H A Regis
Biographic Data
| ID | 23887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H A Regis |
| GIVEN NAMES | H A |
| FAMILY NAME | Regis |
| SIGNATURE | REGIS H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7762-6712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Doing Oral History as Public Anthropology
Doing Oral History engages students as co-researchers in a community-engaged oral history project begun in 2011. Supported by a research partnership between a faculty member, a university oral history center, and a non-profit archive, the course engages learners in the exploration of a festival and its communities. Through oral histories with long-time festival workers, artists, staff, volunteers, and neighbors, we contribute to expanding the his…
Introduction. The Public South: Engaging History, Abolition, Pedagogy, and Practice
With this issue of Southern Anthropologist, we introduce several new features, which we hope will enliven conversations and expand the readership of the journal.In addition to traditional research articles, we are introducing slightly shorter Field Reports, which are ideally suited to reflecting on the research process, preliminary analysis of research in progress, reflections on emergent themes, and strategies for responding to dilemmas and chal…
Laugh-cry, eat-drink, dance! Tracing belonging through cartographies of joy
This article explores joy, identity, and belonging at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival through an ethnographic project inviting festgoers and staff members to draw, sketch, or map their experiences and journeys through festival landscapes. Building on scholarship in visual, humanistic, and post-humanist anthropology, we view map-making as an emergent strategy for performative epistemology, a way of making and thinking together. In a fes…
Ships on the Wall: Retracing African Trade Routes from Marseille, France
With this essay on decolonizing ways of knowing, I seek to understand the phantom histories of my father’s French family. Filling in silences in written family accounts with scholarship on Marseille’s maritime commerce, African history, African Diaspora studies, and my own archival research, I seek to reconnect European, African, and Caribbean threads of my family story. Travelling from New Orleans to Marseille, Zanzibar, Ouidah, Porto-Novo, Mart…
Producing Africa at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
The gangly teenager in the black frame glasses saunters up to the camera with a lively step. His image flashes across the screen then is gone (Fig. 1). But the laughter in the audience suggests something else. I thought I recognized the young man, but I wasn’t sure, so I asked the filmmaker later. In a broad, knowing smile, he confirmed my speculation. But did everyone in the room recognize him too? Or were they laughing because of the incongruit…
Performing Africa in New Orleans
June 01 2013 Performing Africa in New Orleans Cynthia Becker, Cynthia Becker Cynthia Becker, a New Orleans native, is associate professor in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University. She specializes in visual culture from northwestern Africa, specifically Morocco, Algeria, and Niger. Her current research concentrates on the impact of the trans-Saharan slave trade on visual and performing arts in the Maghreb as well as …
Engaging New Orleans: Fostering Publics within and beyond the Meeting Hotels
Keywords: association business, Annual Meeting, 2010 Annual Conference
Can There Be a Critical Collaborative Ethnography: Creativity and Activism in the Seventh Ward, New Orleans
Can There Be a Critical Collaborative Ethnography?Creativity and Activism in the Seventh Ward, New Orleans Rachel Breunlin (bio) and Helen A. Regis (bio) It is only through the way in which we represent and imagine ourselves that we come to know how we are constituted and who we are. There is no escape from the politics of representation, and we cannot wield "how life really is out there" as a kind of test against which the political rightness or…
Producing the Folk at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
In this paper, we consider how the folk are produced and consumed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest). Founded in the aftermath of the civil rights movement as a cosmopolitan gathering of music, food, and art lovers, Jazz Fest has become one of the world's largest music festivals. The staging of the festival in the wake of Hurricane Katrina was seen as a symbol of the reviving spirit of New Orleans and showcased the festival…
Putting the Ninth Ward on the Map: Race, Place, and Transformation in Desire, New Orleans
In this article, we consider how long-term patterns of resistance to structural violence inform citizens' responses to displacement before and after Katrina. Drawing on Abdou Maliq Simone's (2004) conceptualization of people as infrastructure, we recenter the discussion about the rebuilding of New Orleans around displaced residents, taking the place-making practices of members of a social club as a lens through which to examine the predicament of…
Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam, and Medicine In Northern Cameroon
Examining the diverse Fulbe culture of Cameroon, the author challenges the idea that culture is an integrated whole as opposed to a compilation of coexisting practices and beliefs. Contemporary Fulbe identity is rooted in a history of nomadic pastoralism, migration, slave trading, and religious jihads, even though the Fulbe today are sedentary farmers and merchants. Much of The Fulbe of Northern Cameroon is concerned, then, with defining what it …
Blackness and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line
