Steven Rubenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 646130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Rubenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubenstein |
| SIGNATURE | RUBENSTEIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
On the Importance of Visions among the Amazonian Shuar
This essay involves a set of speculations concerning the role plant-granted visions play in the formation of the Shuar subject. It also reflects on the need for an ethnography of secrecy and the ineffable. In both these tasks I seek to engage psychoanalytic theory. Jacques Lacan's distinction between the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic helps analyze the relationship between the discourse and the silence of the unconscious. His essay on the …
Customizing Indigeneity
"Editors' Introduction to "Emergent Indigeneities
Border Crossings
Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein) Part I: A New Compass for Americanist Studies 1. Racing Across Borders in the Americas: Anthropological Critique and the Challenge of Transnational Racial Identities (John M. Norvell) 2. The Politics of Knowledge and Identity, and the Poetics of Political Economy: The Truth Value of Dividing Bridges (Linda J. Seligmann) 3. Reinventing Archaeological Heritage: Critical Science in a North/South Perspective (James…
Circulation, Accumulation, and the Power of Shuar Shrunken Heads
In this article, I discuss the changing meanings of tsantsas, the shrunken heads of enemies slain in war, for Shuar, a group indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. By the time Ecuadorian authorities put an end to warfare in the 1950s, Shuar had exchanged all of their tsantsas with European and Euro-American collectors in return for trade goods. I focus on the continuing significance for Shuar of tsantsas, despite their absence, and the impact of th…
In Darkness and Secrecy
Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
Fieldwork and the Erotic Economy on the Colonial Frontier
Steps to a Political Ecology of Amazonia
Many recent studies of Amazonia have documented the ways in which agents of the state or capital seek to colonize not only indigenous land and labor, but indigenous desires as well. This colonization of the third kind has disastrous consequences: recently, William Fisher asked, “Why ... did it seem that Xikrin would sell their grandchildren’s environmental birthright just at the moment when reservations were finally being demarcated and boundarie…
Shuar migrants and shrunken heads face to face in a New York museum
Commentary
Colonialism, the Shuar Federation, and the Ecuadorian State
This author suggests new avenues for thinking about the relationship between formerly stateless societies and the state. It does so through a detailed study of one particular group, the Shuar, indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. Formerly an acephalous society of hunter-gardeners, the Shuar now constitute a federation with a democratically elected, hierarchical leadership and are at the forefront of indigenous movements in Latin America. The auth…
Chain Marriage among the Shuar
Soviet Psychology in Wartime
Colonialism, the Shuar Federation, and the Ecuadorian State
This author suggests new avenues for thinking about the relationship between formerly stateless societies and the state. It does so through a detailed study of one particular group, the Shuar, indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. Formerly an acephalous society of hunter-gardeners, the Shuar now constitute a federation with a democratically elected, hierarchical leadership and are at the forefront of indigenous movements in Latin America. The auth…
On the Importance of Visions among the Amazonian Shuar
This essay involves a set of speculations concerning the role plant-granted visions play in the formation of the Shuar subject. It also reflects on the need for an ethnography of secrecy and the ineffable. In both these tasks I seek to engage psychoanalytic theory. Jacques Lacan's distinction between the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic helps analyze the relationship between the discourse and the silence of the unconscious. His essay on the …
Circulation, Accumulation, and the Power of Shuar Shrunken Heads
In this article, I discuss the changing meanings of tsantsas, the shrunken heads of enemies slain in war, for Shuar, a group indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. By the time Ecuadorian authorities put an end to warfare in the 1950s, Shuar had exchanged all of their tsantsas with European and Euro-American collectors in return for trade goods. I focus on the continuing significance for Shuar of tsantsas, despite their absence, and the impact of th…
"Editors' Introduction to "Emergent Indigeneities
Shuar migrants and shrunken heads face to face in a New York museum
Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
Chain Marriage among the Shuar
Soviet Psychology in Wartime
Chain Marriage among the Shuar
Commentary
Colonialism, the Shuar Federation, and the Ecuadorian State
This author suggests new avenues for thinking about the relationship between formerly stateless societies and the state. It does so through a detailed study of one particular group, the Shuar, indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. Formerly an acephalous society of hunter-gardeners, the Shuar now constitute a federation with a democratically elected, hierarchical leadership and are at the forefront of indigenous movements in Latin America. The auth…
Fieldwork and the Erotic Economy on the Colonial Frontier
Steps to a Political Ecology of Amazonia
Many recent studies of Amazonia have documented the ways in which agents of the state or capital seek to colonize not only indigenous land and labor, but indigenous desires as well. This colonization of the third kind has disastrous consequences: recently, William Fisher asked, “Why ... did it seem that Xikrin would sell their grandchildren’s environmental birthright just at the moment when reservations were finally being demarcated and boundarie…
Shuar migrants and shrunken heads face to face in a New York museum
In Darkness and Secrecy
Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
Circulation, Accumulation, and the Power of Shuar Shrunken Heads
In this article, I discuss the changing meanings of tsantsas, the shrunken heads of enemies slain in war, for Shuar, a group indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. By the time Ecuadorian authorities put an end to warfare in the 1950s, Shuar had exchanged all of their tsantsas with European and Euro-American collectors in return for trade goods. I focus on the continuing significance for Shuar of tsantsas, despite their absence, and the impact of th…
Border Crossings
Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein) Part I: A New Compass for Americanist Studies 1. Racing Across Borders in the Americas: Anthropological Critique and the Challenge of Transnational Racial Identities (John M. Norvell) 2. The Politics of Knowledge and Identity, and the Poetics of Political Economy: The Truth Value of Dividing Bridges (Linda J. Seligmann) 3. Reinventing Archaeological Heritage: Critical Science in a North/South Perspective (James…
"Editors' Introduction to "Emergent Indigeneities
Customizing Indigeneity
On the Importance of Visions among the Amazonian Shuar
This essay involves a set of speculations concerning the role plant-granted visions play in the formation of the Shuar subject. It also reflects on the need for an ethnography of secrecy and the ineffable. In both these tasks I seek to engage psychoanalytic theory. Jacques Lacan's distinction between the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic helps analyze the relationship between the discourse and the silence of the unconscious. His essay on the …
Sociology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Citation (5 works) · Amazon rainforest (4 works)