Philip A Dennis
Biographic Data
| ID | 80366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip A Dennis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip A |
| FAMILY NAME | Dennis |
| SIGNATURE | DENNIS P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica
Book Review| January 01 2013 Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica. By Hendon, Julia A.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis Philip A. Dennis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 165–167. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1816301 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share…
The Miskitu People of Awastara
Patriarchy and Inequality, Festival and Pilgrimage in Hispanic Nicaragua
Review Article| July 01 2008 Patriarchy and Inequality, Festival and Pilgrimage in Hispanic Nicaragua Philip A. Dennis Philip A. Dennis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 491–496. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Philip A. Dennis; Patriarchy and Inequality, Festival and Pilgrimage in Hispan…
Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast
Book Review| July 01 2007 Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis Philip A. Dennis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 574–576. https://doi.org/10.1215/…
The Miskitu People of Awastara
Most anthropologists who have lived among other people ...feel a periodic need to go back,' writes Philip A. Dennis in the introduction to this book. 'Fieldwork gives you a stake in the people themselves, a set of relationships that last the rest of your life ...and when the time is right, it is important to go back'. Dennis first journeyed to Awastara, a village on the northeastern coast of Nicaragua, during 1978-1979 as a postdoctoral student. …
Anthropology & Psychology
Cocaine in Miskitu Villages
During the 1990s, Miskitu people in the coastal villages north of Puerto Cabezas began finding cocaine washed up on the beach and on the Miskitu Keys just off the coast. Drug runners carrying the cocaine north apparently dump it overboard when pursued by authorities. Cocaine wealth has been used differently in two local communities. In Sandy Bay, cocaine money has been used to build new houses, schools, and churches, in a project of self-directed…
Autonomy on the Miskitu coast of Nicaragua
González Pérez, Miguel. Gobiernos pluriétnicos: la constitutión de regimes autónomas en Nicaragua. México, D.F.: Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaragüense (URACCAN) y Editorial Plaza y Valdés, 1997. xxiv + 479 pp. including bibliography. 100 córdobas, Nicaragua. Gordon, Edmund T. Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African‐Nicaraguan Community. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xiv + 330 pp. includi…
México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. A…
Banana Fallout: Class, Color, and Culture among West Indians in Costa Rica
The Miskito-Sandinista Conflict in Nicaragua in the 1980s
During the 1980s, the conflicts of Nicaragua's Sandinista government with the Miskito people of the Atlantic Coast attracted international attention. For many Latin Americanists, the Nicaraguan Revolution seemed to provide a ray of hope for the region. It was therefore frustrating and perplexing that a progressive, socialist government could become so embroiled in conflict with a poor, marginalized ethnic minority group-precisely the sort of grou…
A Brief History of Central America
Brief History of Central America. Hector Pérez‐Brignoli. Berkeley: University of California Press,1989 (First Spanish language edition published in 1985). 239 pp. $45.00 (cloth), $10.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐520‐06832‐7, ISBN 0‐520‐06832‐7
A Brief History of Central America: A Brief History of Central America
El regreso de los dioses: El proceso de reconstitucion de la identidad etnica en Oaxaca, siglos diez y siete y diez y ocho
Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua
Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua. Robert A. Pastor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. 420 pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐691‐02291‐7
Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua:Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua
Tangweera: Life and Adventures among Gentle Savages
In the 1980s, conflicts between the Miskito people of Nicaragua's eastern coast and the Sandinistas drew international attention. Indeed, the Miskitos' struggle to defend their cultural autonomy and land rights points out a curious historical anomaly. This native group has long had closer ties to British and American culture than to Hispanic Nicaraguan culture. C. Napier Bell, son of a British trader, grew up on the Miskito Coast in the nineteent…
Intervillage Conflict in Oaxaca
Herbal medicine among the miskito of Eastern Nicaragua
Intervillage Conflict in Oaxaca
Development under Fire: The Playa Grande Colonization Project in Guatemala
Grisi Siknis in Miskito Culture
Kingship among the Miskito
