J Fortier
Biographic Data
| ID | 18079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Fortier |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Fortier |
| SIGNATURE | FORTIER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southwest Minnesota State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5960-5667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Ethnography of South Asian Foragers
Forty contemporary South Asian societies continue to carry out hunting and gathering as their primary subsistence strategy, but who are these societies? In which ways are they similar or dissimilar? Are they like contemporary foragers in other world areas? This article reviews ethnographic research concerning contemporary South Asian foragers with a focus on subsistence, cosmologies, and social organization. Major conclusions are that evolutionar…
Selves in Time and Place
Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal. Debra Skinner. Alfred Pach III. and Dorothy Holland. eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. xii. 338 pp
The Arts Of Deception
A small population of Tibeto-Burman-speaking hunter-gatherers, the Ra ̄ute avoid intercultural communication with surrounding Nepa ̄li-speaking agriculturalists except during barter sessions. During these intercultural interactions, Ra ̄ute often charm their trading partners with Nepa ̄li verbal art, including recitation of rhymes, songs, and blessings. In this article I suggest that Ra ̄ute perform verbal art in order to draw attention away from…
Sharing, Hoarding, and Theft
South Asian foragers (a.k.a. scheduled tribes and adivasi) have been depicted as passive, primitive, and naive in their relations with surrounding sedentary populations of agriculturalists. Researchers' accounts can inadvertently promote such tribal essentialism when they focus on simple reciprocity and sharing behavior and neglect the range of other strategies that enable foragers to resist assimilation into the underclasses of Hindu society. Re…
Making Gender
Making Gender: Politics and Erotics of Culture. SHERRY B. ORTNER. Boston MA: Beacon Press,19%. 255 pp. Sherry Ortner's essays, written over a span of twenty-five years, rekindled memories of graduate school debates. collection brings her earlier writings together with her more distinguished contributions as well as two previously unpublished essays. Well known for her discussions of male and female social status differences, Ortner's early essays…
Listen to the Heron's Words. GLORIA Goodwin Raheja and ANN GRODZINS Gold
Quebec Radiocarbon Measurements I
The present list reports 14 C measurements made in our laboratory from December 1972 to December 1973
The Ethnography of South Asian Foragers
Forty contemporary South Asian societies continue to carry out hunting and gathering as their primary subsistence strategy, but who are these societies? In which ways are they similar or dissimilar? Are they like contemporary foragers in other world areas? This article reviews ethnographic research concerning contemporary South Asian foragers with a focus on subsistence, cosmologies, and social organization. Major conclusions are that evolutionar…
The Arts Of Deception
A small population of Tibeto-Burman-speaking hunter-gatherers, the Ra ̄ute avoid intercultural communication with surrounding Nepa ̄li-speaking agriculturalists except during barter sessions. During these intercultural interactions, Ra ̄ute often charm their trading partners with Nepa ̄li verbal art, including recitation of rhymes, songs, and blessings. In this article I suggest that Ra ̄ute perform verbal art in order to draw attention away from…
Sharing, Hoarding, and Theft
South Asian foragers (a.k.a. scheduled tribes and adivasi) have been depicted as passive, primitive, and naive in their relations with surrounding sedentary populations of agriculturalists. Researchers' accounts can inadvertently promote such tribal essentialism when they focus on simple reciprocity and sharing behavior and neglect the range of other strategies that enable foragers to resist assimilation into the underclasses of Hindu society. Re…
Selves in Time and Place
Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal. Debra Skinner. Alfred Pach III. and Dorothy Holland. eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. xii. 338 pp
Making Gender
Making Gender: Politics and Erotics of Culture. SHERRY B. ORTNER. Boston MA: Beacon Press,19%. 255 pp. Sherry Ortner's essays, written over a span of twenty-five years, rekindled memories of graduate school debates. collection brings her earlier writings together with her more distinguished contributions as well as two previously unpublished essays. Well known for her discussions of male and female social status differences, Ortner's early essays…
Quebec Radiocarbon Measurements I
The present list reports 14 C measurements made in our laboratory from December 1972 to December 1973
Quebec Radiocarbon Measurements I
The present list reports 14 C measurements made in our laboratory from December 1972 to December 1973
Listen to the Heron's Words. GLORIA Goodwin Raheja and ANN GRODZINS Gold
Making Gender
Making Gender: Politics and Erotics of Culture. SHERRY B. ORTNER. Boston MA: Beacon Press,19%. 255 pp. Sherry Ortner's essays, written over a span of twenty-five years, rekindled memories of graduate school debates. collection brings her earlier writings together with her more distinguished contributions as well as two previously unpublished essays. Well known for her discussions of male and female social status differences, Ortner's early essays…
Sharing, Hoarding, and Theft
South Asian foragers (a.k.a. scheduled tribes and adivasi) have been depicted as passive, primitive, and naive in their relations with surrounding sedentary populations of agriculturalists. Researchers' accounts can inadvertently promote such tribal essentialism when they focus on simple reciprocity and sharing behavior and neglect the range of other strategies that enable foragers to resist assimilation into the underclasses of Hindu society. Re…
The Arts Of Deception
A small population of Tibeto-Burman-speaking hunter-gatherers, the Ra ̄ute avoid intercultural communication with surrounding Nepa ̄li-speaking agriculturalists except during barter sessions. During these intercultural interactions, Ra ̄ute often charm their trading partners with Nepa ̄li verbal art, including recitation of rhymes, songs, and blessings. In this article I suggest that Ra ̄ute perform verbal art in order to draw attention away from…
Selves in Time and Place
Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal. Debra Skinner. Alfred Pach III. and Dorothy Holland. eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. xii. 338 pp
The Ethnography of South Asian Foragers
Forty contemporary South Asian societies continue to carry out hunting and gathering as their primary subsistence strategy, but who are these societies? In which ways are they similar or dissimilar? Are they like contemporary foragers in other world areas? This article reviews ethnographic research concerning contemporary South Asian foragers with a focus on subsistence, cosmologies, and social organization. Major conclusions are that evolutionar…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)