Douglas E Foley
Biographic Data
| ID | 87577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas E Foley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas E |
| FAMILY NAME | Foley |
| SIGNATURE | FOLEY D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 375 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary , and
Reviewed by: Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, and: Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition Douglas Foley (bio) George Marcus, Paul Rabinow, and Tobias Rees, eds. Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 152 pp. Paper, $21.95. George Marcus and James Faubion, eds. Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a …
The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology
This article chronicles how the ideas of neo-Weberians, Marxists, feminists, and critical race thinkers have merged to create a new cultural production or class culture paradigm of schooling. Reviews of recent ethnographic work illustrates how the articulations among class, race, gender, and sexual identity practices in schools are studied without privileging one standpoint over another. This paradigm shift signals the demise of earlier cultural …
Introduction to Theme Issue
Introduction to Theme Issue
Elusive prey
John Ogbu’s work on ‘minority education’ has spawned a number of interesting and useful debates in the US. Having been both an early admirer and critic of Ogbu’s work, I reviewed his work in an Anthropology and Education Quarterly article . The present article reflects upon Ogbu’s work and upon my scholarly engagement with that corpus over the years. I discuss Ogbu’s Shaker Heights study , and offer some reasons why Ogbu is often misread as a def…
Enrique Trueba
The Heartland Chronicles Revisited
This article chronicles the cultural, political, and economic impact of casino gaming on the Mesquaki settlement. It is based on extensive interviews with tribal members conducted 9 years after the original fieldwork for the ethnography The Heartland Chronicles. The article highlights a breakdown in the Mesquaki political system that resulted in a factional split that closed the casino. Tribal elders fear that the casino has created rampant mater…
Ogbu’s theory of academic disengagement
The work of John Ogbu on ‘minority education’ has spawned a number of interesting and useful debates in the USA. Having been both an early admirer and critic of Ogbu’s work, I reviewed his work in an earlier Anthropology and Education Quarterly article. Before discussing his new Shaker Heights study, I recapitulate the main points of the 1991 article, then offer some reasons why Ogbu is often misread as a deficit theorist. Finally, the paper clos…
Critical ethnography
This paper explores the recent debates on ethnographic writing by explicating four types of reflexivity: confessional, theoretical, textual, and deconstructive. It then illustrates how the author has incorporated such reflexive practices into his recent ethnographies. The paper generally advocates blending autobiography and ethnography into a ''cultural Marxist'' standpoint. This perspective also draws upon multiple epistemologies and feminist no…
Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education 1950-2000
Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education 1950-2000:. Spindler Anthology. George Spindler and Louise Spindler. George Spindler, ed. Mahwah, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2000.434 pp
Elusive Culture
Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times. Daniel A. Yon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. ix. 175 pp., notes, bibliography, index
Ethnic Identity and Power
Ethnic Identity and Power. Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society. Yali Zou and Enrique T. Trueba. eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 452 pp
The Fox Project
This paper describes one instance in which Sol Tax sought to fuse applied and academic anthropology into a new anthropological practice that he called "action anthropology." The Fox Project was one of several attempts to create a "clinical science" which produced better anthropological theory as it solved pressing community problems. It broke with conventional applied anthropological projects in several ways. The action anthropologists operated w…
In Search of Respect
Cultural Production of the Educated Person
The Heartland Chronicles
Creating the Countryside
New Ethnographies
Its a Working Man's Town
Making the Familiar Strange
Ethnographies of sports are generally thought to be critical if they employ a theoretical perspective that challenges conventional, mainstream views of sports. This paper contends that what makes sports ethnographies critical also depends on the narrative devices used to make such a familiar cultural practice seem strange. Various writings of postmodern ethnographers are reviewed to suggest some promising narrative experimentation that breaks wit…
Learning Capitalist Culture
Reconsidering Anthropological Explanations of Ethnic School Failure
This article reviews the anthropological debate on why some ethnic minorities fail more frequently in schools. Although neither side presents overwhelming empirical evidence, John Ogbu's caste theory is clearly a more comprehensive, systematic explanation than the "cultural difference" explanation. In addition, Ogbu's "multilevel" or macro style of school ethnography has important methodological advantages over the less historical, more decontext…
