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Debbora Battaglia, PhD Email: dbattagl@mtholyoke.edu Office: Merrill House, Room 204 Tel: 413-538-2293 |
Publications
BOOKS:
(Fall 2005) Battaglia, Debbora, ed. E.T. Culture: Anthropology
in Outerspaces.
Durham: Duke University Press.
(l995) Battaglia, Debbora, ed. Rhetorics of Self-Making.
Berkeley: The University of California Press.
(l990) Battaglia, Debbora. On the Bones of the Serpent: Person,
Memory, and
Mortality In Sabarl Island Society. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
MONOGRAPHS:
(l986) Bringing "Home" to Moresby: Urban Gardening and Ethnic
Pride among
Trobrianders in the National Capital. Special Publication no.ll.
Port
Moresby: Institute for Applied Social and Economic Research.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (PEER REVIEW):
(forthcoming) Battaglia, Debbora. Where Do We Find Our Monsters?
In Sharon
Ghamari-Tabrizi, ed. The Donna Haraway Un-Festschrift.
Routledge.
(forthcoming) Battaglia, Debbora. Gods of the Gaps: Navigations
in Raelian
Cloning Culture. In Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter
Wade, eds.
Ways of Knowing: Epistemologies in Practice. Oxford: Berg Press.
(Fall 2005) Battaglia, Debbora. Insiders’ Voices in Outer
Spaces: Toward an
Anthropology of Visits. In D. Battaglia, ed. ET Culture:
Anthropology
in Outerspaces. Durham : Duke University Press.
(Fall 2005) Battaglia, Debbora. “For Those Who are Not Afraid of
the Future”
Raelians, Faith-Based Human Cloning, and the Media. In D.
Battaglia, ed. ET
Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces. Durham: Duke University
Press.
(2004) Comments on ‘The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Exchange
in Pre-
Colonial Roviana: Gifts, Commodities, and Inalienable
Possessions.’ Current
Anthropology Vol.44, Supplement.
(2004) Religion and Media Across the Great Divide of
Essentialist and Situated
Knowledge: Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber, eds. Religion and
Media. (Review
(Essay). Anthropological Quarterly 77, no.1: 145-151.
(2001) Multiplicities: An Anthropologist’s Thoughts on
Replicants and Clones
in Popular Films. Critical Inquiry 27 no. 3 (Spring):493-514.
(1999) Toward an Ethics of the Open Subject: Writing Culture in
Good Conscience. In H. L. Moore, ed. Anthropological Theory
Today.
Cambridge: Polity Press
(1997) Ambiguating Agency: The Case of Malinowski's Ghost.
American Anthropologist 99 (3): 18-22.
(l997) Displacing the Visual: Trobriand Axe Blades and
Ambiguation.
In H. Morphy and M. Banks, eds. Rethinking Visual Anthropology.
Yale UP.
(l995) Fear of Selfing in the American Cultural Imaginary or
"You Are Never
Alone With a Clone" American Anthropologist 97 (4): 15-21.
(l995) Problematizing The Self: A Thematic Introduction. In D.
Battaglia, ed.
Rhetorics of Self-Making. Berkeley: University of California
Press.
(l995) On Active Nostalgia: Self-Prospecting Among Urban
Trobrianders. In D.
Battaglia, ed. Rhetorics of Self-Making. Berkeley: University of
California
Press.
(l994) Retaining Reality: Some Practical Problems With Objects
as Property.
Man (n.s.) 29: l-l5.
(l993) At Play in the Fields (and Borders) of the Imaginary:
Transformations of
Forgetting in Melanesia. Cultural Anthropology 8 (3): 20-32.
(l992) Displacing Culture: A Joke of Significance in Urban Papua
New
Guinea. New Literary History 23 (4):l003-l0l7.
(l992) The Body in the Gift: Memory and Forgetting in Sabarl
Mortuary
Exchange. American Ethnologist l9 (l): 3-18.
(1991) Punishing the Yams: Leadership and Gender Ambivalence on
Sabarl. In M.
Godelier and M. Strathern, eds. Big Men and Great Men: The
Development of a
Comparison in Melanesia. Cambridge and Paris: Cambridge
University Press and
Maison des Sciences de L'Homme.
(l985) "We Feed Our Father": Paternal Nurture Among the Sabarl
of Papua New
Guinea. In American Ethnologist l2 (3): 427-44l.
(l983) Projecting Personhood in Melanesia: The Dialectics of
Artefact Symbolism
on Sabarl Island. In Man (n.s.) l8: 289-304.
(l983) Syndromes of Ceremonial Exchange in the Eastern Calvados:
The View from
Sabarl Island. In E. Leach and J. Leach, eds. The Kula: New
Perspectives on
Massim Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
BOOK REVIEWS:
(forthcoming) Shirley Campbell. The Art of the Kula. In Visual
Anthropology Rev.
(in press) Harry G. West and Todd Sanders, eds. Transparency and
Conspiracy:
Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order. In Current
Anthropology.
(2001) Marilyn Strathern, ed. Audit Cultures. In The Journal of
The
Royal Anthropological Institute.
(l993) Marilyn Strathern. Partial Connections. In American
Anthropologist 95: 189-90.
(l991) Frederick Damon and Roy Wagner, eds. Death Rituals
and Life in the Societies of the Kula Ring. In Journal of Ritual
Studies 5:2 pp. l45-8.
(l99l) Giancarlo Scoditti. Kitawa: A Linguistic and Aesthetic
Analysis of Visual Art in Melanesia. In Man (n.s.).
(l99l) James F. Weiner. The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The
Mythological
Dimension of Foi Sociality. In American Anthropologist.
(l99l) David Freedberg. The Power of Images: Studies in the
History and Theory
of Response. In American Ethnologist.
(l990) Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz. Cultural
Alternatives and a
Feminist Anthropology: An Analysis of Culturally Constructed
Gender Interests
In Papua New Guinea. In Signs l5:4 pp. 869-72.
(l985) Michael Young. Magicians of Manumanua. In Man
(n.s.):4l5-l6.
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