Susan Fall
Biographic Data
| ID | 80080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Fall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Fall |
| SIGNATURE | FALL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Savannah College of Art and Design |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7537-5953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Back to the ‘30s: Recurring Crises of Capitalism, Liberalism, and Democracy
Figure/Ground: Allison Formanack's Study of Inversions
Sentio ergo sum: House paint as politics of the radically mundane
According to one view, the rise of ocular-centrism in the West has reduced the faculty of vision to the cognitive, eliding the sensory aspect of seeing. But there is an important way in which visual experience feels a particular way and exerts, in a sense, a material force upon us. In other words, there is a particular character to the experience of seeing that can interact with us in an abstract, but extremely significant way. This helps to expl…
The Anthropocene goes green
Homo Roboticus
Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise by Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox
Reviewed by: Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise by Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox Susan Falls Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. 264pp. Anthropologists have long been challenged to undertake ethnographic studies of the state. In their joint study of road construction in Peru, Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox draw on conceptions of the state as…
The Act of KillingDirected by JoshuaOppenheimer, 2012, 115 and 159 minutes. Color. Distributed by Drafthouse Films, Austin, TX 78749, http: Drafthousefilms.com
Material Culture Studies
An interdisciplinary endeavor addressing empirical and theoretical questions, material culture studies examine the dynamic role that things play within social organization and in subjective experience. It is partly through our interactions with material culture (at times referred to as “goods,” “commodities,” “objects,” “artifacts,” or even “stuff”) that we both interpret and insert ourselves into the world, and thus it represents an extremely im…
Thomas Kinkade: Money, Class, and the Aesthetic Economy
Contemporary art is seldom given sustained anthropological analysis despite its tantalizing potential. As a response, this essay examines the work of Thomas Kinkade to cast an oblique light on the production of value. Kinkade’s mechanically reproduced opus representing Cotswold cottages, quaint city scenes, and Disney fantasies are sold by authorized dealers in malls, along tourist strips, and online. Rather than operating as kitsch, lowbrow, or …
Redneck Customs’: Race and class at the demolition derby
Using data collected from ethnographic research at demolition derbies in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, this article focuses on the language used by drivers for car-naming practices in response to epithets routinely associated with rural, working-class whites. Briefly cast into mass consciousness by media coverage of the racialised 2008 US Presidential contest through a focus on the 'Appalachian Belt', the day-to-day experiences of rural …
Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Public Art
2013). Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Public Art. Anthropology Now: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 67-84
Sana 's I nvited S essions at the 2011 A merican A nthropological A ssociation's A nnual M eeting “ T races, T idemarks and L egacies” in M ontreal, C anada
Picturing Blood Diamonds
Diamonds traded on black markets for weapons used in civil war are known as ‘blood diamonds’. This article examines how blood diamonds have been constructed by images deployed in the ongoing contest over the meaning of these gems. On the one hand, corporations and governments transfigure rocks into gems through marketing and by defining the boundaries of a ‘licit’ trade. Meanwhile, NGOs and retailer discourse appeals to ethical consumerism, helpi…
Diamond signs: Generic stones and particular gems
Analysis of narratives from ethnographic research with diamond consumers representing the target market (largely middle-class white women between 20 and 50 years of age) reveals how symbolic associations promoted by industry are refracted through interpretations of both adverts and diamonds in general, but shows that local contingencies (basic attitudes and knowledge about diamonds and their production, circumstances of acquisition, and personal …
What Is Language: Between Vocal and Non-Vocal Communication
What Is Language: Between Vocal and Non-Vocal Communication
Why Do Men Barbecue: Recipes for Cultural Psychology
The Gospel According to the Simpsons (2001), once again surveys the moral and ethical aspects of children's animation.This time he tackles the ''wonderful world of Disney,'' and he offers a different thesis from his earlier work on the animated family from Springfield.Pinsky writes, ''I am saying something quite different about the [Walt Disney] company's animated features: It is what you think, more or less, but here is how and why.There is a co…
Picturing Blood Diamonds
Diamonds traded on black markets for weapons used in civil war are known as ‘blood diamonds’. This article examines how blood diamonds have been constructed by images deployed in the ongoing contest over the meaning of these gems. On the one hand, corporations and governments transfigure rocks into gems through marketing and by defining the boundaries of a ‘licit’ trade. Meanwhile, NGOs and retailer discourse appeals to ethical consumerism, helpi…
Redneck Customs’: Race and class at the demolition derby
