Andrew Causey
Biographic Data
| ID | 641956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Causey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Causey |
| SIGNATURE | CAUSEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-9127-9948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dialectical improv
Part of a special section in honor of Kathleen Stewart, "Hundreds for Katie," this piece compresses thirty years of interactions into a few pithy words to characterize one facet of the author's on-going relationship with her
Objects Possessed, Drawn, Touched, Identified, and Sold: Effective Material Culture Exercises for the Anthropology Classroom
Teaching the anthropology of material culture to non-majors at an arts college requires a flexible pedagogy and a creative approach. In this article, I discuss some of the specific challenges of effectively engaging arts majors who often arrive at the classroom interested only in fulfilling their general education requirements. I identify five approaches to the anthropological study of objects (object as personal identity, object as "thing in the…
Travel to a place both sad and cute
The author pulls off the highway in Southwestern Missouri to visit the Precious Moments Chapel and Gardens, a theme-based attraction centred on a popular porcelain collectable, in order to understand something about contemporary notions of tourism and consumerism, as well as to ponder a space where the sacred, the poignant, and the ‘cute’ meet. Using focused ethnography and auto-ethnography methodologies, the author also explores the boundaries o…
Drawing flies: Artwork in the field
The author develops a hobby of drawing and painting insects while doing ethnographic fieldwork on tourism on Samosir Island, North Sumatra, Indonesia. His carving teacher sees the images inadvertently and this opens a dialogue that includes diverse references to such things as Toba Batak notions of cleanliness and filth, child rearing, drug-taking tourists and natural medicines. The author realises that drawing as part of one's ethnographic field…
Critical side-roads: Exploring ethnographic flukes
The five articles presented here examine extraordinary fieldwork circumstances and explain the results of pursuing unusual avenues of research, whether inspired by intuition, spontaneity or curiosity. Each of the works shows how the risk to step past an expected or planned investigation can yield vivid results, revealing unforeseen cultural connections or prompting the reinterpretation of social, spiritual or economic assumptions. Recognising tha…
‘Go Back to the Batak, It's Safe There’: Tourism in North Sumatra during Perilous Times
For centuries, outsiders have associated the culture of the Toba Batak of Samosir Island (Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia) with cannibalism; the people themselves have been depicted as dangerous and unpredictable. Despite these characterisations, huge numbers of western tourists flocked to this secluded area from the 1960s until the late 1990s, when a series of local and international calamities ground tourism to a halt. The article discusses…
Nash, John (painter)
Nash, Paul
Nash family
TheSingasingaTable Lamp and the Toba Batak Art of Conflation
The livelihoods of Toba Batak (Samosir Island, North Sumatra) wood-carvers depend on sales to Western tourists. Most carvers re-create historic forms, yet others make objects that combine aspects of ancestral and Western traditions. This article documents the story of the carver Partoho and his wife Ito as they attempted to understand tourists' tastes and preferences, focusing in particular on one carving. Partoho's lamp serves to focus an invest…
Stealing a Good Idea: Innovation and Competition Among Toba Batak Woodcarvers
Ulos or saham? Presentations of Toba Batak culture in tourism promotions
Finding the Office Funny
Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter. Sometimes the Dragon Wins: Yet More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996. xv. 364 pp
Drawing flies: Artwork in the field
The author develops a hobby of drawing and painting insects while doing ethnographic fieldwork on tourism on Samosir Island, North Sumatra, Indonesia. His carving teacher sees the images inadvertently and this opens a dialogue that includes diverse references to such things as Toba Batak notions of cleanliness and filth, child rearing, drug-taking tourists and natural medicines. The author realises that drawing as part of one's ethnographic field…
Ulos or saham? Presentations of Toba Batak culture in tourism promotions
Objects Possessed, Drawn, Touched, Identified, and Sold: Effective Material Culture Exercises for the Anthropology Classroom
