Suzanne Oakdale
Associate Professor of Anthropology
At UNM since Fall 1998
Anthropology Courses taught at UNM
Cultures of the World (ANTH 130)
Principles of Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 330)
Ritual and Symbolic Behavior (ANTH 333/530 (RELIG 333/530))
Theory of Symbolic Action (ANTH 536)
Autobiography and Life History in Anthropology (ANTH 540)
Theory in Ethnology II (ANTH 547)
Education
University of Chicago, Chicago Illinois; Ph. D. Anthropology; 1996
University of Chicago; AB in Anthropology; 1985
Dissertation: "The Power of Experience: Agency and Identity in Kayabi
Healing and Political Process in the Xingu Indigenous Park," Terence
Turner, Chair
Fieldwork
Brazilian Amazon (Tupian-speaking Kayabi communities along the Xingu River)
Selected Publications
Suzanne Oakdale; "Forgetting the Dead, Remembering Enemies;" Interacting
with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millenium,
Gordon F. M. Rakita, Jane E. Buikstra, Lane A. Beck, Sloan R. Williams, eds.
Pages 107-123. University Press of Florida, 2005.
Suzanne Oakdale; "I Foresee my Life": The Ritual Performance of Autobiography in an Amazonian Community. Lincoln: Nebraska Press. 2005.
Suzanne Oakdale; "The Culture-Conscious Brazilian Indian," American Ethnologist 31:60-75, 2004.
Suzanne Oakdale; "Creating a Continuity between Self and Other: First-Person Narration in an Amazonian Ritual Context," Ethos 30:158- 175, 2002.
Suzanne Oakdale; "History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community," Ethnohistory 47:4, pages 381-401, 2001.
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