Using data collected from ethnographic research at demolition derbies in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, this article focuses on the language used by drivers for car-naming practices in response to epithets routinely associated with rural, working-class whites. Briefly cast into mass consciousness by media coverage of the racialised 2008 US Presidential contest through a focus on the 'Appalachian Belt', the day-to-day experiences of rural …
Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Public Art
2013). Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Public Art. Anthropology Now: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 67-84
Diamond signs: Generic stones and particular gems
Analysis of narratives from ethnographic research with diamond consumers representing the target market (largely middle-class white women between 20 and 50 years of age) reveals how symbolic associations promoted by industry are refracted through interpretations of both adverts and diamonds in general, but shows that local contingencies (basic attitudes and knowledge about diamonds and their production, circumstances of acquisition, and personal …
Why Do Men Barbecue: Recipes for Cultural Psychology
The Gospel According to the Simpsons (2001), once again surveys the moral and ethical aspects of children's animation.This time he tackles the ''wonderful world of Disney,'' and he offers a different thesis from his earlier work on the animated family from Springfield.Pinsky writes, ''I am saying something quite different about the [Walt Disney] company's animated features: It is what you think, more or less, but here is how and why.There is a co…
What Is Language: Between Vocal and Non-Vocal Communication
What Is Language: Between Vocal and Non-Vocal Communication
Diamond signs: Generic stones and particular gems
Analysis of narratives from ethnographic research with diamond consumers representing the target market (largely middle-class white women between 20 and 50 years of age) reveals how symbolic associations promoted by industry are refracted through interpretations of both adverts and diamonds in general, but shows that local contingencies (basic attitudes and knowledge about diamonds and their production, circumstances of acquisition, and personal …
Sana 's I nvited S essions at the 2011 A merican A nthropological A ssociation's A nnual M eeting “ T races, T idemarks and L egacies” in M ontreal, C anada
Picturing Blood Diamonds
Diamonds traded on black markets for weapons used in civil war are known as ‘blood diamonds’. This article examines how blood diamonds have been constructed by images deployed in the ongoing contest over the meaning of these gems. On the one hand, corporations and governments transfigure rocks into gems through marketing and by defining the boundaries of a ‘licit’ trade. Meanwhile, NGOs and retailer discourse appeals to ethical consumerism, helpi…
Thomas Kinkade: Money, Class, and the Aesthetic Economy
Contemporary art is seldom given sustained anthropological analysis despite its tantalizing potential. As a response, this essay examines the work of Thomas Kinkade to cast an oblique light on the production of value. Kinkade’s mechanically reproduced opus representing Cotswold cottages, quaint city scenes, and Disney fantasies are sold by authorized dealers in malls, along tourist strips, and online. Rather than operating as kitsch, lowbrow, or …
Redneck Customs’: Race and class at the demolition derby
Using data collected from ethnographic research at demolition derbies in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, this article focuses on the language used by drivers for car-naming practices in response to epithets routinely associated with rural, working-class whites. Briefly cast into mass consciousness by media coverage of the racialised 2008 US Presidential contest through a focus on the 'Appalachian Belt', the day-to-day experiences of rural …
Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Public Art
2013). Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Public Art. Anthropology Now: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 67-84
The Act of KillingDirected by JoshuaOppenheimer, 2012, 115 and 159 minutes. Color. Distributed by Drafthouse Films, Austin, TX 78749, http: Drafthousefilms.com
Material Culture Studies
An interdisciplinary endeavor addressing empirical and theoretical questions, material culture studies examine the dynamic role that things play within social organization and in subjective experience. It is partly through our interactions with material culture (at times referred to as “goods,” “commodities,” “objects,” “artifacts,” or even “stuff”) that we both interpret and insert ourselves into the world, and thus it represents an extremely im…
Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise by Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox
Reviewed by: Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise by Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox Susan Falls Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. 264pp. Anthropologists have long been challenged to undertake ethnographic studies of the state. In their joint study of road construction in Peru, Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox draw on conceptions of the state as…
Homo Roboticus
Sentio ergo sum: House paint as politics of the radically mundane
According to one view, the rise of ocular-centrism in the West has reduced the faculty of vision to the cognitive, eliding the sensory aspect of seeing. But there is an important way in which visual experience feels a particular way and exerts, in a sense, a material force upon us. In other words, there is a particular character to the experience of seeing that can interact with us in an abstract, but extremely significant way. This helps to expl…
The Anthropocene goes green
Back to the ‘30s: Recurring Crises of Capitalism, Liberalism, and Democracy
Figure/Ground: Allison Formanack's Study of Inversions
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