Stephen William Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 93226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen William Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen William |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1164-8895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Farouk
Dervish House
Sinuous current out of the mountain, Incessant spring contortions Awaken Arab roses Uncalled for in this place. The sanctuary is inhabited By white sound from the river, Enclosed by gentle walls of shadow and light, Erasing vanities and virtues. This place floats beyond unlooked for places. Unsought, the roses waver and fluoresce In their unseasonal glory, floating up From the river's flow, Imposing their beauty on your vision, Smoothing consciou…
Coffee
October 17, 1961
On Listening
Listening is a paramount but neglected element of social practice. In storytelling, dialogue, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and theater (to name a few), listener-speaker dynamics shape listening's effects. The polyphony of experience, the normalization of representation, and the inflections imposed by ideologies and desire are critical issues in listening practice. They may be addressed through re-listening and self-reflective listening. Revisitin…
The Burners
"What Is "the Question
Ethnographers' questions are an impress on their encounters and an investment in the politics and poetics of ethnography. I examine the symbolic aura of the question, generically and substantively, that shapes and textures ethnographic truth-telling. An encounter in Morocco illustrate the paradoxical dynamics of the question that constrains the dialogues it produces. The art of the question premises an ethics, a recursive style and a mobile analy…
Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism. Carol A. Breckenridge Sheldon Pollock. Homi K. Bhabha. and Dipesh Chakrabarty. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 240 pp., photographs, index
The Past is Another Country
The Past Is Another Country
Gettin' Some Age on Me
Books in review
Reading Pierre Bourdieu
Social/Cultural Anthropology
"Kinship/Interpretation/And Culture" in India; The Anthropology of Space; Marxist Perspectives of Peasantry
Akos Ostor. Lina Fruzzetti. and Steve Barnett. eds. Concepts of Person, Kinship, Caste and Marriage in India (Harvard Studies in Cultural Anthropology, 5). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. xiv. 271 pages. $35.00 (cloth). Rik Pinxten. Ingrid van Dooren. and Frank Harvey. The Anthropology of Space . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. xi. 240 pp. $32.50 (cloth). Social Anthropology of Peasantry . Joan P. Mencher. …
Magic
Magic
General/Theoretical
Linguistics
The Invisible Minority
Cultural/Applied
Interpretations of Interpretations
The poetics of culture
Roy Wagner. The Invention of Culture. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1975. viii + 168 pp. Index. $8.95 (cloth
Reading Pierre Bourdieu
Interpretations of Interpretations
On Listening
Listening is a paramount but neglected element of social practice. In storytelling, dialogue, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and theater (to name a few), listener-speaker dynamics shape listening's effects. The polyphony of experience, the normalization of representation, and the inflections imposed by ideologies and desire are critical issues in listening practice. They may be addressed through re-listening and self-reflective listening. Revisitin…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Linguistics
Cultural/Applied
The poetics of culture
Roy Wagner. The Invention of Culture. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1975. viii + 168 pp. Index. $8.95 (cloth
Interpretations of Interpretations
The Invisible Minority
Cultural/Applied
Linguistics
"Kinship/Interpretation/And Culture" in India; The Anthropology of Space; Marxist Perspectives of Peasantry
Akos Ostor. Lina Fruzzetti. and Steve Barnett. eds. Concepts of Person, Kinship, Caste and Marriage in India (Harvard Studies in Cultural Anthropology, 5). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. xiv. 271 pages. $35.00 (cloth). Rik Pinxten. Ingrid van Dooren. and Frank Harvey. The Anthropology of Space . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. xi. 240 pp. $32.50 (cloth). Social Anthropology of Peasantry . Joan P. Mencher. …
Magic
Magic
General/Theoretical
Reading Pierre Bourdieu
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Books in review
The Past is Another Country
The Past Is Another Country
Gettin' Some Age on Me
Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism. Carol A. Breckenridge Sheldon Pollock. Homi K. Bhabha. and Dipesh Chakrabarty. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 240 pp., photographs, index
"What Is "the Question
Ethnographers' questions are an impress on their encounters and an investment in the politics and poetics of ethnography. I examine the symbolic aura of the question, generically and substantively, that shapes and textures ethnographic truth-telling. An encounter in Morocco illustrate the paradoxical dynamics of the question that constrains the dialogues it produces. The art of the question premises an ethics, a recursive style and a mobile analy…
The Burners
On Listening
Listening is a paramount but neglected element of social practice. In storytelling, dialogue, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and theater (to name a few), listener-speaker dynamics shape listening's effects. The polyphony of experience, the normalization of representation, and the inflections imposed by ideologies and desire are critical issues in listening practice. They may be addressed through re-listening and self-reflective listening. Revisitin…
October 17, 1961
Coffee
Dervish House
Sinuous current out of the mountain, Incessant spring contortions Awaken Arab roses Uncalled for in this place. The sanctuary is inhabited By white sound from the river, Enclosed by gentle walls of shadow and light, Erasing vanities and virtues. This place floats beyond unlooked for places. Unsought, the roses waver and fluoresce In their unseasonal glory, floating up From the river's flow, Imposing their beauty on your vision, Smoothing consciou…
Farouk
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