Edward M Bruner
Biographic Data
| ID | 90499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward M Bruner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruner |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNER E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1344 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Epilogue: Creative Persona and the Problem of Authenticity
The theme of this volume, that the creative persona has the power of transformation and transcendence and can change a culture, is both obvious and subtle. We know that there have always been charismatic prophets, political leaders, and intellectual giants who move peoples and nations, and who change the scholarly directions of an historical era. One thinks of Newton and Einstein, Alexander the Great and Napoleon, Jesus and Mohammed, Joyce and Pr…
The Aging Anthropologist
The two reviews
Revisiting the Four Fields, Again
The Study of Tourism: Anthropological and Sociological Beginnings
Routes of remembrance: Refashioning the slave trade in Ghana - By Bayo Holsey
The Illinois White Paper: Improving the System for Protecting Human Subjects: Counteracting IRB “Mission Creep
Our system of research self-regulation, designed to provide internal checks and balances for those who participate in research involving human subjects, is under considerable stress. Much of this crisis has been caused by what we call mission creep, in which the workload of IRBs has expanded beyond their ability to handle effectively. Mission creep is caused by rewarding wrong behaviors, such as focusing more on procedures and documentation than …
Culture on tour: Ethnographies of Travel
Analysing a variety of tourist productions, ranging from dance dramas in Bali to an Abraham Lincoln heritage site in Illinois, Bruner considers the diverse perspectives of various actors, including the tourists, the producers, the natives & the anthropologist himself.
Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass
Tourism Fieldwork
Ethnographic Practice and Human Subjects Review
The Representation of African Pastoralists: A Commentary
(2002). The Representation of African Pastoralists: A Commentary. Visual Anthropology: Vol. 15, No. 3-4, pp. 387-392
The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism
In this article, I analyze how the Maasai of Kenya are presented in three different tourist performances-postcolonial, postindependence, and postmodern. Each site tells a different story, an alternate version of history, with its own perspective on the role of ethnicity and heritage within the nation-state and in the world community. Using a method of controlled comparison, I expand the theoretical dialogue in tourism debates by departing from th…
Return to Sumatra: 1957,1997
In this article, I reflect on how ethnography has changed between my 1957 fieldwork in a Toba Batak village in Sumatra, Indonesia, and my return visit in 1997. I argue that current issues of transnationalism and globalization are as significant in what is seemingly the most traditional of anthropological sites, a mountain village in Southeast Asia, as in more modern worldly settings. I discuss culture and ethnography, and I explore different expe…
Clifford Geertz: His Critics and Followers,1998
Sherry B. Ortner. ed. The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond. Special issue of Representations, vol. 59, summer 1997
Voices and Politics in the Balkan Pit
Tourism in Ghana: The Representation of Slavery and the Return of the Black Diaspora
My Life in an Ashram
This article describes the author's experiences at the Himalayan Institute, a New Age ashram located in Pennsylvania, from the dual perspectives of an ethnographer interested in understanding transplanted Indian traditions and as an individual engaged in a spiritual quest. The article reflects on the nature of the self in a meditative state, presents a brief ethnography of the ashram, discusses principles of yoga philosophy as applied to the auth…
International Tourism: Identity and Change
Tourism in South‐East Asia. Michael HITCHCOCK, Victor T. King, and Michael J. G. PARNWELL
Tourism as process
Innocents abroad
Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa
Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction: A Critique of Postmodernism
Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction: A Critique of Postmodernism
Tourism in Ghana: The Representation of Slavery and the Return of the Black Diaspora
Transformation of self in tourism
Culture on tour: Ethnographies of Travel
Analysing a variety of tourist productions, ranging from dance dramas in Bali to an Abraham Lincoln heritage site in Illinois, Bruner considers the diverse perspectives of various actors, including the tourists, the producers, the natives & the anthropologist himself.
Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa
The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism
In this article, I analyze how the Maasai of Kenya are presented in three different tourist performances-postcolonial, postindependence, and postmodern. Each site tells a different story, an alternate version of history, with its own perspective on the role of ethnicity and heritage within the nation-state and in the world community. Using a method of controlled comparison, I expand the theoretical dialogue in tourism debates by departing from th…
Of Cannibals, Tourists, and Ethnographers
Urbanization and Ethnic Identity in North Sumatra
Urbanization and Social Change in Africa [and Comments and Reply]
In recent years anthropologists have been taking an increasing interest in the process of urbanization in Africa, usually seen as an aspect of the wider issue of social and/or cultural change. As individual studies accumulate, we need to develop a framework within which to examine the variables that shape the structure of social relations in modern African towns and cities. Three main determinants of urban social structure are isolated and analyz…
The Illinois White Paper: Improving the System for Protecting Human Subjects: Counteracting IRB “Mission Creep
Our system of research self-regulation, designed to provide internal checks and balances for those who participate in research involving human subjects, is under considerable stress. Much of this crisis has been caused by what we call mission creep, in which the workload of IRBs has expanded beyond their ability to handle effectively. Mission creep is caused by rewarding wrong behaviors, such as focusing more on procedures and documentation than …
Two Processes of Change in Mandan-Hidatsa Kinship Terminology
Primary Group Experience and the Processes of Acculturation1
Cultural Transmission and Cultural Change
Smoke from Their Fires: The Life of a Kwakiutl Chief
The Anthropology of Experience
Text, Play, and Story: The Construction and Reconstruction of Self and Society 1983 Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society
Return to Sumatra: 1957,1997
In this article, I reflect on how ethnography has changed between my 1957 fieldwork in a Toba Batak village in Sumatra, Indonesia, and my return visit in 1997. I argue that current issues of transnationalism and globalization are as significant in what is seemingly the most traditional of anthropological sites, a mountain village in Southeast Asia, as in more modern worldly settings. I discuss culture and ethnography, and I explore different expe…
The Representation of African Pastoralists: A Commentary
(2002). The Representation of African Pastoralists: A Commentary. Visual Anthropology: Vol. 15, No. 3-4, pp. 387-392
Lincoln's New Salem as a Contested Site
On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology as Experience
Ethnographic Practice and Human Subjects Review
Shadow and Sound: The Historical Thought of a Sumatran People
Batak Ethnic Associations in Three Indonesian Cities
Based upon data gathered on Toba Batak ethnic associations in the three Indonesian cities of Medan, Bandung, and Djarkarta we show that the forms of urban social structure are directly related to features of the urban context. The Batak associations are not the same in the three cities and we account for the variation by analyzing the larger urban situation in which the Batak community in each town finds itself. The tracing of connections between…
My Life in an Ashram
This article describes the author's experiences at the Himalayan Institute, a New Age ashram located in Pennsylvania, from the dual perspectives of an ethnographer interested in understanding transplanted Indian traditions and as an individual engaged in a spiritual quest. The article reflects on the nature of the self in a meditative state, presents a brief ethnography of the ashram, discusses principles of yoga philosophy as applied to the auth…
Introduction: Museums and Tourism
Two Processes of Change in Mandan-Hidatsa Kinship Terminology
Anthropology. J. E. Manchip White
R ejoinder
Primary Group Experience and the Processes of Acculturation1
Cultural Transmission and Cultural Change
Ethnology and Ethnography: The Crow Indians. Robert H. Lowie
Urbanization and Ethnic Identity in North Sumatra
General and Ethnology: Some Social-Anthropological Observations on Gotong-Rojong Practices in Two Villages of Central Java. Koentjaraningrat
Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows. Edwin Thompson Denig
The Introductory Course in Cultural Anthropology
Family interaction at two levels of acculturation in Sumatra
A comparison, based on interview and projective data, of a Batak peasant family in a mountain village with an acculturated family from a seacoast town. Similarities were found in the dominance pattern of the spouses and in the dependency needs of the adolescent daughters. Major differences in the way the children handle aggression and experience guilt were attributed to structural and relationship changes in the urban family, with education as th…
Other: Americans in Sumatra. James W. Gould
Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction. Erving Goffman
Ethnology and General: Peddlers and Princes: Social Change and Economic Modernization in Two Indonesian Towns. Clifford Geertz
Urbanization and Social Change in Africa [and Comments and Reply]
In recent years anthropologists have been taking an increasing interest in the process of urbanization in Africa, usually seen as an aspect of the wider issue of social and/or cultural change. As individual studies accumulate, we need to develop a framework within which to examine the variables that shape the structure of social relations in modern African towns and cities. Three main determinants of urban social structure are isolated and analyz…
General and Ethnology: Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization. A lfred W. B owers
O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony and Other Customs of the Mandans
Modernization: Rites of Modernization: Symbolic and Social Aspects of Indonesian Proletarian Drama. James L. Peacock
Smoke from Their Fires: The Life of a Kwakiutl Chief
Graduate Record Exam Considered by Board
Batak Ethnic Associations in Three Indonesian Cities
Based upon data gathered on Toba Batak ethnic associations in the three Indonesian cities of Medan, Bandung, and Djarkarta we show that the forms of urban social structure are directly related to features of the urban context. The Batak associations are not the same in the three cities and we account for the variation by analyzing the larger urban situation in which the Batak community in each town finds itself. The tracing of connections between…
Padju Epat: The Ma'anyan of Indonesian Borneo
The Missing Tins of Chicken: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Culture Change
Kinship, Descent and Alliance Among the Karo Batak
Ethnology: Anthropology in Indonesia: A Bibliographical Review. Koentjaraningrat
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