Stanley Brandes

Biographic Data

ID5606038
NAMEStanley Brandes
GIVEN NAMESStanley
FAMILY NAMEBrandes
SIGNATUREBRANDES S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS120
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX7

  • A pamphlet as key to ritual interpretation

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley BrandesARTICLEEtnografica2022

    Brochure listing the 1976 Cazorla annual festival schedule, including the procession of Giants and Big-Heads Source: Photo by Stanley Brandes A search for information regarding a festival, ritual, or other significant event is likely to yield a highly detailed, mainly chronological description of the event. What we miss in many of these accounts is an interpretation of the proceedings, some guiding theoretical framework by which to deepen underst…

  • Les autobiografies etnogràfiques en l'Antropologia americana

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEArxiu d Etnografia de Catalunya2016

    La biografia etnogràfica ha estat sempre molt utilitzada per l'antropologia americana. Tanmateix ha estat emprada amb una gran diversitat de propòsits i s'ha servit de tècniques vàries per a la seva aplicació. En aquest article tractem d'aquestes aplicacions i, també, del lloc de la biografia etnogràfica dins l'antropologia. També s'hi tracten els problemes i perspectives d'aquesta important eina

  • Monsanto, orgullo de Portugal

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley BrandesARTICLEENDOXA2014

    El artículo investiga el concurso que tuvo lugar en 1938 durante el régimen fascista de António de Salazar con el fin de seleccionar «el pueblo más portugués de Portugal». En torno a este evento tuvo lugar una cercana colaboración entre etnólogos profesionales y el gobierno de derechas del momento. Este artículo ofrece una interpretación del mencionado concurso en el contexto de unas relaciones internacionales turbulentas, particularmente como re…

  • Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint

    Brande, Stanley BrandesARTICLEFolklore2014

    In Devoted to Death, R. Andrew Chesnut, the Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, addresses an inherently intriguing topic: the burgeoning devotion t

  • Dear Rin Tin Tin: An Analysis of William Safire’s Dog-Naming Survey from 1985

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley BrandesARTICLENames2012Cited by: 2References: 4

    This paper contributes to the study of how and why we bestow particular types of names upon companion animals, specifically dogs. The research is based on a cache of letters written in 1985 in response to a request from New York Times columnist, William Safire. Although the survey is in no sense scientific, it nonetheless taps trends in dog naming that have become steadily more prominent to the present day. Dog names as well as the criteria by wh…

  • The art of evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and visual culture

    Brande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEVisual Studies2011

  • Ratatouille: An Animated Account of Cooking, Taste, and Human Evolution

    Brande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEEthnos2011References: 4

    This paper analyzes the immensely popular animated film Ratatouille as a social and cultural document. It begins with a recapitulation of the movie's story line - a saga of an astute, ambitious and talented rat, who becomes transformed into an accomplished haute cuisine chef. The film illustrates recent anthropological writings on the central role of cooking in human evolution. It also shows how varieties of cooking and table manners provide key …

  • Graciela Iturbide as Anthropological Photographer

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley BrandesARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2008Cited by: 2References: 4

    This article is a reflection on the images of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. Focusing on her portraits of indigenous peoples of Mexico (particularly the Seri, Isthmus Zapotec, and Mixtec), the author addresses the anthropological value of a body of visual material that is artistic, rather than documentary, in conception and execution. The article inquires into whether and to what extent the images of a professional photographer such as I…

  • The Things We Carry

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEMen and Masculinities2008Cited by: 5References: 11

    This article takes as its starting point Tim O'Brien's famous essay, 'The Things They Carried,' a fictional evocation of tangible and intangible items that Vietnam War soldiers hauled around with them in the field. 'The Things We Carry,' by contrast, analyzes the theoretical ideas and various components of social identity that anthropologists bring with them to the communities in which they carry out research. This article focuses especially on t…

  • George McClelland Foster Jr. (1913–2006)

    Open AccessRobert V Kemper, Brande et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2007

  • Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics after Franco

    Brande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2006

    Book Review| April 01 2006 Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics after Franco Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics after Franco, Dorothy Noyes. Stanley Brandes Stanley Brandes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2006) 119 (472): 239–240. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137927 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stanley Brande…

  • Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain

    Open AccessStanley Brande, Stanley BrandesARTICLEMuseum Anthropology2006

    Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain. Jo Farb Hernández. University Press of Mississippi, 2005. 225 pp

  • Alan Dundes (1934-2005)

    Open AccessL Nader, Brande et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2006References: 5

  • Drinking: Anthropological Approaches:Drinking: Anthropological Approaches

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2004Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Drinking: Anthropological Approaches

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2004References: 1

    Drinking: Anthropological Approaches. Igor de Garine and Valeria de Garine. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 248 pp

  • Staying Sober in Mexico City

    David R Hodges, David R Hodge et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

  • Is There a Mexican View of Death

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEEthos2003Cited by: 9References: 20

    Reviewing social science literature over the past half century, this article identifies a widely held image of what we might call the morbid Mexican. In contrast to people from other cultural traditions, Mexicans are said to scorn and laugh at death and to be comfortable in the presence of death. They are also portrayed as relatively impervious to the emotional impact of death. Through a systematic survey of ethnographic data, particularly concer…

  • Mary LeCron Foster (1914-2001)

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2003Cited by: 2References: 7

  • The Cremated Catholic: The Ends of a Deceased Guatemalan

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEBody & Society2001Cited by: 3References: 1

    After a Guatemalan migrant worker living in northern California was killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a highway one night, his family requested that his body be sent back to his native village in southwestern Guatemala to be mourned and buried according to traditional Catholic custom. But the County morgue confused this deceased individual with another Latino and cremated his body before it could be shipped. This article analyzes the …

  • Fotoperiodismo y etnografía: El caso de W. Eugene Smith y su proyecto sobre Deleitosa

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley Brandes et al.ARTICLEDisparidades. Revista de…1998

    Este artículo, basado tanto en trabajo de campo como en investigación documental, trata de un episodio fotográfico en la historia española todavía poco reconocido por investigadores españoles: la expedición en junio del 1950 del gran fotógrafo estadounidense W. Eugene Smith y sus dos ayudantes al pueblo cacereño de Deleitosa. El artículo describe los métodos de trabajo de Smith y su equipo; analiza el resultado de este trabajo, es decir, el famos…

  • The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

    Brande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1998Cited by: 1

    Mexico's Day of the Dead is a version of the widespread Roman Catholic feasts of All Saints' and All Souls' Days. This article analyzes how the holiday has come to be perceived, both within and outside of Mexico, as a unique Mesoamerican legacy, hence a symbol of the nation itself. Tourism and international relations have been largely responsible for this development. The recent spread of Halloween within Mexico has given rise to a symbolic compe…

  • Iconography in Mexico's Day of the Dead: Origins and Meaning

    Brande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1998Cited by: 12References: 15

    This article analyzes the origin and meaning of artistic representations of death-principally skulls and skeletons-in Mexico's Day of the Dead.It chal lenges stereotypes of the death-obsessed Mexican by tracing mortuary imagery in the Day of the Dead to two separate artistic developments, the first deriving from religious and demographic imperatives of colonial times, the second from nineteenth-century politics and journalism.Now generally percei…

  • Photographic Imagery in the Ethnography of Spain

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley BrandesARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review1997Cited by: 1References: 8

  • Sugar, Colonialism, and Death: On the Origins of Mexico's Day of the Dead

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEComparative Studies in Society…1997Cited by: 10References: 14

    Mexico's most famous holiday is, without doubt, the Day of the Dead. At the end of October, large numbers of foreign visitors descend upon Mexico to witness colorful-some would say carnivalesque-ritual performances and artistic displays. Decorated breads, paper cutouts, and plastic toys, most of them humorously playing on the theme of death, are evident everywhere. Sculpted sugar candies in the form of skulls, skeletons, and caskets suggest an al…

  • Honor. FRANK Henderson STEWART

    Open AccessBrande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1996