The Miskito kings of eastern Nicaragua and Honduras have been described as British puppets whose authority depended solely on their role as middlemen. This paper suggests that the kings also may have been leaders of real stature in their own society, whose legitimacy was based on different cultural conceptions of leadership than those held by the British. [political anthropology, kingship, middlemen, Miskito Indians, Central American ethnology
The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time
The Costeños and the Revolution in Nicaragua
In Nicaragua in July 1979, the Sandinista popular revolutionary movement finally succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship of the Somoza family, which had been placed in power and then supported for many years by the U.S. government. Analysis of the revolution, even in conservative U.S. government sources (LeoGrande, 1979; Montgomery, 1980), has noted the greed and corruption of the Somoza dynasty and the poverty, illiteracy, and poor health of …
Kingship among the Miskito
The Miskito kings of eastern Nicaragua and Honduras have been described as British puppets whose authority depended solely on their role as middlemen. This paper suggests that the kings also may have been leaders of real stature in their own society, whose legitimacy was based on different cultural conceptions of leadership than those held by the British. [political anthropology, kingship, middlemen, Miskito Indians, Central American ethnology
Intervillage Conflict in Oaxaca
Herbal medicine among the miskito of Eastern Nicaragua
Tangweera: Life and Adventures among Gentle Savages
In the 1980s, conflicts between the Miskito people of Nicaragua's eastern coast and the Sandinistas drew international attention. Indeed, the Miskitos' struggle to defend their cultural autonomy and land rights points out a curious historical anomaly. This native group has long had closer ties to British and American culture than to Hispanic Nicaraguan culture. C. Napier Bell, son of a British trader, grew up on the Miskito Coast in the nineteent…
The Role of the Drunk in a Oaxacan Village1
Drunks are accorded great social license in Oaxacan villages. They may shout insults, intrude uninvited into social gatherings, and behave in other normally unacceptable ways. This paper analyzes the drunk's role in terms suggested by Goffman's "dramaturgical analogy," as a highly functional and sometimes entertaining part in the ongoing drama of community life. Village conceptions of drunken behavior are seen to create that behavior, apart from …
Part three: Grisi Siknis Among the Miskito
(1981). Part three: Grisi Siknis Among the Miskito. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 445-505
The Costeños and the Revolution in Nicaragua
In Nicaragua in July 1979, the Sandinista popular revolutionary movement finally succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship of the Somoza family, which had been placed in power and then supported for many years by the U.S. government. Analysis of the revolution, even in conservative U.S. government sources (LeoGrande, 1979; Montgomery, 1980), has noted the greed and corruption of the Somoza dynasty and the poverty, illiteracy, and poor health of …
Cocaine in Miskitu Villages
During the 1990s, Miskitu people in the coastal villages north of Puerto Cabezas began finding cocaine washed up on the beach and on the Miskitu Keys just off the coast. Drug runners carrying the cocaine north apparently dump it overboard when pursued by authorities. Cocaine wealth has been used differently in two local communities. In Sandy Bay, cocaine money has been used to build new houses, schools, and churches, in a project of self-directed…
The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time
Development under Fire: The Playa Grande Colonization Project in Guatemala
The Miskito-Sandinista Conflict in Nicaragua in the 1980s
During the 1980s, the conflicts of Nicaragua's Sandinista government with the Miskito people of the Atlantic Coast attracted international attention. For many Latin Americanists, the Nicaraguan Revolution seemed to provide a ray of hope for the region. It was therefore frustrating and perplexing that a progressive, socialist government could become so embroiled in conflict with a poor, marginalized ethnic minority group-precisely the sort of grou…
The Oaxacan Village President as Political Middleman
Corporate and Individual Inter-Village Relations in the Valley of Oaxaca
The Uses of Inter-Village Feuding
A conspicuous feature of village relations in Oaxaca are long, bitter, and often violent feuds over land. This paper briefly describes the basis for conflict: the land tenure system, the moral nature of village land claims, and the recurrent episodes of violence which occur. The paper concludes by suggesting that intervillage feuds serve useful functions for the central government. They act as revenue-raising devices, effectively draining surplus…
The Oaxacan Village President as Political Middleman
Levi-strauss in the kindergarten: The Montessori pre-schooler as bricoleur
