Anne E Pfister
Biographic Data
| ID | 163734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne E Pfister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne E |
| FAMILY NAME | Pfister |
| SIGNATURE | PFISTER A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
When the cricket sings & the nopal bleeds
Oaxaca boasts the greatest cultural, linguistic, and biological diversity in Mexico, so insect and human relationships take many forms there. Various insect species are found in iconic specialty foods and the cochineal bug, exported from colonial Oaxaca to dye the world's textiles and other products, is among the most celebrated. Mexican literature, folklore, art and music celebrate insects, creating various imaginaries surrounding insect-human r…
Advocacy For Mexican Sign Language
In honoring Leila Monaghan’s contributions to anthropology, I invite readers to recall two of the many things she did well throughout her career and through a variety of research areas. First, Monaghan’s work inspired a sustained focus on advocating for the fundamental rights and dignities of participants, including the right to sign languages. Our 2022 Society for Linguistic Anthropology panel, in honor of Monaghan’s scholarship, remembered her …
Anthropology in the World
Although the COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for faculty and students alike, it was also a catalyst for new collaborations. Our faculty-student project capitalized on what the pandemic publicly exposed: the fact that human health and culture are inextricably intertwined. We write this commentary as an anthropology professor and student who developed a Directed Independent Study focused on salient social and biological phenomena of 2020 while…
En Mi Casa Quiero Señas Photovoice as Language Advocacy
This article describes a collaborative photovoice project and exposition as a platform for deaf youth in Mexico to dialogue about their concerns. Issues that are often difficult to discuss with hearing adults—because of mismatched language and limited agency, among other factors—became interactive. Analysis of one photograph, within the broader context of the project, reveals the potential for photovoice to connect deaf youth with communicative t…
Predicament and Pilgrimage
In this article, I trace the most salient features of Mexican families' complex journeys as they coped with the "predicament" of childhood deafness. Framing support seeking through the theoretical lens of pilgrimage brings into focus family introspection and captures their tenacity while facing culture-specific obstacles. Ultimately, families realized their quests were not about "fixing" their children's hearing, but finding more reliable communi…
Healthcare in Motion
Fluid and Mobile Identities
Signing and belonging in Nepal by Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Reviewed by: Signing and belonging in Nepal by Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway Anne E. Pfister Signing and belonging in Nepal. By Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2016. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781563686641. $60 (Hb). Signing and belonging in Nepal is a touching and authentic reflection on the often-unexpected nuance in the ways deaf people work within particular cultural milieus to find one another, organize, [End Page 712] and…
Forbidden Signs
Language socialization, the simultaneous process of learning language and culture, occurs spontaneously in most families. However, deaf children born to hearing parents cannot fully access the spoken languages of their families and hearing society. This study provides data illustrating that Mexico's therapeutic approach to language does not constitute language socialization for deaf children; simultaneously, it affirms that signing communities of…
Proyecto Fotovoz
The role of anthropology in improving services for children and families
The fluid and changing nature of "family" the wide diversity of family arrangements, and families' movement across space (e.g., migration) and time (e.g., life-course) demand constant reconfiguration of services. As the articles presented in this special issue demonstrate, the skills of anthropologists have resulted in reflection upon, and often restructuring of, family services. Anthropology is also involved in the design, implementation, and ev…
Together, We Can Show You
Participant-Generated Visual Data • 27 developed personal history timelines that served as a starting point for interviews to explore research themes with deaf youth participants.Ginger A. Johnson's research in Cairo, Egypt, with Sudanese refugee women utilized images created through photovoice methodology for participatory analysis of their photos.Cecilia Vindrola-Padros prepared images created by child participants undergoing cancer treatment f…
Drawings, Photos, and Performances
Children have largely been overlooked as research participants in anthropological work. The anthropology of childhood has played an instrumental role in bringing attention to this fact, and it has highlighted important contributions children's viewpoints can make to our discipline. In this article, we present three case studies that involved children as active participants through the use of visual methodology: V indrola‐ P adros's research in A …
Drawings, Photos, and Performances
Children have largely been overlooked as research participants in anthropological work. The anthropology of childhood has played an instrumental role in bringing attention to this fact, and it has highlighted important contributions children's viewpoints can make to our discipline. In this article, we present three case studies that involved children as active participants through the use of visual methodology: V indrola‐ P adros's research in A …
Together, We Can Show You
Participant-Generated Visual Data • 27 developed personal history timelines that served as a starting point for interviews to explore research themes with deaf youth participants.Ginger A. Johnson's research in Cairo, Egypt, with Sudanese refugee women utilized images created through photovoice methodology for participatory analysis of their photos.Cecilia Vindrola-Padros prepared images created by child participants undergoing cancer treatment f…
Predicament and Pilgrimage
In this article, I trace the most salient features of Mexican families' complex journeys as they coped with the "predicament" of childhood deafness. Framing support seeking through the theoretical lens of pilgrimage brings into focus family introspection and captures their tenacity while facing culture-specific obstacles. Ultimately, families realized their quests were not about "fixing" their children's hearing, but finding more reliable communi…
