Susan D Blum
Biographic Data
| ID | 91346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan D Blum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Blum |
| SIGNATURE | BLUM S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5609-040X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Let's talk teaching: Progressive pedagogy in anthropology courses
OBJECTIVES: In this article, we discuss research from the science of teaching and learning and from progressive pedagogy, with the aim of discussing how these fields can help us all become better teachers. METHODS: Our methods were based on assessment of the literature and our in-class practices. RESULTS: We find that the practices of critical progressive pedagogy are rooted in good research practices and are based both on new research and on fun…
A Theory of Public Higher Education
What would American public higher education look like if it was unencumbered by its own history? What if it were designed from scratch today, in full view of everything we have come to know about student learning, schooling, and our projections about the future of knowledge and work? This thought experiment project does just that. After justifying the need for a thoroughgoing redesign now, the backward-designed axiomatic approach is used to deter…
Linguistic Diversity and Plurality in East Asia
With more than one‐fifth of the world's population, East Asia is characterized by substantial and consequential linguistic diversity, heteroglossia, along with changing and sometimes contested values of particular varieties. As is always the case, ideas about language are ideas about the people attached (indexically) to the languages, and contestation over language is contestation over identity, freedom/suppression, and power. All dimensions of l…
Why Don't Anthropologists Care about Learning (or Education or School)? An Immodest Proposal for an Integrative Anthropology of Learning Whose Time Has Finally Come
This article proposes a twenty-first-century anthropology of learning: comparative, integrating, powerful, speaking truth to power, and engaging in ethnographic, humanistic, and scientific investigation. Such an enterprise welcomes a wide variety of methods. An anthropology of learning includes-but distinguishes-education, socialization, enculturation, and schooling. It encompasses formal, informal, and nonformal learning. It grapples with defini…
Practicing Anthropology And “Ethnographic Engineering” In a Community-Based Ecological Project
The Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem (BCe2) is a collaborative community project designed to restore and enhance a vital but polluted river tributary by linking the efforts of local community groups, schools, and universities in the revitalizing city of South Bend, Indiana. As a community-based engineering project continues, two faculty advisors and two anthropology students reflect on the program's inaugural summer as practicing ethnographers.…
Introduction: Reconsidering the Middle Kingdom
Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Kunming
Unseen Weird Assumptions: The So-Called Language Gap Discourse and Ideologies of Language, Childhood, and Learning
Claiming to rely on “science,” many well-intentioned “experts” offer advice on how to “close the gap”—word gap, language gap, achievement gap—between disadvantaged and advantaged children. Based on both research and personal experience, this advice promises magic solutions to apparently complex and intractable problems by coaching disadvantaged parents in how best to speak to their young children. One significant shortcoming, however, is that the…
"I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College
Language and Social Justice Committee Storify
This post is a summary of the Storify
The Gap that Won't Be Filled
Language and Food: Verbal and Nonverbal Experiences by Polly E. Szatrowski, ed
Schooling passions: Nation, history, and language in contemporary Western India – By Véronique Benei
Doing fieldwork in China – Edited by Maria Heimer & Stig Thøgersen
The Internet, the Self, Authorship and Plagiarism
Du, Shanshan. Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs: Gender Unity and Gender Equality Among the Lahu of Southwest China
Du,Shanshan. CHOKTTICKS ONLY WORK IN PAIRS: GENDER UNITY AND GENDER EQUALITY AMONG THE LAHU OF SOUTHWEST CHINA. Columbia University Press, 2002. $26.00.Genuine gender equality has been the holy grail for feminist anthropologists. They have traveled throughout the world for almost a century in quest of a society that does not place men above women. Margaret Mead attempted to show that there was absolute variation in three adjacent-by societies, th…
In and Out of the Ethnographer's Shadow: Native” Identity in the Anthropology of China
In the past two decades, many Chinese students have trained as anthropologists in the West. The study of China has been enriched by the contributions of “native” anthropologists, but the “native” is not necessarily native to the site studied; the term may not be entirely helpful in the end. At the same time, complete outsiders can still contribute effective and vivid understandings of China. Ultimately, I argue that the anthropologist's identity …