The Great American Football Ritual
An ethnographic study of one football season in a small South Texas town is presented to explore the extent that community sport is, as various critical theorists have suggested, a potential site for counterhegemonic cultural practices. Football is conceptualized as a major community ritual that socializes future generations of youth. This broad, holistic description of socialization also notes various moments of ethnic resistance engendered by t…
Does the Working Class Have a Culture in the Anthropological Sense
Mexicano Resistance to Schooling in a South Texas Colony
Critical ethnography
This paper explores the recent debates on ethnographic writing by explicating four types of reflexivity: confessional, theoretical, textual, and deconstructive. It then illustrates how the author has incorporated such reflexive practices into his recent ethnographies. The paper generally advocates blending autobiography and ethnography into a ''cultural Marxist'' standpoint. This perspective also draws upon multiple epistemologies and feminist no…
Cultural Production of the Educated Person
Reconsidering Anthropological Explanations of Ethnic School Failure
This article reviews the anthropological debate on why some ethnic minorities fail more frequently in schools. Although neither side presents overwhelming empirical evidence, John Ogbu's caste theory is clearly a more comprehensive, systematic explanation than the "cultural difference" explanation. In addition, Ogbu's "multilevel" or macro style of school ethnography has important methodological advantages over the less historical, more decontext…
The Great American Football Ritual
An ethnographic study of one football season in a small South Texas town is presented to explore the extent that community sport is, as various critical theorists have suggested, a potential site for counterhegemonic cultural practices. Football is conceptualized as a major community ritual that socializes future generations of youth. This broad, holistic description of socialization also notes various moments of ethnic resistance engendered by t…
The Fox Project
This paper describes one instance in which Sol Tax sought to fuse applied and academic anthropology into a new anthropological practice that he called "action anthropology." The Fox Project was one of several attempts to create a "clinical science" which produced better anthropological theory as it solved pressing community problems. It broke with conventional applied anthropological projects in several ways. The action anthropologists operated w…
Learning Capitalist Culture
Does the Working Class Have a Culture in the Anthropological Sense
The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology
This article chronicles how the ideas of neo-Weberians, Marxists, feminists, and critical race thinkers have merged to create a new cultural production or class culture paradigm of schooling. Reviews of recent ethnographic work illustrates how the articulations among class, race, gender, and sexual identity practices in schools are studied without privileging one standpoint over another. This paradigm shift signals the demise of earlier cultural …
Elusive Culture
Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times. Daniel A. Yon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. ix. 175 pp., notes, bibliography, index
Ogbu’s theory of academic disengagement
The work of John Ogbu on ‘minority education’ has spawned a number of interesting and useful debates in the USA. Having been both an early admirer and critic of Ogbu’s work, I reviewed his work in an earlier Anthropology and Education Quarterly article. Before discussing his new Shaker Heights study, I recapitulate the main points of the 1991 article, then offer some reasons why Ogbu is often misread as a deficit theorist. Finally, the paper clos…
Elusive prey
John Ogbu’s work on ‘minority education’ has spawned a number of interesting and useful debates in the US. Having been both an early admirer and critic of Ogbu’s work, I reviewed his work in an Anthropology and Education Quarterly article . The present article reflects upon Ogbu’s work and upon my scholarly engagement with that corpus over the years. I discuss Ogbu’s Shaker Heights study , and offer some reasons why Ogbu is often misread as a def…
The Heartland Chronicles Revisited
This article chronicles the cultural, political, and economic impact of casino gaming on the Mesquaki settlement. It is based on extensive interviews with tribal members conducted 9 years after the original fieldwork for the ethnography The Heartland Chronicles. The article highlights a breakdown in the Mesquaki political system that resulted in a factional split that closed the casino. Tribal elders fear that the casino has created rampant mater…
Making the Familiar Strange
Ethnographies of sports are generally thought to be critical if they employ a theoretical perspective that challenges conventional, mainstream views of sports. This paper contends that what makes sports ethnographies critical also depends on the narrative devices used to make such a familiar cultural practice seem strange. Various writings of postmodern ethnographers are reviewed to suggest some promising narrative experimentation that breaks wit…
Introduction to Theme Issue
In Search of Respect
Mexicano Resistance to Schooling in a South Texas Colony
Philippine Rural Education
Mexicano Resistance to Schooling in a South Texas Colony
Does the Working Class Have a Culture in the Anthropological Sense