Popular memorial practices, including traditional jazz funeral processions, are continually being refashioned and re-appropriated for devotional, commercial, and political purposes in New Orleans. Belying nostalgic representations of the jazz funeral as a "dying tradition," neighborhood-based parades produced by working-class African Americans continue to provide a space for the articulation of local subjectivities, particularly for those most af…
Second Lines, Minstrelsy, and the Contested Landscapes of New Orleans Afro-Creole Festivals
Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields
Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields. Miriam Goheen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. 252 pp
Status and Identity in West Africa. Nyamakalaw of Mande
Second Lines, Minstrelsy, and the Contested Landscapes of New Orleans Afro-Creole Festivals
Putting the Ninth Ward on the Map: Race, Place, and Transformation in Desire, New Orleans
In this article, we consider how long-term patterns of resistance to structural violence inform citizens' responses to displacement before and after Katrina. Drawing on Abdou Maliq Simone's (2004) conceptualization of people as infrastructure, we recenter the discussion about the rebuilding of New Orleans around displaced residents, taking the place-making practices of members of a social club as a lens through which to examine the predicament of…
Blackness and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line
Popular memorial practices, including traditional jazz funeral processions, are continually being refashioned and re-appropriated for devotional, commercial, and political purposes in New Orleans. Belying nostalgic representations of the jazz funeral as a "dying tradition," neighborhood-based parades produced by working-class African Americans continue to provide a space for the articulation of local subjectivities, particularly for those most af…
Can There Be a Critical Collaborative Ethnography: Creativity and Activism in the Seventh Ward, New Orleans
Can There Be a Critical Collaborative Ethnography?Creativity and Activism in the Seventh Ward, New Orleans Rachel Breunlin (bio) and Helen A. Regis (bio) It is only through the way in which we represent and imagine ourselves that we come to know how we are constituted and who we are. There is no escape from the politics of representation, and we cannot wield "how life really is out there" as a kind of test against which the political rightness or…
Producing the Folk at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
In this paper, we consider how the folk are produced and consumed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest). Founded in the aftermath of the civil rights movement as a cosmopolitan gathering of music, food, and art lovers, Jazz Fest has become one of the world's largest music festivals. The staging of the festival in the wake of Hurricane Katrina was seen as a symbol of the reviving spirit of New Orleans and showcased the festival…
Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam, and Medicine In Northern Cameroon
Examining the diverse Fulbe culture of Cameroon, the author challenges the idea that culture is an integrated whole as opposed to a compilation of coexisting practices and beliefs. Contemporary Fulbe identity is rooted in a history of nomadic pastoralism, migration, slave trading, and religious jihads, even though the Fulbe today are sedentary farmers and merchants. Much of The Fulbe of Northern Cameroon is concerned, then, with defining what it …
Producing Africa at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
The gangly teenager in the black frame glasses saunters up to the camera with a lively step. His image flashes across the screen then is gone (Fig. 1). But the laughter in the audience suggests something else. I thought I recognized the young man, but I wasn’t sure, so I asked the filmmaker later. In a broad, knowing smile, he confirmed my speculation. But did everyone in the room recognize him too? Or were they laughing because of the incongruit…
Status and Identity in West Africa. Nyamakalaw of Mande
Laugh-cry, eat-drink, dance! Tracing belonging through cartographies of joy
This article explores joy, identity, and belonging at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival through an ethnographic project inviting festgoers and staff members to draw, sketch, or map their experiences and journeys through festival landscapes. Building on scholarship in visual, humanistic, and post-humanist anthropology, we view map-making as an emergent strategy for performative epistemology, a way of making and thinking together. In a fes…
Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields
Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields. Miriam Goheen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. 252 pp
Ships on the Wall: Retracing African Trade Routes from Marseille, France
With this essay on decolonizing ways of knowing, I seek to understand the phantom histories of my father’s French family. Filling in silences in written family accounts with scholarship on Marseille’s maritime commerce, African history, African Diaspora studies, and my own archival research, I seek to reconnect European, African, and Caribbean threads of my family story. Travelling from New Orleans to Marseille, Zanzibar, Ouidah, Porto-Novo, Mart…
Status and Identity in West Africa. Nyamakalaw of Mande
Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields
Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields. Miriam Goheen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. 252 pp
Second Lines, Minstrelsy, and the Contested Landscapes of New Orleans Afro-Creole Festivals
Blackness and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line