Buzzing and Writing the Day Away Instant Messaging: Studying a New Form of Communication
Five Approaches to Explaining "Truth" and "Deception" in Human Communication
This article identifies five approaches through which I have attempted to understand the topic of deception and truth. (The "topic" itself changes along with the frame, however.) It traces an intellectual journey through anthropological explanation, tacking back and forth among views that (1) deception in public life is prevalent in China because of a particular set of assumptions about language use and interaction, (2) deception is conceived mor…
Good to Hear: Using the Trope of Standard to Find One’s Way in a Sea of Linguistic Diversity
China off center: Mapping the margins of the middle kingdom
China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. Instead of generalizing about China, it demonstrates that this diverse national terrain is better conceived as it is experienced by Chinese, as a set of many Chinas. To that end, this anthology of interpretive essays and ethnographic repor…
Rural China and the WTO
China's entry into the World Trade Organization has been applauded for the benefits it will confer on China's economy and for granting recognition to China's modernizing efforts. The scrutiny of the outside world will force China to regularize many of its practices, such as legal and economic practices. But most of the discussion of the WTO has focused on a very limited segment of China's society. This article considers the realities of rural Chi…
Margins and Centers: A Decade of Publishing on China's Ethnic Minorities
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Tales from the Fields of Yunnan: Listening to Han Stories
Truth
Naming practices and the power of words in China
This article examines use of kinship terms, pronouns, and proper names in China, in an overall framework termed “naming” that demonstrates the performative power of uttering relational terms, especially by the junior in the relationship. It also describes the prototypical routine of introductions, which consist of three participants, in contrast to the more typical conversation in Western analysis which posits two participants. In this three-part…
Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation. Michael Agar. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1994. 284 pp
Why Don't Anthropologists Care about Learning (or Education or School)? An Immodest Proposal for an Integrative Anthropology of Learning Whose Time Has Finally Come
This article proposes a twenty-first-century anthropology of learning: comparative, integrating, powerful, speaking truth to power, and engaging in ethnographic, humanistic, and scientific investigation. Such an enterprise welcomes a wide variety of methods. An anthropology of learning includes-but distinguishes-education, socialization, enculturation, and schooling. It encompasses formal, informal, and nonformal learning. It grapples with defini…
Margins and Centers: A Decade of Publishing on China's Ethnic Minorities
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Five Approaches to Explaining "Truth" and "Deception" in Human Communication
This article identifies five approaches through which I have attempted to understand the topic of deception and truth. (The "topic" itself changes along with the frame, however.) It traces an intellectual journey through anthropological explanation, tacking back and forth among views that (1) deception in public life is prevalent in China because of a particular set of assumptions about language use and interaction, (2) deception is conceived mor…
The Gap that Won't Be Filled
Tales from the Fields of Yunnan: Listening to Han Stories
Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village
Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in. North China Village. Andrew B. Kipnis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. xii. 226 pp., maps, figures, epilogue, notes, glossary, references, index
Practicing Anthropology And “Ethnographic Engineering” In a Community-Based Ecological Project
The Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem (BCe2) is a collaborative community project designed to restore and enhance a vital but polluted river tributary by linking the efforts of local community groups, schools, and universities in the revitalizing city of South Bend, Indiana. As a community-based engineering project continues, two faculty advisors and two anthropology students reflect on the program's inaugural summer as practicing ethnographers.…
The Internet, the Self, Authorship and Plagiarism
Buzzing and Writing the Day Away Instant Messaging: Studying a New Form of Communication
Truth
Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation. Michael Agar. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1994. 284 pp
Naming practices and the power of words in China
This article examines use of kinship terms, pronouns, and proper names in China, in an overall framework termed “naming” that demonstrates the performative power of uttering relational terms, especially by the junior in the relationship. It also describes the prototypical routine of introductions, which consist of three participants, in contrast to the more typical conversation in Western analysis which posits two participants. In this three-part…
Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Chow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of outstanding filmmakers, such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou
Truth
Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village
Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in. North China Village. Andrew B. Kipnis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. xii. 226 pp., maps, figures, epilogue, notes, glossary, references, index
Tales from the Fields of Yunnan: Listening to Han Stories
China off center: Mapping the margins of the middle kingdom
China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. Instead of generalizing about China, it demonstrates that this diverse national terrain is better conceived as it is experienced by Chinese, as a set of many Chinas. To that end, this anthology of interpretive essays and ethnographic repor…
Rural China and the WTO
China's entry into the World Trade Organization has been applauded for the benefits it will confer on China's economy and for granting recognition to China's modernizing efforts. The scrutiny of the outside world will force China to regularize many of its practices, such as legal and economic practices. But most of the discussion of the WTO has focused on a very limited segment of China's society. This article considers the realities of rural Chi…
Margins and Centers: A Decade of Publishing on China's Ethnic Minorities
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Good to Hear: Using the Trope of Standard to Find One’s Way in a Sea of Linguistic Diversity
Buzzing and Writing the Day Away Instant Messaging: Studying a New Form of Communication
Five Approaches to Explaining "Truth" and "Deception" in Human Communication
This article identifies five approaches through which I have attempted to understand the topic of deception and truth. (The "topic" itself changes along with the frame, however.) It traces an intellectual journey through anthropological explanation, tacking back and forth among views that (1) deception in public life is prevalent in China because of a particular set of assumptions about language use and interaction, (2) deception is conceived mor…
In and Out of the Ethnographer's Shadow: Native” Identity in the Anthropology of China
In the past two decades, many Chinese students have trained as anthropologists in the West. The study of China has been enriched by the contributions of “native” anthropologists, but the “native” is not necessarily native to the site studied; the term may not be entirely helpful in the end. At the same time, complete outsiders can still contribute effective and vivid understandings of China. Ultimately, I argue that the anthropologist's identity …
Du, Shanshan. Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs: Gender Unity and Gender Equality Among the Lahu of Southwest China
Du,Shanshan. CHOKTTICKS ONLY WORK IN PAIRS: GENDER UNITY AND GENDER EQUALITY AMONG THE LAHU OF SOUTHWEST CHINA. Columbia University Press, 2002. $26.00.Genuine gender equality has been the holy grail for feminist anthropologists. They have traveled throughout the world for almost a century in quest of a society that does not place men above women. Margaret Mead attempted to show that there was absolute variation in three adjacent-by societies, th…
The Internet, the Self, Authorship and Plagiarism
Doing fieldwork in China – Edited by Maria Heimer & Stig Thøgersen
Schooling passions: Nation, history, and language in contemporary Western India – By Véronique Benei
Language and Food: Verbal and Nonverbal Experiences by Polly E. Szatrowski, ed
The Gap that Won't Be Filled
Introduction: Reconsidering the Middle Kingdom
Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Kunming
Unseen Weird Assumptions: The So-Called Language Gap Discourse and Ideologies of Language, Childhood, and Learning
Claiming to rely on “science,” many well-intentioned “experts” offer advice on how to “close the gap”—word gap, language gap, achievement gap—between disadvantaged and advantaged children. Based on both research and personal experience, this advice promises magic solutions to apparently complex and intractable problems by coaching disadvantaged parents in how best to speak to their young children. One significant shortcoming, however, is that the…
"I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College
Language and Social Justice Committee Storify
This post is a summary of the Storify
Practicing Anthropology And “Ethnographic Engineering” In a Community-Based Ecological Project
The Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem (BCe2) is a collaborative community project designed to restore and enhance a vital but polluted river tributary by linking the efforts of local community groups, schools, and universities in the revitalizing city of South Bend, Indiana. As a community-based engineering project continues, two faculty advisors and two anthropology students reflect on the program's inaugural summer as practicing ethnographers.…
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