Forbidden Signs
Language socialization, the simultaneous process of learning language and culture, occurs spontaneously in most families. However, deaf children born to hearing parents cannot fully access the spoken languages of their families and hearing society. This study provides data illustrating that Mexico's therapeutic approach to language does not constitute language socialization for deaf children; simultaneously, it affirms that signing communities of…
En Mi Casa Quiero Señas Photovoice as Language Advocacy
This article describes a collaborative photovoice project and exposition as a platform for deaf youth in Mexico to dialogue about their concerns. Issues that are often difficult to discuss with hearing adults—because of mismatched language and limited agency, among other factors—became interactive. Analysis of one photograph, within the broader context of the project, reveals the potential for photovoice to connect deaf youth with communicative t…
Proyecto Fotovoz
The role of anthropology in improving services for children and families
The fluid and changing nature of "family" the wide diversity of family arrangements, and families' movement across space (e.g., migration) and time (e.g., life-course) demand constant reconfiguration of services. As the articles presented in this special issue demonstrate, the skills of anthropologists have resulted in reflection upon, and often restructuring of, family services. Anthropology is also involved in the design, implementation, and ev…
Drawings, Photos, and Performances
Children have largely been overlooked as research participants in anthropological work. The anthropology of childhood has played an instrumental role in bringing attention to this fact, and it has highlighted important contributions children's viewpoints can make to our discipline. In this article, we present three case studies that involved children as active participants through the use of visual methodology: V indrola‐ P adros's research in A …
Together, We Can Show You
Participant-Generated Visual Data • 27 developed personal history timelines that served as a starting point for interviews to explore research themes with deaf youth participants.Ginger A. Johnson's research in Cairo, Egypt, with Sudanese refugee women utilized images created through photovoice methodology for participatory analysis of their photos.Cecilia Vindrola-Padros prepared images created by child participants undergoing cancer treatment f…
Proyecto Fotovoz
The role of anthropology in improving services for children and families
The fluid and changing nature of "family" the wide diversity of family arrangements, and families' movement across space (e.g., migration) and time (e.g., life-course) demand constant reconfiguration of services. As the articles presented in this special issue demonstrate, the skills of anthropologists have resulted in reflection upon, and often restructuring of, family services. Anthropology is also involved in the design, implementation, and ev…
Signing and belonging in Nepal by Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Reviewed by: Signing and belonging in Nepal by Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway Anne E. Pfister Signing and belonging in Nepal. By Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2016. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781563686641. $60 (Hb). Signing and belonging in Nepal is a touching and authentic reflection on the often-unexpected nuance in the ways deaf people work within particular cultural milieus to find one another, organize, [End Page 712] and…
Forbidden Signs
Language socialization, the simultaneous process of learning language and culture, occurs spontaneously in most families. However, deaf children born to hearing parents cannot fully access the spoken languages of their families and hearing society. This study provides data illustrating that Mexico's therapeutic approach to language does not constitute language socialization for deaf children; simultaneously, it affirms that signing communities of…
Healthcare in Motion
Fluid and Mobile Identities
Predicament and Pilgrimage
In this article, I trace the most salient features of Mexican families' complex journeys as they coped with the "predicament" of childhood deafness. Framing support seeking through the theoretical lens of pilgrimage brings into focus family introspection and captures their tenacity while facing culture-specific obstacles. Ultimately, families realized their quests were not about "fixing" their children's hearing, but finding more reliable communi…
En Mi Casa Quiero Señas Photovoice as Language Advocacy
This article describes a collaborative photovoice project and exposition as a platform for deaf youth in Mexico to dialogue about their concerns. Issues that are often difficult to discuss with hearing adults—because of mismatched language and limited agency, among other factors—became interactive. Analysis of one photograph, within the broader context of the project, reveals the potential for photovoice to connect deaf youth with communicative t…
Anthropology in the World
Although the COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for faculty and students alike, it was also a catalyst for new collaborations. Our faculty-student project capitalized on what the pandemic publicly exposed: the fact that human health and culture are inextricably intertwined. We write this commentary as an anthropology professor and student who developed a Directed Independent Study focused on salient social and biological phenomena of 2020 while…
Advocacy For Mexican Sign Language
In honoring Leila Monaghan’s contributions to anthropology, I invite readers to recall two of the many things she did well throughout her career and through a variety of research areas. First, Monaghan’s work inspired a sustained focus on advocating for the fundamental rights and dignities of participants, including the right to sign languages. Our 2022 Society for Linguistic Anthropology panel, in honor of Monaghan’s scholarship, remembered her …
When the cricket sings & the nopal bleeds
Oaxaca boasts the greatest cultural, linguistic, and biological diversity in Mexico, so insect and human relationships take many forms there. Various insect species are found in iconic specialty foods and the cochineal bug, exported from colonial Oaxaca to dye the world's textiles and other products, is among the most celebrated. Mexican literature, folklore, art and music celebrate insects, creating various imaginaries surrounding insect-human r…
Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)