural violence position: the culture as central approach and the post-structuralist approach. While medical anthropologists trained in cultural models of illness are disappointed by the lack of culture in the structural violence approach, medical anthropologists trained in post-structuralist models of illness take iss…
Drugs & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, & Public Security
The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects by Roberto Abadie
Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil by Alexander Edmonds
Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality by Michael J. Montoya
Toxic uncertainties of a nuclear era: Anthropology, history, memoir
New narratives of toxic contamination are expanding and challenging our ethnographic sensibilities. In confronting the contamination left behind from the Cold War period, a range of disciplinary approaches, methods, and writing styles is necessary. Ethnography plays a crucial role here, but it cannot fly solo in these sorts of projects. In this review essay, I compare three books from authors belonging to distinct scholarly traditions, each one d…
Mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York: How brain experts materialized truth and outscienced environmental inquiry
Teenage schoolgirls in Le Roy, New York, captured the attention of the U.S. public in 2011 and 2012 when they developed acute motor and vocal tics. Dramatic images of the girls' involuntary movements were briefly seen on national news and social media before clinical neurologists diagnosed the girls with "mass psychogenic illness" and required their retreat from media as part of the cure. Drawing from perspectives in medical and linguistic anthro…
Investigating anthropology's Cold War histories
Comment on Price, David. 2016. Cold War anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the growth of dual use anthropology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
The hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, gesture, spectacle
Commentators from a broad range of perspectives have been at pains to explain Donald Trump's transition from billionaire businessman to populist presidential candidate. This article draws on cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and rhetorical theory to argue that the success of Trump's candidacy in the 2016 Republican primary was in part due to its value as comedic entertainment. We examine the ways that Trump's unconventional politica…
Conclusions: Anthropological Pasts and Futures
Commentary: Science, Politics, and Risk: Catastrophic Asia from the Perspective of a Brazilianist Anthropologist
The four articles in this “Catastrophic Asia” collection, while showcasing distinct disciplinary approaches to the subject of what anthropologist George E. Marcus (1994) might identify as “technopolitical” catastrophes, are united in the attempt to uncover the sociopolitical resonances of “manmade” damage in what we take to be regional Asia. In his book Technoscientific Imaginaries , Marcus recognizes that science is deeply political and already …
Postelection surrealism and nostalgic racism in the hands of Donald Trump
This article builds on interlocutor comments to "The Hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, Gesture, Spectacle" (Hall, Goldstein, and Ingram 2016), a study published before the 2016 presidential election that analyzes Trump's use of derisive humor in the Republican Party primaries. We move this earlier analysis forward by examining the ways that Trump's semiotic displays on the campaign trail now inform the material policies of the Trump administr…
Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty" in this compelling read. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro, who cope with unbearable suffering, violence and social abandonment. The book offer…
Homeric ‐ phi(n) is an oblique case marker1
The synchronic distribution and diachronic trajectory of Homeric ‐ phi(n) have been the source of long‐standing debate, with the result that scholarly opinion has yet to settle on a consensus regarding the morphosyntax of forms realized by this marker. Some maintain that forms in ‐ phi(n) are adverbs, while others contend that they are nominals (i.e., nouns or adjectives). Evidence from agreement and prepositional phrases shows that the latter an…
Darwin’s hug: Ideologies of gesture in the science of human exceptionalism
This article reviews accounts of “hugging” across evolutionary paradigms to expose how understandings of gesture are shaped by scientific theorizations of the ways humans and animals differ. The divergent roles assigned to gesture in human communication by Vygotskian and Chomskyan researchers can be traced to research on human exceptionalism during key historical periods in the Soviet Union and United States. When Vygotsky introduced his sociocul…
The Afterword: From Insurgent Citizens to Ambivalent Subjects
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