L W Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 33143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L W Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | L W |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD L W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2537-4995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Anarchist Futures: Indigenous Influences in the Speculative World-Making of Ursula K. Le Guin
By focusing on the interventions Le Guin makes in the discipline of anthropology, theorists have missed a critical connection to radical and utopia studies—the diverse ways that anarchist thought can be and is being grounded in Indigenous radical theory. In this article, we argue that Le Guin was influenced by Native North American philosophy and political action, tracing the links between these influences and anarchism more generally. We also po…
Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River
The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley
Colombian utopia and anti-utopia: Remembering and reconsidering the Farc's Zona de Despeje, 1998-2002
Utopian futurism is not often discussed as a motivating factor behind social science research, and in this article Colombian linguist Felix Manuel Burgos and US anthropologist Les W. Field take up that motivation in re-assessing one period in the history of Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). Founded in 1964 and impelled by events that exploded in 1948, FARC's history offers a window into a movement marked by a deeply dystopian tr…
Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks
The Colombia-Israel Nexus: Toward Historical and Analytic Contexts
Israel’s historical relationships with Argentina, Nicaragua, and Guatemala during the Cold War in the 1980s provides one context for understanding the parameters of Israeli foreign policy in the region. These relationships allied Israel with right-wing military regimes suppressing a variety of subversive others in Argentina and Guatemala, and also a right-wing counterinsurgency in Nicaragua. In the post–Cold War era, the Colombian case is distinc…
Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California
Roundtable
Double Trouble: Implications of Historicizing Identity Discourses
Imagining Palestinian Archaeologies: A Sampler
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole. In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume editor Gabriela Vargas-Cetina brings together a group of international scholars who, through their fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political, a…
Museo del Oro: Viñetas
In January 2011, we summoned in Colombia an international group of scholars/activists to discuss the complexities of the relationship between archaeology, "illicit" excavations, museums, and indigenous peoples from a comparative gaze. The three-day workshop took place in Bogotá and Villa de Leyva. One of the events we set up during the Bogotá's leg of the workshop was a visit to the Museo del Oro. In the museum's cafeteria, we talked about what w…
The Israel/Palestine Field School
In May 2011, the Anthropology Department and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico offered a class entitled “Technologies of Settler-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine.” This field school was designed as a decolonizing project for American students (an extremely diverse group representative of New Mexico’s particular diverse population that included Hispanic, Native American, Arab and Muslim-American, Jewish-American, an…
Special Issue Introduction
Special Issue Introduction Les Field (bio) and Joanne Rappaport (bio) Collaborative research methods have a long history in Latin America, one that is particularly oriented toward explicit, specific, and wide-ranging projects aimed at the decolonization of knowledge. In pursuit of that end, the various Latin American authors whose work is showcased in this special issue of Collaborative Anthropologies develop and deploy collaborative research met…
Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribes' Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries. Gelya Frank , Carole Goldberg
The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance. Nasser Abufarha
Ethnographies and Archaeologies: Iterations of the Present. Lena Mortensen , Julie Hollowell
Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900 . Daniel M. Cobb , Loretta Fowler
Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn From It by Robert Borofsky, with Bruce Albert, Raymond Hames, Kim Hill, Lêda Leitão Martins, John Peters, and Terence Turner
Four kinds of authenticity? Regarding Nicaraguan pottery in Scandinavian museums, 2006-08
Since the late 1970s, ceramics producers in the Nicaraguan village of San Juan de Oriente have repeatedly transformed both the design of and the technology for making their products. Different types of Scandinavian museums exhibited the most recent form of San Juanense pottery in 2006-08, which provided me with an opportunity to reflect on the history and character of the pottery in light of my own involvement with its producers since the early 1…
Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond . Renya K. Ramirez
Side by Side or Facing One Another: Writing and Collaborative Ethnography in Comparative Perspective
Side by Side or Facing One Another":Writing and Collaborative Ethnography in Comparative Perspective Les W. Field (bio) Introduction In 2000, I began a collaborative project with Cheryl Seidner, the chair of the Table Bluff Wiyot Rancheria, and her sister, Leona Wilkinson, who heads the tribe's Culture Committee. Seidner, Wilkinson, and I agreed to collaboratively formulate the methods and goals of a project of mutual interest and to also work to…
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century . Brian Hosmer , Colleen O'Neill
Seeing Indians: A Study of Race, Nation, and Power in El Salvador . Virginia Q. Tilley