Teaching the anthropology of material culture to non-majors at an arts college requires a flexible pedagogy and a creative approach. In this article, I discuss some of the specific challenges of effectively engaging arts majors who often arrive at the classroom interested only in fulfilling their general education requirements. I identify five approaches to the anthropological study of objects (object as personal identity, object as "thing in the…
TheSingasingaTable Lamp and the Toba Batak Art of Conflation
The livelihoods of Toba Batak (Samosir Island, North Sumatra) wood-carvers depend on sales to Western tourists. Most carvers re-create historic forms, yet others make objects that combine aspects of ancestral and Western traditions. This article documents the story of the carver Partoho and his wife Ito as they attempted to understand tourists' tastes and preferences, focusing in particular on one carving. Partoho's lamp serves to focus an invest…
Stealing a Good Idea: Innovation and Competition Among Toba Batak Woodcarvers
Finding the Office Funny
Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter. Sometimes the Dragon Wins: Yet More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996. xv. 364 pp
Ulos or saham? Presentations of Toba Batak culture in tourism promotions
TheSingasingaTable Lamp and the Toba Batak Art of Conflation
The livelihoods of Toba Batak (Samosir Island, North Sumatra) wood-carvers depend on sales to Western tourists. Most carvers re-create historic forms, yet others make objects that combine aspects of ancestral and Western traditions. This article documents the story of the carver Partoho and his wife Ito as they attempted to understand tourists' tastes and preferences, focusing in particular on one carving. Partoho's lamp serves to focus an invest…
Stealing a Good Idea: Innovation and Competition Among Toba Batak Woodcarvers
Nash, John (painter)
Nash, Paul
Nash family
‘Go Back to the Batak, It's Safe There’: Tourism in North Sumatra during Perilous Times
For centuries, outsiders have associated the culture of the Toba Batak of Samosir Island (Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia) with cannibalism; the people themselves have been depicted as dangerous and unpredictable. Despite these characterisations, huge numbers of western tourists flocked to this secluded area from the 1960s until the late 1990s, when a series of local and international calamities ground tourism to a halt. The article discusses…
Travel to a place both sad and cute
The author pulls off the highway in Southwestern Missouri to visit the Precious Moments Chapel and Gardens, a theme-based attraction centred on a popular porcelain collectable, in order to understand something about contemporary notions of tourism and consumerism, as well as to ponder a space where the sacred, the poignant, and the ‘cute’ meet. Using focused ethnography and auto-ethnography methodologies, the author also explores the boundaries o…
Drawing flies: Artwork in the field
The author develops a hobby of drawing and painting insects while doing ethnographic fieldwork on tourism on Samosir Island, North Sumatra, Indonesia. His carving teacher sees the images inadvertently and this opens a dialogue that includes diverse references to such things as Toba Batak notions of cleanliness and filth, child rearing, drug-taking tourists and natural medicines. The author realises that drawing as part of one's ethnographic field…
Critical side-roads: Exploring ethnographic flukes
The five articles presented here examine extraordinary fieldwork circumstances and explain the results of pursuing unusual avenues of research, whether inspired by intuition, spontaneity or curiosity. Each of the works shows how the risk to step past an expected or planned investigation can yield vivid results, revealing unforeseen cultural connections or prompting the reinterpretation of social, spiritual or economic assumptions. Recognising tha…
Objects Possessed, Drawn, Touched, Identified, and Sold: Effective Material Culture Exercises for the Anthropology Classroom
Teaching the anthropology of material culture to non-majors at an arts college requires a flexible pedagogy and a creative approach. In this article, I discuss some of the specific challenges of effectively engaging arts majors who often arrive at the classroom interested only in fulfilling their general education requirements. I identify five approaches to the anthropological study of objects (object as personal identity, object as "thing in the…
Dialectical improv
Part of a special section in honor of Kathleen Stewart, "Hundreds for Katie," this piece compresses thirty years of interactions into a few pithy words to characterize one facet of the author's on-going relationship with her
Art (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (4 works) · History (4 works) · Tourism (4 works)