David Syring
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Syring |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Syring |
| SIGNATURE | SYRING D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota, Duluth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spectral Remix
Genres, Experiments, and Blog Posts Re-Curated
Ghost Maps, Bookstores, Souls, and Yeast
Reading is an operation without object; or that its true object is itself. The book is an accessory aid, or even a pretext ... every new book I read becomes part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of all my readings.” —Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everythin…
Anthropologists as Strange Travelers
Enlarging the Raft
Sudden Anthropology
What I Learned at the Dead Baby Dance about Negotiating Identities
Finding Anthropology through Humanism
La Vida Matizada
This article explores three instances of the frictions and negotiations that are sparked by specific transnational encounters with global capitalist temporality. Capitalist ideas about the proper ways to organize time and labor have long dominated global practices. Such ideas simultaneously force acceptance of a limited model of the proper relationships between work and everyday life. This article provides ethnographic descriptions of the work rh…
Sweet Water and Exotic Fish
This article explores environmental imaginations in two cultural contexts—in the tales of an indigenous Saraguro, Ecuador, storyteller and in environmental science stories from the Great Lakes. By juxtaposing two examples of cultures grappling with the presence of exotic species in their waters, I raise comparative questions about how we conceptualize human‐environment relations in the contemporary world, as well as how moral authority regarding …
People in Nature
At Face Value
At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America. Sylvia Molloy. Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xii + 273 pp, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–33195–1
At Face Value
Golden Animals
Amidst crises of species loss and climate collapse, it is heartening to recall that a dialogue about global history, the animacy of the world, and the place of human beings within it is unfinished
Golden Animals
Amidst crises of species loss and climate collapse, it is heartening to recall that a dialogue about global history, the animacy of the world, and the place of human beings within it is unfinished
At Face Value
At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America. Sylvia Molloy. Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xii + 273 pp, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–33195–1
At Face Value
Sweet Water and Exotic Fish
This article explores environmental imaginations in two cultural contexts—in the tales of an indigenous Saraguro, Ecuador, storyteller and in environmental science stories from the Great Lakes. By juxtaposing two examples of cultures grappling with the presence of exotic species in their waters, I raise comparative questions about how we conceptualize human‐environment relations in the contemporary world, as well as how moral authority regarding …
People in Nature
La Vida Matizada
This article explores three instances of the frictions and negotiations that are sparked by specific transnational encounters with global capitalist temporality. Capitalist ideas about the proper ways to organize time and labor have long dominated global practices. Such ideas simultaneously force acceptance of a limited model of the proper relationships between work and everyday life. This article provides ethnographic descriptions of the work rh…
Finding Anthropology through Humanism
Enlarging the Raft
Sudden Anthropology
What I Learned at the Dead Baby Dance about Negotiating Identities
Anthropologists as Strange Travelers
Ghost Maps, Bookstores, Souls, and Yeast
Reading is an operation without object; or that its true object is itself. The book is an accessory aid, or even a pretext ... every new book I read becomes part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of all my readings.” —Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everythin…
Genres, Experiments, and Blog Posts Re-Curated
Spectral Remix
Art (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Citation (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · History (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 works)