Complicities and Collaborations: Anthropologists and the “Unacknowledged Tribes” of California
California's statehood and assimilation into the United States during the 19th century were accompanied by genocide against the indigenous population; among those peoples that survived, a large number were officially erased by a federal policy of non-recognition in which anthropologists and anthropological knowledge played a role. At the end of the 20th century the descendants of these peoples, the "unacknowledged tribes," are engaged in struggle…
Who are the Indians? Reconceptualizing Indigenous Identity, Resistance, and the Role of Social Science in Latin America
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Unacknowledged Tribes, Dangerous Knowledge: "The Muwekma Ohlone and How Indian Identities Are "Known
i n this article, I will outline the analysis I have been developing to investigate a very specific case study: the history of the Ohlone peoples of the San Francisco Bay Area and their petition for federal recognition as the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. Because I am a cultural anthropologist and I work as tribal ethnologist for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, the approach I have taken in much of my work has been to show the role played by anthropologists and…
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole. In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume editor Gabriela Vargas-Cetina brings together a group of international scholars who, through their fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political, a…
Side by Side or Facing One Another: Writing and Collaborative Ethnography in Comparative Perspective
Side by Side or Facing One Another":Writing and Collaborative Ethnography in Comparative Perspective Les W. Field (bio) Introduction In 2000, I began a collaborative project with Cheryl Seidner, the chair of the Table Bluff Wiyot Rancheria, and her sister, Leona Wilkinson, who heads the tribe's Culture Committee. Seidner, Wilkinson, and I agreed to collaboratively formulate the methods and goals of a project of mutual interest and to also work to…
Post-Sandinista Ethnic Identities in Western Nicaragua
The meanings of the ethnic labels Indian and mestizo in Latin America are often treated as stable, bounded, and clearly marked by anthropologists, nationalists, and indigenous intellectuals alike. In Nicaragua, the post-Sandinista emergence of a discourse of indigenous identity in the western region, where successive state elites have considered that identity erased, underscores the dynamic mutability of both indigenous and mestizo ethnicities. T…
Four kinds of authenticity? Regarding Nicaraguan pottery in Scandinavian museums, 2006-08
Since the late 1970s, ceramics producers in the Nicaraguan village of San Juan de Oriente have repeatedly transformed both the design of and the technology for making their products. Different types of Scandinavian museums exhibited the most recent form of San Juanense pottery in 2006-08, which provided me with an opportunity to reflect on the history and character of the pottery in light of my own involvement with its producers since the early 1…
Constructing Local Identities in a Revolutionary Nation: The cultural politics of the artisan class in Nicaragua, 1979-90
During the Nicaraguan Revolution (1979-90), the Sandinista government was simultaneously committed to a politics of class consciousness and a nation-building project informed by an indigenista ideology. Western Nicaraguan artisan communities, a heterogeneous social group with variable and distinctive cultural practices, responded to the Sandinista Revolution by creating a union that represented artisans' interests in terms of class rather than et…
Harvesting the bitter juice contradictions of Páez resistance in the changing Colombian nation-state
Indigenous ethnic identity among the Páez has been shaped by changing strategies of resistance to the political and economic domination and cultural hegemony of the Colombian nation-state. This resistance has historically sustained a territorial and cultural entity, Nasa Kiwe (Páez Nation), that has incorporated both counterhege-monic displacement of the nation-state and a pervasive accession to hegemonic forms and institutions. My collaboration …
Mired positionings: Moving beyond metropolitan authority and indigenous authenticity
Museo del Oro: Viñetas
In January 2011, we summoned in Colombia an international group of scholars/activists to discuss the complexities of the relationship between archaeology, "illicit" excavations, museums, and indigenous peoples from a comparative gaze. The three-day workshop took place in Bogotá and Villa de Leyva. One of the events we set up during the Bogotá's leg of the workshop was a visit to the Museo del Oro. In the museum's cafeteria, we talked about what w…
Tools for indigenous agricultural development in Latin America: An anthropologist's perspective
Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California
Roundtable
Beyond Identity? Analytic Crosscurrents in Contemporary Mayanist Social Science
Tecpan Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town In Global And Local Context. By Edward F. Fischer and Carol Hendrickson. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003. Pp. 164. $65.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.) Communities In Globalization: The Invisible Mayan Nahual. By Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz and Katherine E. Andradé-Tickhoff. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. Pp. 167. $24.95 paper.) Mayan Visions: The Quest For Autonomy In An Age Of Globalizatio…
Commentary: Who are “We” and is that Dangerous for “Them
Lost Visions and New Uncertainties: Sandinista Profesionales in Northern Nicaragua
Lost Visions and New Uncertainties: Sandinista Profesionales in Northern Nicaragua. Inger Lundgren. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, Almqvist and Wiksell International, 2000. 258 pp
The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica
