Ron Loewe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 158336 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ron Loewe |
| PRENOMES | Ron |
| SOBRENOME | Loewe |
| ASSINATURA | LOEWE R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Mississippi State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5829-4257 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The financialization of the American academy and the decline of dissent
This article first provides a brief overview of the development of tenure and academic freedom in the U.S. amid a series of government efforts to surveille, discipline and remove from their university posts those anthropologists who spoke out against U.S. foreign policy or war, or in favor of civil rights. Following Ellen Schrecker’s focus on key moments of academic repression, I draw on cases from World War I, the McCarthy era and the Vietnam Wa…
Agrarian reform in Mexico turns thirty
In 1992, the Salinas de Gotari administration pushed through a major revision of Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution, thereby ending the distribution of agricultural lands that began following the 1917 Revolution, and allowing the alienation of ejidal (community) lands. The 1992 reform, sometimes compared to the 18th century English Enclosure Movement, was monumental in scope, affecting over three million agricultural workers and over half the…
Venta Prieta Revisited
Introduction to Anthropology and The Public Good
In this, the penultimate issue of the Howell/Loewe editorship, we pause to welcome Professor Anita Puckett of Virginia Tech as the incoming editor of Practicing Anthropology. Dr. Puckett will assist us in the production of our final issue and will assume the helm of Practicing Anthropology for the Spring 2012 issue. Our next and final issue will be a themed issue focusing on Mayas living in the Diaspora. It will be guest edited by James Loucky, a…
Community Applied Anthropology
This issue of Practicing Anthropology resonates with earlier issues, as it focuses on projects that speak to the range of geographical regions and projects where anthropological insight is valuable. The common thread in our first two articles is the use of anthropological skills and perspectives to work with agencies to develop plans and materials of value to health care agencies, patients and survivors
In the Name of El Pueblo
Editors’ Choice Introduction
When discussing our first year as Practicing Anthropology editors with colleagues and students, one of our graduate students said that she envied us having the opportunity to read about so many great projects anthropologists are working on. We couldn't agree more that this has been a great experience.
Introduction
This issue of Practicing Anthropology is an editors' choice issue that combines a number of articles on advocacy, law, health, program evaluation and community-based research, so there is surely something for everyone. At the same time, we would like to take this opportunity to put out a call for papers on anthropology and the environment. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following: the impact of global warming on a community, …
Anthropological Contributions to Experiential Learning in International and Intercultural Contexts
Conversations about how to create meaningful and significant experiential learning opportunities for students in international and intercultural contexts are increasingly commonplace in academic institutions. With over a century dedicated to the development and refinement of a powerful set of methodological, attitudinal, conceptual, and theoretical tools for cross-cultural understanding and engagement, anthropology has much to offer these convers…
Introduction to Anthropological Advocacy
This issue of Practicing Anthropology is probably best described as a hybrid, as it is part theme issue and part editors' choice. Over the past year, the editors have collected a substantial number of excellent manuscripts that didn't fall under a particular topic or fit into a particular theme. It's now time to let those articles see the light of day. Following this issue, we will again be publishing special issues, including one on field school…
El Narcotraficante
Book Review| July 01 2010 El Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.-Mexico Border El Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.-Mexico Border. By Mark Cameron Edberg. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. Ronald B. Loewe Ronald B. Loewe California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Ameri…
Regime Change at Practicing Anthropology
For obvious reasons, we did not want our first issue of Practicing Anthropology to go to press on the Ides of March, but the people who set production schedules are, undoubtedly, less superstitious than cultural anthropologists, at least this one. Anyway, it is with a sense of optimism and a touch of trepidation that we release our first issue of Practicing Anthropology. We hope it is considered a good one, but please let us know what you think b…
Using Digital Technology on the Web and in the Classroom
This issue contains a second set of articles which are not part of the edition guest edited by Krista Harper and Aline Grubrium, but which we thought would be of interest to readers interested in digital technology and the construction of archives and databases
Maya Reborn