The Role of the Drunk in a Oaxacan Village1
Drunks are accorded great social license in Oaxacan villages. They may shout insults, intrude uninvited into social gatherings, and behave in other normally unacceptable ways. This paper analyzes the drunk's role in terms suggested by Goffman's "dramaturgical analogy," as a highly functional and sometimes entertaining part in the ongoing drama of community life. Village conceptions of drunken behavior are seen to create that behavior, apart from …
The Uses of Inter-Village Feuding
A conspicuous feature of village relations in Oaxaca are long, bitter, and often violent feuds over land. This paper briefly describes the basis for conflict: the land tenure system, the moral nature of village land claims, and the recurrent episodes of violence which occur. The paper concludes by suggesting that intervillage feuds serve useful functions for the central government. They act as revenue-raising devices, effectively draining surplus…
The Great Ponds
Corporate and Individual Inter-Village Relations in the Valley of Oaxaca
The Anti-Chinese Campaigns in Sonora, Mexico
This paper summarizes the history of the Chinese in Sonora, Mexico and describes the anti-Chinese campaigns and propaganda leading to their expulsion in 1931. While Chinese racial and cultural differences became focal symbols for hostility, this inter-ethnic conflict masked an underlying class conflict. Anti-Chinese political propaganda intensified after many Mexicans returned to Mexico from the United States unable to acquire jobs there because …
The Costeños and the Revolution in Nicaragua
In Nicaragua in July 1979, the Sandinista popular revolutionary movement finally succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship of the Somoza family, which had been placed in power and then supported for many years by the U.S. government. Analysis of the revolution, even in conservative U.S. government sources (LeoGrande, 1979; Montgomery, 1980), has noted the greed and corruption of the Somoza dynasty and the poverty, illiteracy, and poor health of …
Part three: Grisi Siknis Among the Miskito
(1981). Part three: Grisi Siknis Among the Miskito. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 445-505
Kingship among the Miskito
The Miskito kings of eastern Nicaragua and Honduras have been described as British puppets whose authority depended solely on their role as middlemen. This paper suggests that the kings also may have been leaders of real stature in their own society, whose legitimacy was based on different cultural conceptions of leadership than those held by the British. [political anthropology, kingship, middlemen, Miskito Indians, Central American ethnology
The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time
Grisi Siknis in Miskito Culture
Herbal medicine among the miskito of Eastern Nicaragua
Intervillage Conflict in Oaxaca
Development under Fire: The Playa Grande Colonization Project in Guatemala
Tangweera: Life and Adventures among Gentle Savages
In the 1980s, conflicts between the Miskito people of Nicaragua's eastern coast and the Sandinistas drew international attention. Indeed, the Miskitos' struggle to defend their cultural autonomy and land rights points out a curious historical anomaly. This native group has long had closer ties to British and American culture than to Hispanic Nicaraguan culture. C. Napier Bell, son of a British trader, grew up on the Miskito Coast in the nineteent…
Intervillage Conflict in Oaxaca
Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua
Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua. Robert A. Pastor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. 420 pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐691‐02291‐7
Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua:Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua
A Brief History of Central America
Brief History of Central America. Hector Pérez‐Brignoli. Berkeley: University of California Press,1989 (First Spanish language edition published in 1985). 239 pp. $45.00 (cloth), $10.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐520‐06832‐7, ISBN 0‐520‐06832‐7
A Brief History of Central America: A Brief History of Central America
El regreso de los dioses: El proceso de reconstitucion de la identidad etnica en Oaxaca, siglos diez y siete y diez y ocho
The Miskito-Sandinista Conflict in Nicaragua in the 1980s
During the 1980s, the conflicts of Nicaragua's Sandinista government with the Miskito people of the Atlantic Coast attracted international attention. For many Latin Americanists, the Nicaraguan Revolution seemed to provide a ray of hope for the region. It was therefore frustrating and perplexing that a progressive, socialist government could become so embroiled in conflict with a poor, marginalized ethnic minority group-precisely the sort of grou…
México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. A…
Banana Fallout: Class, Color, and Culture among West Indians in Costa Rica
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