Luke Eric Lassiter
Biographic Data
| ID | 97660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Eric Lassiter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Lassiter |
| SIGNATURE | LASSITER L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ball State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 746 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Community-University Partnerships and the Marshall University Major Scholar Seminar
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Luke Eric Lassiter; Community-University Partnerships and the Marshall University Major Scholar Seminar. Practicing Anthropology 1 June 2019; 41 (3): 11–12. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.41.3.11 Download citation file: Ris (Zot…
Ethnographic Engagement
Modern forms of ethnographic engagement (such as participant action research, feminist anthropology, and activist ethnography) have roots in nineteenth and early and mid‐twentieth‐century anthropology. This brief entry highlights one of the earliest impulses for collaborative and engaged research (emanating from American ethnologist Paul Radin) to frame what is then a brief description of current developments, including collaborative ethnography
Recording Culture
Reviewed by: Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains by Christopher A. Scales Luke Eric Lassiter Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains. By Christopher A. Scales. Durham nc: Duke University Press, 2012. xi + 338 pp. Tables, photographs, notes, references, index cd. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Christopher Scales’s Recording Culture: Powwow Mu…
Doing Ethnography Today
Provides guidance on interview questions and selecting appropriate field equipment
To Fill in the Missing Piece of the Middletown Puzzle
This paper revisits The Other Side of Middletown, a collaborative ethnography written by a group of faculty, students and African Americans living in Muncie, Indiana - the town made famous by Robert and Helen Lynd in their 1929 original study, Middletown, and its 1937 follow-up, Middletown in Transition. Our re-study (published in 2004) addressed the lack of African American history and experience in the Lynds' works and in the Middletown literat…
Serious Fieldwork
What Will We Have Ethnography Do
In this essay, we engage current discussions about refunctioning ethnography along lines that are meant to reimagine larger trajectories of ethnographic theory and practice. While these discussions are complicated and involved, much attention has been focused on refunctioning the mythological residue of Malinowksian modes of fieldwork from which springs trends for apprenticing graduate students to do and write up fieldwork. What has received less…
From Collaborative Ethnography to Collaborative Pedagogy
Here we reflect on the collaborative research, engagement, and pedagogical relationships and processes that gave rise to The Other Side of Middletown, a collaborative ethnography written by a team of faculty, students, and community participants. We offer background on the project; discuss how collaborative researches engendered community-based engagements and collaborative pedagogies; and conclude by suggesting that those collaborative pedagogie…
Moving Past Public Anthropology and Doing Collaborative Research
This article is about moving past the debates and arguments concerning public anthropology and how students can realize public engagement via collaborative research (i.e., between and among researchers and local communities of collaborators). I suggest that students should be aware of at least the basics of the current debates surrounding public anthropology; that they should appreciate, as many have argued before, that these debates represent on…
General Anthropology Division
GAD Committees and Interest Groups •The Federation of Small Anthropology Programs John Rhoades
Collaborative Ethnography Matters
The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography
Collaboration between ethnographers and subjects has long been a product of the close, intimate relationships that define ethnographic research. But increasingly collaboration is no longer viewed as merely a consequence of fieldwork; instead collaboration now preconditions and shapes research design as well as its dissemination. As a result, ethnographic subjects are shifting from being informants to being consultants. emergence of collaborative …
Collaborative Ethnography and Public Anthropology
Collaborative ethnographythe collaboration of researchers and subjects in the production of ethnographic textsoffers us a powerful way to engage the public with anthropology. As one of many academic/applied approaches, contemporary collaborative ethnography stems from a wellestablished historical tradition of collaboratively produced texts that are often overlooked. Feminist and postmodernist efforts to recenter ethnography along dialogical lines…
Music
This chapter contains section titled: ON THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF AMERICAN INDIAN MUSIC KIOWA: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXAMPLE Kiowa musical practice Kiowa Indian hymns APPROACHING AMERICAN INDIAN MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS OF EXPERIENCE: SUGGESTIONS
Tag Gazing
Theorizing the Local
The Muncie Race Riots Of 1967, Representing Community Memory Through Public Performance, And Collaborative Ethnography Between Faculty, Students, And The Local Community