Since the mid-1980s there has been tremendous interest among anthropologists and Maya speakers in preserving, promoting, and revitalizing aspects of Maya culture throughout Mesoamerica. While the emphasis and intensity of this effort varies regionally, ethnographers have documented efforts to revitalize Maya theater in Chiapas, to promote spoken Maya in Guatemala, to excavate new ruin sites in Yucatan, and to reinvigorate Maya literature, music, …
The Great Debate
The Wisdom of Way Kot
■ In this article I examine how commerce and the global economy are represented locally through the analysis of a popular Yucatecan tale. Way Kot depicts a veritable fantasy world in which human beings become winged beasts and animals betray their natural instincts; however, unlike the authors of many studies that explore the intersection of different modes of exchange, I do not view these images as projections of a mystified mind. On the contrar…
Euphemism, Parody, Insult, and Innuendo
Ethnic identity in Yucatán can best be understood within the context of regional politics and the promulgation of a regional folk culture. While Yucatecan communities contain several named groups-mayero, catrin, blanco, ts'ul-and their share of ethnic enmities, members of these groups are also always "mestizos" or "Yucatecos," a regional identity that is fostered through poetry, dance, and humor. In exploring this phenomenon, I focus on the jaran…
The Maya of Morganton
The Maya of Morganton
From Moscow to Curaçao
Becoming Maya
Maya Visions
Maya Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization. June C. Nash. New York: Routledge, 2001. 303 pp
Twice Dead
Marching with San Miguel
In an attempt to demystify the postrevolutionary Mexican state, this article examines the role of religious confraternities in the formation of a new hegemonic order. Based on ethnographic and historical research in Maxcanú (a mestizo town in Yucatán), I argue that religious confraternities not only helped revive invidious distinctions between groups following the demise of the Porfirian state but sanctified them within a field of custom, festivi…
Yucatan's Dancing Pig's Head ( Cuch)
As a central feature of the annual fiesta, the Maya cuch ceremony and its various transformations have been a staple of ethnographic description for more than fifty years. Through this investiture ceremony, responsibility for organizing the fiesta is passed from one religious confraternity to another. Although descriptions of the cuch abound, the ethnography of performance remains fragmented. Ethnographies tend to privilege or essentialize partic…
Infections and Inequalities
Interpreting Diabetes Mellitus
Doctor talk and diabetes
To Change Place
To Change Place: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes. David Carrasco (editor). Niwot, CO: University of Colorado Press, 1991. 288 pp., photos, maps, illustrations, $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–87081–194–0
Maya Visions
Maya Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization. June C. Nash. New York: Routledge, 2001. 303 pp
Twice Dead
Building the New Zion
In 1950, Raphael Patai published his research on Venta Prieta, a Mexican town in which some residents lived as Jews despite having little knowledge of Judaism. Like other visitors, Patai was perplexed. Why did they wish to live as Jews? While Patai never answered this question to his satisfaction, he believed the answer would be found by developing a psychological profile of the residents, an approach in keeping with culture and personality theor…
Euphemism, Parody, Insult, and Innuendo
Ethnic identity in Yucatán can best be understood within the context of regional politics and the promulgation of a regional folk culture. While Yucatecan communities contain several named groups-mayero, catrin, blanco, ts'ul-and their share of ethnic enmities, members of these groups are also always "mestizos" or "Yucatecos," a regional identity that is fostered through poetry, dance, and humor. In exploring this phenomenon, I focus on the jaran…
Yucatan's Dancing Pig's Head ( Cuch)
As a central feature of the annual fiesta, the Maya cuch ceremony and its various transformations have been a staple of ethnographic description for more than fifty years. Through this investiture ceremony, responsibility for organizing the fiesta is passed from one religious confraternity to another. Although descriptions of the cuch abound, the ethnography of performance remains fragmented. Ethnographies tend to privilege or essentialize partic…
Maya Reborn
Since the mid-1980s there has been tremendous interest among anthropologists and Maya speakers in preserving, promoting, and revitalizing aspects of Maya culture throughout Mesoamerica. While the emphasis and intensity of this effort varies regionally, ethnographers have documented efforts to revitalize Maya theater in Chiapas, to promote spoken Maya in Guatemala, to excavate new ruin sites in Yucatan, and to reinvigorate Maya literature, music, …
From Moscow to Curaçao
Marching with San Miguel
In an attempt to demystify the postrevolutionary Mexican state, this article examines the role of religious confraternities in the formation of a new hegemonic order. Based on ethnographic and historical research in Maxcanú (a mestizo town in Yucatán), I argue that religious confraternities not only helped revive invidious distinctions between groups following the demise of the Porfirian state but sanctified them within a field of custom, festivi…
Yucatán's Dancing Pig's Head (Cuch)
As a central feature of the annual fiesta, the Maya cuch ceremony and its various transformations have been a staple of ethnographic description for more than fifty years. Through this investiture ceremony, responsibility for organizing the fiesta is passed from one religious confraternity to another. Although descriptions of the cuch abound, the ethnography ofperformance remains fragmented. Ethnographies tend to privilege or essentialize particu…