Popular memorial practices, including traditional jazz funeral processions, are continually being refashioned and re-appropriated for devotional, commercial, and political purposes in New Orleans. Belying nostalgic representations of the jazz funeral as a "dying tradition," neighborhood-based parades produced by working-class African Americans continue to provide a space for the articulation of local subjectivities, particularly for those most af…
Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam, and Medicine In Northern Cameroon
Examining the diverse Fulbe culture of Cameroon, the author challenges the idea that culture is an integrated whole as opposed to a compilation of coexisting practices and beliefs. Contemporary Fulbe identity is rooted in a history of nomadic pastoralism, migration, slave trading, and religious jihads, even though the Fulbe today are sedentary farmers and merchants. Much of The Fulbe of Northern Cameroon is concerned, then, with defining what it …
Putting the Ninth Ward on the Map: Race, Place, and Transformation in Desire, New Orleans
In this article, we consider how long-term patterns of resistance to structural violence inform citizens' responses to displacement before and after Katrina. Drawing on Abdou Maliq Simone's (2004) conceptualization of people as infrastructure, we recenter the discussion about the rebuilding of New Orleans around displaced residents, taking the place-making practices of members of a social club as a lens through which to examine the predicament of…
Producing the Folk at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
In this paper, we consider how the folk are produced and consumed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest). Founded in the aftermath of the civil rights movement as a cosmopolitan gathering of music, food, and art lovers, Jazz Fest has become one of the world's largest music festivals. The staging of the festival in the wake of Hurricane Katrina was seen as a symbol of the reviving spirit of New Orleans and showcased the festival…
Can There Be a Critical Collaborative Ethnography: Creativity and Activism in the Seventh Ward, New Orleans
Can There Be a Critical Collaborative Ethnography?Creativity and Activism in the Seventh Ward, New Orleans Rachel Breunlin (bio) and Helen A. Regis (bio) It is only through the way in which we represent and imagine ourselves that we come to know how we are constituted and who we are. There is no escape from the politics of representation, and we cannot wield "how life really is out there" as a kind of test against which the political rightness or…
Engaging New Orleans: Fostering Publics within and beyond the Meeting Hotels
Keywords: association business, Annual Meeting, 2010 Annual Conference
Producing Africa at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
The gangly teenager in the black frame glasses saunters up to the camera with a lively step. His image flashes across the screen then is gone (Fig. 1). But the laughter in the audience suggests something else. I thought I recognized the young man, but I wasn’t sure, so I asked the filmmaker later. In a broad, knowing smile, he confirmed my speculation. But did everyone in the room recognize him too? Or were they laughing because of the incongruit…
Performing Africa in New Orleans
June 01 2013 Performing Africa in New Orleans Cynthia Becker, Cynthia Becker Cynthia Becker, a New Orleans native, is associate professor in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University. She specializes in visual culture from northwestern Africa, specifically Morocco, Algeria, and Niger. Her current research concentrates on the impact of the trans-Saharan slave trade on visual and performing arts in the Maghreb as well as …
Ships on the Wall: Retracing African Trade Routes from Marseille, France
With this essay on decolonizing ways of knowing, I seek to understand the phantom histories of my father’s French family. Filling in silences in written family accounts with scholarship on Marseille’s maritime commerce, African history, African Diaspora studies, and my own archival research, I seek to reconnect European, African, and Caribbean threads of my family story. Travelling from New Orleans to Marseille, Zanzibar, Ouidah, Porto-Novo, Mart…
Doing Oral History as Public Anthropology
Doing Oral History engages students as co-researchers in a community-engaged oral history project begun in 2011. Supported by a research partnership between a faculty member, a university oral history center, and a non-profit archive, the course engages learners in the exploration of a festival and its communities. Through oral histories with long-time festival workers, artists, staff, volunteers, and neighbors, we contribute to expanding the his…
Introduction. The Public South: Engaging History, Abolition, Pedagogy, and Practice
With this issue of Southern Anthropologist, we introduce several new features, which we hope will enliven conversations and expand the readership of the journal.In addition to traditional research articles, we are introducing slightly shorter Field Reports, which are ideally suited to reflecting on the research process, preliminary analysis of research in progress, reflections on emergent themes, and strategies for responding to dilemmas and chal…
Laugh-cry, eat-drink, dance! Tracing belonging through cartographies of joy
This article explores joy, identity, and belonging at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival through an ethnographic project inviting festgoers and staff members to draw, sketch, or map their experiences and journeys through festival landscapes. Building on scholarship in visual, humanistic, and post-humanist anthropology, we view map-making as an emergent strategy for performative epistemology, a way of making and thinking together. In a fes…
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