In October 1967, a footnote in the larger national struggle over civil rights for African Americans occurred at Southside High School in Muncie, Indiana. On the nineteenth, a fight broke out between about 100 black and white students in the halls of the school, where the football team was named the "Rebels," and a modified Confederate flag flew just in front of the building. In spring 2001, a group of Ball State University faculty and students al…
Commentary
Invitation to Anthropology
Introduction Part I: Anthropology, Culture, and Ethnography Chapter 1: Evolution, and the Critique of Race: A Short Story Chapter 2: Anthropology and Culture Chapter 3: Ethnography Part II: Ethnology: Some Human Issues Chapter 4: History, Change, and Adaptation: On the Roots of Our World System Chapter 5: Sex, Power, and Inequality: On Gender Chapter 6: Work, Success, and Kids: On Marriage, Family, and Kinship Chapter 7: Knowledge, Belief, and Di…
Anthropologists Acting Locally
Monacans and Miners
Monacans and Miners: Native American and Coal Mining Communities in Appalachia. Samuel R. Cook. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.329 pp
The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma
Reviewed by: The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma: Maintaining a Traditional Community Luke Eric Lassiter Jack M. Schultz . The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma: Maintaining a Traditional Community. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xii + 260 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth $27.95 In the last few years, anthropologists and other scholars have begun to take a closer,more serious, and more nuanced look at the …
Engaging a Localized Public Anthropology
From "Reading over the Shoulders of Natives" to "Reading Alongside Natives," Literally
Luke Eric Lassiter's article, "From 'Reading over the Shoulders of Natives' to 'Reading Alongside Natives,' Literally: Toward a Collaborative and Reciprocal Ethnography," argues for a more collaborative and reciprocal approach to ethnographic research. Challenging traditional ethnographic practices that position the researcher as an objective observer, Lassiter advocates for actively involving native communities in the research process, from the …
From Here on, I Will Be Praying to You
L'A. decrit et analyse l'experience religieuse des Amerindiens Kiowa dans le contexte d'une Eglise methodiste du sud-ouest de l'Oklahoma, centrant son analyse sur les hymnes chantes en langue amerindienne. Il suggere que ces chants, quant a leur signification, s'inscrivent dans des traditions tribales tres specifiques. Appartenant autant aux repertoires des chants tribaux qu'aux repertoires des chants chretiens, ils communiquent une experience sp…
The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography
Collaboration between ethnographers and subjects has long been a product of the close, intimate relationships that define ethnographic research. But increasingly collaboration is no longer viewed as merely a consequence of fieldwork; instead collaboration now preconditions and shapes research design as well as its dissemination. As a result, ethnographic subjects are shifting from being informants to being consultants. emergence of collaborative …
Collaborative Ethnography and Public Anthropology
Collaborative ethnographythe collaboration of researchers and subjects in the production of ethnographic textsoffers us a powerful way to engage the public with anthropology. As one of many academic/applied approaches, contemporary collaborative ethnography stems from a wellestablished historical tradition of collaboratively produced texts that are often overlooked. Feminist and postmodernist efforts to recenter ethnography along dialogical lines…
Moving Past Public Anthropology and Doing Collaborative Research
This article is about moving past the debates and arguments concerning public anthropology and how students can realize public engagement via collaborative research (i.e., between and among researchers and local communities of collaborators). I suggest that students should be aware of at least the basics of the current debates surrounding public anthropology; that they should appreciate, as many have argued before, that these debates represent on…
From Collaborative Ethnography to Collaborative Pedagogy
Here we reflect on the collaborative research, engagement, and pedagogical relationships and processes that gave rise to The Other Side of Middletown, a collaborative ethnography written by a team of faculty, students, and community participants. We offer background on the project; discuss how collaborative researches engendered community-based engagements and collaborative pedagogies; and conclude by suggesting that those collaborative pedagogie…
What Will We Have Ethnography Do
In this essay, we engage current discussions about refunctioning ethnography along lines that are meant to reimagine larger trajectories of ethnographic theory and practice. While these discussions are complicated and involved, much attention has been focused on refunctioning the mythological residue of Malinowksian modes of fieldwork from which springs trends for apprenticing graduate students to do and write up fieldwork. What has received less…
From "Reading over the Shoulders of Natives" to "Reading Alongside Natives," Literally