The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. PHILIP J.WILLIAMS. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. 244 pp. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN 0‐8229‐1155‐8
Tools for indigenous agricultural development in Latin America: An anthropologist's perspective
The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica: The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica
A Contemporary Ohlone Tribal Revitalization Movement: A Perspective from the Muwekma Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco Bay Area
Research Article| October 01 1992 A Contemporary Ohlone Tribal Revitalization Movement: A Perspective from the Muwekma Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco Bay Area Les Field, Les Field Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Alan Leventhal, Alan Leventhal Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Dolores Sanchez, Dolores Sanchez Search for other works by this author on: T…
Native American Literature: Divergent Analytical and Political Views New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism. Arnold Krupat
Who are the Indians? Reconceptualizing Indigenous Identity, Resistance, and the Role of Social Science in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Harvesting the bitter juice contradictions of Páez resistance in the changing Colombian nation-state
Indigenous ethnic identity among the Páez has been shaped by changing strategies of resistance to the political and economic domination and cultural hegemony of the Colombian nation-state. This resistance has historically sustained a territorial and cultural entity, Nasa Kiwe (Páez Nation), that has incorporated both counterhege-monic displacement of the nation-state and a pervasive accession to hegemonic forms and institutions. My collaboration …
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence. Enrique Florescano. Albert G. Bork, Trans
Constructing Local Identities in a Revolutionary Nation: The cultural politics of the artisan class in Nicaragua, 1979-90
During the Nicaraguan Revolution (1979-90), the Sandinista government was simultaneously committed to a politics of class consciousness and a nation-building project informed by an indigenista ideology. Western Nicaraguan artisan communities, a heterogeneous social group with variable and distinctive cultural practices, responded to the Sandinista Revolution by creating a union that represented artisans' interests in terms of class rather than et…
State, Anti‐State, and Indigenous Entitles: Reflections Upon a Páez Resguardo and the New Colombian Constitution
Colombia's new Constitution includes far‐reaching legislation that for the first time in that nation's history affirms the multi‐eth‐nic character of its population. This document explicitly recognizes indigenous peoples' rights to distinctive socio‐cultural, political and economic organization on territory the state pledges to recognize as Indigenous Territorial Entities ETIs. This artide explores the complex and contradictory situation the cons…
State, Anti-State, and Indigenous Entitles: Reflections Upon a Paez Resguardo and the New Colombian Constitution
Global Systems and Local Selfhoods
Mired positionings: Moving beyond metropolitan authority and indigenous authenticity
Indians and Indian Agents: The Origins of the Reservation System in California, 1849-52. George Harwood Phillips
In: Kevin Gosner and Arij Ouweneel, Editors, , Cedla?Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, Amsterdam (1996), p. viii + 296
Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology . Thomas Biolsi , Larry Zimmerman
U New Mexico for the Record
Post-Sandinista Ethnic Identities in Western Nicaragua
The meanings of the ethnic labels Indian and mestizo in Latin America are often treated as stable, bounded, and clearly marked by anthropologists, nationalists, and indigenous intellectuals alike. In Nicaragua, the post-Sandinista emergence of a discourse of indigenous identity in the western region, where successive state elites have considered that identity erased, underscores the dynamic mutability of both indigenous and mestizo ethnicities. T…
American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk. Troy Johnson , Joane Nagel , Duane Champagne
The Indigenous World 1997-98 . International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs (Iwgia)
Complicities and Collaborations: Anthropologists and the “Unacknowledged Tribes” of California
California's statehood and assimilation into the United States during the 19th century were accompanied by genocide against the indigenous population; among those peoples that survived, a large number were officially erased by a federal policy of non-recognition in which anthropologists and anthropological knowledge played a role. At the end of the 20th century the descendants of these peoples, the "unacknowledged tribes," are engaged in struggle…
States and Illegal Practices . Josiah McC. Heyman
The Ceramics of Raquira, Colombia: Gender, Work, and Economic Change
The Ceramics of Raquira, Colombia: Gender, Work, and Economic Change. Ronald J. Duncan. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ix. 233 pp., illustrations, appendix, glossary, bibl.ography, mdex
Blood and Traits: Preliminary Observations on the Analysis of Mestizo and Indigenous Identities in Latin America vs. the U.S
Blood and Traits: Preliminary Observations on the Analysis of Mestizo and Indigenous Identities in Latin America vs. the U.S
In the past decade, anthropologists have reevaluated what they have taken for granted about the process of mestizaje and the meaning of mestizo identities in diverse Latin American countries Comparisons between such processes and identities in Latin versus North America have been lacking, which has tended to obscure the ways that nationalist ideologies have produced and naturalized such identities, and, moreover, how anthropology itself has prove…
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