Recovering the Nation's Body
Recovering the Nation's Body: Cultural Memory, Medicine and the Politics of Redemption. Linda F. Hogle. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. 242 pp
To Change Place
To Change Place: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes. David Carrasco (editor). Niwot, CO: University of Colorado Press, 1991. 288 pp., photos, maps, illustrations, $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–87081–194–0
To Change Place
Doctor talk and diabetes
Narrative Based Medicine
Literature and Medicine - Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 2000
Infections and Inequalities
Building a New Biocultural Synthesis
Building. New Biocultural Synthesis: Political Economic Perspectives on Human Biology. Alan Goodman and Thomas L. Leatherman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1999 pp
Interpreting Diabetes Mellitus
Recovering the Nation's Body
Recovering the Nation's Body: Cultural Memory, Medicine and the Politics of Redemption. Linda F. Hogle. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. 242 pp
In the Blood
In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race. Melbourne Tapper. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 163 pp., notes, index
Reproducing Jews
Building the New Zion
In 1950, Raphael Patai published his research on Venta Prieta, a Mexican town in which some residents lived as Jews despite having little knowledge of Judaism. Like other visitors, Patai was perplexed. Why did they wish to live as Jews? While Patai never answered this question to his satisfaction, he believed the answer would be found by developing a psychological profile of the residents, an approach in keeping with culture and personality theor…
Twice Dead
Marching with San Miguel
In an attempt to demystify the postrevolutionary Mexican state, this article examines the role of religious confraternities in the formation of a new hegemonic order. Based on ethnographic and historical research in Maxcanú (a mestizo town in Yucatán), I argue that religious confraternities not only helped revive invidious distinctions between groups following the demise of the Porfirian state but sanctified them within a field of custom, festivi…
Yucatan's Dancing Pig's Head ( Cuch)
As a central feature of the annual fiesta, the Maya cuch ceremony and its various transformations have been a staple of ethnographic description for more than fifty years. Through this investiture ceremony, responsibility for organizing the fiesta is passed from one religious confraternity to another. Although descriptions of the cuch abound, the ethnography of performance remains fragmented. Ethnographies tend to privilege or essentialize partic…
Yucatán's Dancing Pig's Head (Cuch)
As a central feature of the annual fiesta, the Maya cuch ceremony and its various transformations have been a staple of ethnographic description for more than fifty years. Through this investiture ceremony, responsibility for organizing the fiesta is passed from one religious confraternity to another. Although descriptions of the cuch abound, the ethnography ofperformance remains fragmented. Ethnographies tend to privilege or essentialize particu…
From Moscow to Curaçao
Becoming Maya
Maya Visions
Maya Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization. June C. Nash. New York: Routledge, 2001. 303 pp
The Maya of Morganton
The Maya of Morganton
Euphemism, Parody, Insult, and Innuendo
Ethnic identity in Yucatán can best be understood within the context of regional politics and the promulgation of a regional folk culture. While Yucatecan communities contain several named groups-mayero, catrin, blanco, ts'ul-and their share of ethnic enmities, members of these groups are also always "mestizos" or "Yucatecos," a regional identity that is fostered through poetry, dance, and humor. In exploring this phenomenon, I focus on the jaran…
The Great Debate
The Wisdom of Way Kot
■ In this article I examine how commerce and the global economy are represented locally through the analysis of a popular Yucatecan tale. Way Kot depicts a veritable fantasy world in which human beings become winged beasts and animals betray their natural instincts; however, unlike the authors of many studies that explore the intersection of different modes of exchange, I do not view these images as projections of a mystified mind. On the contrar…
Regime Change at Practicing Anthropology
For obvious reasons, we did not want our first issue of Practicing Anthropology to go to press on the Ides of March, but the people who set production schedules are, undoubtedly, less superstitious than cultural anthropologists, at least this one. Anyway, it is with a sense of optimism and a touch of trepidation that we release our first issue of Practicing Anthropology. We hope it is considered a good one, but please let us know what you think b…
Using Digital Technology on the Web and in the Classroom
This issue contains a second set of articles which are not part of the edition guest edited by Krista Harper and Aline Grubrium, but which we thought would be of interest to readers interested in digital technology and the construction of archives and databases
Sociology (27 obras) · History (18 obras) · Archaeology (14 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Anthropology (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Art (8 obras) · History (8 obras)