Luke Eric Lassiter's article, "From 'Reading over the Shoulders of Natives' to 'Reading Alongside Natives,' Literally: Toward a Collaborative and Reciprocal Ethnography," argues for a more collaborative and reciprocal approach to ethnographic research. Challenging traditional ethnographic practices that position the researcher as an objective observer, Lassiter advocates for actively involving native communities in the research process, from the …
The Power of Kiowa Song
Many Kiowas believe that song is a gift from God. Its power, argues Luke E. Lassiter, rests in the many ways that community members hear, understand, and feel it: has power. As I begin to understand what this means for my mentors, I am just beginning to understand what this means in my life. They are not just singers. They are vehicles for something greater than all of us. Indeed, I now understand that I am not just a singer. But ...I will sing u…
Authoritative Texts, Collaborative Ethnography, and Native American Studies
In the spirit of self-determination, Indian people should be the ones to write about Indian education. Karen Gayton Swisher, "Why Indian People Should be the Ones to Write About Indian Education" In my view, there is room for both Indian and non-Indian scholars within American Indian studies. Duane Champagne, "American Indian Studies Is for Everyone" Writing in the same volume, Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians…
Indians and Anthropologists
In 1969 Vine Deloria, Jr., in his controversial book Custer Died for Your Sins, criticized the anthropological community for its impersonal dissection of living Native American cultures. Twenty-five years later, anthropologists have become more sensitive to Native American concerns, and Indian people have become more active in fighting for accurate representations of their cultures. In this collection of essays, Indian and non-Indian scholars exa…
Blessing for a Long Time
Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings ingeniously adopt the conventions of Omaha oral narratives to tell the story and convey the significance of the Sacred Pole. Portions of classic anthropological texts (particularly Fletcher and La Flesche's Omaha Tribe), Omaha narratives, and other historical and contemporary accounts are repeated - each time in a different, more enlightening context - in a circle of stories seamlessly woven around Umon'hon'ti.…
To Fill in the Missing Piece of the Middletown Puzzle
This paper revisits The Other Side of Middletown, a collaborative ethnography written by a group of faculty, students and African Americans living in Muncie, Indiana - the town made famous by Robert and Helen Lynd in their 1929 original study, Middletown, and its 1937 follow-up, Middletown in Transition. Our re-study (published in 2004) addressed the lack of African American history and experience in the Lynds' works and in the Middletown literat…
The Muncie Race Riots Of 1967, Representing Community Memory Through Public Performance, And Collaborative Ethnography Between Faculty, Students, And The Local Community
In October 1967, a footnote in the larger national struggle over civil rights for African Americans occurred at Southside High School in Muncie, Indiana. On the nineteenth, a fight broke out between about 100 black and white students in the halls of the school, where the football team was named the "Rebels," and a modified Confederate flag flew just in front of the building. In spring 2001, a group of Ball State University faculty and students al…
Collaborative Ethnography Matters
Engaging a Localized Public Anthropology
We Keep What We Have by Giving it Away
Who Am I? I Am the One Who Sits in the Middle
Applying "Communitas" to Kiowa Powwows
Serious Fieldwork
Theorizing the Local
From Here on, I Will Be Praying to You
L'A. decrit et analyse l'experience religieuse des Amerindiens Kiowa dans le contexte d'une Eglise methodiste du sud-ouest de l'Oklahoma, centrant son analyse sur les hymnes chantes en langue amerindienne. Il suggere que ces chants, quant a leur signification, s'inscrivent dans des traditions tribales tres specifiques. Appartenant autant aux repertoires des chants tribaux qu'aux repertoires des chants chretiens, ils communiquent une experience sp…
The Power of Kiowa Song
Charlie Brown
Theresa, Danieala, Richard, and Diana live in southwestern Oklahoma. In what many here call ”our Indian world,” Kiowa, Comanche, Kiowa-Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, and Chirichaua Apache peoples and their traditions converge, creating a dynamic and diverse community. Traditions such as language, worldview, religion, and community narrative help to demarcate this Indian world. Several dance and song traditions are among the most heralded. The …
Charlie Brown
Theresa, Danieala, Richard, and Diana live in southwestern Oklahoma. In what many here call ”our Indian world,” Kiowa, Comanche, Kiowa-Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, and Chirichaua Apache peoples and their traditions converge, creating a dynamic and diverse community. Traditions such as language, worldview, religion, and community narrative help to demarcate this Indian world. Several dance and song traditions are among the most heralded. The …
Kiowa
Near close of nineteenth century, Isabel Crawford went to Kiowa-Comanche Reservation in Oklahoma and founded Saddle Mountain Baptist Mission. This book, written in journal form, begins with her arrival at reservation in 1896 and describes her decade-long crusade to convert Indians to Christianity. She and her assistant were only white women at isolated station in Wichita Mountains. Crawford's experience there tested her resourcefulness, endurance…
Applying "Communitas" to Kiowa Powwows