The Great American Football Ritual
An ethnographic study of one football season in a small South Texas town is presented to explore the extent that community sport is, as various critical theorists have suggested, a potential site for counterhegemonic cultural practices. Football is conceptualized as a major community ritual that socializes future generations of youth. This broad, holistic description of socialization also notes various moments of ethnic resistance engendered by t…
Learning Capitalist Culture
Reconsidering Anthropological Explanations of Ethnic School Failure
This article reviews the anthropological debate on why some ethnic minorities fail more frequently in schools. Although neither side presents overwhelming empirical evidence, John Ogbu's caste theory is clearly a more comprehensive, systematic explanation than the "cultural difference" explanation. In addition, Ogbu's "multilevel" or macro style of school ethnography has important methodological advantages over the less historical, more decontext…
Making the Familiar Strange
Ethnographies of sports are generally thought to be critical if they employ a theoretical perspective that challenges conventional, mainstream views of sports. This paper contends that what makes sports ethnographies critical also depends on the narrative devices used to make such a familiar cultural practice seem strange. Various writings of postmodern ethnographers are reviewed to suggest some promising narrative experimentation that breaks wit…
New Ethnographies
Its a Working Man's Town
Cultural Production of the Educated Person
The Heartland Chronicles
Creating the Countryside
In Search of Respect
Ethnic Identity and Power
Ethnic Identity and Power. Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society. Yali Zou and Enrique T. Trueba. eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 452 pp
The Fox Project
This paper describes one instance in which Sol Tax sought to fuse applied and academic anthropology into a new anthropological practice that he called "action anthropology." The Fox Project was one of several attempts to create a "clinical science" which produced better anthropological theory as it solved pressing community problems. It broke with conventional applied anthropological projects in several ways. The action anthropologists operated w…
Elusive Culture
Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times. Daniel A. Yon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. ix. 175 pp., notes, bibliography, index
Critical ethnography
This paper explores the recent debates on ethnographic writing by explicating four types of reflexivity: confessional, theoretical, textual, and deconstructive. It then illustrates how the author has incorporated such reflexive practices into his recent ethnographies. The paper generally advocates blending autobiography and ethnography into a ''cultural Marxist'' standpoint. This perspective also draws upon multiple epistemologies and feminist no…
Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education 1950-2000
Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education 1950-2000:. Spindler Anthology. George Spindler and Louise Spindler. George Spindler, ed. Mahwah, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2000.434 pp
Ogbu’s theory of academic disengagement
The work of John Ogbu on ‘minority education’ has spawned a number of interesting and useful debates in the USA. Having been both an early admirer and critic of Ogbu’s work, I reviewed his work in an earlier Anthropology and Education Quarterly article. Before discussing his new Shaker Heights study, I recapitulate the main points of the 1991 article, then offer some reasons why Ogbu is often misread as a deficit theorist. Finally, the paper clos…
Elusive prey
John Ogbu’s work on ‘minority education’ has spawned a number of interesting and useful debates in the US. Having been both an early admirer and critic of Ogbu’s work, I reviewed his work in an Anthropology and Education Quarterly article . The present article reflects upon Ogbu’s work and upon my scholarly engagement with that corpus over the years. I discuss Ogbu’s Shaker Heights study , and offer some reasons why Ogbu is often misread as a def…
Enrique Trueba
The Heartland Chronicles Revisited
This article chronicles the cultural, political, and economic impact of casino gaming on the Mesquaki settlement. It is based on extensive interviews with tribal members conducted 9 years after the original fieldwork for the ethnography The Heartland Chronicles. The article highlights a breakdown in the Mesquaki political system that resulted in a factional split that closed the casino. Tribal elders fear that the casino has created rampant mater…
Introduction to Theme Issue
Introduction to Theme Issue
The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology
This article chronicles how the ideas of neo-Weberians, Marxists, feminists, and critical race thinkers have merged to create a new cultural production or class culture paradigm of schooling. Reviews of recent ethnographic work illustrates how the articulations among class, race, gender, and sexual identity practices in schools are studied without privileging one standpoint over another. This paradigm shift signals the demise of earlier cultural …
Sociology (21 works) · Anthropology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Ethnography (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (7 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (5 works)