Les W. Field
Professor of Anthropology
At UNM since Fall 1994
Anthropology Courses taught at UNM
Intro. to Anthropology (101)
FLC Violence and Humanity (101)
FLC Nature/Culture/Human Sexuality (101)
Cultures of the World (130)
Principles of Cultural Anthropology (330)
Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean (387)
Identity: Methods and Approaches (530)
Post- Colonial Theory (530)
Theory I (547)
Fieldwork
Native California, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador
Selected Publications
Books
1999 The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans, Identity and Nation in Late
Twentieth Century Western Nicaragua. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Journal Articles, Book Chapters
2004 "From Applied Anthropology to Collaborative Applications of
Anthropological Tools: Examples from Indian Country, In A Companion
to the Anthropology of North American Indians, Thomas Biolsi (ed.)
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. In press.
2003 "Unacknowledged Tribes, Dangerous Knowledge: The Muwekma Ohlone and How Indian Identities are 'Known,'" Wicazo Sa, 18(2): 79-94.
2002 "Blood and Traits: Preliminary Observations on the Analysis of Mestizo and Indigenous Identities in Latin vs. North America," Journal of Latin American Anthropology, 7(1): 2-33.
1999 "Complicities and Collaborations: Anthropologists and the 'Unacknowledged Tribes' of California" Current Anthropology 40 (2): 193-209
1998 "Post-Sandinista Ethnic Identities in Western Nicaragua" American Anthropologist 100(2): 431-443
1994 a) "Harvesting the Bitter Juice: Contradictions of Páez Resistance in the Changing Colombian Nation-State," Identities 1(1):89-108
b) "Who are the Indians? Reconceptualizing Indigenous Identity, Resistance, and the Role of Social Science in Latin America," Latin American Research Review 29(3): 237-248
c) "Back From Extinction: A Brief Overview of the Historic Disenfranchisement of the Ohlone Indian Peoples," In The Ohlones Past and Present. L. Bean and S. Van Brakke eds., Menlo Park: Ballena Press. With Alan Leventhal, Rosemary Cambra, and Hank Alvarez
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