Blessing for a Long Time
Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings ingeniously adopt the conventions of Omaha oral narratives to tell the story and convey the significance of the Sacred Pole. Portions of classic anthropological texts (particularly Fletcher and La Flesche's Omaha Tribe), Omaha narratives, and other historical and contemporary accounts are repeated - each time in a different, more enlightening context - in a circle of stories seamlessly woven around Umon'hon'ti.…
Students Consider Relevance
We Keep What We Have by Giving it Away
Indians and Anthropologists
In 1969 Vine Deloria, Jr., in his controversial book Custer Died for Your Sins, criticized the anthropological community for its impersonal dissection of living Native American cultures. Twenty-five years later, anthropologists have become more sensitive to Native American concerns, and Indian people have become more active in fighting for accurate representations of their cultures. In this collection of essays, Indian and non-Indian scholars exa…
Who Am I? I Am the One Who Sits in the Middle
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The Power of Kiowa Song
Many Kiowas believe that song is a gift from God. Its power, argues Luke E. Lassiter, rests in the many ways that community members hear, understand, and feel it: has power. As I begin to understand what this means for my mentors, I am just beginning to understand what this means in my life. They are not just singers. They are vehicles for something greater than all of us. Indeed, I now understand that I am not just a singer. But ...I will sing u…
Authoritative Texts, Collaborative Ethnography, and Native American Studies
In the spirit of self-determination, Indian people should be the ones to write about Indian education. Karen Gayton Swisher, "Why Indian People Should be the Ones to Write About Indian Education" In my view, there is room for both Indian and non-Indian scholars within American Indian studies. Duane Champagne, "American Indian Studies Is for Everyone" Writing in the same volume, Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians…
Where the Two Roads Meet
The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma
Reviewed by: The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma: Maintaining a Traditional Community Luke Eric Lassiter Jack M. Schultz . The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma: Maintaining a Traditional Community. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xii + 260 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth $27.95 In the last few years, anthropologists and other scholars have begun to take a closer,more serious, and more nuanced look at the …
Engaging a Localized Public Anthropology
From "Reading over the Shoulders of Natives" to "Reading Alongside Natives," Literally
Luke Eric Lassiter's article, "From 'Reading over the Shoulders of Natives' to 'Reading Alongside Natives,' Literally: Toward a Collaborative and Reciprocal Ethnography," argues for a more collaborative and reciprocal approach to ethnographic research. Challenging traditional ethnographic practices that position the researcher as an objective observer, Lassiter advocates for actively involving native communities in the research process, from the …
From Here on, I Will Be Praying to You
L'A. decrit et analyse l'experience religieuse des Amerindiens Kiowa dans le contexte d'une Eglise methodiste du sud-ouest de l'Oklahoma, centrant son analyse sur les hymnes chantes en langue amerindienne. Il suggere que ces chants, quant a leur signification, s'inscrivent dans des traditions tribales tres specifiques. Appartenant autant aux repertoires des chants tribaux qu'aux repertoires des chants chretiens, ils communiquent une experience sp…
The Power of Kiowa Song
Commentary
Invitation to Anthropology
Introduction Part I: Anthropology, Culture, and Ethnography Chapter 1: Evolution, and the Critique of Race: A Short Story Chapter 2: Anthropology and Culture Chapter 3: Ethnography Part II: Ethnology: Some Human Issues Chapter 4: History, Change, and Adaptation: On the Roots of Our World System Chapter 5: Sex, Power, and Inequality: On Gender Chapter 6: Work, Success, and Kids: On Marriage, Family, and Kinship Chapter 7: Knowledge, Belief, and Di…
Anthropologists Acting Locally
Monacans and Miners
Monacans and Miners: Native American and Coal Mining Communities in Appalachia. Samuel R. Cook. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.329 pp
Tag Gazing
Theorizing the Local
The Muncie Race Riots Of 1967, Representing Community Memory Through Public Performance, And Collaborative Ethnography Between Faculty, Students, And The Local Community
In October 1967, a footnote in the larger national struggle over civil rights for African Americans occurred at Southside High School in Muncie, Indiana. On the nineteenth, a fight broke out between about 100 black and white students in the halls of the school, where the football team was named the "Rebels," and a modified Confederate flag flew just in front of the building. In spring 2001, a group of Ball State University faculty and students al…
Music
This chapter contains section titled: ON THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF AMERICAN INDIAN MUSIC KIOWA: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXAMPLE Kiowa musical practice Kiowa Indian hymns APPROACHING AMERICAN INDIAN MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS OF EXPERIENCE: SUGGESTIONS
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